I had it done 6-7 years ago in a developing country where I speak the language, for much cheaper than here in the USA (even factoring airfare), at a good eye hospital. I have been very happy with it.
If I were to do it over again I would make sure to watch them do it on someone else first (either live or a video), because I didn't think to ask whether they do one eye, stop, prepare, and then do the second eye. They did one eye and then immediately moved on to the next eye. I'm someone who has to psyche herself up to stay still, so this freaked me out slightly and I flinched, so they had to stop and start over again on that eye. No harm done, I just had some redness that went away on its own. Good thing I paid a little extra to have them use a laser rather than a blade; if it had been the latter, we would have had to wait 6 months to finish up on that second eye.
Also, the doctor had explained that there were 3 options: blade, laser and custom. Custom is the most expensive and what a fancy place in the US had suggested to me. This doctor told me that since my eyeball shape is pretty standard, the only difference custom would make would be for me to give him more money. So he suggested either blade or laser, with laser being more forgiving if you have to stop for some reason and start over (which ended up happening, lol!).
Recovery was no big deal (and I did have a very nice friend coming into my room with my eyedrops at the appointed times while I napped that day) and I went out to dinner that night with just some blurriness. By that night I was looking across the living room at the wall clock with no difficulty! I was fortunate to have a great experience for a relatively low price. I should disclose that I am overdue for an eye checkup, but as far as I am aware, there haven't been any problems so far.