S33

Our hotel is located just off Sukhumvit street, a main tourist and shopping area in Bangkok. The hotel is oddly named S33, obviously by its location on 33rd street. It's only 2 months old and looks it. Everything is new, modern and clean; yet it has it's peculiarities.
(www.s33hotel.com)
A bellboy offered to take our luggage to the room but there was a two person limit on the elevator. When all three of us entered the same one an alarm sounded. So the two of us went up first (to the 7th floor) and the bellboy waited for the next elevator. When we first entered our room there was no electricity, none at all. No lights, no AC, nothing. We groped around a few minutes wondering if we were in the right room when the bellboy finally arrived to educate us. We were supposed to insert our room key into the appropriate wall slot and then the room came alive. Remove the card and the room goes dead. We decided to leave the key in.
Thankfully the room has a real toilet, but it has an optional butt faucet for those that prefer a bedet rather than using our familiar paper. Good thing they left plenty of wash cloths.
We learned on the flight over that Bangkok is subject to frequent power outages, whether you have your room key in the right slot or not, and just in case there was a flashlight on the night stand and a movable lamp for the bathroom.
Another concern we had was with the electrical plugs. Before leaving the states we each acquired the appropriate adapter, thank you very much Jimmie! Come to find out this hotel comes equipped with new electrical plugs that accept the standard Thai plug and the American style plugs. So at least in this first hotel we can charge the iPhone, both iPads, two cameras and battery packs all at the same time! Tourists and their gadgets! Hey, maybe that's why the electricity keeps going out around here.