Kuala Lumpur is a city of 300-room towers, and the honest first thing to say about boutique hotels here is that there are very few true ones. What the city does have is a small, interesting set of heritage conversions, design hotels and architects’ guesthouses —...
Luang Prabang is small enough to walk end to end in forty minutes, which makes “where to stay” less about distance than about character: the night-market bustle of the peninsula, the sunset side on the Mekong, the quieter Nam Khan bank, the villa streets...
Luang Prabang is a town built for small hotels. The UNESCO old town is a peninsula of colonial villas and teak houses between two rivers, nothing is allowed to rise above the temple roofs, and the best places to sleep are restored houses with a dozen rooms and a...
Siem Reap is a small town with a very large reason to visit, and where you sleep in it changes the trip more than you’d expect. Stay on Pub Street and you’ll walk to every bar and tour desk but hear them until 2 am; stay on the temple road and you’ll...
Siem Reap has more good small hotels per square kilometre than almost any town in Southeast Asia. Decades of visitors to Angkor built a culture of garden hotels with pools, wooden Khmer houses and attentive service at prices that still startle people arriving from...
