Oxalis Home

Dorm is clean and location is great. I spent 03 night at Oxalis Home. It’s a quite place, just 1.5km to the town center where you either can walk or ride a bike. The food at restaurant downstairs are great or you cab try any other options around corner.

We stayed in a private room with double + twin beds for 3 nights before/between/after two treks. (Highly recommend both the Tu Lan and Hang En treks!) Pros: Gorgeous balcony view (river + mountains), very spacious, comfortable beds, powerful A/C and fan, quiet area, beach access, free bike and kayak access, 100,000 VND toward breakfast daily, decent to great food (phở bò decent, sautéed chicken with lemongrass and chili great), great coffee next door, flexible with early check-in, very convenient for tours that leave from Oxalis headquarters in Phong Nha, staff right downstairs if you want to book an additional tour, free luggage storage. Cons: General location, limited food/drink options in this quiet part of town, rather far from pharmacy/WinMart/other restaurants (especially if you have sore legs from trekking! There is no Grab service in Phong Nha as of June 2024), food/drink at Oxalis is a little overpriced, bathroom was like a sauna when it’s hot outside. Pro tips: I recommend booking a transfer with Oxalis from Đồng Hỏi as the bus can be tricky (far from airport) and other transportation is limited in this area. Also, if we’d planned better, we would have stayed with Oxalis in Tan Hoa the night before our one-day Tu Lan tour - it’s a beautiful rural area with a gorgeous lodge as well as homestays; the transfer from the airport is longer, but you’d get to sleep in the morning of the tour while others drive 1.5 hrs from Phong Nha.

We have just visited Oxalis Home and stayed a couple of nights. We decided to do a one day caving excursion. ||Firstly, the welcome and staff her are amazing, very helpful. The accommodation is very good, some reviews say basic but it has everything, spacious and good energy saving installations in rooms, heating, balcony, hairdryer, mini-bar. If you are searching for adventures and going into rural life while having an above average stay this is a great place. They also adjusted our transfers from train station to accommodation at our expense.|Great food for dinners and had a good breakfast. ||The team of guides and porters are really helpful and experienced. They go the extra mile to accommodate travelers. The Tu Lan cave experience was worthy. Get ready to go into adventure, bouldering, getting muddy and trek along. Plan your trip well by taking care of the time and season you visit.|We had a lovely time here and we may be be back in the future years for longer expeditions.

This review is not for Oxalis Tours. The tours are amazing! 5/5! Great guides, safety staff, porters, all lovely people. This review is for staying at the Oxalis dormitory and the reception there. I stayed in the dormitory the night before and after my tour. The people at the reception do not speak English very well. This led to many many misunderstandings. They just seemed very uneasy when talking to me, while I tried to explain and ask everything as calmly and simply as I could. I constantly felt unsure of everything: did they understand an will they take care of it or not? Furthermore the food is quite expensive, which would be fine if it was great, but it wasn’t… Instant Noodles for breakfast cost 50.000, and a meal will easily be 150.000. They charge 20.000 for water, whereas all the other dorms I’ve stayed in charged half of that, and there is no possibility to refill your bottle with filtered water. Apart from the food being expensive they charge 60.000 per kilo of laundry?! Any other place I’ve been to charges half or less? It’s not an express service either, just laundry??? Why so expensive? If you stay in the dormitory, be prepared to have absolutely no rest. During both of my stays, a Vietnamese family would check in or stay up until 00:30, talking loudly, turning on the lights and FaceTiming people on speakerphone, even after asking them to be quiet since it was past midnight. To avoid this the night after my trek, I asked the reception if I could maybe sleep in the other dormitory that had no other people arriving that night, but this was not a possibility?! I had seen it in use during my first night, it was not out of use or anything. I just wanted a good night rest after my trek, and the room was available but they checked me into a room with people arriving at 23:00 and leaving at 05.00 anyway. Dormitory etiquette does not exist with Vietnamese families. The lights will go on, people will laugh and shout and you will not sleep, no matter what time it is. I had already paid for the room for two nights when I arrived before the trip, otherwise I would not have stayed there again… The dorm itself has seen better days. The bunks are creaky and the wall is deteriorating. The bathroom with two sinks, a shower and the toilet is huge, but also has all facilities in one room, which means you cannot use the toilet if someone is taking a long shower. There are other toilets if you walk outside, down the stairs, through the restaurant area to the back of the building, but that’s a long way when it’s 01:00 and you’ve just been woken up by some people loudly arriving and FaceTiming their uncle. The A/C seems to be running at half of its capacity. There was an intention to give every bed it’s own light, but the switches next to the beds just lead to random lights in the room. Another fun game to play after midnight: have someone turn on a random light and then loudly discuss for 15 minutes which switch turns it off again. Obviously I am a little bit salty about my stay (maybe a bit too salty, it was not super terrible) but after days of sweating, covered in mosquito bites, with some mild jungle sickness and no proper sleep for 5 days straight, I would have really liked a nice place to rest, and if you’re looking for something like that, this just isn’t the place.

Reasonable price with best view of Quang Binh. Food is good and staffs are friendly. Highly recommend stay before you start your adventure tour!!

We had a mountain view deluxe room. But there was nothing mountain view about it because there is a big tree in front of the window. |Also there is nothing deluxe about it because the room is very basic. Also because it's on the street side and the fridge and the air conditioning are very loud, so it's a very noisy room. When it rains, it leaks through the ceiling.|That being said, it's one of the best accommodations out there.||The restaurant is very good and serves a small menu with local dishes. The view from the restaurant is breathtaking. ||The staff is very friendly, especially the receptionist. She basically does everything around there and always smiles.||So if you visit the area this is a good place to stay for a couple of nights.

In terms of location you cannot get much better than a room with a view over the river. While the beds were a bit hard the rooms were very spacious and the bathrooms were massive. A perfect place to stay if you're venturing into the caves, as the Oxalis base is right down stairs. Also the restaurant is in a great spot overlooking the countryside

We elected to stay at Oxalis Home for two reasons: we were planning a tour with Oxalis the following day, and because there didn't seem to be a lot of other nice-looking accommodations in Phong Nha. ||||The rooms are simple, but the beds are quite comfortable and the on-site cafe is tasty. The team is what sets this accommodation apart - they are so lovely. After an overnight train, the team let us into our room at 9am, they always made sure we were comfortable, and they gave us a lot of ideas for our time in Phong Nha. We also really appreciated the complimentary bikes that took us into the town - with those, the location feels just as central as any other accommodation. ||||My one complaint was a bit of a wasp problem, though that could be unique to our room. Anytime we opened a door or a window for more than a brief moment, a wasp made its way in. Given the bottle of Raid in the room, we presumed this was a normal occurrence. This didn't take away much from the experience, but we were not able to enjoy our river view room as much as we would have liked.