When we arrived in Vientiane we were suprised to find all the hostels and guesthouses full... We were walking around for about 30 min before asking at this place, which had a double for 30 USD so we were pretty desperate and just took it for 2 nights and then continued south,

The lobby was completely empty of people, and as we walked up to the topfloor and our room we didnt see or hear anybody.. We thought it was a bit weird.. The room was pretty big and had a window overlooking some roofs (not an inside window to the corridor). The beds were really comfortable. The bathroom was a nightmare! The floor was more dirty than what you usually get in SEA, but the nasty surprise was when I had a shower- the water didnt go down, as happens a lots of times, but on top of that, what seemed like years of accumlated hair and filth was coming up from the pipe. The bathroom floor stayed that way all night (in the morning the water had finally gone down) and the smell was unbeliavble..

Breakfast was included (bread, jam, butter, eggs and bacon +tea/coffe).

One of the receptionists was very pushy about getting us onward transportation from the moment we walked in the door, and that didnt give us a good feeling so we booked it around the corner instead.

Huge Clean Rooms with a bit of work needed in the bathrooms.. But overall the rooms are clean and bright. Close to action in Town.

I basically stumbled across this hotel, and having done enough walking decided that this would be the one I would stay in. To my delight, it was a good hotel, friendly staff, clean and spacious bedrooms and a spacious western style toilet.

I stayed here last summer and paid around £10 per night and was very happy with the hotel. Fortunately my room had a balcony although the view was nothing spectacular. The hotel's location is great, but as already mentioned in another review, it doesn't really matter where you stay in Vientiane; it is such a small city, no matter where you are you will be close to the main tourist attractions.

The breakfasts here were not great, eggs and bread, but this seems to be the usual throughout Southeast Asia, or at least it was in my experience. I'd reccommend walking up the road to the Scandinavian bakery, they have the best pastries!

I hope this is useful, enjoy Vientiane!

Having stayed in the paris Lao hotel for two nights gave us an impression on the hotl and the hotl management. I m not sure whether the hotel can be called a hotel. For me it was more less a guesthouse. Due to the fact we were travelling with a small child we had booked a triple room. Given to us was a king bed plus 1 samll bed. So that was an advantage the hotel provided to us. In general the rooms are old, the bathroom is really bad and run down. The bathroom level was like beeing in a very bad runddown Thaiguesthouse which had never been fixed. Breakfast was included but it is not worth mentioning. Every guest had the same breakfast. Two fried eggs and a few slices of a french white bread. Regarding the hotel management we had a the experience that after we wanted to call the taxidriver we had used before(when coming to vientiane), but the night portier insisted to call his much better Taxi driver for th same price. The next morning when we wanted to leave we were told that the taxi driver could not make it and that we have to take another taxi driver which was more expensive. A typical SEA rip off ;-).
So finallzy as I said before I do not recommend at all this run down, noisy ( at the main road), unsupportive expensive (value for money) Hotel/ Guesthouse. There are much better alternatives.