The Villa Santi, which was a residential palace of a Lao princess, is a charming place to stay: rather colonial in style, there is a columned portico on the front with a restaurant on balcony beneath it. This is a wonderful place to sit of an evening sipping a glass of wine or a gin and tonic.
Rooms are spacious with polished wood floors, comfortable beds, and air conditioning. If you can, book room #21, which is on a corner and has two windows, which can both be opened for some cross ventilation if you don''t like the A.C.
Service is excellent, prompt, and unobtrusive.