Lao Wooden House

Luang Prabang


This friendly guesthouse-hotel is typical of the neat, pseudo-traditional buildings that have popped up in this part of the old quarter recently. Wood-heavy rooms enjoy TV, desk, fridge, waffled quilts and silence! Only six rooms; there's also a front yard to chill in.


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