Stays
Stay with the people who live there.
Homestays, family-run guesthouses, Lao-owned boutique hotels, and farmstays — each one Lao-owned and booked direct.
10 stays · 6 categories · No big-chain booking sites
Lodge
Don Khong river bungalows
Captain Khamphone & family · 4,000 Islands
LodgeDon Khong river bungalows
Twelve bungalows on stilts, hammocks, the Mekong twenty metres away.
Captain Khamphone & family · 4,000 Islands
LodgeChampasak Mekong river lodge
Six wooden bungalows on the Mekong, walking distance to Wat Phou.
Noy Sommanith & family · Champasak
LodgeNam Ou riverside lodge
Eight bungalows on stilts, river beneath, mountain across.
Khamla Vongphachanh & team · Nong Khiaw
Why stay direct
More for the host, less in fees.
100% Lao-owned
Every host is Lao.
No global chain hotels, no foreign-owned guesthouses. Every stay on Orchao is owned and run by Lao people, in Laos.
Booked direct
The host gets the booking.
We don't take a 15-20% cut like the big sites. The host sets the price, you pay direct, we charge a small service fee.
Real photos, real rooms
What you see is what you get.
Every photo is the actual room. No stock images. Every host has been verified by an Orchao team member who has stayed there.
Stay guides
Pick the right place.
Homestays vs guesthouses vs boutique hotels — by region, by season, and by who you're travelling with.
Homestays in Luang Prabang — stay with a Lao family
Real family homes in central Luang Prabang and the river villages around it. Breakfast included, family dinner on request.
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Farmstays on the Bolaven plateau — coffee country sleeps
Coffee country, but you sleep on the farm. Stilted-house rooms, family meals, sunrise coffee from beans your hosts roast themselves.
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Can't find what you want?
We'll find you the right host.
Tell us where you're going and what you're after. We'll match you with a Lao host who fits — homestay, guesthouse, boutique, farmstay.
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