The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat

The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat
Hidden away down a quiet side street off Sukhumvit Road and isolated from the hustles and bustles of city life, the Baan Thai Wellness Retreat is an oasis of peace and calm.
A stay at the peaceful wellness retreat, even if only brief, enables you to experience the very finest that Thailand has to offer. Gain insights into this amazing kingdom, its mystical culture and time-honoured customs and traditions. Delightful Thai hospitality; exotic spa therapies, revitalizing holistic health therapies and treatments; Thai culinary art; ornate Thai teak architecture — each is part of the kingdom’s enchanting artistic and cultural heritage.

‘Baan Thai’ literally means Thai house. The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat consists of five authentic stand-alone Thai teak homes, some dating back over three quarters of a century. These have been lovingly restored and refurbished to showcase a way of life that few have been able to experience.

The original traditional Thai teak house was designed in a luxurious style and built by M.R. Bongsebrahama (one of King Rama IV’s grandsons) for his family well over 60 years ago. The teak house has remained in the family ever since. Through the years, each generation of the family has restored and added to the original house. In 1965 Baan Thai opened as a restaurant serving fine cuisine and entertainment in the form of traditional Thai dance performances. In the latest chapter of this evolving story, Baan Thai, the house and restaurant, has been transformed into a luxurious cultural and wellness retreat — The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat. All of the original houses have been renovated and several teak wood houses from Ayutthaya, the ancient capital of Siam, have been added to the complex.

The traditional Thai teak houses form the basis of this luxurious wellness retreat developed by renowned cultural interior design expert M.L. Sudavadee Kriangkrai, one of M.R. Bongsebrahama’s two daughters. Two of the traditional teak homes have been redesigned to accommodate the spa. Each of the guests’ rooms and suites affords its own unique qualities and charm while retaining the cultural integrity of the property. Some of the decorative features date back over 200 years. While most are more recent, all are genuine.

The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat offers an extensive range of anti-aging, therapeutic or detoxifying treatments, pampering and beauty therapies delivered in the comfort and privacy of spa therapy rooms and suites. These include a range of authentic Thai treatments, such as Scrubs & Wraps, Baths, Massage, ‘Just for woman’, holistic health treatments, hand and foot care, facials, salon, haircare, as well as Ayurvedic, Asian and Tibetan therapies. Guests can also enjoy the unisex wet area available with hydrotherapy, infrared sauna and steam facilities.

Spa services are provided with the careful supervision of Horwath Spa Consulting, a specialist spa company whose directors have been involved in the development of Destination Spas in Thailand. A team of holistic health practitioners provides professional consultation in Diagnostic Reflexology, Homeopathic Consultations, Acupuncture, Chi Nei Tsang, Rebirthing Sessions and Deep Tissue Massage, while total detoxification programmes are supervised by the retreat’s own resident medical professionals.

Designed to accommodate the latest spa therapies while maintaining the nuances of cultural integration as dictated by the architectural style of the property, the warm, soothing and inviting environment promotes total relaxation and is conducive to process of change and development, and rejuvenation.

THE BAAN THAI RETREAT MENU
Dine in air-conditioned comfort, on the terrace of your room, or in the privacy of your suite. The team of dedicated Thai culinary professionals at the wellness retreat have prepared an ever changing range of menu offerings, specially designed to promote total wellness.

Great care is taken in the preparation of some of the most vivid tasting and intense culinary delights featured on the Baan Thai Retreat menu. This begins with the careful selection of the base ingredients (of which many are from certified organic farms in Thailand) through to the preparation and cooking process. The team is committed to the creation of flavourful cuisine while retaining the integrity of Thai culinary traditions. Other less traditional menu offerings and dishes from other nations also grace the menu, but the majority are native Thai.

The retreat offers a full range of other fresh fruit and vegetable juices, herbal tisanes, tonics and elixirs throughout the day. A wide range of wines and champagnes are served with dinner.

The Baan Thai restaurant has welcome guests such as royalty from Sweden, Denmark and Japan as well as Jackie Kennedy, Tiger Woods and many other celebrities.

TEAK SPLENDOUR
A Journey Back into Time
As you enter the retreat, stop and pause a while. Take in the magnificence that surrounds you — the amazing traditional artwork is very much part of the Baan Thai experience. From the intricately carved doors at the entrance of the retreat to the beautifully carved wood panels and artifacts found throughout the property, the fine collection of genuine traditional art reflects the era in which they were created — a time when skilled craftsmen carved history into wood, passing on to their children and grandchildren, great stories of a magnificent kingdom and the rich cultural heritage they have come to inherit. Even artefacts made in relatively modern times all retain their cultural integrity. None are modern reproductions.

FACILITIES
The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat offers an extensive range of facilities that have been carefully designed to meet the needs of guests so that they can maximize the benefits of their stay.

- 21 guest rooms
- 7 with their own private spa therapy area, 9 with kitchenette facilities
- 5 x single and 3 x double spa therapy rooms — 2 with private steam rooms, 2 with Jacuzzi
- Beauty salon
- 2 x Consultation rooms
- Colonic hydrotherapy room
- Infra-red sauna
- Herbal steam room
- Garden rain shower
- 2 Private swimming pools
- Free form swimming pool
- Modern gymnasium staffed with personal trainers and Stretch, Fit Ball, Yoga and Tai Chi classes
- Aerobics studio
- Meditation pavilion
- Thai spa cuisine restaurant
- Juice & elixir bar
- Open air lounge
- Library
- Mini Bar
- IDD direct dial telephone
- Cable Television
- Wireless internet connection
- Limousine transfers
- Off-street parking

This peaceful wellness retreat located right in the heart of cosmopolitan Bangkok enables you to enjoy a change of pace at your convenience. Within the resort itself, tranquility prevails. Step beyond and a short stroll away, you’ll find easy access to mass transit systems, shopping malls and other modern infrastructure.
Feel Bangkok’s pulse — the city that never sleeps.

Location
The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat is situated between the Thonglor and Phromphong BTS Skytrain station, which is also adjacent to the Emporium shopping complex and the Benjasiri Park.

The Baan Thai Wellness Retreat
7 Soi Sukhumvit 32 Sukhumvit Road
Bangkok 10110
Thailand
Tel : + 66 (0) 2258 5403, 2661 4051-3
Fax: + 66 (0) 2258 9517
Email: contact@thebaanthai.com
Website: www.thebaanthai.com