Very good boutique hotel at Don Daeng island with its own transport from and to main land. Perfect location to enjoy the sunset on the south of Laos. The restaurant in the hotel offers good variety of dishes and the chef is very flexionad would make an effort to please your needs if any customization required. We stayed in the Ban Lao suit, a traditional house Lao style room, very comfy and well distributed. The bar offers extensive quantity of drinks and well prepared. There are bikes available for customer at free cost. All these good things are only improved by the personalized and charm treatment from the staff.

Some areas of the room could be cleaned up better.

Very nice lodge with only a few pavilions, with nice terrace in front of room, and others in restaurant and garden. Very friendly reception, convenient boat shuttle to other side of the Mekong. Excellent view and atmosphere. The lodge could organize a boat pick-up from Pakse (for 70 Dollars; but see below) and other tours. Overall, a highly recommendable place.

The communication was sometimes not as fluent as hoped for, in particular concerning the location in Pakse where we were picked up by the private boat. In part this is due to difficulties in English with some of the junior staff (but it's positive that they giv local people a chance and English courses. The bikes that were supplied for free were not well serviced, on the two bikes we had the rear brake was not working. The breakkfast was very good, but I had expected something more.

This was our third stay at la Folie Lodge over the last 10 years. I think management would be hard pushed to find more enthusiastic guests. It is a wonderful place and, located on an island in the Mekong, is quite literally out of this world. The entire experience is simply superlative. The rooms are lovely, the vista from the balcony over the river to the sacred mountain of Vat Phu inspiring, the pool immaculate, the restaurant excellent and Mr Alom's staff charmingly attentive. Special thanks must go out to his second in command, the genial Mr Sam from Pondicherry who raised our enjoyment of this visit to even greater heights. His apparent ability to be everywhere simultaneously when you needed him coupled with his friendly, courteous and discreet assistance transformed our days. Thank you Mr Sam!

Liked it all

The Location of La Folie Lodge is breathtaking! The Mekong view, the sunsets, the gardens magical. However, equally wonderful was the fabulous Aum, who greeted us and helped organise our activities in Champasak. Her English was fabulous and she was so proactive, smart and hospitable! She gave us a bicycle torch in the evening, organised our bicycles on the boat to cycle to Wat Phu for the most perfect day of our holiday. If you are planing a Champasak vacation, Aum at La Folie is the lady to make holiday dreams come true!

With Aum on hand, anything which we requested, extra blankets, extra water was quickly sorted and therefore there was nothing to dislike.

What a fabulous hotel; this is a real gem! The hotel is set in a beautiful location on the banks of the Mekong. The hotel is very well maintained and the staff are extremely helpful and pleasant. Sam the manager was delightful and helped us with transfers etc. we used the bicycles to explore the island and the nearby town of Champasak on the mainland. Where we found two lovely cafes. The food in the hotel was excellent and there was plenty of choice. There was a nice but basic little restaurant on the island called Mr Mees where we ate a couple of times. We will definitely return when we visit southern Laos again. Sadly no fridge in the room; this would have been a nice addition. We enjoyed the pool area very much but our only gripe was the yoga teacher seemed to conduct her calls on loud speaker in this area which was distinctly irritating for the guests. It would have been nice if she could have considered others!

A fridge would have been a welcome addition to the room .

A five star experience from beginning to end, a very special place. Somehow, visiting during rainy season, we were their only guests - and we had the most exceptional experience. The island is beautiful, and the hotel has been set up a bit like a social enterprise to encourage investment in the local people. They grow all lots of their own vegetables, including their own rice in their beautiful on site rice paddy! Staff couldn't be more helpful. Highlights were a sunset river trip on the Mekong complete with snacks and wine, swimming in the pool with beautiful views, breakfast on our terrace, and a bike ride around the traffic free island. They also arranged all of our transfers including a trip to Wat Phou on our way down from Pakse - do not miss it! Thanks again to the lovely team, what a special start to our honeymoon!

I couldn't fault it.

The property is located in the Don Daeng island and the hotel picked us up by boat in Champasak in front of the island. We absolutely loved the rides on that small boat across the Mekong River and the views from the hotel. The swimming pool is beautiful and we were very happy to support a hotel with such sustainability and community support standards.

We loved everything but a small suggestion would be to have some faucet outside each room or at the swimming pool for customers to clean their feet when it’s raining. We happened to visit the hotel during the rainy season and walked in the island wearing flip flops but couldn’t find a place to clean up before entering to the room. It would also be nice to provide room slippers

Loved the location, the setting, the view, the quiet nature of the lodge. Restaurant was lovely, staff was great.

Beds a bit too firm but not a dealbreaker. Would encourage staff to walk around the pool area more frequently to offer drinks and food.

Lovely find! Very unique and very enjoyable! Excellent value for money. Spa was reasonable and good. Great pool and wonderful Mekong River outlook! Loved there were NO mosquitoes! Special mention to Sam for all his help.

No hair conditioner. Very hot in the dining room in the evening.

The staff was so helpful, the rooms were just lovely, the view was spectacular. We were so relaxed the whole weekend. The beach hot pot was a sensational experience. Learning about how La Folie has helped the islands residents and developed the infrastructure and contributed to economic empowerment and education was fantastic.

The bike ride around Don Daeng was fantastic, but the last part has very bad tracks that made cycling difficult.