Si Phan Don
The first place you'll see when you get off the boat, Done Khong has dark rooms with tiled floors and homely furnishings in an old house run by an English…
Must-see hotels in Southern Laos
Southern Laos
Don Kho is a great place to experience a village homestay. Just turn up on the island and say 'homestay' and the villagers will sort you out. Meals are…
Don Det & Don Khon
Don Det's most luxurious complex is set on a large plot on its northern tip. Fragrant rooms tempt with contemporary dark-wood furniture and polished wood…
Don Det & Don Khon
Just south of Don Det village, Mr Tho's has long been popular for the relaxed atmosphere fostered by the helpful, English-speaking family and the location…
Don Det & Don Khon
The busy location next to the bridge doesn't seem ideal until you see the sunsets. The cosy and solidly built bungalows have wicker walls and wooden…
Don Det & Don Khon
This riverside guesthouse offers a number of different basic options, ranging from simple timber constructions to rooms in a large new concrete building,…
Pakse
This ageing place really could make something of itself if somebody made the effort. The rooms are dark and the mattresses aren't great, but the rattan…
Pakse
This shiny tower in the heart of the tourist strip gives you a bit more than the best budget hotels – notably brighter, airier rooms – but lacks the…
Pakse
With its riverside position and rickety sun deck shipwrecked over the bank, this friendly house at the end of a lane feels far from the city and has a…
Si Phan Don
It's hard to beat the location of this place. It's near, but serenely separate from, the tourist strip and the big, breezy 2nd-floor deck provides the…
Don Det & Don Khon
Souksan has so-so rooms set in a bungalow block with a great shared river-view terrace. Next door is the restaurant, with cushion seating right over the…
Si Phan Don
Connected with Pon Arena hotel, this is the most popular spot in town for sleeping and eating. It has pleasant lemon-hued rooms with tiled floor, cable TV…
Don Det & Don Khon
Enticing bungalows sitting in a garden flickering with butterflies or along the river are finished in solid stained wood with creamy-white interiors,…
Don Det & Don Khon
If there is a more fun and friendly host in Si Phan Don than Mama Piang – who proudly calls herself 'crazy' – we didn't meet her. There are six cold-water…
Bolaven Plateau Region
Set on a former coffee and tea plantation 15km west of Paksong, the smart bungalows at this sprawling resort have polished wooden floors, ultrasoft beds…
Bolaven Plateau Region
Sakda's small but fairly modern rooms are both better value and quality than many of the pricier places in town. It's 100m north of the market's west side…
Don Det & Don Khon
The rooms are super-basic, but it's a quiet and beautiful location with some surrounding gardens, unusual for Don Det. The restaurant serves excellent…
Pakse
Around the corner from the tourist strip, but seemingly far away, this popular (ie often full) spot has quiet, spiffy rooms and English-speaking owners…
Southern Laos
This ageing guesthouse was undergoing refurbishments when we last visited. It has a pleasant garden fronting onto the main road and backs onto great river…
Don Det & Don Khon
'Resort' is a bit of a stretch, but this place right on the river, newly opened in 2019, has neat and comfortable wooden bungalows, and also operates the…
Bolaven Plateau Region
This eye-catching blue building just off the southeast corner of the market is cheap and central, and has a nice feel to it. Rooms on the 2nd floor can…
Don Det & Don Khon
A good choice in the budget range on the sunset side, Seng Thavan's four en suite rooms are old but fastidiously clean. They're off the river, but you get…
Bolaven Plateau Region
An older, but overall good hotel with a variety of clean and fairly well-maintained bungalows surrounded by pleasant gardens with some tall trees. It's…
Don Det & Don Khon
Great-value digs with welcoming, clean rooms, good service and a quiet location. The cheapest rooms are on the river; the newer air-con rooms are across…
Bolaven Plateau Region
The rooms in this eye-catching pink building on the Se Kong north of the centre are relatively new and good value. Three of the 2nd-floor rooms in back…
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.
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…
Women Union Development Center
Bolaven Plateau Region
Some 650m southwest of the market, next to the Sekong Hotel, the rooms here are simple (all rooms share cold-water bathrooms) but better than you'd expect…
Bolaven Plateau Region
Quaint it is not. In fact it looks pretty rundown. But the location, on the river at the eastern terminus of the bridge, is not bad and you can get a view…
Bolaven Plateau Region
It doesn't get cheaper or more basic than this popular backpacker crash pad smack in the centre of town. It's just mattresses with mozzie nets on a floor…
Don Det & Don Khon
These ageing split-bamboo bungalows perched over the river hark back to Don Det's old days of US$1 rooms. Though things are bare bones, and the cold-water…
Don Det & Don Khon
Basic and rustic bamboo-and-thatch tepees are arranged in a field about a 20-minute walk south of Ban Hua Det. The 'resort' embraces the natural life,…
Don Det & Don Khon
Way down south on the sunset side of Don Det, this spartan guesthouse has basic dorms and bungalows at a bucolic little spot in the countryside. Over by…
Don Det & Don Khon
The small village of Ban Hang Khon at the southern tip of Don Khon – where the dolphin-watching trips start – offers an unadulterated local experience…
Bolaven Plateau Region
A sketchy-looking building, but a quiet location a block off the river. Don't even bother looking at rooms in the front section, but after the initial…
Don Det & Don Khon
At the south of Don Det, facing the strip on Don Khon, Mekong Dream is a homey place. The 11 rooms, all with private bathrooms and comfortable king-size…
Si Phan Don
This budget place has very basic rooms and meals can be provided at the attached restaurant. There is a treehouse with rooms leaning right over the Mekong…
Southern Laos
Rooms here are basic, but spiffy clean and have a choice of regular or rock-hard mattresses. The main selling point is the low prices.
