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 Vietnam travel tales
Our customers share their travelling experiences in Vietnam.
Read about first hand stories on travel tips and guides, events, entertainment,shopping, food, business and transportation.
Also, you might want to read our
Central Vietnam city guide,
Halong Bay city guide,
Hanoi city guide,
Ho Chi Minh city guide,
Phan Thiet city guide,
and Hoi An city guide.
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| P Sohonie |
06 December 2004 |
Stayed at Melia Hanoi - Hanoi, Vietnam.
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The best thing about Hanoi at this time of the year is the weather. It's cool and dry. Not much to see, Ho Chi Minh's museum was closed for annual refurbishing and the one legged pagoda a big dissappoint. The fine arts museum was worth a visit. Halong Bay is a 3 hr drive, very picturesque. Restaurants - recommend Little Hanoi Cafe, Indo Chine, Emperor and Lotus at Melia Hotel.
Taxis are easily available and also enjoyed bicycle rickshaw rides in the evenings when it was wonderfully cool.
Shopping is the main focus in Hanoi. Excellent lacquerware, table linen and plenty of art galleries to choose from. Do be careful, prices vary by 100% for certain artists!! Difficult to figure out the art scene but the Vietnamese artists are worth buying. Copies are excellent, so don't hesitate to buy them.
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| I Brandao |
14 November 2004 |
Stayed at Omni Saigon Hotel - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.
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HCMC is chaotic to foreigners, but organized from a Vietnamese point of view. Traffic is hellish, but it flows, as there are few cars and lots of bikes, cyclos and motorbikes. I hired a private guide (for 15 Euro) on my first day, and went to all the must-see places, like the Reunification Palace and the War Museum, and also took a cyclo ride to Cholon, the busy chinese quarter. On my second day I toured the Mekong Delta for a mere 5 Euro, transportation and lunch included (advised by our tour guide - if booked at a hotel this tour would set you back at least 20 Euro). On the third day I went shopping at the Central Market where I had some local delicacies for lunch for very very little money. I skipped the Cu Chi Tunnels tour as it is not advisable for clautrophobics!!!
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| H Panhans |
12 November 2004 |
Stayed at New World Hotel Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.
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Not too much to see in Saigon. Recommendable to visite the History Museum and to have a beer or two at the roof garden of the Rex hotel. The only recommendable department store is the Tax oposite the Rex hotel.
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| M Miles |
09 November 2004 |
Stayed at De Syloia Hotel - Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Excellent if slightly expensive Vietnamese food (accompanied by very nice traditional Vietnamese music) at the Nam Phuong restaurant which is a 5 minute walk from the hotel. Wouldn't recommend the food at the equally expensive Emperor restaurant (also 5 mins from the hotel) but the bar looked very nice for a relaxing drink or two. Excellent Italian food in a very nice courtyard atmosphere at Luno d'Autumno, and don't miss an ice cream at Fanny's at the south-west corner of the lake - great flavours !
Best museums we visited were the wonderfully abstract Ho Chi Minh museum (go upstairs to see what I mean !) and the excellent Museum of Ethnology with its array of displays celebrating the vast number of diverse ethnic tribes native to today's Vietnam.
Sit back and enjoy a relaxing shave for only US$1 at any number of Hanoi's barber's shops - not only will it be fun for you, but the local staff and customers will love the show!
Can't wait to go back to Hanoi and spend more time drinking in the vibrant culture, amazing buildings and incredible friendliness of the Vietnamese people. Viva Ho Chi Minh!
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| R Haines |
04 November 2004 |
Stayed at Dong An Beach Hotel - Hoi An, Vietnam.
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Shopping is fantastic, everything from shoes, clothes to jewellery can be made to your needs. Only 20kms from Marble Mountain and China Beach - it was my favourite place in Vietnam. All restaurants are great with fresh seafood!
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| J Gray |
01 November 2004 |
Stayed at Sunrise Beach Resort - Nha Trang, Vietnam.
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Well worth a visit is the hot springs spa, where you can have a mud bath, mineral springs, swimming pool and massage for only a few dollars - is a really relaxing day out. Best way to get there is on a motor bike ride (you can hail them down on the street) for about £1 return, is a bit scary to begin with, but good fun!
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| S Kerr |
23 October 2004 |
Stayed at Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel - Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Sua Hoa Restaurant is well worth a visit - not only good food & reasonable prices but it is run by street kids who are being trained.
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| B Bouvier |
23 October 2004 |
Stayed at Oscar Saigon Hotel - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.
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I was only in Ho Chi Minh one night, but walked to Notre Dame Cathedral, the War History Museum, People's Committee Hall, City Opera House, and the Saigon River in a very short period of time. Very Helpful Booking agent got me a ticket to my destination, Hue, very inexpensively.
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| S Wong |
13 October 2004 |
Stayed at Que Huong - Liberty 3 - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.
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Try to use Vietnam Dong as much as possible when paying for cyclo rides or shopping at markets. If you use USD, you end up paying a little more. Beef noodle soup is the best at Pho Hoa restaurant, Pasteur Street.
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| J Lee |
04 October 2004 |
Stayed at International Hotel Saigon - Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon), Vietnam.
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We went to cao-dai, cu-ci tunnel, vinh-long, cai-be. Very worth it. Food in Vietnam is a bit trying after 3 days. There is not much variety. They should try various ways of serving this very nice Pho (rice noodles) and not just with beef and its related innards. Out of all the taxis, only 1 taxi took us on a long long route and we had to pay about 9000dong more than normal, other taxis were honest. English language spoken by taxi driver is almost non existent but they all are literates and can read street names instructions.
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