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The Mustang Blu
A ten-room cabinet of curiosities in a century-old Chinatown building.
- Location
- Chinatown, Bangkok
- Style
- Boutique hotel · Heritage · Eccentric
Why we love it
Step just beyond the neon of Chinatown’s Soi Nana and you find a place that feels like another world. The Mustang Blu trades polished perfection for atmosphere: a glass-encased horse and an ostrich skeleton stand guard among velvet lounges and European antiques in the lobby, and every corner whispers of another time. Haunting, theatrical and wholly unforgettable.
Highlights
A building with stories to tell – born in the early 20th century as a Chinese medicine dispensary, later a bank, then a massage parlour, and now a ten-room cabinet of curiosities that blurs the line between hotel and gallery.
No two rooms alike – some with marble-clad bathrooms, others with roll-top tubs or snug balconies over the street.
Chinatown on the doorstep – evening night markets, dim sum breakfasts at a local teahouse and cocktails at Teens of Thailand, the gin bar on Soi Nana.
Good to know
With only ten rooms, book ahead, and ask for a roll-top tub or a balcony. Bring earplugs: the tuk-tuks start early. Bookable through Airbnb and Booking.com.
For a honeymoon
For couples who value character over five-star polish, a night or two here makes the most memorable chapter of a Bangkok stay.
