Park Hyatt Siem Reap

The Hotel

Park Hyatt Siem Reap opened on 1 June 2013 as Hyatt's first Cambodian property — built on the bones of the former Hôtel de la Paix, a 1957 Cambodian Art Deco building that had operated as a regional hotel through the Sihanouk era and stood largely abandoned through the 1980s and 1990s. Bensley Design Studios — the Bangkok-based interior practice of Bill Bensley — was commissioned for both the architectural restoration and the interior programme; Bensley's brief was deliberately conservative on the heritage layer (preserving the original Art Deco staircase, the brass-and-tile lobby, the Cambodian-modernist column treatment, and the central interior courtyard) and deliberately maximalist on the new Bensley layer (the central courtyard converted into the property's signature outdoor pool and dining-garden, with Bensley's hand-curated antique programming throughout).

The 104 rooms — including 12 suites — are arranged across the building's original three floors with the Park Hyatt addition wrapping around the central courtyard. Standard categories at 35 square metres include the Bensley antique-decoration programme; Park Suite categories at 60 square metres add a sitting area and a private balcony; the Diplomatic Suite at 220 square metres is the milestone unit, with a private rooftop terrace and Bensley-curated antique furniture. Bathrooms are travertine and brass; bath products are KhmerKraft, the property's locally-developed brand using Cambodian botanicals.

The Dining Room is the principal restaurant — opened with the hotel as the property's contemporary Cambodian-Asian fine-dining room. The Glasshouse — a deliberately intimate café in the original 1957 lobby corner — handles the all-day brasserie programme and is Siem Reap's most-recommended brunch destination. The Living Room handles the lobby cocktail-and-aperitivo programme. The Living Room Bar is a separate evening cocktail destination. The central courtyard pool — the property's signature image — is a 22-metre lap pool surrounded by Bensley's recreated traditional Cambodian garden. The Park Hyatt Spa runs five treatment rooms with the KhmerKraft programme.

The Sivutha Boulevard position is the most central five-star address in Siem Reap. From the front door it is two minutes on foot to the Old Market, three minutes to Pub Street, four minutes to the Royal Residence Gardens, eight minutes to Wat Bo Temple, and 10 minutes by car to Angkor Wat. The walking-Siem-Reap brief is unmatched — the Old Market, Pub Street and the principal restaurant axis are all directly in front of the building. For travellers wanting the central walking-Siem-Reap booking with the Bensley design proposition, Park Hyatt is unambiguous. The Aman is the discreet alternative; Raffles is the heritage-with-pool alternative; Park Hyatt is the central-and-Bensley alternative.

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