A class act in every way! Eugenia delivers what they promise!
We stay in Bangkok on business very often to getaway from the boring,drab cookie-cutter world of the big chains of hotels.
Being hoteliers ourselves we are always on the look out for a gem and is very critical when hotels do not meet expectations.
The Eugenia has that old-world colonial charm from the decor, the well-stacked libray, the room with the old-fashion handmade
copper tub and the lounge you definitely feel the charm.
Our meals were all excellant from french toast for breakfast,
pad thai and parma ham sandwich for lunch and our very fabulous fettucini with truffles. The chef is a star and what a delight to have such high-end variety and tastes with a maitre d that knows how to pamper.

It is very obvious that the owners are connissours of fine food, wine, travel and fine living.The Eugenia is well deserving of their Relais Chateaux status and although a few comments on this site beg to differ we will definitely recommend and return to this little gem the next time we are in Bangkok...we were treated like
royality by every member of the staff and the tranquility being away from crazy Bangkok I think is an asset and not a deterrant.
Thanks for giving us a refreshing colonial side of Bangkok!

The Eugenia is one of the best hotel experiences we have had anywhere in the world. It is rare to come across a property that gets so much right. This is not your average hotel and you need to be prepared for something different. It is a little off the beaten track as far as Bangkok goes, but we had no difficulty getting around BKL. The train station is only 10 mins walk away and the hotel has a complimentary tuktuk and were only too happy to pick us up and drop us off locally.
The service was outstanding. I am utterly perplexed at the previous review. We had nothing but helpful, effusive service. They could not have been more accommodating and understood what it took to provide excellent service to discerning customers. We are from the luxury lodge industry and know what we are talking about.
We stayed in the Eugenia Suite and thought the rooms charming and beautifully presented, filled with character and antiques. What the rooms are not are standard hotel rooms with the ubiquitous overstuffed patterned sofa and the business desk. This hotel is about style, ambience and theatre almost. It is one of the most beautiful interiors I have been in, in a small luxury hotel. Incredibly original (and for a hotel that his hard to achieve).
If there is one thing that is a little quirky, the shower over the gorgeous antique copper bath tended to spill a little water on to the bathroom floor. A towel saw to that, however.
This is a Relaix & Chateau property and deservedly so. Some people will not 'get it', however and perhaps the previous guest comes in to that category.
Bring with you just a little sense of adventure and have an incredible hotel experience. Loved it.

We have lived in Asia for eight years and travel there every year,
always staying in small boutique hotels. The Eugenia was a big disappointment. It looked beautiful on the net but our stay proved otherwise. We specificly booked a double room but were given a very dark, small twin room at the back. When we complained we were told that if we had booked directly with the hotel and not with an agent we would have been given the room we wanted. This gave a very bad first impression. At breakfast half the items on the menu did not arrive. We repeatedly had to ask for coffee from waiters who were always in the next room. At lunch we ordered a Thai dish which included sweets and tea. After some time, we were told that the sweets were finished and only after insisting was tea brought. During our stay there was non stop work next door on a multi-level building overlooking the swimming pool. This made it impossible to relax in the garden. There were no apologies for the noise, or for being given the wrong room. Even when work on the building next door has finished, made sure you are not given a room that is small dark and pokey! There are now quite a few small boutique hotels in Bangkok which, we feel, give better accommodation and service and are also more conveniently located.

we were looking for a different place to stay in bangkok.
having done the KSR circuit many times, and being "forced" to stay in 5-star hotels on a weekly basis for work, the last thing that i wanted was a standard 5-star boring room, impersonal service, and cliche service.
this being our 6th or 7th stay in bkk, we looked around for something with a twist.
whilst i would have liked to check the new river side boutique hotels (ie arun residence), or the other upcoming small hotels (chakrabongse cillas, ibrik, reflections, phranakorn nornlen or luxx), i followed my guts and went in for the eugenia although it has only been reviewed once on this site (and nowhere else).
the hotel is great, no question about it. the service is excellent, with very good small touches that defenitely make you forget the dryness of the so-called 5-star service of international hotels.
breakfast is grand, the decoration is lovely, homy, personal, done with taste by someone who defenitely appreciates beautiful things (coffee table books, art objects, flowers, furniture).
whilst i do not necessarily condone the abundance of dead meat on the walls and floors (from zebra skins, to gunu heads, antilope horns and giant spiders in a frame), it does add to the rustic colonial feel of the place.
after all, this is just what people used to have in their houses and on their walls before we all became far too sensitive and politically correct!.
a nice touch is the private tuktuk that drives you to the metro station or the nearby restaurants (btw try the "le dalat" for a taste of original vietnamese indochina cuisine).
location is not ideal as it is at the far end of the soi, not very close to anything really, but fiine enough if you are willing to walk 10 minutes to the MRT, the main street or the sleezy "soi cowboy"....

the room is very nice (we were in the eugenia suite). it looks great on the pictures, feels a bit smaller when you are inside, and once you get over the ultra hard bed (was there a matrass at all??), you feel just like at home (except of course that my home does not have a bathroom that is that spacious, or a old-fascioned standalone bath tub, or coloured antique tiles on the wall...., but you know what i mean!

this comes of course at a price.
a price that is very very close to the top hotels in bangkok (ie more exspensive that thebanyan tree, 20 dollars way from the sukothai hotel, 25 dollars from the oriental etc...), and, in my view, a price that is somehow unjustified for bangkok.
but ala, i'll let the price of the room go.
what i do not fogive are the hidden little extras that pop up on the bill when you are about to check out like the 150 bath for an extra shot of espresso at breakfast.
come on people, 150 baths?? this is thailand? this is a country where you have a full course of dinner for 150bath... hell, even starbucks is not that expensive!
call me a cheapo, but it is not the money, it is just the principal of it all!
having said that, i'd recommend the eugenia to anyone, any day, cause it is different, personal and has a charm to it that is seldom found in big cities nowadays!
have fun!
/ck