Vientiane · Laos
Venn Hostel
Bed bug reports
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Confirmed Booking.com
Be careful because they have BEDBUGS at least in some rooms. Once they were notified about the problem, they were just offering other bed, changed the sheets in the one were they had bedbugs and they gave bed out to next person who checked in. So they don't really care about this problem. There was breakfast included, but it was very basic - bread and eggs- no seasoning.. The whole place needs a deep clean, the outdoor kitchen area is always quite dirty. There was no soap in the bathroom sink. Trash cans are always overflowing. There was some weird crowd there as well. Someone even broke the shower glass door for no good reason in the middle of the day. Water pressure was very poor. AC in the room was dripping water and there's carpet on the floor so most likely there's some mold in the room as well. Lots of mosquitos in the room as well, quite impossible to sleep without mosquito spray.
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Confirmed Hostelworld
Comfortable beds, good size common area, great price. And the staff were kind and helpful. …. Almost left super pleased with our stay. Until I found a bed bug in my bed early in the morning and I woke up with 4 bites.
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Confirmed Booking.com
It was so comfortable to sleep here. I came from another hostel and it was full of bedbugs. I asked the front desk if it was the same here and they told me that if there were bedbugs, they would definitely waive my room fee. I also asked other guests here and they all told me it was clean. The staff told me that people from nearby hostels deliberately came here to give them bad reviews. I think this is despicable behavior.
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Confirmed Booking.com
Too many beds within a single room, poorly ventilated, very limited breakfast (may as well exclude!), bugs.
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Confirmed Booking.com
Demasiadas camas en un solo cuarto, cuando hace calor la puerta está todo el tiempo abierta y por la cantidad de gente entrando y saliendo a la noche puede ser ruidoso. Hubo bed bugs en la N4 pero me cambiaron a la 3 para poder pasar el resto de la semana.
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Confirmed Booking.com
Breakfast wasn't much, bedbugs in the room (4) and no lock for the door or space to lock away a backpack.
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Confirmed Booking.com
- found bed bugs (and eggs) in the curtains of my bed and got bit several times. I don’t usually leave negative reviews on hostels because I don’t like hurting peoples’ businesses but this time felt appropriate. I found many bed bugs and eggs in the bed curtains on my second night. No I did not bring the bugs from being out and about during the day, I always shower as soon as I get to my room and never lay in bed in my outside clothes. I had woken up earlier that morning with bites on my neck and legs but assumed it was just mosquito bites (definitely not). I notified the staff immediately when I discovered the bugs and they had me change rooms. I checked out early the next morning and got a refund (maybe just partial? can’t remember) for the remaining night I was supposed to stay. Staff were very kind about it but still a cleanliness issue! I would upload documentation of the bugs but unfortunately only took a video and can only upload photos on Booking.com. - breakfast is very mid, not expecting anything amazing but didn’t even have the proper glassware for guests and also no soap to clean your dishes after (EW).
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Confirmed Booking.com
Bed bugs. Poor water pressure in the showers. Weird sockets in the rooms. European sockets were available just in the common area.
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Vibe Analysis
Venn Hostel is a low-cost Vientiane base close to the Mekong, the night market, cafes, and central streets. The useful bits are practical: cold air-con, curtained dorm beds with lights and plugs in at least some beds, lockers or small secure boxes in some areas, Wi-Fi that can work well, and a basic breakfast that usually means eggs and toast rather than anything fancy. The outdoor common area is the main hangout zone, with shade, fans, tables, and enough space to talk when the mood is right. The atmosphere is inconsistent, though. It can feel relaxed and social, but it can also feel quiet, odd, heavily male, or dominated by people working, smoking, scrolling, or passing through rather than classic backpacker energy. Beds are a mixed bet. Some rooms have comfortable, private pod-style bunks, while other dorms are long, dark, windowless, crowded, and short on fresh air. Mattresses may be very thin, especially for taller sleepers, and noise can travel badly when people move around, use phones, or open doors late at night. This is best treated as a cheap short-stop hostel, not a polished social hub. The staff experience ranges from warm and helpful to hard to reach or brusque, and onward transport help has been unreliable at times.
Signals to check
- Bathroom cleanliness and maintenance are a recurring problem, including smells, broken fixtures, clogged toilets, poor water pressure, and limited soap or toilet paper at times.
- There have been bedbug problems in some rooms, plus mosquitoes in dorms.
- Breakfast is basic and can be late, cold, limited, or surrounded by dirty dishes and flies.
- The no-shoes policy can apply even around bathroom areas, which may feel unhygienic when floors are dirty.
- Deposit, rule enforcement, kitchen fees, exchange-rate handling, and AI-monitoring signs can make the place feel stricter than expected.
- Solo women may not feel comfortable here, especially when the hostel skews heavily male.
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