The Peninsula Bangkok

What the classifiers highlight

Every one of the 370 rooms, opened in 1998, holds a river view thanks to some deft engineering, the standard rooms already among the city's largest at 495 square feet. MICHELIN describes the spa's colonial-era building mixing European, Eastern and Ayurvedic therapies across a dozen rooms, while Forbes flags the two-hour, candlelit Sleep Ceremony and an 288-foot, three-tier pool.