laos budget hotel

[williamta20012]

can some one recomend me a good hotel in vientien around 500b

near the thailand consulate if possible

[krisb]

Tried agoda?

[phuketrichard]

Mixay Paradise air con for less than 500

Souphaphone GH

[tomta20012]

Mixay Paradise air con for less than 500

Souphaphone GH

thanx very much

[willyumiii]

Last visa run, and first to Lao for me, I spent the first night in a "reasonable" hotel near the consulate and hated it.

Nothing to do while killing time, drab hotel with noisy guests, no good places to eat within walking distance, and so on and so on.

Met an expat who recommended I try one of the Guest houses near the river.

I did so and loved it.

I can't remember the price, but it was lower than the hotel.

Many great resturants, open air market, bars, Wats and great people watching too!

There are quite a few guesthouses in that part of town and all pretty reasonable too.

[cooked]

Last visa run, and first to Lao for me, I spent the first night in a "reasonable" hotel near the consulate and hated it.

Nothing to do while killing time, drab hotel with noisy guests, no good places to eat within walking distance, and so on and so on.

Met an expat who recommended I try one of the Guest houses near the river.

I did so and loved it.

I can't remember the price, but it was lower than the hotel.

Many great resturants, open air market, bars, Wats and great people watching too!

There are quite a few guesthouses in that part of town and all pretty reasonable too.

Yeah. Tell a tuk tuk driver what you are looking for. He' ll know what 'cheap hotel' means. However as you need 4 trips to the embassy, don't forget the 400 or so Baht this will cost you.

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[fifthcolumn]

Mixsay is overvalue and usually full. Cramped rooms. Others in the area. As for mine...its a secret.

Vientiane, pretty poor value for rooms and food.

[Ajaan]

If you double your budget (1,000 baht) you will get an immense increase in quality. I recommend Lao Inter City, right on the river.

[Big Pinkie]

mixay is ok for the day or two that you need to be there, fresh air can be a problem as lot of rooms only have a window to the passage not to outside. staff are well trained. it is clean.

what i got issue with is all disabled who cant walk to the embassy and back from the riverside, what, it cuts into your drinking time? perpetual taxi harassment is consequently a big issue in vientiane. it's so bad you wont want to hang around longer than you have to.

[rak sa_ngop]

Yeah. Tell a tuk tuk driver what you are looking for. He' ll know what 'cheap hotel' means. However as you need 4 trips to the embassy, don't forget the 400 or so Baht this will cost you.

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The mornings are still pretty cool in Vientiane so a walk to the Thai consulate will take 30 - 40 mins from the river.

No need for tuk-tuks in Vientiane if you know where you want to go. (Or rent a bicycle).

By the way, many new and clean hotels around the river, Price about 700-800 baht and up, but with the weakening baht probably a bit more now. No need to pay 1000 baht for a good hotel (yet!)

[fifthcolumn]

You can find a perfectly acceptable room in this area for b450-600 with windows (unlike the cells at Mixay).

Totally agree about the walk. Ive done it a dozen times in the searing heat even, no big deal. Can't say Ive been ever hassled for anything in Lao. Maybe a little excercise and you wont look like a guy who wants (needs) a tuk tuk.

[Big Pinkie]

You can find a perfectly acceptable room in this area for b450-600 with windows (unlike the cells at Mixay).

Totally agree about the walk. Ive done it a dozen times in the searing heat even, no big deal. Can't say Ive been ever hassled for anything in Lao. Maybe a little excercise and you wont look like a guy who wants (needs) a tuk tuk.

yeah but ur not a handsum suave debonair sexy man like moi.

(this is despite my absolute bestest efforts to look like the required useless, good for nothing, penniless loser)

[phuketrichard]

have always gotten one of the end corner rooms at Mixay Paradise

and agree the inner rooms would suck

[Big Pinkie]

have always gotten one of the end corner rooms at Mixay Paradise

and agree the inner rooms would suck

its populars and so you take whats available. knowing its not going to be forever.

[fifthcolumn]

have always gotten one of the end corner rooms at Mixay Paradise

and agree the inner rooms would suck

its populars and so you take whats available. knowing its not going to be forever.

It's the best known gh in Vientiane and more or less clean. It caters to backpackers, the penniless lisers you described above. The rooms are nothing more than cell hong kong cell blocks at best. There are loads of places to stay along the sois running off Samsenthai. There are also a dozen on the opposite side of the road.

Maybe instead of heading to the pub, find a reasonable place to stay, drop your gear and then go out, have a walk (!) about and find the best place that suits your taste and budget. Being on those small sois is not all that great. Eating on Riverside, cafes have awfulnexpendive food and the nightly outdoir affair onnthe river itself is ghastly poor value.

[andrewrooney]

If you want to go super cheap there's another little backpacker place called "Lao Youth Inn." Rooms are very Spartan but at least it's clean.

Personally I'd shell out a little bit extra, as others have said you can get a pretty nice room for around 700-800 baht a night at a lot of places.

[Naked Snake]

have always gotten one of the end corner rooms at Mixay Paradise

and agree the inner rooms would suck

its populars and so you take whats available. knowing its not going to be forever.

It's the best known gh in Vientiane and more or less clean. It caters to backpackers, the penniless lisers you described above. The rooms are nothing more than cell hong kong cell blocks at best. There are loads of places to stay along the sois running off Samsenthai. There are also a dozen on the opposite side of the road.

Maybe instead of heading to the pub, find a reasonable place to stay, drop your gear and then go out, have a walk (!) about and find the best place that suits your taste and budget. Being on those small sois is not all that great. Eating on Riverside, cafes have awfulnexpendive food and the nightly outdoir affair onnthe river itself is ghastly poor value.

what actually is it that you do in these palatial mansions of a room? i see it, you need a vast space to encompass your highly developed ESP while you are asleep.

for one or two nights is it really worth going to the extra trouble and paying through your nose? you spend your whole time in Vientiane admiring the decor of your room? i see it, you dont want to go outside and get harassed by tuk-tuks. i suppose you need twenty-four hour complete room service as well. perfectly understandable. get a grip!

[Jay Sata]

One good point about staying near the river is a Thai sim card still get's a good signal.

[rak sa_ngop]

Personally I'd shell out a little bit extra, as others have said you can get a pretty nice room for around 700-800 baht a night at a lot of places.

Also with some of the newer 700-800 baht rooms you have less chance of being woken up by bed bugs!