The View Pavilion

Greetings. If you are like us and get caught by full payment well in advance of your trip, getting stuck with this sad and tired place - thought we would offer some advice. You can not ask for a better location and the minimal staff that there are, are kind and helpful. We can only hope you manage to get one of the few rooms on a second floor. We didn't and ended up in a dank and unappealing room. We asked for a transfer and got upstairs. The balcony is fab and the view glorious. Bring a carpenters kit with you. The railings are rotten and if you happen to lean on them you will break your bones. So fix the railings. They are dangerous. Also bring a plumbers kit. The showers are old and broken with more water leaking then from the unit then flowing overhead on your body. Fix the faucet in the sink too. It is broken. Bring a new shower curtain with you and some fresh towels- the ones on offer are brown with years of use. The dirty and frayed bath mat is worse then the one I used as a University student. It has "welcome" embossed on it. It should say "run and hide". While it is impractical to bring a hotel safe in your bag, you will have to walk around all day with your valuables. No need to bring a fridge. There is one and it seems to work but there is nothing inside, so bring your own drinks from the shop down the road. If you are feeling generous, bring around 10 gallons of paint and some morter as the walls through and in particular at the entrance give the place a feeling of a war hotel. Yoour carpenter kit will also be handy to fix what would have been beautiful floors. The last thing you want are infected wood slivers in your feet. To ensure a comfortable bed, bring a fitted sheet as there is none. A couple of decent pillows would be welcome to. Cheap ones from your local store at home would be better then the airplane sized pillows on offer. With all that, you should be good. I am sure the owner who has clearly neglected the beautiful historic building would be greatful. We must be very busy spending the expensive day rate and not having time to give a little soul and pride in his very tired and neglected hotel. Shame on him. My wife and I, who work in war and distaster zones around the world stayed 4 nights here - 4 too many. Next time we hope to find a decent place - there are many, in such an extraordinary city.

Unfortunately the gloryous time is over. Seams like there is no refurbishing anymore. On the roof the gutter is missing which means the destroying is even faster. Inside the floors are broken, holes from termites, wooden toilet door starts beeing rotten as its zero protected by showering, rusty broken interiours and the strangest thing alliver is a big plastic Jacuzzy at the entrance door in the sleepingroom. Very very useless and strange. Even the lavabo is located in the bedroom beside the entrance… why not in the toiet?

This hotel is well located on the Main Street in LP. It does not overlook the Mekong It was all a bit tired and chaotic but I guess at $40 per night my expectations were too high. No restaurant on site but a basic breakfast was served at a nearby hotel. I had two main issues. Nearby there is either a bar or karaoke place and there was very loud and deeply disturbing noise very late at night. I think it stopped around 1 AM I asked the hotel well in advance to arrange a scooter hire for a week and though it was outside the control of the hotel the bikes that were put forward were faulty and turned up with empty fuel tanks.