My Dream Boutique Resort — Hotel in Luang Prabang

Friendly staff, clean and spacious room for a decent price. Air conditioning worked perfectly, as did the mosquito nets.

It's about a 10 minute walk from the centre, if you take the toll bridge, which is 2,000 (only foreigners pay) for the day.

Breakfast was nice, but it would have been nice to see lighter food options. A lot of the stuff was quite heavy, for westerners.

The pool was clean and never too buzy, though I did have an incident where I was swimming and a member of staff turned off the pools lights. A bit of a heads up would have been nice, especially when I looked up he was only like 10 feet away! :D

You can hire 'buses' (actually mini vans) to other cities in Laos from Dream boutique but they literally charge you double what the ticket actually costs, and you can tickets from official booths literally one street over.

The only criticism of the rooms we used were. The first room's bathroom had a curtain, for no apparent reason between the shower and the bedroom. So it meant that any noise from the bathroom really carried into the bedroom, plus you could kinda see into the bathroom because the curtain didn't cover the gaps perfectly. Just a bizarre concept, when a full wall would have made sense.

The second bedroom's bathroom was equally as weird, where it's window directly faced outside, so other guests can easily see into your bathroom.

Ignoring the weird bathrooms, I did thoroughly enjoy staying at this resort and would...

I'd like to give 4.5 stars, you'll see why at the end of the review. Well run lovely resort with 2 pools, gardens, set slightly away from main road and city centre. Beautiful gardens with a view of the river. 1kids pool and the other with plent of loungers. Pools/area is kept clean and tidy. There are food places nearby but generally local cuisine. For a wider choice you need to go to centre, about a 20 min walk. Staff are very helpful and friendly, often stopping for a chat. Breakfast has a wide choice of traditional and western foods, plus hot/cold beverages. Our room was a nice size double, TV, fridge, balcony, tea/coffee facilities. A clothes airer is provided which is a thoughtful touch. Nice size shower both room with complimentary toiletries. We didn't have an evening meal here so review does not cover that aspect. Free airport shuttle. WiFi is rubbish and keeps cutting out but staff did try to improve by a reboot which made a difference for a short time. We had already at stayed at a different hotel in Luang Prabang for 3 days to be within walking distance of the sites before moving onto My Dream. Within an hour of checking in I found myself being bitten by mosquitoes, probably due to the proximity of the River. I'm sure the hotel could have had some repellent in the common area (as they put some in our bathroom). These 2 issues prevent my review from being given a true 5 star rating. I would still...

First of all about the hotel.|The grounds and area of the hotel are gorgeous and very tranquil. The room was nice if a little basic but we had what seemed like our own pool. |We ate at the hotel on our first night and the meal was great.|It's a bit out of town but a free shuttle bus is provided at certain times in the day. |(Little tip. Get a tuk tuk back to the old red bridge and then walk from their. Otherwise it goes all the way around.|As for the not so good. |We arrived quite late. And with no local currency, we was convinced by the night manager to exchange money with him at the hotel. I tried to change 200 English pounds.|Luckily for me, he only had enough for 100 pounds. |With my apparent lack of knowledge of Loa money, he gave me about £70 worth instead of £100.|Anyway we decided to eat in the hotel restaurant. After our meal, as we walked out, the same guy ran after us saying he had more money now, if I wanted to change the other £100. I thought he was a bit keen?|I googled the exchange rate in my room to find out that he'd ripped me off and was trying to do it again. |I later confronted him and asked for my £100 back. He had already sold it in town and made a nice little profit.|He probably tries it with every new arrival.|Anyway, after speaking to the hotel manager the next morning. I was given the extra money I was owed and he said it won't happen again. |Overall a nice hotel but change your...