Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok
{{short description|Wellness hotel in Thailand}}
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The Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok is a luxury wellness hotel on Witthayu Road, Bangkok, Thailand.
BDMS is an abbreviation of Bangkok Dusit Medical Services.{{Efn|Not be confused with BDSM.}}
History
The hotel was built by Thai developer Lursakdi Sampatisiri in 1984 as the Hilton International Bangkok at Nai Lert Park, managed by Hilton International.{{cite book|author=Thailand. Samnakngān Khana Kammakān Songsœ̄m Kānlongthun|title=Thailand investment: Directory of BOI promoted companies|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=T2AWAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=3 June 2011|year=1989|publisher=Office of the Board of Investment, Royal Thai Government|page=405}}{{cite book|last=Agar|first=Charles|title=Frommer's Thailand|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=g_vb52e7E-cC&pg=PA111|accessdate=3 June 2011|date=24 April 2006|publisher=Frommer's|isbn=978-0-471-78470-8|page=111}} On June 13, 2003{{cite web |url=https://www.hotelbusiness.com/raffles-supplants-hilton-group-as-bangkok-hotel-manager/ |title=Raffles Supplants Hilton Group As Bangkok Hotel Manager - Hotel Business |website=www.hotelbusiness.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170906135110/https://www.hotelbusiness.com/raffles-supplants-hilton-group-as-bangkok-hotel-manager/ |archive-date=2017-09-06}} the Sampatisiri family signed Raffles International Hotels to manage the hotel{{cite web| url = http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2003_2nd/Jun03_HiltonBangkok.html| title = Owners of The Hilton International Bangkok Hilton Ending Hilton Management After 20 Years; Signs on Raffles / June 2003}} in their Swissôtel division, and on January 1, 2004{{cite web| url = http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2003_4th/Dec03_NaiLertPark.html| title = Raffles International Assumes Management of Nai Lert Park Bangkok / December 2003}} it was renamed first{{cite web | url=http://www.4hoteliers.com/news/story/1113 | title=Raffles opens in Bangkok. : Thursday, 15th January 2004 : 4Hoteliers }} Nai Lert Park Bangkok, a Raffles International Hotel{{cite web| url = http://www.hotel-online.com/News/PR2003_2nd/Jun03_HiltonBangkok.html| title = Owners of The Hilton International Bangkok Hilton Ending Hilton Management After 20 Years; Signs on Raffles / June 2003}} and then later Swissôtel Nai Lert Park Bangkok. It contained 338 rooms. Lonely Planet said of the hotel, "a mishmash of bygone styles, the Nai Lert is a bit disappointing in the cramped rooms, but glorious underneath a shady tree in its private garden-park."{{cite book|last=Burke|first=Andrew|title=Thailand's islands & beaches|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q8KBw7dQGM4C&pg=PA95|accessdate=3 June 2011|date=1 August 2008|publisher=Lonely Planet|isbn=978-1-74104-776-9|page=95}} The hotel was awarded Thailand’s Leading Business Hotel by the World Travel Awards Asia in 2008. The hotel restaurant Ma Maison was named Best Restaurant by Thailand Tatler’s Best Restaurants. On June 4, 2009, American actor David Carradine was found dead of asphyxiation in the wardrobe of his room in the hotel.{{cite web| url = https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/story?id=7989893&page=1| title = Autopsy: David Carradine Died by Asphyxiation - ABC News|quote = "Kung Fu" actor David Carradine died from asphyxiation, according to New York-based medical examiner Dr. Michael Baden, who was hired by the family to do a private autopsy on the actor.
Baden, the host of HBO's "Autopsy" series, ruled out suicide because of the way the actor's body was bound. He has not yet ruled out homicide or autoerotic asphyxiation, which many had speculated was the cause of death.|website = ABC News}}
The hotel was sold to Bangkok Dusit Medical Services in 2016{{Cite web | url=http://www.hotelmanagement.net/transactions/bangkok-s-swissotel-nai-lert-park-sold-to-become-medical-center | title=Bangkok's Swissotel Nai Lert Park sold to become medical center | date=29 September 2016 }} and closed on December 31, 2016{{Cite web | url=https://coconuts.co/bangkok/news/swissotel-nai-lert-park-bangkok-closes-their-doors-new-years-eve/ | title=Swissotel Nai Lert Park Bangkok closes their doors this New Year's Eve | Coconuts }} for conversion to a branch of Bangkok Hospital.{{Cite web | url=http://m.bangkokpost.com/business/news/1097852/bangkok-hospital-buys-nai-lert-park-hotel | title=Bangkok Hospital buys Nai Lert Park hotel }} However it was announced in August 2018 that BDMS would partner with Mövenpick Hotels & Resorts and they reopened the property as a "holistic services medical centre" resort hotel in 2019, the Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok .{{Cite web | url=https://www.ttgasia.com/2018/08/24/bangkoks-nai-lert-park-hotel-to-revitalise-as-a-movenpick-wellness-resort/ | title=Bangkok's Nai Lert Park Hotel to revitalise as a Mövenpick wellness resort | TTG Asia }}
Gallery
Park Nai Lert Hotel (now Mövenpick BDMS Wellness Resort Bangkok) 2022August img 05.jpg|Sign at the entrance, as of 2022, the hotel is marketed under the brand Movenpick
Image:Nai Lert Park Bangkok.JPG|Sign at the entrance, in 2007, when the hotel was a Raffles International Hotel
Image:Nai Lert Park - panoramio - harley photo.jpg|The hotel's extensive gardens, 2007
Nai Lert Park Heritage Home - facade from sra bua.jpg|Nai Lert Park Heritage Home, now a museum, is located within the complex.
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