Need it or not, here's another dose of luxury for Bangkok

by CNNGo staff

A graphic rendering of the Park Hyatt Bangkok, which features a ‘twisted coil’ exterior design. Pack your designer luggage. Bangkok is set to get another 222 luxury hotel rooms, adding to an already vast number of accommodation options for travelers in search of high thread counts. 

Global hotel brand Hyatt confirmed this week it will open its first Park Hyatt -- at a cost of 5 billion baht -- in Thailand in 2014. 

On the plus side, Bangkok’s embattled travel industry could use some positivity as the news proves that despite the recent bomb blasts and floods, the city won't go down the tourism tubes without a fight.   

Park Hyatt is the American corporation’s top luxury brand, reserved for cities with strong demand for posh digs. Luxury travelers have long been in love with Bangkok, though one has to ask who is going to fill all these rooms in an already crowded market. 

Rates will start from US$300 a night, putting it up there at the top end of the luxury field with the likes of the Mandarin Oriental, Peninsula, Four Seasons, Shangri-La, St. Regis, Banyan Tree, Kempinski and the soon-to-open W.

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