| Popular in | August | High demand for flights, 19% potential price rise |
| Cheapest in | February | Best time to find cheap flights, 6% potential price drop |
| Average price | £1,110 | Average for round-trip flights in July 2022 |
| Round-trip from | £767 | From London to Laos |
Information is based on travel restrictions from United Kingdom to Laos
Most visitors from United Kingdom need to provide a negative COVID-19 test result and/or quarantine to enter Laos.
COVID-19 testing requirements
Visitors from United Kingdom must present a negative Antigen (quick-test) test taken 48 hours before departing to Laos.
Quarantine requirements
Visitors from United Kingdom are not required to quarantine after entering Laos.
Returning to United Kingdom from Laos
COVID-19 testing requirements
Visitors from Laos are not required to present a negative COVID-19 PCR test or antigen result upon entering United Kingdom.
Quarantine requirements
Visitors from Laos are not required to quarantine after entering United Kingdom.
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LON - VTE Price
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£582 - £1,709
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VTE Temperature
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29 - 35 °C
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VTE Rainfall
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0 - 142 mm
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When the French controlled Indochina, they called the slowness of pace in Laos and the apparent indolence of the people the “Laotian malaise”, precisely what makes this land tourist heaven. Officially the Lao People’s Democratic Republic, a communist state, Laos is sandwiched between Burma (Myanmar), China, Vietnam, Cambodia and Thailand, a country about the same size as Great Britain. About 70 per cent of the country is made up of mountain and highland and there is extensive, untouched, forest too. Most Laotians live in the fertile plains of the Mekong and the 11 other rivers, eking out an existence by farming and fishing.
Its capital is Vientiane, home to Wattay International, where many flights to Laos touch down. Most travellers will pick up cheap flights to Laos from Bangkok. Vientiane is on the Mekong, a town of wide boulevards, French Colonial buildings, golden temples and Pha That Luang, Laos’s most important religious monument.
The former royal capital is Luang Prabang, a gilded city locked in time with 45 temples, 32 of them active. The most spectacular temple is Wat Xieng Thong. Early each morning hundreds of orange-robed monks make their daily alms round, a sight not to be missed.
The climate is tropical – extremely humid during the rainy season (July to October).
Laos’s climate can be split into three seasons: cool, hot and rainy.
The cool season (between November and February) when the rains have stopped and hot season (March to May) are both good times to search for cheap flights to Laos and visit. The Lao New Year (April) falls in the peak season and it may be difficult to find cheaper flights to Laos or accommodation during this time.
Off Season: the rainy season extends from June to October.
Lao Airlines flies domestically. Apart from flying there are several ways to get around the country including by ferry, bus (there is a good network throughout Laos), rental car, Songthaew (pick-up trucks with benches) and, of course, tuk tuk (modified motorbikes).