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The stylish boutique resort with 39 spacious river view rooms, full facilities and homely Thai style services. It is situated along the Kok River. Only 10 minutes away from Airport and town.
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HOTEL STYLE
Quiet
Classic
Location
482 Moo 4 Rimkok District, Chiang Rai 57100 Thailand
Name/address in local language
The Imperial River House Resort
542 reviews
Getting there
Somewhat walkable
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This hotel is not really within walking distance to the night market, but the hotel offer complimentary shuttle rides each evening, which worked out well. Breakfast outside overlooking the river is really lovely, and the pool is large enough for laps and was empty of people for most of our stay. The rooms are as you'd expect, biggish and comfortable without being outstanding.
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Date of stay: December 2019
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Response from ImperialRiverHouse, Hotel Manager at The Imperial River House Resort
Responded Jan 14, 2020
Dear Amanda W, Thank you very much for your kind staying with us and for your worthiness time sharing an experience recently. We do appreciate to hear that you enjoy with our service providing and hotel facilities. More our uniqueness breakfast dishes matching enough with a number guests and nice view has met your expectation. Your feedback is really supported us to improve better service for our guests. Looking forward to welcoming and serving a boutique experience the Lana touch to you again in shortly future. Best regards, Arkom Bunpeng Hotel Manager
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We arrived after a long journey to this haven of tranquility. It is situated on the river with a lovely pool and beautiful gardens to wander through. Heaven. The staff couldn’t be more helpful and our room had a wonderful view over the pool and river. I would, however, like to have been able to open the window as some fresh air would have been nice. Dinner here was delicious with a wide choice of dishes and breakfast had everything that we fancied. I would definitely recommend this hotel.
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Traveled with friends
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Response from Arkom Bunpeng, General Manager at The Imperial River House Resort
Responded Mar 1, 2020
Dear 616Caroline, Thank you very much for your kind choosing to stay with us and for your valuable time sharing feedback recently. We do appreciate to know that you had enjoying stay with our peachful location by the Kok River and have been satisfied from our room with panoramic view swimming pool as well as the River. More pleasure to hear our restaurant menu and breakfast have eceeded your expectation tasty and variety. Your comment is useful for us to improve better service for our guests. Looking forward to welcoming and serving our special lanna sense to you again when you have plans visit Chiang Rai in shortly future. Best regards, Arkom Bunpeng
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This is a charming and comfortable boutique riverside hotel in Chiang Rai. The architecture and decor are in the Thai style and rooms offer a nice view of the pool and the river. The hotel is very quiet and peaceful. The buffet breakfast offered a nice selection of foods and had a little variety from day to day. We ate in the restaurant in the evening a couple of times and enjoyed the food. Really the only issue we had is that the hotel is quite a ways from the downtown area and transportation can be problematic. We were unable to get a taxi one evening to go into the city because local traffic kept the taxi from getting out to us and they canceled. So there is a trade off between the peacefulness and charm and accessibility of other things in the area.
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Date of stay: September 2022
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Response from Thanadon Tibkham, Innkeeper at The Imperial River House Resort
Responded Feb 3, 2023
Thank you for staying with us and appreciated your value comments. We delighted that you are enjoyed to be with us on your recently visited Chiangrai. All those your comment are very much valuable for us to improving and encourage our team in the future. We hope to being of your service again and looking forward to welcome you back in not too far distant Krub.
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This property would nickel and dime you. We booked 2 rooms for 3 people. They only allowed 2 gala dinner tickets for 3 people. They insist to charge us an extra $50 for a horrible new year Eve dinner with lousy food, lame entertainment and drinks are not included. We purchased 2 cocktails for exhorbitant prices which taste like sugar. Worst hotel in our trip by far.
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Date of stay: January 2020Trip type: Traveled with family
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Response from ImperialRiverHouse, Hotel Manager at The Imperial River House Resort
Responded Jan 6, 2020
Dear sum446, Thank you very much for your choosing to stay with us at The Imperial River House Resort Chiang Rai and for your valuable time sharing experience recently. We do appreciate to know that you had New Year Eve and Counting down time with us before crossing to brilliantly this year coming. For the reservation including dinner we had been set up by person selection your comment for booking process will be for sure leading to improve our service for next time. Regarding to the local cultural concept Lanna Chiang Rai and we do try to bring the best to our guests that being proud organize outdoor Gala Dinner in the hotel garden along with native local show and musician, however your comment is worthiness for us to focus on to be better in the future. We do apologize for any inconvenience may have caused you and looking forward to welcoming and serving Lanna touch concept to you again when your traveling plans cross to enchanting Chiang Rai province shortly. Best regards, Arkom Bunpeng Hotel Manager
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I can no longer remember how many times I have stayed at the hotel.
It is still our favourite, even if it is small and a bit old-fashioned. Even so, the river, the pool and the location are still my favourite places. It is true that there are other hotels, more luxurious, modern, with more facilities, on the river that can offer the same, but they are much bigger and always noisier.
The rooms at IMperial are super spacious and we have everything.
The only thing I would like is that at least, after having stayed there almost 10 times, we feel like they should be a little bit more attentive with us trying to provide the room we like and make our stay even better.
Even so, we will continue to go there and Chiang Rai will remain one of our favourite destinations and places.
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Date of stay: July 2022
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Room Tip:Â Always with river view, that is the key selling point of the hotel
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Response from Thanadon Tibkham, Innkeeper at The Imperial River House Resort
Responded Jul 10, 2022
Dear Maria Gasem Huanbutta, Thank you for your comeback to continuous staying with us again and appreciated your value comments. We delighted that our hotel is in your favorite, and pleased to offer special upgrade for your next coming trip, that would be great if you could let us know in advance. We looking forward to welcome you back again as always in the near future Krub. Thanadon T. /Hotel Manager
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This hotel is located outside of the town centre but is just a short taxi ride away. It is well decorated and the pool and garden area are lovely. All the staff were very attentive and helpful. There was a buffet style breakfast with a good selection.
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Date of stay: January 2023
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Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Responded Feb 3, 2023
Thank you for staying with us and appreciated your value comments. We delighted that you like our hotel decorated, pool, and lovely garden. As well as attentive and helpful staff, also breakfast serving. We hope to being of your service again and looking forward to welcome you back in not too far distant Krub.
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This hotel is on the river bank. All rooms have an attractive view overlooking the large pool and the river. Very peaceful and walkable distance to the Blue Temple and many restaurants. The staff were helpful. We stayed 3 nights, ate out once but enjoyed the superb food in their restaurant the other 2 nights. My only complaint was that the hotel only provided 4 sun loungers around the pool;very short sighted.
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Date of stay: January 2020
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Responded Feb 6, 2020
Dear david t, Thank you very much for your choosing to stay with us and for your valuable time sharing an experience during stay recently. We do appreciate to know that you enjoyed with our peaceful location by the Kok River and only short distance walking to the famous place Blue Temple. Well noted for your compliment in our panoramic swimming pool and the Kok River looking from room as well as pleasure to get feedback for our food and drinks. For sunbed we are acknowledged and your comment is really worthiness for us to improve better service for our guests. Looking forward to welcoming and serving the special Lanna scense to you again when you have plan to visit enchanting Chiang Rai province in shortly future. Best regards, Arkom Bunpeng Hotel Manager
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We selected this hotel for its location. At the end of the road but on the river, it could not be more quiet. We arrived late and leafy after breakfast, so our experience is limited. Breakfast was fully adequate. Our room was spacious and fully equipped. The garden is large and pleasant to stroll through. Recommend especially if you wan5 somewhere peaceful.
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Date of stay: January 2020Trip type: Traveled as a couple
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Response from ImperialRiverHouse, Hotel Manager at The Imperial River House Resort
Responded Jan 15, 2020
Dear Hasherd, Thank you very much for choosing to stay with us at The Imperial River House Resort Chiang Rai and for your valuable time sharing recent feedback. We do appreciate to know that the hotel location by The Kok River with peaceful atmosphere has met your enjoyable stay. Further more specious room and large greenery garden brought your exceeding wonderful time. Your comment is really support us to improve better service for our guests. Looking forward to welcoming and serving our uniqueness Lanna touch to you again when you have plan travelling at Chiang Rai soon. Best regards, Arkom Bunpeng Hotel Manager
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We stayed two nights in a Deluxe Room at River House Resort in Chiang Rai.
On arrival we were able to check-in immediately and without any hassle. Our Deluxe Room was quite spacious compared to other resorts I saw. The bathroom is equipped with a shower and also a bath tub. The swimming pool is just awesome - very huge and also clean. The staff takes good care of the guests and you will be supplied with water and towel immediately after you enter the pool. I saw they also have a nice equipped place for gym but I didn't have a chance to try it. The garden of the resort is well maintained and was in full bloom. There is also a small island connected to the resort which you can reach by a small bamboo bridge.
The resort is located next to the river and close to the center of Chiang Rai. There are lots of opportunities to have day trips at this place. We made day trips to Doi Mae Salong and Golden Triangle. If you get the chance I recommend to go to Doi Mae Salong to enjoy the amazing smell of the tea plantation. But also the view from top of the mountain is very nice. There are many more activities to do like visiting the night market or going for elephant ride.
We also had breakfast & dinner at the resort and enjoyed it a lot. You should try the boiled rice soup for breakfast and the deep fried corn kernels for dinner.
If you don't like over-crowded tourist places and want to explore the north of Thailand this is the right place for you.
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Date of stay: February 2011
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Trip type: Traveled with friends
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My partner and I came here for our second visit to Chiang Rai recently. There was really no question of where we would stay - The Imperial River House, of course. It really is like our home away from home.
The staff and management here are all lovely, charming people. We both agree that the staff here really make the whole experience. They are delightful, friendly, always being prepared to go above and beyond - always, all the time. Each one of them are interesting, engaging, willing to chat, help in whatever way they can, and just make your stay here the very best it can be. We love them all. It's hard not to.
The rooms here are beautifully appointed, and tastefully furnished. They have an old-world, colonial-style charm to them, and are cleaned and serviced with fresh towels daily. You can have fresh sheets daily too if you want, but we try not to use resources we really don't need. The buffet breakfasts are really good, with a wide choice, and plenty to suit every taste and requirement.
The pool is huge, and very attractive, and the gardens are an absolute delight. It's a tranquil heaven on the outskirts of Chiang Rai. We hired a scooter, but the hotel does provide a complimentary bus shuttle service to and from the Chiang Rai Night Markets at 7pm each evening, returning at 9pm or 9.30pm. Otherwise, they will take you into town for 250 Baht.
This is a peaceful, serene resort hotel, with a 4-star rating, but really, it's 5 star in so many ways. If you want the opulent luxury of resorts such as Le Meridian etc. then perhaps this is not it, but to us, it's so much nicer. It has character, charm, and grace in both the hotel and the people who run it. To us, it's the very epitome of what makes Thai hospitality so famous. And the price is very reasonable considering what is on offer.
Rose (a huge thank you), Ann (our gorgeous breakfast hostess), special Aong, sweet little Tai (you cook the best eggs!), lovely Yin, the very charming Tom, Kate, and Pare (on the front desk), always smiling Yut and Sagun (you make even a bus ride good!), and last, but certainly not the least, Sowvanee for keeping our room so spotless, and always with a smile. Each one of you made our visit special, and we thank you all so very much. If we have missed anyone, please forgive us.
We will be back next year - we hope. We miss The Imperial River House already. It's a place that remains firmly imprinted on your heart. We cannot recommend this resort highly enough. It will make the difference to your holiday being amazing, or just average.
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Date of stay: July 2016
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Trip type: Traveled as a couple
Room Tip:Â Try to get a Balcony Suite if you can afford it - it's well worth it.
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PRICE RANGE
$46 - $74 (Based on Average Rates for a Standard Room)
ALSO KNOWN AS
imperial river house resort, chiang rai hotel chiang rai, river hotel chiang rai, river resort chiang rai
LOCATION
ThailandChiang Rai ProvinceChiang Rai
NUMBER OF ROOMS
39
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