Ten minutes drive from Chiang Mai International Airport, in the well-trodden hills of northern Thailand, Baan Saen Doi or House of a Hundred Thousand Hills has somehow eluded the platinum-card-carrying class. Featuring classic Lanna architecture without and authentic hill-tribe craftsmanship within, this two-year-old hidden gem comprises just seven suites and four rooms, making it feel less like a hotel and more like the sumptuous home of its Thai owner Wanphen Sakdatorn and her husband, German Honorary Consul Hagen Dirksen. Tennis courts, a...

Set in the Rose of the North s booming new commercial and tourism center, each of the Best Western Chaing Mai Hotel s 87 superior rooms and 13 suites open to a private balcony vista of marvelous Doi Suthep Mountain and the lush northern Thai countryside. A 280-to-300- person roof-top function room, delivering a 360-degree view of the surrounding mountain peaks, caps the hotel and provides the perfect ambience for meetings, conferences, wedding receptions and social events.