Rescue workers were evacuating more than 60 people stranded by flooding in Sakon Nakon.
Boats were being used to take a reported 69 people at the Hop Inn in Muang district to safety after downpours and water runoff from Phupan mountain inundated the hotel and several other locations in Muang and other districts of the northeastern province.
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It remained unclear how many of them were guests or hotel staff members.
Hop Inn is a chain of budget hotels operated by the Erawan Group.
The deluge also left people stranded elsewhere in the district, including isolated apartments and one entire community. Some asked for help through the @sakonnakhon Facebook page, saying they had been without food since Friday morning.