Fall in love with the iconic city of Bangkok the next time your worldly travels take you to Southeast Asia. The temples, the shopping, the night life, the palaces, the history, the culture, the beaches…each of it a unique slice of Thailand’s cultural pie. The accommodation in Bangkok is just as unique and none of the hotels Bangkok features is like the other. For a unique Bangkok hotel that expertly offers a piece of modernity in the midst of Bangkok’s thriving culture, the Anantara Bangkok Sathorn is the perfect option for both leisure and business visitors. Jim Thompson was a legendary component of Thailand’s past and irrevocably shaped the country’s industry and social outlook during his two-decade stint in the country. Thompson was utterly enamoured with the country and its people when he was stationed in Bangkok during WW2. He settled down and resurrected the hospitality industry by opening the first hotel in the city for western travellers, on the banks of the Chao Phraya River. The hotel attracted some famous names such as W. Somerset Maugham, Noel Cowards and Charlie Chaplin. He rebuilt the Thai silk industry with his natural instinct for colour and design, and generated international demand for Thai silk. After spending 20 vibrant years in the country, where he was so well known that a letter addressed to Jim Thompson, Bangkok would always find its way to him through a city of more than three million people, he mysteriously disappeared while on a holiday in Malaysia. Despite repeated attempts to locate him, no further trace of him was ever found. Relive the life of the most iconic foreigner in Thailand by visiting the Jim Thompson House, which was a social center entertained by the eponymous figure in his day.