The Thai Archer is located on Soi LK Metro and offers apartment style accommodation. Soi LK Metro is a new area near the corner to Soi Diana Inn and Soi Buakaow. Unlike most of Thailand some planning has gone into this soi and all the buildings are of a similar design. The soi has a selection of bars, restaurants, gogo bars and the famous Lolita’s can be found here. Eden Club will also open shortly on this soi.

The Thai Archer has 9 rooms (I think) on 3 levels. I think one or two of the rooms are occupied by staff and/or owners. Rooms 201, 301 and 401 face onto a small soi at the rear of the building and tend to be quieter that the other rooms. The other rooms face onto Soi LK Metro.

The rooms are clean and well furnished. Each room has a safe, telephone and its own balcony. The rooms do not have a mini-bar but have a fridge that you can stock yourself. A good WiFi internet connection is available through out the whole building. The staff is friendly and there is a bar downstairs that has some real cuties.

I have stayed at this place on my last two trips and I can highly recommend it to others. I will again be staying there later this month. I will post some photos of the room in a couple of weeks.

Update 14 June 2008: This place is being operated under different management now and I don't reccommend it. See post number 19 in this thread for details.

How much? How does it Compare with Metro Apartments?

I can't quite remember how much it is otherwise I would have posted it. I think last trip it was somewhere in the region of 700b a night. I'll do some checking very soon.

The Thai Archer is very similar to Metro Apartments. If it wasn't for a bad experience that I had at Metro Apartment I would probably be staying there. One advantage of the rooms that I have had at the Thai Archer is there is a desk where I could use my laptop. The room that I had in Metro Apartments had nowhere that I could comfortably use my laptop.

Another advantage of The Thai Archer over Metro Apartments is that you are not required to stick your key holder into any slots to have the electricity to come on. You can leave the air-conditioner running if you wish.

Also any ladies that you take back to the room are not required to leave their ID at reception. I guess if you ask them to they would. This can be an advantage or disadvantage depending on your own personal feelings on this issue.

IDs is not normally an issue with me. At Metro there was nobody waiting around at 4-5am for an ID anyway. Not that I've ever had them ask at anytime. You know me same same girl whole trip. One of the girls downstairs did mention to my LT GFE that I had taken a ST up to the room while she went to Bangkok one day. Other than that I never had an issue at Metro. I won't fuck this thread on you I will save my comments for an appropriate thread. Thanks for the info the Thai Archer sounds good.

do they have a website?

Not at this stage.

Oh shit I just remembered that I forgot to put their email and phone number in the original post. I meant to do that and I will edit it.

Doh!!! :Stupid4:

Stayed at them both and are they are both excellent value for money. Obviously they both do not have a swimming pool.

The Metro Apartments are slightly more expensive. There is nothing in it as far as I am concerned and would recommend both. I know Scumbag enjoys the Wi fi in the room, which does not bother me too much and also had a small problem with Metro which did give me a cause for concern also.

I also like them both as I love the area.

I learnt something at the very end of my last trip. Apparently all of the buildings on Soi LK Metro are owned by the LK Metropole (I have not verified that.) What I was told is that if you are staying on that soi you can use the swimming pool at LK Metropole. I have yet to test this.

Sorry you were mis-informed.I have stayed 3 times on LKMetro for 30 days each time and can assure members that firstly all buildings here are NOT owned by the Metropole group and the only other accomodation allowed to use their facilities (Free of charge) is the "Keerati Home Stay".

Here is a link to an aerial photo showing the location of Soi LK Metro and The Thai Archer. It also shows the location of the soon to be opened Eden Club.

Soi LK Metro

If this does happen to you - just ask for 2 keys then you can always leave one in the slot to keep the aircon running. Thats what I have always done throughout Thailand and no hotel has ever refused it.