Pinnacle Hotel in Bangkok

[Manforallseasons]

Paperboy did you book through Jimmy?

[paperboy]

no i did not
i booked through TUI espana

[Manforallseasons]

For many years the hotel offered "stay 2 nights get one free......your price is excellent.

[paperboy]

yes, i thought also, i know its not a 5 star hotel, but for that price for 2 people for 4 nights, cant complain.

[werner]

Pinnacle does indeed sometimes have a bad smell. During one stay, I wondered whether the hotel was (1) using strong chemicals to clean the rugs or (2) fumigating for mice, bed bugs, and other vermin.

At the breakfast buffet, you can find good coffee and decent food.

The guests include a wide variety of nationalities and types. You can often hear about 10 languages and dialects at breakfast.
I once chatted a bit with a dour but sweet German honeymoon couple. During one visit, I met a drop-dead gorgeous French guy, who unfortunately had a girl friend along.... He was extremely handsome and had a perfect, athletic body..

It is definitely NOT a Five-Star hotel, and the staff members can be surly and burly when they are busy, or if you cross them.

[travelerjim]

There is the service elevator located at the end of the garage on the left side.
Always use this elevator to the first floor...enters the kitchen and through the door into the dining room to the reception lobby.
You are welcomed to use this...and with your luggage the bellman at the front in the parking area will gladly assist.

We stayed there recently...
Rooms are nice and renovated.
Staff always helpful.
Breakfast buffet is OK and egg orders to cook by the chef good.

I use hotels.com to book.
Good rates and get either 8% or 10% discount with using their app.
and code.

Tj

[werner]

What is the latest news about the Pinnacle?

I might stay there again during my next trip.

By the way: The hotel seems not to care at all if you bring a guy or guys back for the night, whether or not you booked for two people. However, you can only get two free breakfasts if you book for two people.

[Smiles]

What is the latest news about the Pinnacle?I might stay there again during my next trip. By the way: The hotel seems not to care at all if you bring a guy or guys back for the night, whether or not you booked for two people. However, you can only get two free breakfasts if you book for two people.

We/I stay at the Pinnacle pretty well every time we go to Bangkok ... and that's reasonably often.
The Pinnacle is fine for a middling hotel, and for the price.
It's very close ~ one block ~ to Lumphini subway station, thus close to Silom/Surawong Bad Boys. It's right across Rama 4 and Lumphini Park if you like getting some exercise in the later afternoon ... watching Thai butts as they run around the park is my style of classic voyeurism. So many runner's firm and athletic apple-asses, all looking good.

The rooms are not huge, but not tiny either. Over the years they have taken out most of the lethal bathtubs they used to have and put in large showers which can accomodate two. The top rooms give quite a good scene of the city, and if you want to see 360 degrees of it just go up to the 15th floor ... great views, nice breezes, cold beer. Never eat dinner there though, it's usually very mediocre.

Service is fine. The cleaning ladies are very good at what they do and seem to love their customers.
If you choose to pay for the breakfast buffet, it's just OK. I recall it used to be better many years ago but that might just my nostalgic imagination. However, having said that ... The Pinnacle is no longer the Gay(er) Hotel it once was. It never was "gay only"(a concept that Thais would never think of using) but back in the day (let's say 2002 ~~ 2012) it was, I'd say, 50% gay clientle: at breakfast one could tell immediately. Usually a dozen or so obviously gay men who missed The Catch the night before and now forlorn sipping coffee alone ... then there was the half dozen or so sitting with their successful hunt the night before. Some large numbers of Thai beauties eating corn flakes with farang reprobates showing off their catch. No more fun-at-breakfast at the Pinnacle Im afraid. No more gentle head-swinging on my part (NOT being a reprobate). No more smiles from sweet gay waiters who's hand you can squeeze in a 20 baht bill. Damn it was fun playing "Who's Handsome, who's not?" with Mr Suphot.
The Pinnacle now in 2018? Can I say 'Chinese', and 'Russians', and at my last stay, a lonely looking Frenchman.

And now a swell restaurant if you like Italian food ... and you are staying at the Pinnacle ... and you can walk for 10 minutes down and an incredibly small Soi without being run over ... and you don't mind a bit getting a half inch away from being side-swiped by every second motorbike ~~ (if you do mind you have no sense of humour) ... you'll find 'Lido'. Their pizzas are sublime and the pasta dishes are pretty well perfect. A great take on Lido's version of Tiramisu to boot.
The Lido is definitely a large part of hunkering down at the Pinnacle.

[Smiles]

If you feel like a stroll to The Lido Restaurant (not really to scale, but close):

lido map.jpg

[frequent]

There's a coffee shop just around the corner on Rama 4 on the way to the MRT called Lisa Lamo that also serves light meals, mostly pasta, for lunch and early dinner. There's another one right next to the Pinnacle entrance as I recall that serves snacks of some sort. I ate lunch in the Pinnacle dining room once at the urging of a friend (I think he was hoping to get his leg over one of the staff or, more likely, vice versa) - reminiscent of a mausoleum, and you can get much better food at similar prices elsewhere in Ngam Dupli. I'd never go back there

For those in search of generic Viagra, the pharmacy just around the corner on Rama 4 but walking away from Lumpini MRT sells Sidegra for 220 baht. There are a couple of boy massage shops in Soi Ngam Dupli on the same side as Pinnacle but as you walk towards the Malaysia Hotel that offer similar services to the ones in Soi Twilight but at considerably cheaper prices (this is not a recommendation)

Finally I'd take issue with one comment of Smiles'. He's assuming that those who are companionless at breakfast must have "missed out" the night before. You'll never see me at breakfast with a boy (or preferably anyone else) since (1) I'll have sent the boy away so I can get a decent night's sleep if I even had one after dinner - my preferred time is the period for which sodomy was invented to fill, between cocktails and dinner - and (2) I'm a great believer in the silent breakfast - all those years holidaying in monasteries in my youth introduced me to the habit (as it were)