Maladee Hotel — A Yellow Block of Roomy Balcony Rooms with Easy Parking on the Edge of Uttaradit
If you drive into Uttaradit along the Asia highway and want a big room and easy parking without threading into a town soi, Maladee Hotel is the one a lot of drivers pull over for. It's a large three-storey building painted bright yellow with a brick-red lower band and a pointed-gable entrance porch, sitting out on the Ban Koh side near Highway 102. What guests mention again and again is rooms that feel bigger than the price suggests, each with its own balcony, plus a wide forecourt that's genuinely easy to park in. The trade-off: it's on the edge of town, so there isn't much to eat within walking distance and you'll drive out for dinner. Pooled booking reviews put it around 7.9, with cleanliness and room size scoring high — while a firm bed and some highway noise are worth knowing about before you book.
Maladee Hotel is a 46-room property in a three-storey building painted bright yellow with a brick-red band along the ground floor, a tiled roof, and a pointed-gable entrance porch as its centrepiece, out in the Ban Koh sub-district on the edge of Uttaradit. The appeal here isn't sharp design or a view — it's room size that runs larger than other hotels at the same price in town. Rooms are bright and white with glossy tiled floors, a sliding glass door onto a railed balcony that looks out at trees, a wooden louvered wardrobe, and air conditioning, a fridge and a 32-inch LCD TV in every room. Several guests say the rooms are clean and open, the air conditioning is strong, and there's plenty of floor space to stretch out after a long drive.
Two extras make it better value: free bicycles to borrow and a wide, easy forecourt to park in — which matters, because most people who stay here arrive by car and don't want to circle for a space the way you do at a town-centre hotel. Inside there's an on-site restaurant and a ground-floor lounge furnished with black leather sofas and wrought-iron tables, tree-motif wall art, and a counter at the back. Breakfast is a buffet served from 7:00–9:30 am and charged separately from the room. Worth saying up front: there's no swimming pool here — the strengths are the room size and the convenience for drivers rather than resort-style facilities.
One guest puts it plainly: "Big clean room, strong air conditioning, easy parking, fair price, good for a stop-over — but it's hard to find food nearby, you have to drive out."
On location, understand first that Maladee is out on the Ban Koh edge, not in the town centre. The upside is that it's close to Highway 102 for easy in-and-out, and near the cluster of old temples that are Uttaradit's main sights — Wat Phra Borommathat Thung Yang and Thung Yang market are about 1.5 km away, and Wat Phra Thaen Sila At about 2.8 km, a few minutes by car. The Uttaradit clock tower and the bus terminal are roughly 4-5 minutes by car. The thing to accept is that the immediate area is a quiet residential neighbourhood with few restaurants within walking distance — several reviews agree you drive out for dinner at night, though there's a well-liked khao pan phak (rice-noodle roll) shop about 400 metres up at the mouth of the road that's an easy walk.
Pooled across booking sites, the score sits around 7.9/10 — solid for an edge-of-town hotel at this price. The headings guests rate highest are cleanliness and room comfort (several reviews give close to 9 out of 10), followed by friendly service. What guests praise most is the big, clean rooms, strong air conditioning, helpful staff, and easy parking. The honest negatives are worth stating: some reviews note the bed is fairly firm and the base sits higher than usual, the bathroom in some rooms drains slowly after a shower, and you can hear highway traffic at night, especially in the road-facing rooms. Know it going in so you can pick a room and set expectations accordingly.
On price, a Standard Twin starts around ฿800/night, while the double and larger rooms run roughly ฿1,000–1,200 depending on the date and platform. The hotel also has function space that hosts local weddings and seminars, so when an event is on, rooms can fill faster and the place is busier than usual. It holds the SHA standard for cleanliness and safety. Compare Agoda, Booking and Trip.com before you commit — the gap can be anywhere from a few baht to a few hundred.
The bottom line: Maladee Hotel works best for drivers passing through, anyone visiting the Thung Yang and Lap Lae temple cluster, or families who want a big room and easy parking on a budget around ฿1,000 — more than for someone who wants to sleep in the town centre and walk straight out to dinner. From about ฿800 a night, the room size, the private balcony, the free bicycles and the parking add up to good value. Ask for a room on the inner side away from the road if you want it quietest. But if a soft bed is non-negotiable, or you want to walk to food at night, a town-centre hotel will suit you better.
Summary from Booking & Agoda
- ✓ Big, clean rooms with strong air conditioning — good for a stop-over
- ✓ Wide forecourt parking, easy and free
- ✓ Private balcony in nearly every room
- ✓ Friendly, helpful staff
- ! Bed is fairly firm and the base sits high
- ! Road-facing rooms catch highway noise in the evening
- ! On the edge of town — little food within walking distance
- ✓ Good value for a large room at around ฿1,000
- ✓ Near the Thung Yang temple cluster and market — handy for temple visits
- ✓ On-site restaurant and a ground-floor lounge
- ✓ Easy in and out of town thanks to the nearby highway
- ! Bathroom in some rooms drains slowly after a shower
- ! No swimming pool
- ! You drive out for food at night
- 💡If you want it quietest — ask for an inner-side room away from the highway when booking → road-facing rooms can catch passing traffic at night, since the hotel sits near Highway 102
- 💡If a soft bed matters to you — several reviews agree the bed is fairly firm and the base sits higher than usual → fine if you like a firm mattress, but if you prefer it soft, set expectations or ask about a room with a newer mattress at check-in
- 💡If you want to walk to food at night — the area around the hotel is a quiet neighbourhood with few restaurants on foot → there's a khao pan phak shop about 400 m up the road, but for a proper dinner drive into town or use the hotel's free bicycles