Sunee Boutique Hotel — Polished-Concrete Loft Rooms with Mountain-View Balconies, Under ฿1,000
If you can't quite picture a design-led place to stay in Uttaradit town, Sunee Boutique Hotel is the one that surprises people. It's a small three-storey building in white and mint green tucked down Bromasan Soi 3, and it takes raw polished-concrete loft walls and turns them into guest rooms — set against a front garden with blue mosaic tables on the lawn. What guests mention again and again is how different the rooms look from a typical provincial hotel, plus private balconies that look out over the hills and a football field, free bicycles, and on-site parking. Verified booking reviews give it 8.4 from 44 stays — the trade-off being that some of the bare-concrete work reads a little rough and aged, which is worth knowing before you book.
Sunee Boutique Hotel is a small, family-run place in Uttaradit town — a three-storey building in white with a mint-green trim, vertical brown wood accents, and black metal balcony railings, set down Bromasan Soi 3 in the Tha It sub-district. There are 35 rooms in total, and the thing that sets it apart from anything else in town is the finish: nearly every room has raw polished-concrete loft walls with exposed conduit running across the ceiling — rough, but with real character. The ground-floor Deluxe room, at around 31 sqm, is the largest, with a king bed under a black leather headboard and a sliding glass door opening onto a private lawn. The Standard rooms, around 18 sqm on floors 2-3, are brighter with white walls and a railed balcony looking over town. Several guests say the rooms are clean and look more designed than the under-฿1,000 price suggests.
The extra that comes up most in reviews is the free bicycles. Uttaradit is small and fairly flat, and it's only a 2-3 minute ride out of the soi to Khlong Pho morning market. There's also free on-site parking, which matters a lot for anyone driving in, and a ground-floor lounge corner furnished with a carved teak sofa set against the concrete walls. A water cooler there keeps coffee, Ovaltine, and bread out all day for guests to help themselves — and more than a few reviews call the all-day free coffee and bread a nice touch at this price.
One guest sums it up: "Clean room, lovely mountain and football-field view, cheerful staff, plenty of food shops at the mouth of the soi, and only a 3-5 minute walk from the market — good value for Uttaradit at this price."
The overall feel here leans quiet — a place down a side soi rather than a big hotel on a main road. Beside the building there's a small grassy garden with blue mosaic tables and metal chairs, a frangipani tree, and a wood-slat fence — a spot a lot of guests like for morning coffee. On the service side there's a 24-hour front desk, luggage storage, and staff who will call a taxi and point you to local sights. What reviewers repeat is that the staff are warm and genuinely helpful, the kind of personal touch a big chain rarely manages.
Location is a real plus. Sunee sits down Bromasan Soi 3, less than a kilometre from the town centre. Uttaradit Railway Station is about 1.5 km away, so anyone arriving on the northern line is a short ride out. Wat Kasemjittharam is close enough to walk to, while the Uttaradit Clock Tower and the town market are only a few minutes by car. Reviewers note that the mouth of the soi has several restaurants and food shops, so you can walk out for dinner without driving. The town's main sights — Wat Phra Thaen Sila At and Wat Phra Borommathat Thung Yang — are about 15-20 minutes away by car.
The Trip.com score sits at 8.4/10 from 44 reviews, which is solid for a small-town property. Location scores highest at 8.7, followed by service (8.5), cleanliness (8.2), and facilities (8.0). Guests most often praise the unusual room design, the mountain views, the location near the market, and the friendly staff. On the honest side, some reviews say plainly that the bare-concrete finish looks rough and a little aged in places, the building has no lift so rooms on floors 2-3 mean stairs, and there's no pool. The Standard rooms are simple, so anyone who wants a larger, warmer-toned room will likely prefer the ground-floor Deluxe — worth knowing so you can pick the right room.
On pricing, Standard rooms start around ฿520/night, while the larger ground-floor Deluxe with its private lawn runs roughly ฿850-1,000. Rates tick up over festivals and long weekends and rooms fill quickly, since well-designed stays in Uttaradit town are not plentiful. As always, compare Agoda, Booking, and Trip.com before you commit — the gap can be anywhere from tens to a few hundred baht.
The bottom line: Sunee Boutique Hotel works best for anyone who wants a design-led room with a mountain-view balcony in Uttaradit town, on a budget under ฿1,000 — rather than someone after a big hotel with a pool and a lift. At around ฿520/night for a Standard, it's good value once you fold in the design, the free bikes, the parking, and all-day coffee and bread. If you want the largest room and the full loft feel, go for the ground-floor Deluxe with the private lawn. But if a brand-new room or a lift is a deal-breaker, this isn't the one — look at the larger town hotels instead.
Summary from Booking & Agoda
- ✓ Polished-concrete loft room design unlike anything else in town
- ✓ Private balconies with hill and football-field views
- ✓ Free bicycles and free on-site parking
- ✓ Cheerful, helpful staff with good local tips
- ! Bare-concrete finish looks rough and aged in places
- ! No lift — floors 2-3 mean stairs
- ! No swimming pool
- ✓ Good value for a design room under ฿1,000
- ✓ All-day coffee, Ovaltine, and bread to help yourself
- ✓ Quiet side-soi setting with a small garden to sit in
- ✓ Walkable to the market and the food shops at the soi entrance
- ! Standard rooms are simple, mostly for sleeping
- ! Bare-concrete walls won't suit those who prefer warmer-toned rooms
- ! Limited English from staff
- 💡If you want the largest room and the full loft feel — book the ground-floor Deluxe (around 31 sqm) with its private lawn → the Standard rooms (around 18 sqm) on floors 2-3 are simpler and reached by stairs
- 💡If you care about a brand-new finish — this is raw concrete work that looks a little rough and aged in places per reviews → if you like the raw style you'll enjoy it, but if you expect a pristine, warm-toned room, adjust expectations or look at a newer town building
- 💡If you're travelling with older guests or heavy bags — the building has no lift and floors 2-3 mean stairs → request the ground-floor Deluxe at booking so you don't have to carry luggage up and down