Historic standalone cinema reborn as a heritage boutique hostel with in-lobby film screenings
Prince Theatre Heritage Stay
Bang Rak, Bangkok (Charoen Krung / Si Wiang Road, near Silom), Bangkok, Thailand
A cinema that opened on this spot in 1912 and became the Prince Theatre showing silent films in 1917, now reborn as a boutique heritage stay that still screens movies in its lobby on the original screen. That makes it a rare working-cinema stay in Bang Rak rather than an ordinary hostel, where guests can watch films where silent pictures once played. Screening frequency is unsettled: cinematreasures says movies show each night, but a first-hand magazine visit called screenings a weekly staple.
The old screening hall of Prince's Cinema on Charoen Krung Road, Bangkok, the building now reborn as Prince Theatre Heritage Stay. Photo by hkgalbert, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons
Hours
Booking site listingHostel check-in from 14:00 (2:00 PM), check-out by 12:00 (noon). Nightly film-screening times and bar/cafe opening hours were not stated on any fetched page.
“Check-in begins at 14:00 and check-out is at 12:00 at Prince Theatre Heritage Stay.”
guestreservations.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026
Price
Single reportNo official room rate or film-screening price verified. The only baht figures confirmed on a fetched page are cafe and bar menu items reported by bkmagazine: a breakfast sandwich at B250 and a Rick Dalton cocktail at B260. Aggregators showed only variable or teaser pricing and no confirmed nightly rate.
“Breakfast sandwich B250 ... Rick Dalton cocktail B260”
bkmagazine.com · Checked 25 Jul 2026
Age suitability
Not verifiedNot verified. No source we checked states this, so it stays blank instead of guessed.
Checked 25 Jul 2026
Caveats
Verified this run by re-fetching all three cited sources fresh. Price snippet confirmed: bkmagazine states the breakfast sandwich at B250 and the Rick Dalton cocktail at B260, so the single-report price stands (no room rate anywhere). Hours snippet confirmed word for word on guestreservations (check-in 14:00,…
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