Excellent Places to Stay in Siem Reap

We spent most of our time in Siem Reap at the Tanei Guesthouse--$15 a night for a very clean quiet bedroom with ensuite bathroom with a hot shower, and a clean pool downstairs. We highly recommend it for a flashpacker stay. But they didn’t have a room for us on our last night (they’d warned us of this when we checked in), so we moved just down the street to the Encore Angkor. This is a more expensive option ($30 a night per room), but ah, the luxury. A proper shower and bathtub (instead of a shower nozzle stuck at random into the tile in the vicinity of the toilet), hot water in the sink, not just the shower, a phone in the room, space to move around, and a clean pool downstairs. The woman who runs it is picky about who stays there (she asked us to tell people she will not tolerate partying guests or those who pick up prostitutes) and she’s got great English and can help arrange just about any touring you want to do.