Don Chan Palace

17.954722222222102.61416666667Koordinaten: 17 ° 57 ' 17 "N, 102 ° 36' 51" E

Don Chan Palace is a high-rise hotel opened in 2004 in the Lao capital Vientiane and with 14 floors, the tallest building in the country.

The building on the Mekong River bank, close to Wat Si Muang was built for the ASEAN conference in 2004 and is based in contrast to most other hotels in the city primarily to businessmen and diplomats. Actually, no buildings in Vientiane to maintaining a uniform cityscape higher than the seven-story triumphal arch Patou Xai be, but the builders worked around this rule by a legal loophole by the hotel on time officially to the town area belonging Mekong island Don Chan, previously by landfill enlarged and was connected to the mainland, built there.

During the Southeast Asian Games in 2009, the Billiard and Snooker tournaments were held in the Banquet Hall of the Don Chan Palace.

On the roof of the hotel is the nightclub Lunar 36, considered the most famous club in the city.