Reviewed by Tom Bell
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LA RESIDENCE PHOU VAO - REVIEW
A fabulous hotel, the best in town, one that will test your determination to be a good tourist. Extensive manicured gardens encircle you – palms, banana trees, frangipani, the trimmest lawns – while airy interiors flow gracefully from one room to another, past ornamental ponds and out to a sun-trapping terrace. At night thousands of lanterns burn in the grounds (four men take two hours to light them all) and dinner on the terrace with candles floating across the pool is very easy on the eye.
Whether the pool and its terrace is more beautiful than your room is an impossible question to answer – and, quite frankly, you will be far too busy enjoying yourself to care. But, for the record, the view from your sun lounger on the terrace leaps across the treetops to Mount Phu Si, while your exceptional bedroom is airy and elegant and opens onto a private balcony where opium beds takes the strain. In case these don’t do the trick, there’s a spa to pamper you into submission (including a free 30-minute massage for i-escape guests). |
