Phuong Vanny Guesthouse
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Chi Phat’s CBET project has 12 family-run guesthouses and nine homestays. Some of these places are in town, others are out in the countryside, surrounded by orchards. In addition there’s a fancier guesthouse, the Sothun Lodge, on a small island in the middle of a river. It has a delightful bar on a platform overlooking the river, and simple but sturdy en-suite bungalows with two double beds, a few extras like towels, balconies and real showers.
All bookings are made through the CBET office. You can choose whether you want a guesthouse or a homestay, but unless you are staying in the Sothun Lodge you can’t choose a specific establishment (the CBET office will assign one for you).
There’s not a huge difference between the guesthouses and the homestays. Rooms – inspected monthly by the CBET committee – come with mosquito nets, cotton sheets, foam mattresses, free filtered water and a laminated sheet on local customs. Most guesthouses and one homestay are connected to the town’s 24-hour electricity grid. The others have 12V fans powered either by generator (from 6pm to 10pm) or rechargeable car battery. Toilets (Western or squat) and showers (a rainwater cistern with a plastic bucket) are outside, but are clean and commodious.
At one guesthouse, the enterprising owners distil rice liqueur potent enough to be flammable. They’re so proud of their product that you’ll be offered a tumbler no matter when you visit – even if it’s 8am, as it was when we dropped by.
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