The epitome of Asian luxury
The luxury and opulence in chiang mai they have their own name: ** Dhara Dhevi **. In the land of a million rice fields, a hotel stands mighty where feel alive the history of the region.
What awaits us as we approach Dhara Dhevi? Just a 15-minute drive from Chiang Mai airport and conceived as an ancient city, this hotel is located managed to dazzle even Lady Di herself.
Constituted as if it were a town, between town and town you will find rice fields
A HOTEL THROUGH HISTORY
To understand Dhara Dhevi, we have to go back to the past history of Chiang Mai, when it was the capital of the lanna kingdom (the kingdom of millions of rice fields) under the mandate of Myanmar, until, years -and struggles- later, they managed to become an independent state.
Later, between 1860 and 1870, the British intended to annex the territory of Chiang Mai to their crown and it was thanks to the help of the king of Thailand (Siam at the time) that he sent his brother to propose to the princess Lanna Dara Rashmi, who managed to become strong before the British crown. And that is why this hotel is named Princess _(Dhevi) _ Dara, to honor the person who merged his Lanna Kingdom with Siam.
PenthouseResidence
ASIAN LUXURY WAS THIS
A hotel? A temple? A palace? A city? To enter Dhara Dhevi is to do it at a unparalleled world of luxury and sophistication . The walk to its imposing façade is surrounded by a temple with a gong that play several times during the day and guardians as mythological animals.
All its architecture dances between the Lanna style and its undoubted Burmese past. with exquisite decoration carried out, either by an army of craftsmen, or based on original old pieces.
The Dhara Devi Chiang Mai belongs to the hotel label Preferred Hotels and to the category Legend , which includes hotels, as its name suggests, with legendary experiences and to remember.
Legendary
Account, nothing and more and nothing less, than with 16 different types of rooms . Well you can stay in the main building colonial suites, or do it in one of their villas.
Depending on the chosen category, some have their own jacuzzi or pool , in addition to all kinds of amenities. Of course, each one is unique and different from the others, so if you repeat, you make sure it will never be the same.
The pools in Dhara Dhevi, a way of life
LEGENDARY LUXURY
If you want to throw the house out the window, bet on their ** Penthouse Residence .** Almost 400 square meters in a penthouse with five-meter-high ceilings, lacquered wood floors, Persian rugs and a grand piano.
And, set to dream, we do it with your Royal Residence . Almost 7,000 square feet of luxury and privacy with six Lanna-style pavilions and their respective bedrooms, living rooms, dining rooms, three swimming pools, Jacuzzis and saunas on the edge of a lotus pond. They finish it off with life-size sculptures of elephants brought directly from the oldest temple in Chiang Mai. Dreaming is free, right?
Royal Residence
We can't stop talking about their pools . What pools gentlemen! They are the best place to cool off from the humid heat of Chiang Mai. One next to the colonial building, enormous, gigantic, and another more discreet, but no less essential, with various levels of water and located in the area of the villas.
Pools in the villas of Dhara Dhevi
DREAM SPA
The time has come to recover the lost calm, the one that leaves us with the stress of every day. And it works, almost like a miracle, in The Dheva Spa . More than 3,100 square meters dedicated to wellness , the almost luxurious spa of Dhara Dhevi, welcomes you with a hypnotic building, conceived in the image and likeness of the myanmar mandalay temple.
Entering there is entering a world of peace, where your body and mind connect with the energy flows of the place and nature. It is best that you undergo a dosha analysis of the command of your ayurvedic doctor . This is a study of how your body is, attending to a discipline with more than 5000 years of practices and originating in India.
Thus, they suggest the treatments that can be adapt to your physical and mental state, being able to go through yoga, meditation or Ayurvedic massages. Not content with this, they also acquired an EFI scanner, a technology invented by John Rogerson, which uses a light system to measure the amount of energy emitted by our body and the location of the chakras.
The treatment menu ranges from stress management through a massage around your abdominal organs, to traditional Thai massages. The time will come when they give way to you treatment suite (yes, suite with hydromassage bathtub included) and entrust yourself to the most pure hedonism...
spa lobby
FIVE RESTAURANTS, TWO POOL BARS, DRINKING BARS AND A CAKE SHOP
Macarons in Thailand? Yes, they are famous here and it is not strange that you see visitors, outside the hotel, approaching to take these little delicacies.
You can't stop trying the mango sticky rice , the most famous dessert in the country in the form of a small French sweet.
The decision, when it comes to lunch or dinner, you will go through Chinese, French, Italian, international or Thai cuisine. The latter is worth noting.
Le Grand Lanna
In ** Le Grand Lanna **, the hotel's Thai restaurant, you will enjoy the best Thai cuisine and cuisine from the north of the country with dishes such as the typical chiangmai Spicy Sausage, curries, super spicy soups, fresh fish, noodles and other regional dishes.
Dinner is enlivened with a most appetizing Thai dance and song show. What if, this was the restaurant that Lady Di fell in love with, so much so that they even have a room dedicated to it **(Sala Diana)** that they dedicate to events and private dinners.
ACTIVITIES FOR EVERYONE
We weren't just going to relax and live the good life, no. In Dhara Dhevi you can join any of its many activities to enrich the experience even more. From signing up for a class Thai Boxing , to learning recipes at his culinary academy, going through become a rice collector one day.
To do this, they will give you traditional clothing and you will learn to plant the most coveted -and numerous- cereal in the region. They even have educational experiences through three typical ancient lanna houses , as a museum, so you can see first-hand how they lived, and which you will enter barefoot, because the custom of Chiang Mai was to sleep and eat on the ground. In addition, they have the help of local artisans who show the arts & crafts Thais.
Do you need more reasons to live a memorable experience?
A more than memorable experience