The Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok is a luxury wellness hotel on Witthayu Road,

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. BDMS is an abbreviation of Bangkok Dusit Medical Services.

History

The hotel was built by Thai developer Lursakdi Sampatisiri in 1984 as the Hilton International Bangkok at Nai Lert Park, managed by Hilton International. On June 13, 2003 the Sampatisiri family signed Raffles International Hotels to manage the hotel in their

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division, and on January 1, 2004 it was renamed first Nai Lert Park Bangkok, a Raffles International Hotel and then later Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Bangkok. It contained 338 rooms.

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said of the hotel, "a mishmash of bygone styles, the Nai Lert is a bit disappointing in the cramped rooms, but glorious underneath a shady tree in its private garden-park." The hotel was awarded Thailand’s Leading Business Hotel by the World Travel Awards Asia in 2008. The hotel restaurant ''Ma Maison'' was named Best Restaurant by Thailand Tatler’s Best Restaurants. On June 4, 2009, American actor David Carradine was found dead of

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in the wardrobe of his room in the hotel. The hotel was sold to Bangkok Dusit Medical Services in 2016 and closed on December 31, 2016 for conversion to a branch of Bangkok Hospital. However it was announced in August 2018 that BDMS would partner with Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts and they reopened the property as a "holistic services medical centre" resort hotel in 2019, the Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok .

Gallery

Park Nai Lert Hotel (now Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok) 2022August img 05.jpg, Sign at the entrance, as of 2022, the hotel is marketed under the brand ''Movenpick'' Image:Nai Lert Park Bangkok.JPG, Sign at the entrance, in 2007, when the hotel was a Raffles International Hotel Image:Nai Lert Park - panoramio - harley photo.jpg, The hotel's extensive gardens, 2007 Nai Lert Park Heritage Home - facade from sra bua.jpg, Nai Lert Park Heritage Home, now a museum, is located within the complex.

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{{reflist Hotels in Bangkok Hotels established in 1984 Hotel buildings completed in 1984 1984 establishments in Thailand Pathum Wan district