The Hi Place Roi Et — A White Box with Bold Colour Where Breakfast Steals the Show
If you're scrolling through Roi Et hotels and spot a crisp white building striped with bands of red, yellow and blue, that's The Hi Place — a recently opened design hotel in the Nuea Mueang area, about 1.3 km from the Bueng Phlan Chai lake park in the city centre. What guests keep coming back to in their reviews isn't only the modern rooms, though. It's the breakfast buffet, which more than one reviewer calls the best hotel breakfast they've had anywhere in Isaan.
The Hi Place is a newer property that styles itself as a design hotel in a city still dominated by guesthouses and older lodgings. The building is solid white, broken up with red, yellow and blue colour-block bands across the facade and carried through into the rooms. The double-height lobby mixes red, blue and yellow velvet chairs and reads bright the moment you walk in. There are around eight rooms across four types, from the Superior Double up to a King Suite with a balcony — a small hotel that clearly set out to make every corner photograph well.
The thing guests mention most is breakfast. The dining room runs a buffet with both Thai-Isaan dishes and Western options, much of it cooked fresh in front of you. Reviews across several booking platforms land on the same point: the morning spread punches well above the room rate, and a few guests go as far as calling it the best hotel breakfast they've found in northeastern Thailand. If breakfast matters to you, book a rate that includes it rather than adding it later.
One guest remembers a spotless room and a comfortable bed, but says the part that stuck was breakfast — fresh-cooked Isaan dishes good enough to go back for a second plate.
Rooms are simple but bright: glossy white tile floors, one accent wall in the hotel's signature colour bands, a flat-screen TV, air conditioning, a small fridge and a separate wet-and-dry bathroom with strong hot water. The Deluxe Twin with its two single beds suits friends or work colleagues travelling together, while the King Suite adds up to two sofa beds for a small family. Guests who've stayed note the rooms are quiet, helped by the building sitting back from the main road.
The location is in Nuea Mueang, about 1.3 km from Bueng Phlan Chai in the city centre. A short drive or songthaew ride gets you to Phra Phuttha Rattana Mongkhon Maha Muni — the standing Buddha at Wat Burapha Phiram, the tallest in Thailand — and to the 101-metre Roi Et Tower with its city-view observation deck. To be straight about it, the hotel isn't within walking distance of the lake park, so if you plan to stroll around Bueng Phlan Chai every evening you'll want a vehicle. In exchange you get quiet and a wide free car park, which is a fair trade for most road-trippers.
The overall score sits at 8.5 from 457 reviews, with cleanliness, breakfast and friendly staff drawing the most praise. The honest limitations worth knowing first: there is no swimming pool, it's a small hotel with few rooms that fills quickly on long weekends, and the slightly out-of-centre position makes it better suited to guests with their own transport than to those planning to walk everywhere. Better to know that before you book than be surprised on arrival.
On price, rooms start around ฿1,200/night for a Superior Double. Set against the design, the cleanliness and that breakfast, it's one of the better value stays in Roi Et. Rates climb and rooms book out fast around festivals such as the Bun Bang Fai rocket festival or New Year, so reserve at least two to three weeks ahead for those dates. As always, compare Agoda and Booking before you commit — the gap between them can be meaningful in some periods.
The bottom line: The Hi Place works best for travellers with their own transport who want a clean, modern room and a strong breakfast for under two thousand baht a night. If you're in Roi Et to see the great standing Buddha, climb the Roi Et Tower, or break up an Isaan road trip, it's both good value and genuinely photogenic. If you need a pool or a place within walking distance of Bueng Phlan Chai, a larger city-centre hotel is the better call.
Summary from Booking & Agoda
- ✓ Breakfast outstanding — fresh-cooked Isaan dishes made to order
- ✓ Rooms clean and modern, beds comfortable
- ✓ Staff friendly and helpful
- ✓ Free, spacious parking
- ! No swimming pool
- ! Slightly outside the city centre — a vehicle helps
- ! Few rooms, so it books out fast on long weekends
- ✓ Modern, colourful design that photographs well
- ✓ Top marks for cleanliness in many reviews
- ✓ Strong value for what you get
- ✓ Quiet and genuinely restful
- ! No airport transfer service
- ! Rates rise and rooms fill during festivals
- ! Small building — no lift at certain times
- 💡If breakfast matters to you — book a rate that includes it, because the buffet is the single most-praised part of the stay · adding it in the package at booking works out better than ordering separately
- 💡If you don't have your own transport — the hotel is about 1.3 km from Bueng Phlan Chai, a touch far to walk · plan on a songthaew or motorbike taxi into the centre, or rent a vehicle
- 💡If you need a pool or gym — there isn't one · this is a small hotel built around clean rooms and good breakfast · for fuller facilities, look at a larger city-centre property