Stayed one night at this hotel, in January this year.
The hotel who consist of tree separate buildings looks ok.
We got one of the last free rooms, as they sed. In the newest building. Who looks almost like a motel.
They did not speak any English at the reseption. My wife is from Thiland, and she does also Speak Lao. So that was not the main problem. We arrived in the afternoon.
We got a room on second floor, at the right side of the gate. Out to the street. With a fence between hotel rooms and the street.
The room looked god and klean. We left our luggage in the room, and went to the river. Had a good dinner at a floating restaurant in Mekong river. We had all our valuables with us.
Had a walk back at dusk, and to the hotel room. After I had a shower, I could barely get into the bed before I was sleeping.
My wife went to bed an hour later, also after taking shower.
Next morning I woke up because of noise from the street, and found one window toward the street staying open. All our valuables left on a table and our handbags with money, creditcards and pasports, standing close to head end of the beds were gone. The polise were already waiting outside at the street. And they did a good job. They had already caught the robbers.
Reporting to the police and insurance company, is another story.
Morale: Do not wear visible juvels on body in Laos. wear not to good looking clothes. At restaurants always have bottles with water or other liquids on the table. The custom is to place such things a bit away on a small table. And the waiters comes by and fills up your glasses. I'm still wondering if we were drugged at the river or if gas were sent into the room. But the police found gas masks in the bags, so maybe gas most likely. Or a combination.