Phi Dao Hotel
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#4 of 24 small hotels in Pakse
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Looking for a place to stay in Pakse? Then look no further than Phi Dao Hotel, a family-friendly small hotel that brings the best of Pakse to your doorstep.
You’ll enjoy relaxing rooms that offer air conditioning and a refrigerator, and you can stay connected during your stay as Phi Dao Hotel offers guests free wifi.
The small hotel features baggage storage. Plus, Phi Dao Hotel offers a lounge, providing a pleasant respite from your busy day.
Close to some of Pakse's most popular landmarks, such as Lao Nippon Bridge (2.4 km) and Golden Buddha (3.2 km), Phi Dao Hotel is a great destination for tourists.
While visiting Pakse, you may want to try some shrimp at one of the nearby restaurants, such as Dok Mai Lao Caffe Restaurant.
Plus, during your trip, don't forget to check out Daoheuang Market (1.8 km), Wat Luang Temple (0.1 km), and Wat Pha Bat (1.0 km), some attractions that are a short walk from Phi Dao Hotel.
We’re sure you’ll enjoy your stay at Phi Dao Hotel as you experience everything Pakse has to offer.
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HOTEL STYLE
Modern
Family
Languages Spoken
English, French
Location
13 Road, Pakse 1600 Laos
Getting there
Good for walkers
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They have two type of rooms: the most expensive (12-15 USD) are larger, facing the main street and have AC while the budget ones (10 USD) are smaller, facing the side street and they do not have AC. Both are very clean, with TV, attached bathroom, hot water. The personnel is very kind and helpful. The only negative point is the breakfast (which is not included in the room price): very poor (half baguette, one small portion of jam and butter) and we have to wait quite long to be served even though we were the only two customers and there were 5 waitress/cook chatting all the time.
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Date of stay: December 2019
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It was very good value. 15 Euros for a clean twin room. In the restaurant downstairs I had the best morning glory vegetable plate ever. Fantastic fried shrimps. Just delicious food. The staff was friendly. Th only disadvantage is the fact that it is on main street that means you have quite some noise from the cars.
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Date of stay: January 2020
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Room Tip:Â Third floor is the best. And South side.
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We stayed here twice, the night before we started the Bolaven Plateau motorbike loop and the night after we finished. Good location to the bus station and right next to Miss Noy's motorbike hire place (which we highly recommend). Beds were really quite comfortable for Asia. Shower good and warm. TV didnt work but I doubt there would have been a channel we would understand. Make sure you get a room near the back of the hotel though as the road is really noisy! (I'm partially deaf and wore earplugs and it still had me awake most the night on our first stay!) Also a 6am check in which we loved after we got off our sleeper bus at 6am!!
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Date of stay: February 2020Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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We stayed here one night in transit (on our way from Si Phan Don to Luang Prabang)
The hotel was very new and very clean! The rooms are spacious with a good sized TV, great air-con and a very comfy bed. The wifi was quite strong even on the higher levels which is often hard to find. The reception staff were very friendly and allowed us to store our bags there the next day while waiting for our overnight bus.
Definitely recommend heading there now while it's new and relatively untouched!
The hotel was very new and very clean! The rooms are spacious with a good sized TV, great air-con and a very comfy bed. The wifi was quite strong even on the higher levels which is often hard to find. The reception staff were very friendly and allowed us to store our bags there the next day while waiting for our overnight bus.
Definitely recommend heading there now while it's new and relatively untouched!
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Date of stay: October 2012Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This is a hotel not a B&B. But it is a very good option in Pakse. For 150.000 Kip we had a very spacious room and bathroom that was very clean. Also the staff was really helpfull by letting us store our backpacks when we made our trip through the bolaven plateau on the scooter.
highly recommend it!
highly recommend it!
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Date of stay: April 2014Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Very clean, very new, very spacious, great value. Not the typ of hotel you'ld like to spend your holiday, but you probably wouldn't want to do this in Pakse anyhow. Just the right hotel for a short stop n the way. And the noodle soup for breakfast (not included) was very good too.
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Date of stay: February 2013Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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This brand new, comfortable hotel is centrally located on what can be considered the town's main street (directions below), a five minute walk from where the bus from the 4000 islands drops off its passengers, and also a five minute walk from the bus station.
For a choice of twin rooms, we were shown a large room with windows overlooking the street (I believe the price was 160.000 kip) and a smaller room at the back, without windows (130.000 kip). Since the cheaper room had natural light coming in through glass building blocks higher up in the bathroom wall and was quieter than the street-side room, the choice was easy.
The room was comfortably equipped with good beds and duvets, air-con, flat screen tv with satellite channels and fridge. Everything was new and spotless. Wifi was available and reasonably fast.
Downstairs, the restaurant offers seating inside and outside; the terrace is noisy but comfortable. Large choice of great Lao and Western food, coffee is excellent.
A few doors from the hotel is the friendly and professional Miss Noy, who rents well-maintained motorcycles and is an excellent source of information about the Bolaven plateau loops.
After riding around the Bolaven plateau for a week, coming back to Phi Dao hotel with its comfortable beds, hot shower, food, coffee etc. etc. was like coming home...
Directions: Phi Dao hotel is on road no.13, which is the main north-south highway that traverses Pakse (although it runs east-west in the centre of town). This may sound bad, but this particular section of the road is actually the town's main street where many hotels and restaurants are located, as well as all kinds of tourist services. Whether you arrive in Pakse from the north or from the south, you're likely to be dropped off just after turning off road no.13, so just walk back to it. Phi Dao will be close to where you've been dropped off, between two sets of traffic lights and close to a narrow bridge across the Xe Don river, which joins the Mekong in Pakse.
For a choice of twin rooms, we were shown a large room with windows overlooking the street (I believe the price was 160.000 kip) and a smaller room at the back, without windows (130.000 kip). Since the cheaper room had natural light coming in through glass building blocks higher up in the bathroom wall and was quieter than the street-side room, the choice was easy.
The room was comfortably equipped with good beds and duvets, air-con, flat screen tv with satellite channels and fridge. Everything was new and spotless. Wifi was available and reasonably fast.
Downstairs, the restaurant offers seating inside and outside; the terrace is noisy but comfortable. Large choice of great Lao and Western food, coffee is excellent.
A few doors from the hotel is the friendly and professional Miss Noy, who rents well-maintained motorcycles and is an excellent source of information about the Bolaven plateau loops.
After riding around the Bolaven plateau for a week, coming back to Phi Dao hotel with its comfortable beds, hot shower, food, coffee etc. etc. was like coming home...
Directions: Phi Dao hotel is on road no.13, which is the main north-south highway that traverses Pakse (although it runs east-west in the centre of town). This may sound bad, but this particular section of the road is actually the town's main street where many hotels and restaurants are located, as well as all kinds of tourist services. Whether you arrive in Pakse from the north or from the south, you're likely to be dropped off just after turning off road no.13, so just walk back to it. Phi Dao will be close to where you've been dropped off, between two sets of traffic lights and close to a narrow bridge across the Xe Don river, which joins the Mekong in Pakse.
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Date of stay: January 2013Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Stayed 2 nights here and enjoyed it!
Centrally located.
Rooms are spacious, very clean and provide comfortable beds.
Front office staff speaks very good English for Lao people. Very helpful! Wifi is available in good connection.
I would for sure come back!
Centrally located.
Rooms are spacious, very clean and provide comfortable beds.
Front office staff speaks very good English for Lao people. Very helpful! Wifi is available in good connection.
I would for sure come back!
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Date of stay: November 2015Trip type: Travelled solo
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Stayed here on two separate occasions in a week, all up 5 nights. Staff were not particularly welcoming, friendly, helpful with directions or accommodating of our requests. Pillows were exceptionally high and we asked for 2 more smaller ones. No problem for first stay. Wouldn't let us have them on second stay unless we paid extra $5 US for them. Told us they had taken the cost out of the housekeeping lady's wages the first time as she shouldn't have given them to us.
The room was large and clean, bathroom also clean. Had been recently painted or renovated. Bit plain and austere - white walls and dark wood furniture. TV, mini-fridge but no kettle in room. Aircon worked well. Quilt cover looked like it could have done with a wash, but could have been clean and just stained from being washed in discoloured water. Was a bit brown/coffee coloured. Could have been white once upon a time. Not sure.
Only had one breakfast there during our stay and didn't eat any other meals there. Eggs and baguettes. Perfectly okay food. We ate at the Delta Coffee shop, (up the road on the same side - highly recommended) for breakfast and lunch. At night we ate at the Saibaidee Pakse Restaurant (one block up on the other side of the street - popular, so slow to serve, be patient, worth the wait for the food).
Left our bags at Phi Dao Hotel while we went on motorbike to the Bolaven Plateau. Bike hire best from Miss Noy, two doors down from the hotel. Their services are excellent, especially the 6pm briefing. Not to be missed, even if you don't hire a bike from them. Book early or you might miss out on a bike.
The room was large and clean, bathroom also clean. Had been recently painted or renovated. Bit plain and austere - white walls and dark wood furniture. TV, mini-fridge but no kettle in room. Aircon worked well. Quilt cover looked like it could have done with a wash, but could have been clean and just stained from being washed in discoloured water. Was a bit brown/coffee coloured. Could have been white once upon a time. Not sure.
Only had one breakfast there during our stay and didn't eat any other meals there. Eggs and baguettes. Perfectly okay food. We ate at the Delta Coffee shop, (up the road on the same side - highly recommended) for breakfast and lunch. At night we ate at the Saibaidee Pakse Restaurant (one block up on the other side of the street - popular, so slow to serve, be patient, worth the wait for the food).
Left our bags at Phi Dao Hotel while we went on motorbike to the Bolaven Plateau. Bike hire best from Miss Noy, two doors down from the hotel. Their services are excellent, especially the 6pm briefing. Not to be missed, even if you don't hire a bike from them. Book early or you might miss out on a bike.
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Date of stay: November 2015Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Room Tip:Â High floor is quieter. Not all rooms have windows.
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This better than average guesthouse is in a convenient location in downtown Pakse. The reception area is within the restaurant on the ground floor. We didn't try the food but it looked fine.
The rooms are simple but comfortable and very clean. The bathroom even looks to have been recently re-tiled and had a good hot shower with decent water-pressure, although the shower was located right over the toilet. The aircon worked well and there was a fridge and TV in the room. There is a window but only a view of the rooftop next door. Pretty good value at around $25 a night. Luckily we didn't hear any noise from outside the room and had a good night's sleep (2 actually) and also found the staff to be pleasant enough. A handy place in walking distance to anywhere you might need
The rooms are simple but comfortable and very clean. The bathroom even looks to have been recently re-tiled and had a good hot shower with decent water-pressure, although the shower was located right over the toilet. The aircon worked well and there was a fridge and TV in the room. There is a window but only a view of the rooftop next door. Pretty good value at around $25 a night. Luckily we didn't hear any noise from outside the room and had a good night's sleep (2 actually) and also found the staff to be pleasant enough. A handy place in walking distance to anywhere you might need
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Date of stay: October 2015Trip type: Travelled as a couple
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Room Tip:Â Ask for a quiet room
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LOCATION
LaosChampasak ProvincePakse
NUMBER OF ROOMS
20
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Frequently Asked Questions about Phi Dao Hotel
Which popular attractions are close to Phi Dao Hotel?
Nearby attractions include Wat Luang Temple (0.2 km), Shockwawe Bar Pakse (0.3 km), and Dream Weavers (0.3 km).
What are some of the property amenities at Phi Dao Hotel?
Some of the more popular amenities offered include free wifi, an on-site restaurant, and a lounge.
What food & drink options are available at Phi Dao Hotel?
Guests can enjoy an on-site restaurant and a lounge during their stay.
What are some restaurants close to Phi Dao Hotel?
Conveniently located restaurants include Dok Mai Lao Caffe Restaurant, Vida Bakery Cafe, and Le Panorama.
Which languages are spoken by the staff at Phi Dao Hotel?
The staff speaks multiple languages, including English and French.