Cabochon Hotel

Cabochon

Sukhumvit Road is one of the busiest, most central, and most internationally oriented thoroughfares in Bangkok, so it’s a dream to find this colonial boutique oasis right in the heart of it all. The Cabochon's elegant façade is the first hint of 1920s Indochina, with white columns, French doors, and tiled balustrades. This gives way to a perfectly orchestrated interior of framed antique maps and black-and-white photographs, dark wood Chinese bistro tables, comfy couches, and oddities like a taxidermy zebra head and old leather trunks. Common spaces feel like a cross between a museum and the home of an incredibly stylish and well-traveled person. The suites and studios are airy, bright apartments that encourage lounging on the white sofas while light pours in from paned windows onto potted orchid plants. This is an intimate place in which to indulge in dreams of the Orient past, with all the comforts of today.