Sala Done Khone Hotel Reviews

The rooms are clean, but the journey must cross the river.

Hotel is clean, breakfast is good, The owner is very nice

The hotel is right on the Mekong River, and you can swim directly outside the balcony of the room! great!

We stayed here as part of our Tailor Made Southern Laos tour, visiting Ban Muang - Wat Tomo, Khonephapneng Falls, and Li Phi Falls & cruise. Loved staying on Don Khone Island at Heritage House with our lovely lizard friend. Rooms are basic but do the job well for being on an island. Lovely gardens and peaceful surroundings. Great for doing excursions. we went to the Khone Phapneng falls. spectacular.

Very nice hosts but the hotel needs a thorough scrub down. Very cheeky to charge the $$$ when the hotel is really not up and running and very poorly maintained. Pool was green and disgusting. Our floating room had an amazing view but don’t look too closely at the piles of dirt, raggedy curtains, ancient shower with cracks and no soap holder. Felt like poor to average clamping. Was almost worth it for the great views, esp sundown. The place has tons of potential, but we honestly were very relieved to leave!

We rented a floating room with a terrace on the Mekong, which could have been simply sumptuous. The problem is that the owner takes no care of his establishment and is content to maximise his current monopoly position on the island. Indeed, the hotel is the only establishment currently (July 2022) open for the whole of Khone Island and Det Island (the 2 islands communicate via the French Bridge) and also has the only restaurant open on both islands. The bathroom is not clean (like the rest of the hotel), one bed smells of urine and the springs of the other one are coming out, the arrival to the room by a small bridge is simply littered with plastic bottles that the owner does not even bother to fish out. The service in the restaurant is very slow (45 minutes waiting time for each of the 3 meals we had there per day as there is no other restaurant open on the two islands), the portions served are very small and some dishes are downright bad, the best ones not exceeding the "ordinary" note. The restaurant is lit with white neon lights, the tablecloths are dirty, and the owner just shakes the dirt on the floor. For a so-called sunset inter-island tour (the pilot told us at 17.30 that the sun was hidden behind clouds, while sunset was at 18.30 and the inter-island ride was limited to a standard super slow crossing to the port from where we had left to reach the hotel on the day of our arrival) he charged us 360000 Laks, which is exorbitant. The bikes he rents have no brakes, no bell and have badly inflated tyres. I'll stop the list of my complaints here, but for every other service, we got a terrible price-quality ratio. We are all the more sorry to give this opinion as the place could be superb with a minimum of involvement from the owner, as well as respect for his customers.

In the middle of 4000 islands a heavenly address, a large comfortable room with a beautiful bathroom, sufficient comfort on such an improbable island in the middle of the meanders of the Mekong. A swimming pool on the banks of the Mekong, a magical moment at sunset after a day of walking and before discovering one of the most beautiful waterfalls in Laos….

Aging hotel, poorly maintained exterior. The covid crisis does not explain everything!!! As for the 2 swimming pools, the water is green, the breakfast is catastrophic with reheated coffee the day before. For the same price there are much better options on the street.

Excellent location on this small island, just opposite the river, however this old colonial house deserves an essential renovation inside the bedrooms, bathroom (electricity, plumbing, paint refresh, etc.). Good breakfast as well as dinner... too bad

This hotel must have been very nice when it opened... because everything was designed to be eco-friendly and beautiful, but time has passed and... no maintenance, the walls are getting moldy, the door keys don't work, no remote controls to turn off the air conditioning, windows that no longer close, greenish swimming pool... The dream... Yet all it took was a little... average breakfast.

Nous avons logé durant deux nuits dans un pavillon au milieu de la verdure. Le cadre était très sympathique et l'absence de voitures sur cette île nous a changé de la circulation des villes même si, là aussi, les motocyclettes sont légion.

plus - location - architecture / colonial style houses minus - small pools without view on the Mekong - runned down resort - poor breakfast - service The resort needs soon a complete make over. For this price the resort ist not recommendable.

We verbleven in 1 van de floating bungalows. Het is heerlijk om op het balkon te zitten aan de Mekong. De kamer kan net zoals het zwembad wel een opfrisbeurt gebruiken. Het ontbijt was vrij slecht. Aangezien er weinig open was op het eiland, waren er weinig alternatieven. De fietsen die je kunt huren zou ik ergens anders huren. Wellicht verbetert het allemaal als er meer toeristen komen, maar voor nu is het matig te noemen.