Đảo Chè Thanh Chương - Homestay Gió Lào

Lovely location. So quiet. Comfy bed. Mosquito nets 😊

Food could have been better for the price.

Lovely meal when we arrived and prompt service with cold beers. The bed was comfy and clean. The women who helped us was very nice and a great cook.

Heater was not working in winter, huge spider in the room and the bathroom floor was a bit oddly coloured.

The location in the tea plantation is stunning. We were able to upgrade to one of the bungalows despite them not being available when we booked. The room was spacious and pretty clean. We were offered a boat trip to ‘tea island’ for 300k which we accepted - what a lovely afternoon activity and the tea plantation is beautiful. I really regret not buying some of the owner’s tea but we didn’t have room on our bikes. We wanted dinner there - there isn’t a menu to choose from but we were given an assortment of plates of food including pork, tofu in tomato sauce (which was absolutely fantastic), omelette, rice, a special local dish and a Vietnamese soup. For 120k each we had a great meal. At the same time as our stay a small Vietnamese tour bus arrived and the passengers invited us to drink and socialise with them which included karaoke! A funny, energetic evening with the group via Google translate helped make it into a very memorable stay.

We couldn’t lock the front door as the padlock wouldn’t align but it felt safe enough there to leave unlocked. The room could do with a refresh, with some nails sticking up on the steps up to the doorway. The sink tap flows onto the floor under the sink when turned to the left but is fine on the right.

Location is great and dogs are cute The food for lunch was tasty

Stuff were really rude and unwelcoming When I was working on my laptop the man just came and took a picture of me without getting my approval The lady was just super unwelcoming, probably she just felt bad for some personal reasons, but it felt like she wanted to kick us out, not one smile back (and I smile a lot :) The food for dinner was same as for lunch, (it costs 120/person) so we expected something else Breakfast which was included we did not eat as it was instant noodles Bad and pillows were extremely hard and dirty (pillows did not have pillows covers and smelled badly), after a night there both of us had pain all over the body

Location

Everything but location

Slept in the dorm, the place it's nice in the tea fields and next to the lake. Good Vietnamese dinner with the other guests. Noodle soup for breakfast. There is moskito net, and well needed.

The mattress was old, deformed and hard.