Central Backpackers

Money was stolen from my room. It was a private room, and I went out with the key. I booked a trip with the hotel. Their driver picked me up. When I returned, half a million kip had been taken from inside my bag. When I informed the owners/managers, they stated someone would need a key to get into my room!!

Central is a Hotel and a Hostel, both are located on different floors, plus there‘s another hotel in the back of the same building. My room on 4th floor was very clean and large enough with comfortable beds, only the shower needs to be improved! Also there was no room service, which is OK if you stay two nights, but in a hotel all rooms should be made up daily. Breakfast was good, you had a choice of different menus. The pool in the back was OK, deep enough for a swim, but needs some proper sunbeds. Staff was always friendly and helpful. The central location makes it unavoidable that you hear traffic noise and the music places around: however the loud music stopped around 11pm and also traffic at night was very light, so sleeping was good between 11pm-6am. Good value for money for 2-3 nights.

If you want a non party hostel and a good nights rest, this is your place! A reasonable price and you can choose a bed or a bunk bed. The staff was helpful as well. I really like it and it's in a great location. The only thing was, they pick and choose which beds they wanted to change the sheets on after each guest which made me second guess if my bed sheets were changed or not. What was nice was they give me a new towel everyday and made my bed. Besides that I would recommend it.

Very nice and cheap rooms. 30,000 kip for a dorm, 40,000kip/person for a double or triple. Only downside is it's not as social as other hostels in the area. But the rooms are extremely clean and nice. Much better than you'd expect from a western motel or inn!!

No elevator, they are working on it should be done this year. No free breakfast. No amenities. 2 free bottles of water. Good view from 4th floor. Hotel catered to mostly Chinese. Good location to everything. $17/night. Could use some new towel.

The guy on the reception is extremely unfriendly. We waited several hours for the room and then got a triple room instead of a double. Asking for confirmation that we'll have to pay only for the double room he did not provide any, but said instead: take it or leave it. The same guy also wanted to borrow or computers for writing an application, even though he had one on the reception ... which according to him was broken. The rooms were good, but were not cleaned in 3 days, so you will run out of toilet paper.

Really clean rooms and a great place to socialise and meet new people. The atmosphere is happy and buzzing, with people watching films or getting high of the legal drugs there. The pizza baguettes are really tasty, and for the price the whole hostel is a real bargain

AWFUL NEVER EVER STAY HERE. We stayed for two nights and the guy on desk was incredibly rude to us for no reason from the beginning. They do not care about anyone who stays there, he was openly accusing us of lying (a group of 5 girls about everything imaginable- passports/aircon/room etc) and saying he didn't care about us. We saw the next day the prices for the room had gone down and he would not give us the new price as we were 'old customers' his attitude was totally unacceptable and ruined my whole trip to vang vieng. I would not stay here ever again and recommend you never do. Despite the man on reception saying he worked in hotels for over 7years he never smiled or even thanked us when we paid. Stay elsewhere!!