The Luang Prabang Bakery GH is right next to the Phusi hill and across the road from the Old Royal Palace and Museum. The 5 small guest rooms are beautiful with nice wood furniture. The front 3 are best as they have a balcony. At $35 for B+B it's good value.

The small lobby and restaurant is very cosy and attractive; with dark wood furniture and an impressive water feature in the restaurant . It has the best food and cakes in town; which one of the reasons why I chose it. The American breakfasts were good; but I usually wanted extras. The banana pancakes are huge, and the cakes and pastries delicious.

The lady owner and staff were very friendly and helpful. My only criticism was that the reception staff tended to pounce on me asking for the room key every time I walked out to the lobby; including when I was eating in the Restaurant . I know the key fobs were expensive, but I found this irritating an unnecessary.

Other than that minor criticism; I felt totally at home here. I only intended to stay here 2 to3 nights; but ended up staying twice as long as I liked the place so much.

The rooms in this guesthouse were clean & nicely decorated and the location is quite good also, though it can be noisy if you are staying in a room facing the front. Our main problem with the guesthouse was the staff. On our first night the air con was dripping water so we had to change to another room. The next night there was no water in the guesthouse at all as they had turned it off for maintenance purposes. They didn't bother to inform us of this however. The worst thing though was on our last night, the woman on reception had a screaming match with some American over the phone. We could hear her voice over the television which we turned on only to drown out the noise. It was so inappropriate, she was cursing and threatening his parents, saying she didn't care if everyone heard and that she hated americans. We weren't American but I get the feeling it wouldn't have mattered if we had been. She had a blatant disregard for the fact that we staying there as paying guests and continued to shout even when we were passing her by. This continued for about an hour. Overall the guesthouse is fine but don't expect to be treated with respect by some of the staff.

Feb 06. Stayed 2 nights and then returned for another 3. Had a room 3 for the first stay at the front which opened out onto a balcony over the street. Room 4 on our second stay which opened onto a balcony over the rear yard. (Not as nice.) The rooms themselves were much the same in size and facilities. A/C was good. Standard Laos HWS. Clean and comfortable with statelite TV. Breakfast included and staff very helpfull. Enjoyed our stay and would stay again. They are very busy so suggest you book early if you choose this place. Well located to everything. Recommended.