Don Chan Palace
Coordinates: 17 ° 57 ′ 17 ″ N , 102 ° 36 ′ 51 ″ E
The Don Chan Palace is a 2004 opened hotel - high-rise building in the Laotian capital of Vientiane and has 14 floors, the tallest building in the country.
The building on the banks of the Mekong near Wat Si Muang was built for the 2004 ASEAN conference and, unlike most other hotels in the city, is primarily aimed at business people 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 circumvented this rule by a loophole in the law by the hotel on time officially not part of the urban area Mekong island Don Chan previously by landfill was enlarged and connected to the mainland.
During the Southeast Asian Games 2009 , the billiards and snooker tournaments were held in the Don Chan Palace event hall.
On the roof of the hotel is the Lunar 36 nightclub , which is the most famous club in town.
