Luang Prabang
This charming backstreet boutique hotel offers 28 rooms set around a small garden courtyard with tropical foliage and a small pond. Rooms include a small…
Luang Prabang
This charming backstreet boutique hotel offers 28 rooms set around a small garden courtyard with tropical foliage and a small pond. Rooms include a small…
Northern Laos
Located just off the main strip and overlooking the mighty Mekong, this is the most upmarket hotel in the centre of town, although that's not saying much…
Nong Khiaw
Namhoun's cheaper bungalows are set around a small garden behind the family house. Much better are the more expensive riverside bungalows facing the Nam…
Northern Laos
Nice lives up to its name, being neither fantastic nor terrible, it's just nice. It offers clean, basic rooms, tiled floors, fresh en suites, and that's…
Vang Vieng
An exile just off main street, this aged compound offers comfortable wood-trim rooms with air-con, starched linen and hot-water en suite bathrooms. It…
Vientiane
This riverfront hotel is one of the smarter options along the western stretch of the Mekong River. Rooms are cool and contemporary, although the cheaper…
Vang Vieng
One of Vang Vieng's original hotels but under new ownership, the Diamond Gold offers simple rooms that could use an update. The real reasons to consider a…
Northern Laos
The five bamboo-weave bungalows here form an arc around a panoramic river view. Recently refurbished, the great-value clean rooms have hammocks, good beds…
Vientiane
The reception here will get you hooked, with a chopped-up classic Mercedes for a front desk and a vintage Vespa. Go deeper and you'll find 64…
Vientiane
The dorms here feel cool and are relatively modern, but the communal areas are messy and in need of paint. Funky Monkey is close to the buzz of the…
Northern Laos
Jenny's is clean with decent Mekong views, protective mosi-mesh over windows and an attached bathroom for each room. Includes TV, blankets and comfortable…
Northern Laos
This small guesthouse has basic rooms with mosquito nets, hot-water showers and squat toilets. The owners offer a few traveller-friendly services such as…
Vang Vieng
Radiating a welcoming if scruffy vibe, Pan's is a VV backpacking institution that spans dorms, rooms with and without en suite, and bungalows. There's a…
Vientiane
A popular little guesthouse on the backstreets near the national stadium, with somewhat musty six-bed dorms available, including female-only options, and…
Northern Laos
Located over the bridge on the same side as the main market, this well-maintained hotel has 17 rooms complete with fresh linen, pine furniture, satellite…
Vang Vieng
The dorms here are, not surprisingly, army themed – militantly minimalist, with camouflage sheets and green footlockers – and are more interesting than…
Vang Vieng
This old-timer has spacious rooms with wall art, private bathrooms and balconies, although any river views have largely been blocked. There's a breezy…
Vientiane
A hostel with cheerful orange walls (although not much natural light) and dorms accommodating four to 10 beds. Safety deposit lockers, free breakfast …
Vientiane
Unexciting and small, if capable, rooms in a central location. Note that the cheapest rooms are on the 5th floor, and there's no lift. Downstairs is a…
Northern Laos
Clean and central, these digs have a pleasant breakfast cafe and spacious nondescript rooms with bathrooms. While nothing spectacular, it's one of the…
Northern Laos
Close to the caves, this little guesthouse has six super-fresh rooms with pink walls, private bathrooms, fans, clean linen and double beds. Oh, and rather…
Vientiane
Clean, comfy and cheap, the only downside being that it's a trek to get 'downtown' and tuk-tuks can be hard to find at night. There are a couple of…
Northern Laos
Next to the bridge, this guesthouse has compact rooms with tiled floors, fans and low-set beds with fresh linen and blankets. You'll be glad to use their…
Northern Laos
Beside the bus station and market, convenient three-storey Sivienkham offers large and house-proud rooms with comfy beds, hot showers and sit-down toilets.
Vang Vieng
A field of bungalows on the west bank, the more expensive of which are larger and come equipped with air-con and TV, all of which have great cliff views.
Luang Prabang
These houseproud wood-walled rooms are intimate (read as a bit small) with TV, armoire and private bathroom. There's also a balcony to sit and read on.
Northern Laos
Located on a riverbank, the friendly Phuet Mung Khun Guesthouse has neat little bungalows, plus a small restaurant. The owner speaks a little English.
Southern Laos
This friendly place has decent rooms that are very good value. The restaurant occupies a pleasant perch with great views over the Mekong.
Vientiane
Small, bland and aged feeling but tidy budget rooms. We would have loved to see more of the eponymous theme as established in the lobby.
Vientiane Garden Boutique Hotel
Vientiane
Boutique is a relative term in this case, as the rooms here can feel a bit gaudy, but they're spacious and decent value.
Northern Laos
Sengchaleurn Guesthouse has tidy rooms with air-con, bathroom and cool tile floors.
Southern Laos
In Ban Phapho (Phapho Village), 10km east of Kiet Ngong, this homestay has four small, ultra-simple rooms in the family's wooden house. The bathroom is…
Southern Laos
Perpetually popular with backpackers despite the rundown rooms (in a mix of wooden and concrete construction) due to both the low prices and the hearty…
Vientiane
Fit for a ghostly politburo meeting, this faded Mekong-facing monolith, with plastic reindeer listing on the manicured lawn, is a relic of Soviet…
Northern Laos
Has bags of rustic atmosphere, with its stilted wooden architecture and old-fashioned basic rooms. Run by a friendly Lao guy who speaks some English; food…
Northern Laos
Rooms in this very central hotel are fair-sized and clean, if chintzy thanks to the pink floral wallpaper and lilac bedding. Heavy wooden furniture and…
Northern Laos
Set in a garden, this is the town's sole accommodation option. The 50,000K rooms are cell-like at best but the 90,000K rooms are larger and include TV and…
Luang Prabang
Did the owners forget to put the prices up at this rickety old wooden traditional house near the heart of the peninsula? Rooms are fan-cooled, rattan…
Northern Laos
The best of three cheapies on the main drag, the Sengsaly has uber-basic 80,000K rooms with clean bedding, bare walls, tiled floors and private bathroom…
Northern Laos
This sizeable Hmong-owned complex is quiet yet central. The polished wood-panelled lobby is decorated with traditional instruments and most rooms have…