Old Town Hotels in Songkhla
4 Shophouse Boutiques
by the Street Art!

Songkhla Tae Raek is an antique hotel in an old building in the heart of the old town that many reviewers say feels like sleeping in a museum, ranked #1 of 12 B&B-style stays in Songkhla on TripAdvisor and scoring 9.3 from 63 reviews on Trip.com. The whole place is furnished with genuine antiques — furniture, household objects, old photographs — mixing traditional Chinese pieces with contemporary art, behind a curved stained-glass facade that glows once it's lit at night. It sits on Phetchakhiri Road, a few minutes' walk from the City Pillar Shrine, the Nakhon Nai House Museum and the street-art quarter. Rooms are clean, breakfast is an included buffet, and the staff are good at pointing you to where to eat and what to see in the quarter.

Kluenngam is a cafe and a tiny three-room stay in an old shophouse on Nakhon Nai Road, with the original brick walls left exposed as the centrepiece, scoring 9.6 on Booking and rated by Trip.com above 96% of nearby properties. The building is narrow in the Chinese-shophouse way but tall and open inside, restored to show the old brick alongside timber floors and design furniture. The ground floor is a cafe serving coffee and food, next to the Nakhon Nai House Museum and about a 2-minute walk from the street art. Guests praise the care in the styling, say the rooms feel more spacious than the narrow building suggests, and find it quiet and private with so few rooms.

Casa Der See is a boutique stay in a Sino-Portuguese building from 1938 on Nakhon Nok Road, on the side that faces Songkhla Lake, opened in 2024, scoring 9.0 on Booking with couples rating it 9.6. Its standout — rare in the quarter — is the second- and third-floor balcony looking out over the fishing boats and Songkhla Lake, where you can have morning coffee or watch the sunset. The house keeps its original architecture and decorative details, and there's a cafe doing pastries and coffee. It's on Nakhon Nok Road, an easy walk to Nakhon Nai and Nang Ngam Roads. Be straight about it: the inner rooms have no view, so ask specifically for a Lake View room at booking if that's what you want.

The Roo Classic Hometel is a six-room hometel in a roughly 160-year-old building near the Red Rice Mill in the heart of the old town, furnished with antiques, art and old photographs that guests describe as an eclectic museum. TripAdvisor rates it 4/5 and ranks it #9 of 29 stays in Songkhla, and Trip.com carries reviews up to 9.5 (a few thin-sample sites score it lower). Rooms have the original teak floors and antique wrought-iron beds for a period feel, with Cafe de Roo on site; guests praise the comfy beds and the breakfast. It's an easy walk along Nakhon Nok Road and to the street art.