The Rose Garden is the perfect base from which to explore Bangkok - yes, you read it right, Bangkok. Located just 1 hour drive from the city, with the new improved highway, the Rose Garden can be not only your escape from Bangkok but from where you can make forays into the city when you feel like shopping and dining in Bangkok. And after you’ve had your fill of city life, return to the haven of the gardens by the lake.
While at Rose Garden, take your time too to explore the province of Nakhom Pathom with the world’s biggest pagoda and its night market as well as visit a timeless floating market nearby.
Holidays are about balance, which is why the Rose Garden’s serene riverside setting is the perfect escape from the hustle and bustle of big city life - yet still situated close enough to one of the world’s most fascinating cities.
Discover The Rose Garden
For a property the size of the Rose Garden - it sprawls over 70 acres - it is remarkable how smoothly the different parts flow into each other.
It is truly organic in design as three generations of owners and community have put their passion and energy into making the Rose Garden less like a set of attractions and more like a community destination.
It is also mind-boggling to think of the range of experiences and encounters that happen here every day - from cultural shows to river boat rides, and from cooking classes to seminars and theme evenings.
Discovering the Rose Garden is like uncovering a destination that caters to every possible mood and desire of its customers. To really discover it all, you just have to keep coming back.
Rose Garden Riverside Hotel
The Rose Garden Riverside Hotel comprises two wings:
Ta Chine Wing:
Features 83 rooms and suites, all with panoramic river views and private balconies. There are 7 one-bedroom suites, 7 deluxe corner rooms, and 69 superior rooms
Superior Rooms include 14 triples, 13 doubles, and 42 twin bedded rooms. These rooms start from the 4th floor to the 10th floor.
Pet Kasem Wing:
Features 77 rooms and suites, all with panoramic view of the surrounding unspoiled countryside. There are 4 one-bedroom suites and 73 standard rooms.
Standard Rooms consist of 3 triples, 3 doubles, and 67 twin-bed rooms. These rooms start from the 2nd to the 5th floor.
All rooms feature full air-conditioning; high speed Wi-Fi and ADSL Leased Line Internet; IDD telephones; a mini fridge and cable TV.
Antique Thai Teak Houses
To experience a true Thai living experience, book yourself into one of Rose Garden’s six restored 100-year old traditional Thai houses.
Perched elegantly alongside the lake, and built entirely of teak, the Thai houses are one of the property’s unique features. Lovingly restored, they have been fitted with modern amenities for comfortable stays.
Special features include two-to-four rooms; some with kitchen and mini-bar; air-conditioned rooms; IDD Telephones; WI-FI High Speed Internet/Leased Line Internet (ADSL); Satellite TV, Room Service, and luxurious polished wood living area
Culture Village & Show
Thai Village and Cultural Learning Centre
Rose Garden’s award-winning Cultural Centre transports you into a typical Thai Village, where villagers guide you through some of the iconic experiences of Traditional Thai Living. Guests can learn about silk-weaving, pottery-making, umbrella-painting, martial arts, fruit carving, garland-making, rice-pounding and cultivation. Watch the rich displays of Thai period costumes or the preparation of the fiery papaya salad (som tom) or the sweet snacks khanom. Learn about the care of elephants, and help feed these animals that play such an important role in traditional Thai lifestyles.
Interactive Learning
From 10am to 12pm daily, visitors from children to corporate groups can enjoy hands-on experiences about aspects of Thai lifestyle from the Rose Garden’s own trainers. Pavilion stations include Thai Music & Dancing; Garland Making & Fruit Carving; Traditional Pottery; Thai Martial Arts; Silk Processing; Traditional Weaving; Umbrella Painting; Thai Kitchen; Orchid Nursery; Thai Herbal Pavilion; Siamese Fighting Fish and Rice Farming. Complimentary for hotel guests.
Thai Village Cultural Show
The Gardens
The Rose Garden’s 70 acres of land houses one of Thailand’s most noted Botanical Parks. Within it, find a series of zones covering educational and medicinal purposes to areas made purely for fun and the imagination, such as the Animal Lawn featuring yes, animal-shaped hedges - origami, Rose Garden style.
For nature lovers, enjoy a leisurely stroll through the Botanical Gardens and admire the impressive diversity of native tropical flora and fauna, starting from the historic and sacred Pikul tree. Enjoy the rich scents of the Herbal and Bougainvillea Gardens, or the unique Native Aromatic Flora Garden. Views numerous varieties of Thailand’s iconic flower in the Orchid Lawn, or discover over 30 different varieties of banana palm.
Whatever your interests and no matter how many times you‘ve walked round the Rose Garden, you will always find some new aspect of its gardens that will delight and surprise you.
But before you set off, be sure to read our Rose Garden Story to appreciate that all this was initially the vision of one woman.
Organic Farm
Across the river from the Rose Garden is a piece of land that is being developed into an Organic Farm. The Farm not only showcases best practices in traditional Thai agriculture but also allows visitors a glimpse and immerses them into Thai farming the way it used to be.
The Organic Farm is ideal for school groups and corporate events that want to add something different and meaningful to their programmes.
Activities include “pick and eat” experiences:
Restaurants
It comes from director Arrut Navaraj’s passion for food. Country-style cuisine means never compromising the food for the sake of convenience, he says.
“I’m quite a foodie and, beyond making sure the food tastes good, we try and do things the traditional way, the way it used to be. For example, we make our coconut milk, most houses in the villages still do that. The coconut milk in the ice cream is made the traditional way. We take the trouble to do that. Most houses grow their fruits and vegetables in their back garden. Most go to riverside markets to buy their groceries.”
Khun Arrut says the menu aims to be true to traditional styles of presentation - such as spicy shrimp paste dip with mackerel - and dishes are cooked with fresh ingredients picked from the gardens. By developing cottage industries around the property, the Rose Garden enjoys a plentiful supply of fresh herbs and coconut milk. It is planning its own Organic Farm across the river to ensure a steady supply of its own vegetables and spices for its restaurants.
The Rose Garden tries not to over-sweeten its food and provides appropriate levels of bitterness and/or spice for different palates, unlike in other more Westernised-style Thai restaurants where such flavours may be dulled down.
At the Rose Garden, guests are not short of dining options from Inn Chan to the atmospheric open-air Pae Suan Sampran offering country-style river cuisine.
Here’s a list of dining options at the Rose Garden.
Restaurants and Bars
Cuisine
Opening Time
Inn Chan
Authentic Thai Fine Dining on the Ta Chine River
11.00 am - 2.30 pm
Asuka
Traditional Japanese fare in quiet intimate setting
Closed on Sunday night
Rim Nam 1
All day dining cafe featuring international favorites and local specialties
6.00 am - Midnight
Rim Nam 2
Pae Suan Sampran
Open-air floating restaurant serving Thai local dishes
5.00 pm - 10.00 pm Closed on Monday
Vanda Pavilion
International Buffet Lunch in classic surroundings
Spa
Massage is an important component of traditional Thai living. Centuries ago, Thai healers used the art of massage to help rid Thai people of aches, pains and anxiety, and to restore lost vitality.
The Arusaya Thai Herbal Spa is Rose Garden’s own authentic boutique Thai spa. Set in a serene herbal garden in a century-old antique Thai house, the Spa is a quiet haven next to the lake. It offers herbal compresses picked straight from the garden, and essential oils you can personally select to restore vitality, or to just lull you into a deep sleep.
Certified therapists and trained Thai Traditional Medicine experts work in seven air-conditioned rooms, en-suite with bathrooms, and three steam rooms. Aside from basic health and lessons on Thai herbs, its offerings include:
Meetings & Events
Taking advantage of its nature farm across the river, the Rose Garden is also developing its team-building and soft adventure themes for groups which want something different.
Meeting Rooms: Fully equipped with Wi-Fi connectivity, wireless and clip-on microphones, overhead projectors, LCD projectors and monitors, all meeting venues are unique.
Ruen Kaew:
One-of-a-kind gated and fully-refurbished antique Thai teak house with its own lawn, set on a tranquil lake. With a fully-equipped private kitchen, Ruen Kaew is self-contained, ideal for executive meetings or theme parties.
The main and largest fully-equipped conference room at the Rose Garden Riverside sits off the Pet Kasem Wing and has its own lobby. Comfortably seats 200 guests and has 4 breakout rooms attached.
An opulent Thai-designed stand-alone meeting room by the Ta Chine River. An excellent private dining venue.
A cosy, exclusive room on the second floor of the Ta Chine Wing of the Riverside Hotel. Perfect for small meetings, receptions and functions.
A fully-equipped conference room for up to 120 guests, on the first floor of the Pet Kasem Wing.
One of twin meeting rooms located on the upper floor of the two-storey building adjacent to the Riverside Hotel. Accommodates up to 60 guests.
The twin to Coral, seats 60 guests.
Another stand-alone meeting room. Looks out to manicured gardens, seating up to 120 guests.
Outdoor Meetings:
Theme Events
With 70 acres of land at its disposal, the Rose Garden is the perfect haven for meeting and incentive organisers who want a creative edge to their theme parties. After all, why stay indoors when there’s the great outdoors to explore?
“Evening at Rose Garden Riverside” is a special evening dining programme tailor-made for event organisers seeking a distinctively Thai venue and theme. The resort brings together the best of its culinary skills, banqueting services and cultural performers to create an unforgettable Thai-themed evening. Rose Garden also provides intimate settings in a traditional Thai nobleman’s house by a picturesque lake for smaller groups as well as garden party arrangements for larger groups. The highlight brings guests together in one of Thailand’s famous festival celebrations culminating in a fireworks display.
Facilities
Catering options:
Tariff
