While at a conference in Bangkok, I stayed at the Hilton chain's "DoubleTree" branded hotel, the Bangkok Sukhumvit DoubleTree. Nice, affordable hotel, had nothing bad to say about it even if it is on the lower scale of the Hilton brands. They had a very nice pool at the 7th floor, check out the moon!
View from the rooms (mine was at 16th floor):
There's a pool bar:
It turns out that the DoubleTree is connected at the back to another Hilton property, the Sukhumvit Hilton. Sadly, their pool was out of service, so I didn't get to try it out.
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