Ricco Residence Suvarnabhumi

The place isn’t far from airport and from the metro station which was good for us. Host was great. He told us where we can buy souvenirs and helped a lot. WiFi connection isn’t great, but enough to answer mails and stuff. Shower was broken.

This service apartment is a place to be if you travel in Bangkok. The staff are very nice and have service mind. The room is spacious with air condition and clean linen ready for the guests. It's also cleaned everyday or per your request. The location, on one hand, is in a safe area; on the other hand, it can easily connect to the inner city by sky train. All and all we recommend Ricco residence for the guest who visit Bangkok for either business or vacation proposes.

"Close to airport" and "Close to metro line" is what we read in the reviews before booking this place. Apparently our concept of "close" is very different from others. Looking back and reading the reviews again after I stayed here made me notice, most people booked this place as their first stop and thus giving great reviews because there is no point of reference, but those who have stayed at other places and booked here towards the end of the trip don't have as great reviews. Trying to put our disappointment aside, I'll try to provide as much facts as possible, and you can decide if this place is for you. This place was about a 45 minute taxi ride from the closest metro station that the owner of this place (we booked through Airbnb) told us to get off on. Granted, there was some traffic, but it cost us 120 baht with the meter running. The taxi driver wanted to charge us 250 baht because of the traffic. We were going to walk away but the taxi driver agreed to turn on the meter. If you have gone to Thailand, you'll understand that isn't a very short taxi ride. Not to mention, the taxi driver didn't even know where it was, and had to stop for directions. The address can't even be located on Google Maps in our attempts. They provide hand drawn copies of a map of the neighborhood and it is not to scale. We arrived in the evening (we didn't think it would take us that long to get there) and were disappointed to find that there was no food around. We asked the front desk, and there was a major communication disconnect. In the end, no, there is nothing walking distance. He'll call us a taxi. Taxi took about 20 minutes to arrive. We asked him to take us to a restaurant that served pad thai. (It was our last night here and thought that would be appropriate). He said sure, then we got dropped off at a restaurant (no other options in sight) and when we sat to order, there was no pad thai. Great. Also, no way to call a taxi back to the place. It was walkable to get back with food in your system, but there are no street lights or sidewalk, and it took us about a half hour to walk back. We don't mind walking, but consider how you would feel in that situation. Ok, so close to the airport? We left at 4:20am to catch our flight, so there was no traffic. Cost us 180 baht with the meter. Not a super long ride, maybe about 20 minutes, but you are covering a lot of ground to get up to 180 baht. Our driver was booking it on the freeway. Unless you are looking for a place to literally just crash and not see anything else with extra baht to burn, I would not recommend this place. We had taken out more money to go shopping in Bangkok and we couldn't make it there. The metro line that we took to get off on the exit closest to this place runs straight to the airport. That line only cost us 30 baht. I would recommend finding a place that is walking distance from that metro line. Even if it isn't near anything else but the metro line, it is really easy to hop on and get to the city center. Also, it is cheaper and faster than battling through traffic. That's what we would do if we could do it over. Feel robbed knowing how great other accommodations for $20 a night or cheaper was in all other cities throughout Thailand. We went to Chiang Mai, Krabi, and Hua Hin, and was never charged this much for nothing. You can do better!! PS. Rooms are nothing like the pictures of the lobby. Our room was purple with multicolored polka dot sheets. Purple. No mini fridge to cool your water. Best of luck to you.