Some information about our hotel and owners.
How it all started....
My name is Panthep Chanprasiti and i am the owner of Royal View Resort. I am the young boy in the above picture on your left.
Royal View Resort is very close to my heart as I was raised right here on this nice piece of land.
Below you can see our former house where now our hotel is located. It was a 2-floor big wooden house. It was big compared to other houses in the center of Bangkok and sometimes I always hought it is too big for us 4 people in the family.
Our house was surrounded by huge trees and people referred to it as the ‘garden house’ which was nice to hear.
As Bangkok city kept on developing in a rapid pace, land become more and more valuable and most of our neighbors did already build their own apartment or condo building. Our area is somehow lucky as the government has a nice park project right in front of our land.
My late beloved father (below with my mom) did see the potential of this central area here in Bangkok and decided to build a hotel and my house where I spend so much time in my childhood was gone. My father did pass away when i was only 21 years of age.
We did not have enough money to do so, so we took a loan from the Bank. We not even had any experience with the construction process nor running a hospitality business. The construction took much longer than we anticipated, surly because of our innocence in this field, however, we somehow managed to go through it all without realizing that the biggest challenge was still to come! – We had to learn how to run a hotel!
It was such a rough ride, that we not even remember anymore for sure on which day we opened the hotel for our first guests. We did open just a few floors at a time. But I am confident we had our first guest in September 2008.
When the hotel opened, I was just 21 years old and we all struggled a lot. We lacked on expertise and employees. I remember me carrying luggage, washing dishes and cleaning tables at more or less the same time. What a time!!
Now, only a few years later, the hotel is settled well, but we realized that we have to focus even more on the operation and we are currently implementing lots of new systems, standards and procedures to bring the hotel to the next level and make the operation truly professional.
The pictures above remind me so much on my childhood right here on this land, where we have now a hotel.
Thank you for choosing my hotel to stay at, and please let me know whenever you have any comments or suggestions.
Sincerely yours
Mr. Panthep Chanprasiti
