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Region: Northern Laos> Province: Luang Nam Tha> Location: Xieng Kok
Xieng Kok Resort
Wooden bungalows overlooking the Mekong.
Riverside
Luang Nam Tha Province
Tel: No telephone
Description
At the highest point in Xieng Kok sits the Xieng Kok Resort, with peaceful views across to Burma as well as right up the river in both directions. Individual wooden bungalows each have their own furnished balcony on which to enjoy the scenery. Inside, smallish but clean rooms have a mosquito net but no fan, and a bathroom with a squat toilet and cold shower. Electricity is provided by generator, with power only between 6pm and about 9pm. There is also a restaurant on the large grounds.
Total rooms: 11
Bungalow fan private b'room
5 USD (low season)
5 USD (high season)
Added to Travelfish on: 18th August, 2004
Last visited or updated on: 10th February, 2005
Guest feedback
Mekong view - 
By Rleidinger ( total comments: 1 
) Stayed here 4/2007
this is the best of all places to stay in Xieng Kok having nice bungalows with veranda and the best view from the hill to Mekong river.
The place and restaurant is run by Chinese and only a few items to select for eating. Conversation is very limited but Xieng Kok is for most only a one night stop before they travel by speedboat down to the Golden Triangle.
Very Very Cool -
By sparky ( total comments: 3 ) Stayed here 10/2005
What a great place, in a neat town.
we travel up river at speed. stayed a day and loved it - I would go back to this town,- but do no expect the hilton - no body spoke english in the whole town!
Priceless views - 
By chrisweecs ( total comments: 17 ) Stayed here 5/2005
The little bungalows of the XK Resort are typycal of 'resorts' in the Malaysian sense. Nice location in the country, mostly reached by driving your own car there, with no other guests around except during the hols. That said, in Lao PDR (Please Dont Rush) all these seems surreal. We stood around for 30 mins trying to check ourselves in, fiddling with a small padlock. There's a staff of 2 Chinese ladies running the place as well as a Chinese restaurant in Xieng Kok village 10 mins away. They have very strong legs and the cook's not bad either. Try her stir frys 'downtown' at a place called ''Restaurant'' The security guard handles the keys and passes on 2 complimentary candles as power goes off at 10.00pm sharp. The restaurant is partly burned down (kitchen fire) and we saw some guys rebuilding the tatched roof.
The lawn here is large enough for a wedding party and if this was Singapore, God forbid, a mall . The rooms are small but cosy with mosquito nets, rehooked many times. Bath water was slight Mekhong-ish brown. Unlike most other places, you're 50 metres above a seductive bend in the Khong, facing the jungles of Burma, looking into the sunset towards China, trying to photograph a few fireflies on the 'balcony' Priceless. Or rather USD 5.
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