Apartment for rent near MRT Rama 9: the desk and the commute
If your office is on the Blue Line, an apartment for rent near MRT Rama 9 puts work and home on one line. Compare our five furnished homes, from ฿75,600.
By Jumphot Srisomsap · 10 October 2026
Working in Bangkok rather than visiting it changes the question. An apartment for rent near MRT Rama 9 is not really about the view: it is about whether there is a desk in it, what the Wi-Fi does at nine in the morning, and what one underground line can reach before your first meeting. We let five furnished homes in this district, from ฿75,600 a month, and only two of them put a workspace in writing.
All five are let by the calendar month, with a minimum stay of one month and no platform or booking fee added to the rent. They sit together on one page — the five Rama 9 homes — and this guide reads them the way someone who has to work from one of them would.
Rama 9 works if your office is on the Blue Line
The district is one intersection, where Ratchadaphisek Road meets New Phetchaburi Road under an expressway, ringed by office towers rather than bars. That is the first thing to understand about it: most foreigners who take a flat here are not here for the nightlife, they are here because their employer, their client or their co-working desk is in one of those towers.
There is one station, Phra Ram 9 on the MRT Blue Line, operated by BEM. It is underground, which matters more between May and October than any amenity list. Two stops south it reaches Sukhumvit, where you change to the Skytrain at Asok; six stops south it reaches Si Lom, for the Silom and Sathon office blocks. There is no BTS station within walking distance of Rama 9, and there will not be.
So the district is excellent for one kind of working day and mediocre for another. If your office is at the junction or anywhere on the Blue Line, you have a single-train commute and a short walk at each end. If your office is on the Skytrain, every morning includes a change.
Which of the five homes actually has a desk
This is where Bangkok listings quietly disappoint people who work from home. A furnished flat almost always has a dining table; a flat with a work desk, a chair meant for eight hours and somewhere to shut a door is rarer and is usually a larger unit. Of our five Rama 9 homes, two describe a workspace and three do not.
| Home | From | Character | Nearest station |
|---|---|---|---|
| Studio Loft · 52 m² | ฿75,600 | No desk listed — balcony and dining for one | Rama 9 district |
| Loft 2BR · Bangkok Hospital | ฿99,700 | No desk listed — loft level, open kitchen | Rama 9 district |
| 1 BR · Rama 9 | ฿151,200 | Dedicated workspace, washer and dryer | MRT Phra Ram 9, 600 m |
| 2 BR · 90 m² | ฿182,700 | No desk listed — six-seater table, extra toilet | MRT Phra Ram 9, 550 m |
| 3 BR · 123 m² | ฿277,200 | Work desk and chair in every bedroom | MRT Phra Ram 9, 550 m |
The one-bedroom at ฿151,200 is the obvious single-person choice for a working month: a dedicated workspace, a dining space for four, a washer and dryer in the unit, and 600 m to the station. The 123 m² three-bedroom is the only one that solves two people working at once, because it puts a desk and chair in each of the three bedrooms — which is what a relocating couple with a child and two laptops keeps asking for and rarely finds.
The three without a listed desk are not unusable; they are simply not sold as offices. The 52 m² studio loft is high-floor, has a balcony and is the cheapest way into the district, and plenty of people work from its table for a month without complaint. For six months of video calls, pay for the desk.
The Wi-Fi is the line to query before you book
Every one of the five lists high-speed Wi-Fi, already connected, with nothing to install in your own name. None of the Rama 9 listings names a speed in megabits, and if your work depends on a number you should ask for one rather than assume it. Our serviced flats in Asoke do publish theirs — 200 Mbps, stated on the listing — which tells you that where a figure exists, we write it down.
Four questions are worth asking before you commit a working month to any Bangkok flat, here or anywhere else:
- What speed is the building package, and is it shared or per unit?
- Is there a wired point, or only Wi-Fi? Some buildings have both.
- Where would you actually sit for eight hours — a desk, a dining table, or a sofa?
- Does the second bedroom have a door you can close during a call?
- Is housekeeping scheduled, and can the three weekly visits be moved off your meeting days?
That last one surprises people. Housekeeping three times a week with linen changed twice is included on the three serviced Rama 9 flats, and it is a benefit, not an intrusion — but if you take calls at a fixed hour, say so when you book and the visits are scheduled around them.
Working from the flat runs the air conditioning all day
A tenant who leaves at eight and returns at seven cools one room overnight. A tenant who works from the flat cools a room for ten hours more, every weekday, and that is the single largest difference between the bill you expect and the bill you get.
Our three serviced homes here include electricity and water up to a stated monthly figure, and the figure rises with the size of the home: ฿3,420 on the one-bedroom, ฿6,300 on the 90 m² two-bedroom, ฿8,610 on the 123 m² three-bedroom. Anything beyond the cap is billed at the tariff the Metropolitan Electricity Authority publishes for the whole city, so there is no private rate involved. On the two lofts, water and electricity are included without a cap named.
If you work from home, one room of air conditioning runs ten hours longer every weekday. Ask what the cap is before you sign, not in week three.
What the commute costs if the office is elsewhere
Be honest about the morning before the rent persuades you. The Blue Line is a good railway and the station is underground, but it is one line, and the Skytrain network that serves Sukhumvit, Thonglor, Phloen Chit and Sala Daeng is a change away at Asok. Fares on that network are set and published by BTS, and the change itself is the cost — not in baht, but in the ten or fifteen minutes it adds at both ends of the day.
For a month, that is nothing. For eight months, it is the thing people move to escape. If your office sits on the Skytrain and you will be here past a single quarter, start from the line instead of the district: our guide to choosing the line before the flat sets out which areas sit on which, and what each one costs by the month.
There is one other reason people choose Rama 9 that has nothing to do with offices. The loft two-bedroom at ฿99,700 sits beside Bangkok Hospital, and a share of our tenants here are in the city for treatment, or with somebody who is. If that is your month, proximity beats both the desk and the station.
How to pick one of the five
Work through it in this order and the five homes narrow to one or two quickly.
- Where is your office — on the Blue Line, or a change away at Asok?
- How many people need to work at the same time? That separates the one-bedroom from the 123 m² three-bedroom.
- How long are you staying? A desk matters more in month six than in week two.
- How many hours a day will the air conditioning run, and what cap does the listing state?
- Is anyone here for Bangkok Hospital? If so, the loft two-bedroom at ฿99,700 comes first.
Then send us your dates, the number of people and whether anyone is working from the flat. We will tell you which of the five is free, what the whole calendar month comes to, and what the electricity cap means for the way you actually use the place. Nothing is added at the end: no platform fee, no booking fee, no agency commission on top of the rent.
Frequently asked questions
Is Rama 9 a good area to live in Bangkok if you work from home?
It suits it well, with one condition: check the flat has somewhere to work. The district is built around offices, so the buildings are geared to working tenants, housekeeping and Wi-Fi are included, and the station is underground. Of our five homes, the one-bedroom lists a dedicated workspace and the 123 m² three-bedroom has a desk and chair in each bedroom.
Which apartments near MRT Rama 9 have a work desk?
Two of our five. The one-bedroom at ฿151,200 a month lists a dedicated workspace, and the 123 m² three-bedroom at ฿277,200 lists a work desk and chair in every bedroom. The 52 m² studio loft, the loft two-bedroom and the 90 m² two-bedroom list dining tables rather than desks, so ask before you book a long working stay.
How far is MRT Rama 9 from Asoke?
Two stops on the MRT Blue Line, to Sukhumvit station, which is the interchange with the Skytrain at Asok. Three of our five homes are 550 to 600 m from the Phra Ram 9 entrance, so door to door it is a short walk, two stops and another short walk.
Is there a BTS station near Rama 9?
No. Rama 9 is served only by the MRT Blue Line, and the nearest Skytrain station requires a change at Sukhumvit, two stops away. If your working day depends on the BTS, treat that change as part of the rent and decide whether the extra floor space here is worth it.
How much is an apartment near MRT Rama 9 per month?
Our five furnished Rama 9 homes run from ฿75,600 for a 52 m² studio loft to ฿277,200 for a 123 m² three-bedroom, with a one-bedroom at ฿151,200 and a 90 m² two-bedroom at ฿182,700 in between. Every rent is quoted for the calendar month and already covers furniture, Wi-Fi, housekeeping and utilities, three of them up to a stated cap.
What is included in the Wi-Fi and housekeeping at these flats?
All five come with high-speed Wi-Fi already connected, so there is no installation in your own name. The three serviced flats include housekeeping three times a week with linen changed twice weekly, plus a washer and dryer in the unit on the one-bedroom, the 90 m² two-bedroom and the three-bedroom. No speed in megabits is named on the Rama 9 listings, so ask us for the building package if a figure matters for your work.
