Name: Portside Hotel
Address: 546 M.1 T.Wiang A. Chiangkhong, Chiang Rai, อำเภอ เชียงของ CR 57140, Thailand, Chiang Khong, Chiang Khong, Chiang Khong, 57140, Thailand
Rating: 5

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This is a one night stay that you have to do if you are on the Two Day slow boat tour to Laos. Hotel is organized when checking you in. However, always, always, be the first one at the counter, other wise you will be given a worse room.
Thy provide dinner at the local bar. Rice and Veg. They provide breakfast, Egg sandwich. Simple but fine. Rooms were ok. Water wasn't great. Little town is actually a nice walk. Go to the Ibis hotel up the road for fantastic views and access to their pool for 300BAHT.
Do not do not do not exchange money at the Portside hotel if you can help it. He will sound like a nice guy. But he speaks too fast and gives you the worst exchange rate for Laos Kip and US dollars. Exchange somewhere else.

Hotel is one night. Just download a lot of movies haha! 

Not as bad as you think

Scam!! Don't change money at the portside hotel in chiang khong!!

We booked the slow boat tour from chiang mai with terminal green (get with wild travel and different tourist companies. They all gather to one or two agencies, ask which one).

The tour was well organized, but one thing really pissed me off.

On the second day, everyone gathers in one hotel in the morning before leaving to the border (in our case it was the port-side hotel). There is a guy who seems really nice and funny, that talks a bit on the border process and then offers to exchange your money (baht, kip and us dollars).

Everybody changes there, so we did too.

When it was our turn we wanted to change 100$ US, and we asked him what's the rate.

We checked online during the queue and the official rate was 1$=8181.

He told us he will give us for 7000.

We asked how come its so expensive, he said thats the same rate we will get at the border, but because it was a Saturday the exchange will be closed. He also added we should take enough money for 2 days, because on Sunday it would also be closed.

I told my friend we shouldn't agree, it's about 14% commission (if we changed 100$, he would take 14$ commission!!!!), but eventually we changed 50$ for 350,000 kip so we won't get stuck with no kip...

Of course, when we got to the border there were a few places to change .. Only one was closed, on the Thai side. In the Laos side we got a rate of 8165 per 1$, almost the same as the official rate.

So that guy scammes for about 14$ for every 100$, when in the border you pay less then 1$ for the same 100$.

I asked him twice if he gives us the same rate, and is he sure its closed today at the border. He said he is sure.

I told him that if he is lying I will write it in many forms, and he acted insulted.. so as promised, I try to advertise this as much as I can - don't change at the hotel!! Its a scam! All our group changed there and lost money! (Don't know about baht-kip change but I imagine its similar. People also complained it was very expensive, but I only changed dollars to kip).

Do yourself a favor - don't believe the nice guy at the hotel (he is the manager i think), and don't change money for such a high commission. Change at the border, at the Laos side, or where you buy the ticket for the friendship bridge shuttle.

Plus, you can find ATM's at the border so relax and don't believe thier lies...

And tell your group about it!!!



Money exchange scam at the hotel!! for slow boat tours

We booked a minibus from Chiang Mai to Chiang Khong and the package included a hotel for the night. We arrived after midnight and were shown to our room which was on the top floor up some very steep stairs by the driver. Well the room consisted of two mattresses on the floor with a bottom sheet and a single blanket. Why they bothered with a mattress I don't know as there was no difference between the floor and the mattress it was so hard. There is no internal furniture other than a small rickety table. There was an external bathroom. Breakfast consisted of two pieces of unbuttered bread with some sort of egg patty between. There were so many cats running over the food and foyer that we decided to decline any food. It seems that this hotel has become an overnight stop for a lot of the tours to Laos and the slow boats. There is also a scam where the hotel manager tells a long story about the lack of ATM's in Laos and how expensive it is to change money there. Of course he just happens to have 20 Million Kip available which he can change for Baht etc but at a very poor exchange rate. It is easy to find an ATM in Laos and they only charge 2000 kip per transaction so don't get sucked into this scam. Also be aware the ferry crossing is literally a 100 m walk up the road so don't get caught by letting them sell you a minibus ticket which goes via the Friendship Bridge about 10 km away and which costs far more and takes three times as long. The only positive is there is a good view from the top floor.
Avoid this hotel at all costs and if doing a package tour ask before hand which hotel you will be placed in.

Dirty, No Amenities and Terrible

There were bed bugs in the bed.  I told to the staff but they really didn't care. I changed room (no bed bugs this time but an horrible smell in the room...)  The staff is very bad. Room very old. Bad breakfast 
Run away !

Terrible

If you are here is just becouse you have to cross the border to Laos with a slow boat. 

So the crossing birder costs 35 us$, you need a picture and in the border and just after there is ATM and official bank exchange. So do not change money in the hotel.

The hotel is a place for 1 night. 
do not expect anything here.

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