Blue Ozone Resort & Spa — Teak Riverside Decks on the Bang Pakong with a Floating Room and a Sand Bath
The whole appeal of Bang Khla is how slow it moves, and Blue Ozone Resort & Spa keeps that pace intact. It is a small riverside place — just 8 rooms, every one of them facing the Bang Pakong River, each with a teak deck where you can sit with a coffee and watch the sun drop over the water. The two things guests keep coming back to are the Garden Boat room, which genuinely floats on the river, and the Japanese volcanic sand bath plus a far-infrared sauna dome — wellness features you rarely find at a property this size. And it is a 350-metre walk to Wat Pho Bang Khla, where hundreds of fruit bats hang in the trees in broad daylight.
Blue Ozone is a small resort in Bang Khla subdistrict, sitting right on the bank of the Bang Pakong River. The buildings are teak wood on river-stone pillars, with pink bougainvillea trailing over the walkways. There are 8 rooms in total, all river-facing — several River Executive types, a River President Suite with the bedroom separated from a living area, and the Garden Boat Executive, which is a room set on a boat floating on the water. That last detail is the one guests tell their friends about most often. Most rooms come with a private teak balcony and a small table angled toward the river.
What sets Blue Ozone apart from an ordinary riverside guesthouse is its wellness corner. There is a Japanese volcanic sand bath (Sandbath) where you lie buried in warm sand, alongside a far-infrared sauna dome aimed at sweating out tension and easing muscles, plus spa massage on request. It is a wellness concept that is hard to find at a resort this small — and for several guests recovering from a heavy work stretch, it is the reason they chose the place in the first place.
Eating here is tied almost entirely to the river. Room rates include breakfast, served riverside in shaded surroundings. In the evening many rooms come with a BBQ set you grill yourself on the riverside deck — cooking while the river slides past. The next morning you can join the riverside alms-giving to passing monks or take a boat cruise around the river loop. Anyone who likes a properly slow, upcountry rhythm tends to settle in fast here.
One guest puts it this way: "I have stayed at a lot of riverside places around Thailand over the years, but Blue Ozone is the one I find myself thinking about most often when I am back in the city staring at a screen. The first morning I woke up before the alarm — not because of noise, but because the light on the Bang Pakong was something I had not seen before. It comes in low and golden and catches the surface of the water in a way that makes everything feel slower. I sat on the teak balcony for nearly an hour just watching, not doing anything else. A longtail went past heading upriver. A monk paddled a small wooden boat close to the bank for the morning alms round. There was no traffic sound anywhere, no city hum, nothing digital — just the river moving at its own pace. That one morning was worth the drive out from Bangkok on its own. The Garden Boat room we stayed in was genuinely unlike anything I had booked before. It floats — you can feel it, very gently, almost imperceptibly, whenever something passes on the water nearby. You fall asleep to that movement and it is one of the better ways to go to sleep I have found. The bed is large and the room is private and when you open the door you are looking directly at the river with nothing between you and it — no lobby, no corridor, no car park view. Just the plank, the railing, and the Bang Pakong. We used the sand bath on the afternoon of the second day. It sounds like an odd thing to do and I did not know what to expect, but the warmth of the volcanic sand goes all the way through your body in a way that a hot tub does not. You come out feeling like your muscles have been quietly reset. We followed it with the sauna dome and then lay in the shade by the water for close to an hour doing nothing in particular, watching a dragonfly work the same patch of air over and over. I have not found that combination — a sand bath, a sauna, and then an afternoon beside a moving river — at a property anywhere near this size or this price point before. The staff remembered how we took our breakfast on the second morning without us having to repeat it. The owner sat with us one evening and pointed out which part of the sky the bats come from when they leave Wat Pho Bang Khla at dusk. Small things. But they build up into something that feels looked after rather than processed. If you are coming from Bangkok and you want to feel like you have actually left the city rather than simply moved to a different building, this place does it. Book the floating room if it is available. Walk to the temple the first morning. Order the riverside BBQ set for your first evening. You will spend very little time looking at your phone."
The location is the quiet bonus of Bang Khla. From the resort it is roughly a 350-metre walk to Wat Pho Bang Khla, a temple more than 200 years old with an old wooden hall and several hundred fruit bats roosting in the trees through the day. A short drive further reaches Wat Saman Rattanaram and its reclining pink Ganesha — at 16 metres, the largest in Thailand. The riverside Bang Khla market is a short drive too, good for an evening bite.
An honest heads-up: Blue Ozone is not a big chain hotel. It is a family-run resort built around atmosphere rather than polish, and with only 8 rooms it fills quickly on long weekends and Saturdays. Some reviews note that a few rooms feel a little older in style, and nature is loud here all day — birds, insects, boat engines. If you expect city-hotel silence, this is not it. But if you want a real riverside setting, this is the kind of place people come back to.
On price, rooms start around ฿3,000/night including breakfast, which is fair value for a riverside stay that throws in a sand bath and sauna. Larger options like the River President Suite or the floating Garden Boat run higher. Because the resort is not sold on the big booking sites like Trip.com, Agoda or Booking.com, reservations usually go through the resort directly — so contact them several days ahead, especially if you want the floating room or a weekend date.
The bottom line: Blue Ozone suits Bangkok residents who want to escape the city to a riverside spot a little over an hour away by car. You get the full package — a teak deck for sunset, an unusual floating room, a sand bath and sauna, and a bat temple within walking distance. For two people or a small family recharging over a weekend, it works well for a weekend recharge — as long as you book before the rooms go.
Summary from Booking & Agoda
- ✓ Every room faces the river, with a teak deck for sunset
- ✓ The floating Garden Boat room is genuinely hard to find elsewhere
- ✓ Owner and staff are warm — it feels like staying with relatives
- ✓ Walking distance to the Wat Pho Bang Khla bat colony
- ! Only 8 rooms — fills fast on holidays
- ! A small resort, not a chain — limited facilities
- ! Nature is loud all day (birds, insects, boats)
- ✓ The sand bath and sauna dome are a rare point of difference for a small resort
- ✓ Rates include riverside breakfast — good value
- ✓ Bang Khla is quiet — a genuine weekend escape from the city
- ✓ Riverside BBQ sets and boat cruises to fill the day
- ! Some rooms feel older in style, not brand-new
- ! Not listed on the big booking sites — contact the resort directly
- ! Easiest to reach with your own car
- 💡If you want the floating Garden Boat room — there is only one and it books out on weekends → contact the resort several days ahead and confirm it is free before you plan the trip
- 💡If you are coming for the sand bath/sauna — these are a separate service, so ask about conditions and opening hours when you book → that way you can time a session within your stay
- 💡If you do not have a car — Bang Khla is outside Chachoengsao town and public transport is limited → check on a transfer with the resort, or plan a taxi/car hire from town in advance