Champathong Garden Resort

The surroundings of the hotel are beautiful and it was nice to spend an afternoon by the pool near the mountains. The room was also nice, but there were quite a few bugs and ants crawling all over the toilet seat. Most of the other guests were either Laotion or Chinese, I was the only farang. The staff in the reception were very helpful and kind, however the other guests also enjoyed loudly talking about me assuming that I didn't know they were talking about me. However, it is fairly common knowledge that farang means foreigner, and a few other things they were saying were the same as the Thai words that I know. This did prevent my stay being as relaxing as it could, as I did then avoid busy areas, as I don't particularly want to be laughed at simply for being a farang woman. The staff in the restaurant also don't speak any English, this is not a problem, just something to be aware of, Google translate solved most issues.

Had booked the location to be in a quiet setting away from town. I thought we would rent a motorbike but in Laos, you need to leave your passport and we don’t do that so it didn’t work out. Without your own transport, the location is not good. Turns out we had noisy neighbours on the first night of our two night stay. I was just reading the previous comments about the Chinese owners and their hospitality from the Chinese guests. And it just may be better suited for Chinese guests!