Chiang Rai
A well-kept hotel that's popular with Chinese travellers, with modern and compact rooms set around an atrium featuring a mini indoor swimming pool, a…
Must-see hotels in Northern Thailand
Pai
The bamboo bungalows here are basic, but they're tidy and most have en-suite bathrooms and inviting hammocks on their small verandas. While it’s not…
Sukhothai
If there’s a homestay equivalent to a flashpackers, Wake Up has nailed it. The five rooms here are spacious and tasteful, come decked out with local…
Chiang Rai Province
This modern but bland three-storey complex overlooking the Mekong River has reasonably-sized rooms with balconies. Only the most expensive rooms have…
Chiang Khong
This efficient three-storey hotel holds heaps of clean, neat rooms, most with private balconies overlooking the river. The rooms aren't huge, but they're…
Lampang
The four- and six-bed dorms in this bright yellow building across the Mae Wang are fresh and clean and have small lockers. There's a solitary private room…
Sukhothai
Wind through a semisecluded garden to find 15 spacious and stylish rooms, all with decent bathrooms. Choose from the vast rooms in the main structure or…
Pai
The 10 air-con bungalows here are spacious and stylish, with decent bathrooms and wide balconies that encourage lazy riverside relaxing and mountain…
Nan
Right by the river, and with a roof terrace for sunset views and beers, this new place has dorms that are well set up with lockers, private lights,…
Mae Sot
This friendly, roomy hostel has pod-like dorm beds: the more expensive pods are at ground level and offer much more leg room. The shared bathrooms are…
Chiang Rai
This newish place gets good feedback. Dorms are clean and have their own bathrooms; there's decent locker space and beds are curtained off. Free bicycles…
Mae Hong Son Province
Yoont comprises 12 rooms in a tall concrete building located in the middle of Khun Yuam’s main strip. The rooms are relatively spacious and stylish – if…
Chiang Khong
Rooms at this riverside place are a decent deal. They are plain but clean and reasonably sized with good beds, wood floors and balconies with river views…
Mae Sot
The well set-up J2 has efficient staff and 47 spacious and up-to-date, if not very stylish, rooms, some with balconies. Beds are comfortable and bathrooms…
Northern Thailand
This '60s-era hotel has been rebooted in sultry shades of black and grey. The rooms, which feel more sombre than artsy, are nonetheless spacious and…
Sukhothai Province
This riverside compound – complete with restaurant and coffee shop – inside Si Satchanalai-Chaliang Historical Park features 10 neat and compact bungalows…
Mae Sot
Baan Rabiangmai is the sort of comfortable, efficient, no-fuss hotel every town should have. Its 19 modern rooms come equipped with a kitchenette, a…
Chiang Rai
A quiet, good-value hotel has been created from this three-storey Thai villa. Rooms are decked out in dark woods and light fabrics and there's an inviting…
Sukhothai Province
Mukda Resort has tidy, comfortable rooms relatively close to Si Satchanalai-Chaliang Historical Park, the cheapest of which are fan-cooled. It’s at the…
Mae Hong Son
This exceedingly tidy, family-run place by the lake has three rooms, four attractive wooden bungalows and two penthouse-like suites. All come with air-con…
Sukhothai
New Sukhothai's longest-running guesthouse, Ban Thai is a relaxed, friendly spot. The cheapest rooms are plain and fan-only but the cute and compact…
Chiang Rai Province
There are clean, comfortable and decent-sized rooms, some with balconies, at this tidy villa compound just across the road from the Mekong River. A new…
Mae Hong Son
Steps from Mae Hong Son’s central lake is this neat compound of bungalows ringing a garden and a small but inviting pool. Rooms are well equipped and…
Sukhothai
Located in a manicured garden by the river, the eight stone-floored bungalows here are a little dated but still comfortable, cool and relatively spacious…
Tak Province
There are 19 well-maintained bungalows at this riverside resort; all are modern, bright and comfortable, and rafting trips can be arranged in high season …
Northern Thailand
At this industrial-themed cube holding 12 rooms there's little natural light, although a few rooms have small balconies. There's lots of space, wall…
Sukhothai
The rooms here are a little dark, but nicely furnished with decent beds and are a good deal for the price. The five wooden bungalows out back offer more…
Tak Province
Just west of town, this ‘resort’ has 13 clean, modern rooms in a well-kept two-storey building. There's no English-language sign, but it’s the tallest…
Chiang Khong
The rooms here are tidy but plain (the more expensive options boast more space, a fridge and teapot); the real highlight is the friendly service and the…
Mae Hong Son Province
If you don't require river views, consider one of the six well-kept rooms in this residential-like compound. They're spacious and come equipped with TVs…
Lampang
Cross the Mae Wang to this contemporary-feeling hotel with attractive and spacious rooms. All come with decent bathrooms, safety boxes and balconies –…
Lampang
The six shiny white rooms upstairs are spotless, spacious and light, with good beds and bathrooms. The shiny white minimalist cafe downstairs attracts…
Sukhothai
This big azure villa in a fine location has 18 rather characterless rooms, all equipped with en-suite bathrooms, air-con, TVs, refrigerators and hot…
Pai
The large, semi-open-air dorms feature beds that are plastic mattresses on bamboo frames, and the whole ramshackle place could be lifted from a Survivor…
Pai
There are good views over Pai from the rooftop terrace here, where the overpriced and compact dorm is located. Rooms are a better deal: sizeable and…
Mae Hong Son Province
Ban Ruam Thai's first guesthouse, Pala consists of several simple and spartan brick bungalows and some newer and more comfortable (but still plain) rooms…
Chiang Khong
Pretty much what the label says: a box-like structure holding 16 fan-cooled dorm beds. There are also five fan-only private rooms that share bathrooms…
Lampang
One of Th Talad Gao’s noblest historic buildings has been turned into this relaxed guesthouse. The six rooms, located above a cool cafe and ice-cream shop…
Northern Thailand
The cheapest rooms at this long-standing guesthouse are fan-cooled and share a clean bathroom, while the more expensive ones have air-con. All are set…
Pai
This collection of old A-frame bungalows and some newer ones, all with thatched roofs, is set on the edge of a photogenic rice field. The older ones are a…
