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| ⭐️ Overall Score | 208 reviews |
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| ❄️ A/C or heating | |
| 😁 Friendly to foreigners | |
| 🗯 Freedom of speech | |
| 🤚🏿🤚🏻 Racial tolerance | |
| 👩 Female friendly | |
| 🌈 LGBTQ+ friendly | |
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| 🌍 Region | Asia |
| 🚩 Country | Laos |
| ⏱ Average trip duration | 3 days |
| 📡 Internet speed (avg) | 3 Mbps |
| ⛅️ Weather (now) | 🌤 32°C 90°F + Humid (79%) = feels 44°C 111°F |
| 💨 Air quality (now) | 👍 31 US AQI 🍃 good |
| 🔌 Power | 230V50Hz |
| 🚑 Travel medical insurance |  Safetywing |
| 📱 Best wireless carrier | Unitel |
| 💸 10,000 LAK in USD | USD 1.10 |
| 🏧 Suggested ATM take out: | LAK 1,000,000 = USD 110 |
| 💸 Tipping | No |
| 💳 Cashless society | 💵 No, cash only (esp. for foreigners) |
| 💻 Best coworking space | Toh Lao |
| 🚰 Safe tap water | 🚫 No, not drinkable |
| ♻️ Return rate | 7% of visitors return |
| 👨👩👧👦 Population | 210,000 people |
| ⛪️ Religious government | Non-religious |
| 🏠 Apartment listings | ImmoLaos |
| ✈️ Best short-haul air carrier | Air Asia |
| ✈️ Best int'l air carrier | Vietnam |
| 💵 Cost of living for nomad | $1,032 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for expat | $780 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for family | $1,596 / month |
| 💵 Cost of living for local | $456 / month |
| 🏠 1br studio rent in center | $387 / month |
| 🏢 Coworking | $97 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $468 / month |
| 🏨 Hotel | $22 / night |
| 🏠 Airbnb (188 listings) | $1,190 / month |
| 🏠 Airbnb | $39 / night |
| 🍛 Dinner | $3 |
| 🥤 Coca-Cola (0.3L) | $0 |
| 🍺 Beer (0.5L) | $1 |
| ☕️ Coffee | $1 |
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!
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
✅ Warm now
✅ Warm all year round
✅ Good air quality on average
✅ Spacious and not crowded
✅ Safe for women
✅ LGBTQ+ friendly
✅ Not many people smoke tobacco
❌ Very slow internet
❌ Pretty slow internet
❌ Not much to do
❌ Very humid now
❌ Nomad List members really didn't like going here
❌ Not many members go here
❌ Very difficult to make friends
❌ Difficult to do business
❌ Quality of education is low
❌ Hospitals are not great
❌ Roads can be dangerous
❌ Freedom of speech is weak
❌ Not very democratic
❌ People don't speak English well
❌ Not family friendly
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| Feels | 8831° hot | 10239° hot | 10440° hot | 11747° scorching | 11144° scorching | 10943° scorching | 10641° scorching | 10038° hot | 10641° scorching | 10239° hot | 9535° hot | 8630° warm |
| Real | 8429° very warm | 9133° hot | 9334° hot | 9736° hot | 9032° hot | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8429° very warm | 8831° hot | 8831° hot | 8630° very warm | 8228° very warm |
| Humidity | nice 62% | nice 58% | nice 55% | nice 58% | sweaty 79% | sweaty 87% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 94% | sweaty 83% | sweaty 74% | nice 69% | nice 64% |
| Rain | dry 3mm | dry 20mm | dry 32mm | rainy 65mm | rainy 142mm | rainy 212mm | rainy 117mm | rainy 207mm | rainy 102mm | dry 33mm | dry 7mm | dry 1mm |
| Cloud | pockets 17% | pockets 11% | pockets 30% | pockets 32% | cloudy 89% | overcast 90% | overcast 93% | overcast 94% | cloudy 52% | pockets 39% | pockets 32% | pockets 21% |
| Air quality | okay 110 US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 31** US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 34 US AQI | clean 30 US AQI | clean 25 US AQI | clean 63 US AQI | clean 65 US AQI | okay 92 US AQI | okay 116 US AQI |
| Sun | sunburn 8 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 10 UVI | avoid sun 12 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | sunscreen 6 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | avoid sun 9 UVI | sunburn 8 UVI | sunburn 7 UVI |
| Nomad List members | 2 people | 3 people | 2 people | 1 people | 1 people | 3 people | 1 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people | 2 people |
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