GOOD Nakhonsawan Hotel — A New City Hotel with an Outdoor Pool and Free Breakfast at a Light Price
If you're driving north and want to break the trip with a night in Nakhon Sawan — but you'd rather not end up in a tired old hotel with a worn-out room — GOOD Nakhonsawan Hotel is the name road-trippers have started passing around over the last couple of years. It's a modern white tower in the Pak Nam Pho area that opened only recently, so the rooms are still new and bright, with floor-to-ceiling windows pulling in light. What guests keep coming back to is simple: clean new rooms, an outdoor pool framed by a row of fountains, and a buffet breakfast included for free — a combination that's hard to find in this city for a little over a thousand baht.
GOOD Nakhonsawan Hotel is a modern white tower in the Pak Nam Pho area, one of the city's recently opened hotels (around 2023). Room options run from 25 sqm Deluxe King and Deluxe Twin rooms, up to a 39 sqm Junior Suite with an in-room bathtub, and a 252 sqm four-bedroom Private Pool Villa for larger groups. The rooms are finished in pale wood and clean white, with floor-to-ceiling glass and a long sofa running along the window — higher floors look out to distant green hills. The detail guests mention most is that the rooms genuinely feel new and clean, with soft beds and soft pillows, a real contrast to the older properties in town where the rooms have started to wear.
What sets this place apart from a typical city hotel is the outdoor pool, with the tower along one side and a row of small fountains along the other. The deck is laid in white stone with sun loungers and umbrellas, and a covered terrace beside it holds lounge sofas in the shade — a comfortable spot for a cool evening. There's a separate shallow children's pool where small kids can swim safely, plus a playground with a slide under shade sails on a fenced patch of artificial lawn. Children get a proper run-around space rather than a token corner, which is why families with young kids take to this hotel in particular.
The lobby and common areas are done in soft grey and wood, clean and current. The reception counter carries the "good nakhonsawan" logo on the wall, with a small cafe called "boop" beside it for a coffee. Breakfast is a buffet that's included free with most rooms and starts at 7:00 am. The spread isn't as long as a big Bangkok chain hotel, but plenty of guests note that it's fresh, cooked to order and hot, with a jelly-and-dessert corner that kids gravitate to. There's a 24-hour front desk, laundry service, and free luggage storage for guests who've checked out but haven't hit the road yet.
We drove up from Bangkok with our two daughters, four and seven years old, planning to break the journey north with a single night in Nakhon Sawan before continuing to Chiang Rai. We had picked this hotel on the strength of the reviews — guests kept mentioning a pool, free parking, new rooms, and a price that didn't hurt. We arrived just after two in the afternoon and could tell within the first few minutes that we had made the right call.
Check-in took less than ten minutes. The staff at the desk smiled throughout, ran through the facilities clearly — pool open until eight, breakfast from seven, here's your floor and which direction to face for the hill view — and carried the bags to the lift without being asked. When we opened the room door both children ran straight in, and you could see why: the room was wide and bright, the floor-to-ceiling glass pulled in afternoon light, and a long sofa ran the full length of the window with a view to green hills in the distance. The room genuinely smelled new, none of the stale quality you sometimes get in older provincial hotels. The bed was soft, the pillows were soft, the sheets were white and clean without a mark on them. The bathroom was spotless, the fittings all new, the shower hot and strong from the first second.
Late afternoon we took the girls down to the pool. The water was clear and had no sharp chlorine smell. The deck is laid in white stone with sun loungers along one side and a row of small fountain sculptures along the other — the younger one sat at the edge watching them for a good while before she'd get in. There is a separate shallow children's pool away from the main pool, which meant the four-year-old could go in without any worry about the depth. And beyond that a fenced playground area with a timber play house and a slide under shade sails on a soft artificial lawn. Both girls ran between the slide and the children's pool until it was nearly dark; getting them back upstairs took a serious effort. Beside the pool there is a covered terrace with lounge sofas in the shade — we sat there watching them while the evening air cooled down, and it was a genuinely comfortable hour.
Breakfast was included in the room rate and started at seven. We went down at half past and it wasn't crowded yet. The spread is not long — rice congee, boiled eggs, scrambled eggs, bread, fruit, a small selection of hot dishes — but everything was fresh and cooked hot, and there was a jelly and dessert corner that both children returned to twice. They ate well and didn't want to leave the table.
The parking is free and wide, right in front of the building, which matters when you're travelling with children and luggage and don't want to circle a market district for a space. The one honest note: the hotel sits on the edge of town, so without a car it would be awkward to reach restaurants or the market. For us, driving our own vehicle, that was no problem at all — we went out to the Pak Nam Pho riverfront for dinner and were back in twenty minutes. For the price — a little over a thousand baht a night, rooms still new, pool, playground, free breakfast, free parking all included — it was well above what we expected. We will stay here again without hesitation the next time the road north goes through Nakhon Sawan.
The location sits in the Pak Nam Pho area on the eastern side of the city. It's about a 5-minute drive to the source of the Chao Phraya River (Pak Nam Pho), where the Ping and Nan rivers meet, and to the Pasan landmark that photographs beautifully in the late-afternoon light. Nakhon Sawan Buddha Park and Nakhon Sawan Rajabhat University are around 1 km away. The hotel sits just outside the dense commercial core, so it's quieter than a hotel in the middle of the market, but you can still drive into town and to restaurants in a few minutes — it suits both north-bound road-trippers and people in the city on business.
The overall score is 9.3/10 from 306 Trip.com reviews, which is very high for a provincial hotel — cleanliness leads at 9.5, with amenities and service at 9.3. The honest feedback is straightforward too: because the hotel sits on the edge of town, getting around without your own car is awkward and you'll need to call a ride. The breakfast spread is fairly simple compared with a major chain, and at busy times the children's pool and playground can get crowded. These are real limitations worth knowing before you book.
On price — Deluxe rooms start around ฿1,400/night, often with breakfast included, while the Junior Suite with a bathtub and the Private Pool Villa for larger groups run higher with size. That's light for what you get: a new room, an outdoor pool, a playground, free breakfast and free on-site parking. When Nakhon Sawan hosts its big events — notably the Pak Nam Pho Chinese New Year festival around February, reputed to be the largest in Thailand — rooms fill fast and rates climb, so book ahead and compare Agoda, Booking and Trip.com each time, since the promotions differ between them.
The bottom line: GOOD Nakhonsawan Hotel works best for travellers who want a new, clean hotel with a pool and free breakfast at a light price while breaking a journey in Nakhon Sawan for a night or two. If you're driving yourself or travelling as a family with young children, the new rooms, outdoor pool, playground and parking out front make a tidy match for a road trip. If you have no car and want to walk straight to the market and restaurants in town, or you want a big, varied breakfast, weigh it up — this place leads on new rooms and value rather than a central commercial location.
Summary from Booking & Agoda
- ✓ Rooms are new and spotless — beds and pillows soft and comfortable
- ✓ Outdoor pool is attractive with clean water, plus a separate kids' pool
- ✓ Free breakfast cooked fresh and hot, with a dessert corner kids like
- ✓ Free parking, wide and right in front of the building
- ! Sits on the edge of town — hard to get around without a car
- ! Breakfast spread simpler than a major chain hotel
- ! Kids' pool and playground can get crowded when full
- ✓ Recently opened — bright, modern rooms with floor-to-ceiling glass
- ✓ Has a playground with a slide, good for families with young kids
- ✓ A 5-minute drive to the Chao Phraya source and Pasan landmark
- ✓ 24-hour front desk, friendly and helpful staff
- ! Located outside the commercial district — you'll drive into town
- ! Rooms fill fast and rates rise around the Pak Nam Pho Chinese New Year
- ! Some rooms look out over land still being developed around the hotel
- 💡If you don't have your own car — the hotel sits on the edge of town, so walking to the market or restaurants is awkward → plan to call a taxi or ride-hail, or pick a hotel in central Pak Nam Pho if you want to walk everywhere
- 💡If you're travelling as a family with young children — there's a separate kids' pool and a playground with a slide → an edge over in-town hotels that usually have only a single shared pool · on busy weekends, take the kids down mid-morning or early afternoon when it's quieter
- 💡If breakfast really matters to you — the free buffet is fresh and cooked hot but the spread is simple → if you want a lot of variety, add a stop at a Pak Nam Pho eatery, but if a solid, convenient meal is enough, the included breakfast already earns its keep