Area Daily: Satri House, Boutique Hotel in Luang Prabang, Laos

If you’re a romantic at heart, you’ll love Satri House in Luang Prabang. A jewel of an old colonial house nestled in a miniature tropical forest, the house is full of eclectic antiques and is a short walk from the center of town, making it blissfully quiet without being too far out. What’s so appealing about the place is that both the house and the staff make you feel like you actually live there.

No, this place is not a five-star luxury resort with Molton Brown soaps and a fully stocked mini-bar. Rather you’ll find an exquisite antique teapot perched at the edge of the sunken bathtub filled with bath oil, an antique robe laid out for you on the colorful bed, the scent of tuberose cascading from a large vase, and a staff that will help you with your Lao and organize all sorts of little extras from preparing food for the morning offering to monks to improvising a lunch in the leafy garden.

This kind of personal touch you will not find at the Four Seasons.