After staying at the Sofitel Centara Grant in Bangkok, I actually enjoyed the Chaophya much better, even though it is allegedly rated lower than the Sofitel, the atmosphere is much nicer. I’m sure some useless services I don’t use were offered but quite frankly the ones I do like to use (shower, pool, internet) were in my mind better at the Chaophya than at the Sofitel. The room size was nice, the bathroom was wonderful and I had my own personal ADSL connection that seemed to run fine. My only disappointment was that it was all centrally linked to the power so the network would go off when I left the room which meant that it was hard to download anything when I was absent from my computer and it took a minute or so for the ADSL to get line sync when I first came into the room. The place has some nice features and a nice restaurant and bar.