Capella Bangkok has 101 guestrooms, but you can bet the kids like the 15 with private pools best. Get your swimsuits and bathrobes ready as the nieces of our editor in chief get splash-happy at Capella for our T+L Kids series.
My nieces, Umbria and Harper, are two little sprites with big imaginations (and, as you’ll see, appetites). Both four years old, Umbria lives in Shanghai and Harper in Abu Dhabi, so they hadn’t seen each other in person since pre-covid, when they were still babies. Now they’re full personalities, and also seasoned travelers in their own rights. Both have stayed in more hotels than I had by the time I was 25, and certainly nicer ones. Harper beat me to Austria, Umbria to Hainan.
When my mom, my brothers, their wives and kids came to Bangkok for a family reunion in January, Umbria and Harper kindly agreed to review the Capella hotel for our #TLKids series. Once dragged out of their private pool, they got cozy in the mini-sized, hoodie, hotel bathrobes and shared their thoughts on the riverfront luxe life. – Jeninne Lee-St. John