Laos Hotels

Rivertime Resort - a very special place!

Advantages: A real experience of Lao culture and nature
Disadvantages: 40 minutes from Vientiane capital

...in Laos and stay at Rivertime Resort and Ecolodge often. The resort has one very thorough and positive review here so I won't go over the observations made there since they cover the place pretty well. However, there are a few additional points to make in addition to the previous review. Mainly, that the resort does have en-suite bathrooms and hot water showers in all of its private lodges. We found the food to be excellent and the staff extremely ...
...bonus is the many activities offered by the resort such as the floating swimming pool, Lao massages, riverboat trips, bicycles, local village tours, etc.. What we especially enjoyed was the 'forest footpath'. This is a 20-minute walk through the forest and is actually in the grounds of the resort. The footpath is about one metre wide and is cemented so it makes for easy walking even during the rainy season when other footpaths become too muddy. On ...

philiplaos 02.10.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Rivertime Resort & Ecolodge, Vientiane

Relax and dicover the local community

Advantages: Scenic location, enjoy the local surrondings
Disadvantages: Food.

I arrived excitedly in Laos at Vientiane airport from Hanoi to stay in this Eco-lodge resort just outside the capital. We spotted this place on the hostelworld website but choose to book directly with the resort as getting to the resort is a bit tricky. There is a local bus service which runs daily, However we preferred to arrange with the Eco-lodge to get collected from the airport for a small fee of $10. Arrival at the airport was easy and as with ...
...required visa when you turn up to enter the country. The visa does require a picture, but we forgot that we had packed ours in the main language so got fined a whopping $1! Anyway after making our way through the easy immigration checks we had a friendly driver waiting for us and he drove us for about half an hour away from the capital to this nature resort. By the time we arrived it was pitch dark, but we had a lovely chat with the owner who showed ...

mtpatton 20.09.2009 · Read full review
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Review of Rivertime Resort & Ecolodge, Vientiane