Name: Friendship Hotel
Address: Nongmangda Village, Xai District, Oudomxay, Oudomxay, Oudomxay, 06000, Laos
Rating: 5

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This is the worst hotel I've stayed in, in Laos. You cannot call it a bed that you're sleeping in, rather a plank or you can sleep on the floor as there is no difference. Bathroom is really dirty and the place is run down and old. Will not recommend you stay here at all.

Terrible place to stay in. Bring your own mattress.

I spend here a few nights. This is a typical large Laos style concrete hotel with large rooms, aircon, fan, etc. The room is clean and basic, but really (as all other reviews): the beds are rock hard. Luckily I had a room with two beds, so I could use the duvet of the other bed to sleep on a slightly softer bed. I was in a room facing the back of the hotel. Unfortunately there is also a bar, which causes young people to enter and leave late in the evening (until midnight) with quite some noise. Try to avoid this side of the hotel, and find a room on the front of the building (there is a window fan which makes some background noise to cancel out the streetnoise). I had my breakfast in the restaurant outside in front of the hotel: it was only Asian style breakfast (rice, noodles, soup, etc) and some Laotian Nescafe-style coffee or Laos tea. The supposed free wifi was completely crap: I could not get it working, and the reception told me they were about to fix it (but they never did).

Basic hotel and some streetnoise from nearby bar

To start with the sleeping comfort: hard as concrete!  This is not a bed anymore: it's a working table.  Pillows are over-filled hard as a truck tire and stinking.  Bedsheets are probably never washed: they are no longer white and smell sweat! The Hotel is terribly dirty: only one wet sweeping per day by an army of old ladies and daily renew of towels.  The rest stays as it was for the length of your stay.  Staff is uncooperative and not responsive. Even multiple requests stay unheeded.  Friendliness is their excuse but with this you never get what you wanted.  The restaurant in front of the parking (Chil Chil) has no toilets.  You have either to go back to the Hotel or pee against the fence.  Breakfast is lousy and 100% Lao, except there is even no "fur" (noodle soup) which is the national morning and noon-dish of Laos.  The drinking water is not cold and the coffee is the "3 in 1" disgusting solution.  Windows are dirty and filthy.  The old fashioned TV set has only two stations in Lao: one with a little bit of snow and a second one with lots of snow.  Half of the light bulbs are missing or out of order.  Lamp holders (in the bathroom) are filthy and full of dust: not been cleaned since their installation! Only one electricity outlet next to the working table which is taken by the (empty) fridge and the (useless) TV set.  The second one is too far for any useful purpose.  Internet is a real disaster, at least at the 5th floor.  Staff is unwilling to do something about it, despite the numerous requests.  Bathroom is elementary and has no sufficient water flow.

carefully avoid: this is the worse!

Stayed here for 2 nights. June in Laos is low season for tourism, so the price was excellent, and the rooms very large. Hotel is huge, quite modern, very clean, and seemed to be frequented mostly by Chinese Sales Reps. We had breakfast included, it was ok for a westerner, but certainly orientated towards the Asians. Good location, just outside the airport gates. 
The one down side for westerners, the beds, although it was huge, was rock hard. Had 2 terrible nights trying to sleep comfortably. Another travelling companion, even went to reception and asked for an extra doona to double up for some softness, and was refused. That put a sour taste in our mouths.
Overall, it was acceptable for an a/c room for $18 USD a night. Wifi was also dodgy.

Ok for the price.

This is a fancy-looking hotel (not a B&B or guesthouse), and so should be re categorized by Trip Advisor. It is located near the center of town, 10 min walk away from the market. Oudomxay is a gritty provincial capital and not necessarily a destination in itself. The town has a disproportionately high number of Chinese workers, which contributes to its slightly dumpy appearance. The Friendship Hotel itself looks snazzy enough from the outside, and the lobby and rooms aspire to a high class appearance. However, things everywhere were a bit dirty and unkempt. The floors weren't very clean, and the attached restaurant - where our work group had 3 meals - had many flies everywhere. (Remember, though, that this is par for the course in this part of the country.) My 3rd floor VIP room, which cost just a bit over $30 US, was cavernous, with a huge living room and a large bedroom. The bed itself was 10 feet wide. Unfortunately, it was horribly uncomfortable... Because they had spread a sheet over box springs, and decided to forego the mattress! The sheets, pillows, and linens were clean, and there was ample hot water and good wifi. One other thing worthy of note - there appeared to be a sizable number of "working girls" at the hotel, based both on the foot traffic through the lobby and the easy and familiar interaction they had with the hotel staff.

They're trying at this place, but next time I return, I will look elsewhere.

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