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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 203 reviews |
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| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Laos |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 5 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 2 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌫 26°C 79°F + 😊 Comfy (64%) = feels 28°C 82°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 😐 110 US AQI = 🚬 / day |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Unitel |
| 💸 10,000 LAK in USD | USD 1.07 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LAK 1,000,000 = USD 107 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| ☕️ Best coffee place | Joma Bakery Café |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 4% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 56,000 people |
| 👨👩👧👦 GDP per Capita | $2,339 / year |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Ambiguous |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | AirBnb |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Vietnam |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,224 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $688 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,267 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $362 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $246 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $200 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $846 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $40 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (175 listings) | $1,326 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $43 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $2 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $1 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $2 |
Does anyone have experience staying somewhere with fast internet in Vientiane, Laos? I am going for only a few days for a visa run, and in the past I found decent places with barely adequate internet for checking email sometimes, but had to work from coffee shops. Would be nicer to be able to work from the hotel / guesthouse and work in the evening.
Alternatively, does anyone have experience with Laotian 3G/4G providers, how well do they actually work, which provider is good, etc. Thanks!
✅ Affordable to live
✅ Pretty safe
✅ Lots of fun stuff to do
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Perfect humidity now
✅ Good air quality usually
✅ Nomad List members liked going here a lot
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Safe for women
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not many members go here
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not that great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
❌ Hostile towards LGBTQ+
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| Real | 7926° warm | 8731° hot | 9032° hot | 9535° hot | 9736° hot | 9334° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 9032° hot | 8429° very warm | 7926° warm |
| Humidity | nice 81% | nice 68% | nice 57% | nice 60% | nice 65% | sweaty 72% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 84% | sweaty 78% | sweaty 77% | sweaty 73% | nice 72% |
| Rain | dry 20mm | dry 9mm | dry 12mm | dry 29mm | dry 47mm | rainy 133mm | rainy 116mm | rainy 138mm | dry 49mm | dry 35mm | dry 8mm | dry 6mm |
| Cloud | pockets 44% | pockets 24% | pockets 33% | pockets 28% | cloudy 62% | cloudy 74% | cloudy 87% | cloudy 84% | cloudy 52% | pockets 37% | pockets 36% | pockets 31% |
| Sun | sunscreen 6 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 11 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 2 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people |
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⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 129😷✈️20min$1,136 / mo22MbpsChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 125😷✈️28min$1,111 / mo21Mbpsavoid going to the waterfalls with weed (or buying any on the way there) It's a very old trick the cops stop & search bikes on their way back. (while the locals try to sell you stuff on the way there)
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 27° 81° 26° 78°AQI 153😷✈️31min$934 / mo17MbpsI lived in Hanoi for 3 full months and I really loved it. Hanoi has a big foreigner district called 'Tay Ho'. If what you are looking for is somewhat foreigner(English) friendly, the spot is yours. However I preferred to stay in the Japanese area that was full of good sushi. The charm of the city comes from the people. Vietnamese are aggressively kind and way too friendly. I even rented a piano from a local shop, placed it at home and played it. Took private Muythai lesson from a local gym
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 198😷✈️33min$1,055 / mo12MbpsPeople - People are generally friendly - Not too many scams like BKK - Scams are low here because the city doesn't have the same attractions like BKK - Never ran in to a Digital Nomad here like Chiang Mai Language - English level is very low - If they can speak a little bit of English the people are shy to use it - Languages that you can use to get by are Thai, Cambodian and Lao Health - Hospitals have long line ups throughout the day. - Locals go in the morning to take a number, when their t
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 35° 95° 32° 90°🥵AQI 135😷✈️44min$1,072 / mo79MbpsChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 125😷✈️28min$1,111 / mo21MbpsI lived in Hanoi for 3 full months and I really loved it. Hanoi has a big foreigner district called 'Tay Ho'. If what you are looking for is somewhat foreigner(English) friendly, the spot is yours. However I preferred to stay in the Japanese area that was full of good sushi. The charm of the city comes from the people. Vietnamese are aggressively kind and way too friendly. I even rented a piano from a local shop, placed it at home and played it. Took private Muythai lesson from a local gym
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 198😷✈️33min$1,055 / mo12MbpsDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 31° 88°🥵AQI 125😷✈️56min$1,461 / mo22MbpsIt used to have a lot of character and charm but all the construction is making the city lose its culture. Apartments and accommodation are ridiculously expensive. 300 to 500 a month for tiny rooms in a shared house. For single guys go elsewhere. Women here are rude, ultra conservative and have flat personalities with nothing going for them. Food is okay but plenty of MSG and food safety is atrocious. In addition motorists are aggressive and plenty of accidents take place. Don't live here i
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86°🥵AQI 148😷✈️1h$985 / mo20MbpsFirst time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 55✈️2h$1,304 / mo18MbpsHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°AQI 38✈️5h$1,086 / mo13MbpsThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 43✈️3h$2,871 / mo91MbpsThe noise pollution here is insane. The prayer calls from the mosques seem to reverberate throughout Penang. Seems like they are competing for who can be the loudest. This really ruined Penang for me and I cut my time short.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 33° 91° 29° 85°AQI 75✈️2h$1,114 / mo14MbpsPhnom Penh has plenty of air conditioned cafes and some co-working spaces, so it's quite possible to get work done. The river front area feels nice and spacious but other than that I didn't find it a particular pleasant city, and wouldn't stay for more a few days. Kampot, however, 4 hours away by bus, has been one of the best places I've stayed. The atmosphere is great, it's a small town with nice architecture, hip cafes, yoga classes, and a riverfront to stroll along. It's much calmer than any
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 31° 88°🥵AQI 130😷✈️1h$1,284 / mo6MbpsTruly a crime that Ko Tao is rated so low on NL at the moment. Incredible place to chill and get work done. Great community at TAOHUB, beautiful island, good/cheap diving, fast internet, very affordable, what's not to love?
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 30° 86° 27° 81°AQI 57✈️1h$1,837 / mo17MbpsChiang Mai used to be N.1 for the digital nomad life. It is still great and you can find really cheap apartments (300-400$) and restaurants (2-3$ for a main). Wouldn't recommend staying there during the burning season. The best area is Nimman, but it's also the most expensive. You can stay in the old city that's very nice but that gets noisy during the weekend for the night markets. Last but not least, very safe city. All in all would go back in a heartbeat.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels 29° 84° 28° 82°AQI 125😷✈️28min$1,111 / mo🌇 Also went here67 peopleI lived in Hanoi for 3 full months and I really loved it. Hanoi has a big foreigner district called 'Tay Ho'. If what you are looking for is somewhat foreigner(English) friendly, the spot is yours. However I preferred to stay in the Japanese area that was full of good sushi. The charm of the city comes from the people. Vietnamese are aggressively kind and way too friendly. I even rented a piano from a local shop, placed it at home and played it. Took private Muythai lesson from a local gym
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 28° 82° 26° 78°AQI 198😷✈️33min$1,055 / mo🌇 Also went here58 peopleDon't believe the prices on here for an apartment. 686 usd/month refers to an apartment in a high class condo, right in the city centre and seconds away from the BTS(train station). Just remember this, people working at supermarkets make 2 usd/per hour. If you want to live like a local, then you can save a lot of money. If you don't mind a 5-10 minute walk from the BTS, then you can easily get a one bedroom apartment for 300 USD per month, in a high class condo, plus with free golf cart ser
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌤 Feels 36° 97° 31° 88°🥵AQI 125😷✈️56min$1,461 / mo🌇 Also went here75 peopleSiem Riep has a nice suburb feeling. At first sight it seems there's not much to do besides Angkor Wat and Pub Street, but you can go swimming, do bicycle tours, floating village day trip... I don't have best social skill, but in Siem Reap it was so easy to make new friends. Locals and tourists! I've worked at Garage Society Coworking Space. Pretty nice place. I don't understand the cons of slow internet. I've bought an LTE 4G Sim card for 10 USD with 10 GB. There's also free and mostly fast
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 36° 97° 31° 88°🥵AQI 117😷✈️60min$1,075 / mo🌇 Also went here46 peoplePhnom Penh has plenty of air conditioned cafes and some co-working spaces, so it's quite possible to get work done. The river front area feels nice and spacious but other than that I didn't find it a particular pleasant city, and wouldn't stay for more a few days. Kampot, however, 4 hours away by bus, has been one of the best places I've stayed. The atmosphere is great, it's a small town with nice architecture, hip cafes, yoga classes, and a riverfront to stroll along. It's much calmer than any
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 31° 88°🥵AQI 130😷✈️1h$1,284 / mo🌇 Also went here39 peopleIt used to have a lot of character and charm but all the construction is making the city lose its culture. Apartments and accommodation are ridiculously expensive. 300 to 500 a month for tiny rooms in a shared house. For single guys go elsewhere. Women here are rude, ultra conservative and have flat personalities with nothing going for them. Food is okay but plenty of MSG and food safety is atrocious. In addition motorists are aggressive and plenty of accidents take place. Don't live here i
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 35° 95° 30° 86°🥵AQI 148😷✈️1h$985 / mo🌇 Also went here58 peopleFirst time I was in KL was in 2015 as a backpacking student. I stayed for 2 weeks at an airbnb in Bangsar South and I loved it. Met up with Uni friends, made new friends and I really like the relaxed atmosphere, despite being in a huge city. Fast forward, 3 years later, I went by myself to KL for a 3 days stay on a visa run from Chiang Mai. I stayed in a hotel near Bukit Bintang. I actually really didn't like it - I think because I was by myself, in a fairly wild part of the city and got so us
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 40° 104° 31° 87°🥵AQI 55✈️2h$1,304 / mo🌇 Also went here48 peopleThey say you get what you pay for. After having traveled the previous 4 months in India, Cambodia, VietNam, Myanmar and Thailand, Singapore was so easy! The subway system is a marvel, streets signs were easy to read, everyone speaks English (that just makes it easy for me as an English speaker) it is safe, clean, and parks are gorgeous. I was there as COVID 19 was breaking out fairly fast and that put a damper on my time but I was so happy to be there anyway and plan to go back. For digital
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 43✈️3h$2,871 / mo🌇 Also went here52 peopleHonestly, this is an awesome place to be if you're actually trying to get work done. It's a bit of an older vibe than Canggu, and there's certainly a big chunk of yogi's kicking around — but I liked it much better than Canggu and found it less pretentious. Plus, you can drive down there in 45mins whenever you want some beach or party vibes. As others mentioned, there's some great coworking spaces, cheap warungs, some really nice spots to stay cheaply if you go just outside of the mad tourist
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 34° 93° 29° 85°AQI 38✈️5h$1,086 / mo🌇 Also went here40 peopleBali is amazing, but Canggu isn't really that great -- actually there are SO MANY better places, like Uluwatu, Gili Islands or even Ubud that I can't understand the hype. As almost everyone said below, beaches are crappy, roads are terrible, sidewalks are non-existent and having a motorbike is a must. On the other side, food is great and cafes are pretty reasonable with all those incredible bowls. Anyway I wouldn't recommend it for more than a week.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 37° 99° 30° 86°🥵AQI 37✈️5h$1,384 / mo🌇 Also went here37 peopleBerlin is overall a great city to be. Food is cheap and everywhere, easy to go out and have fun/meet for business. Rent has crept up but still far better value than where I came from. Internet: 36 EUR/month get me 450/40 mbps (cable -> DOCSIS 3.0) Public transport is 2.70 EUR/ticket. No woman I know has said they felt unsafe. Some really odd, xenophobic sounding comments on here. Biggest downsides IMO: service quality at restaurants - not that people are rude, but they don't seem to particular
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌦 Feels 1° 34° 2° 36°AQI 31✈️11h$3,066 / mo🌇 Also went here46 peopleOne giant tourist trap. Giant hordes of rich Europeans vacationing with their parents credit cards.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌥 Feels 3° 37° 4° 39°AQI 17✈️12h$4,496 / mo🌇 Also went here37 peopleSuper fun and beautiful city. I find Parisians are actually very patient and warm if you at least attempt to speak French; in my experience, most people who complain that they're rude are the ones making zero effort to speak the language. Expensive though and not very easy to meet other nomads.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 2° 36° 4° 39°AQI 23✈️12h$4,318 / mo🌇 Also went here40 peopleLondon is a SO beautiful city. The historical center is cute, but also majestic and luxurious. You feel the culture at every step. British people are really kind and welcoming! Plus, more than just one, you can enjoy TWO skylines 😍 so many skyscrapers, nothing beats its collection in Europe.
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety 🌧 Feels 1° 34° 3° 38°AQI 53✈️12h$4,130 / mo🌇 Also went here45 peopleHaving spent a total of two weeks in London on two separate occasions and having lived in NYC for two years, both are among my favorite cities in the world. Londoners are quite internationally and ethnically diverse, and seemingly better educated and more intellectual than New Yorkers in aggregate. The city very clean with a stunning mix of modern and historic architecture, and arguably has Europe's best public transit in terms of signage, availability, cleanliness and general efficiency. Meanw
⭐️ Score 💵 Cost 📡 Internet 😀 Fun 👮 Safety ☀️ Feels -4° 25° 0° 32°AQI 37✈️18h$4,636 / mo🌇 Also went here40 people
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