The Ritz-Carlton Bangkok, The Riverside is a 166-key Ritz-Carlton hotel and residence being developed by Asset World Corporation with Marriott International across three heritage sites on opposite banks of the Chao Phraya River, joined by a dedicated shuttle boat, with completion targeted for 2028. It is the second Ritz-Carlton in Bangkok, and the first hotel here designed to be arrived at by water.
A hotel in three pieces
- 86 keys at The Lhong 1919 Riverside Heritage Destination, on the Charoen Nakhon bank
- 24 keys at The Shophouse-SongWad, across the river
- 56 keys at The Mansion-SongWad, also on the Song Wat side
The three are linked by a shuttle boat rather than a road. That decision does more than solve access: it makes the river the corridor of the hotel, which is how this stretch of Bangkok worked for a century before roads arrived.
What is being preserved
The Lhong 1919 is a nineteenth-century Thai-Chinese river port compound, built around a courtyard and a shrine to Mazu, the sea goddess. AWC has said the existing buildings and the shrine are being kept. The design idea is stated as Yin and Yang: the stillness and heritage architecture of The Lhong 1919 on one bank, answered by the working street life of Song Wat on the other.
Song Wat is one of the oldest commercial streets in Bangkok, a row of trading shophouses along the river edge of Chinatown that has in the last few years become one of the city’s better neighbourhoods for coffee, small galleries and independent kitchens without being rebuilt.
The two projects around it
AWC has announced two further schemes on the Song Wat side. The Songwad Scape is a mixed-use destination described as gallery, retail, cafe and riverside terrace space with a cultural programme. The Songwad Lanes is a conservation project restoring the old shophouse rows into cultural and commercial use. A pedestrian bridge across the Chao Phraya has also been discussed publicly.
Read together, this is not one hotel being inserted into a district. It is a district being assembled, which is the same pattern AWC has followed at Woeng Nakornkasem in Yaowaraj.
What about the residences
AWC has stated that the development includes a luxury residence alongside the hotel. As of August 2026 there is no published unit mix, no floor sizes, and no pricing or sales timetable. We are saying that plainly because a lot of what is currently written about “Ritz-Carlton residences Bangkok riverside” is invention. When AWC releases the numbers, they will appear here and on our branded residences register.
How the riverside prices against the park axis
The Chao Phraya is Bangkok’s second luxury axis, anchored by ICONSIAM, Four Seasons, Capella and The Peninsula. It sells space and river frontage, and it asks for patience on rail access. The park-axis corridors around Lumphini and Wireless Road sell the opposite: less space per baht, and a walk to everything.
Neither is the right answer in general. A buyer who wants a large lateral home with a view that will not be built out should look hard at the river. A buyer whose day involves offices, schools and hospitals should look at the park axis. What we will not do is tell you the one we happen to be selling is the one that suits you.