Laos Group Tours for Solo Travellers

Your Trip Host leads the group in person for the full trip, from the first evening to the last. A licensed local agency and licensed local guide deliver the ground services, drivers and permits our Laos trips need, working alongside your Trip Host rather than in place of them.

Rooms are twin-share or small dorms with travellers of the same gender, in social hostels and guesthouses, with private rooms available on request on most trips. Some meals come as a group; the rest is free time to find your own.

Laos Explorer covers the north in nine days: Luang Prabang and Vang Vieng, using the new railway to get between them. If you're coming from Thailand first, Thailand & Laos Slow Boat starts in Chiang Rai and Chiang Mai before crossing to Luang Prabang, Vang Vieng and finishing in Vientiane over twelve days. For the south, Southern Laos Adventure covers the karst scenery around Thakhek and the river islands near the Cambodian border in ten days, and Laos Motorbike Tour is a focused six-day loop around the plateau's coffee farms and waterfalls out of Pakse.

November to February is the easiest stretch across Laos: dry, warmer days and cooler nights, and the best visibility for the waterfalls and the Mekong. March to May gets hot and can bring haze from seasonal burning, similar to northern Thailand. The wet season runs roughly June to October, with heavier rain in the south. If your trip includes the 4000 Islands or the Bolaven Plateau, the dry season is also when the roads are easiest. See our Laos travel guide for more on routes and timing.

Our groups are solo travellers aged 18 to 40, often people who've already done a first Southeast Asia trip and want somewhere quieter for the next one, alongside first-timers who picked Laos specifically because it's less on the well-worn backpacker route. What they share is wanting the slower pace of Laos with a group to share it, rather than working out the logistics alone.

Reserving your place is free. Once enough travellers have joined and a departure is confirmed, usually around 10 people, we email you a confirmation with an invoice for the full trip price, paid by bank transfer in your currency within 7 days. We accept USD, GBP, EUR, AUD, CAD, NZD and INR. Each trip page carries its own current price.