We have stayed at either the hotel or resort five times now. The rooms are comfortable the food is excellent and the staff do all they can to make a stay pleasurable and all at good value for money. We would certainly stay there again.

Too expensive for very dark rooms, in front of a wall.
Sexual tourism admitted: sometimes less of quietness.
No computer for customers.

This restored old Palace built in colonial style was one of Luang Prabang's first boutique hotels. Nowadays, there have been many newer, more luxurious and more expensive hotels opened in and around the town, but Villa Santi is still the number one choice for a central location, value for money, and style.

Rooms can be a little dark, and as they are located near a Vat (temple) the noise of the monks being awoken by the banging of a drum and pipes, also awakens hotel guests. Our room had a large flat-screen TV, with limited English and French language channels, free WiFi, complimentary drinking water and fresh fruit, a mini bar, hairdryer, large bath tub, and good water pressure in the shower.

A small garden and swimming pool is a perfect place for a pre-dinner drink before taking dinner on the covered verandah of the restaurant upstairs. Food is available from both a Lao and International menu, plenty of choices, excellently cooked and beautifully presented. A good wine list is available, as are a selection of reasonably-priced wines by the glass. Dinner for two cost us US$50 on each of the two nights we dined there, including drinks.

Breakfast is comprehensive, but does not excite the palate as much as the dinners do!

If you are visiting Luang Prabang to see the UNESCO World Heritage Site, wish to be centrally located within walking distance of everywhere, and indulge your tastebuds with some excellent food .... Villa Santi is your only choice!

I booked this online via Agoda. I thought it was a good deal and included breakfast plus airport pick up and return. This wasn't clear when I booked and I paid for a taxi at the airport which I needn't have done.

The room was large with good facilities including a bath, although it was a little on the dark side. The weather in Laos in July can be rainy and humid which means that everything has a damp feel. That is not the hotel's fault, its just how it is.

The staff were so polite and friendly, always smiling and made me feel very welcome and relaxed. There is a pool although it is tiny. There is another resort with a larger pool and they can arrange a bus if you want to use it.

They can also arrange cookery courses which my friends did and said it was excellent plus you got to eat what you cooked - large portions!

Breakfast is on the 1st floor with a balcony view to the street. Plenty of tea and coffee top up from the attentive staff. Lovely eggs. Some of the food was under nets to keep the flies off but the flies had got under the nets.