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132-134 Dong Khoi Street, District 1
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Continental Hotel: Old World Charm in Modern City    Check Rates
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    • sailor_p
  • Updated By sailor_p on September 7, 2005
    • This is where I slept during my stay! - Ho Chi Minh City
    This is where I slept during
    my stay!
    by sailor_p
    I would strongly recommend this hotel to first-time visitors to Saigon. The hotel is the city's most historic buildings and it was the setting for much of the action that occurred in Graham Greene's novel - The Quiet American. This hotel is strategically located at the prime spot of District 1, namely, Dong Khoi Street, where much of the night activities are.

    Staying in this hotel makes me feel like reliving the days of "Miss Saigon". The building is full of old world charm and the bedroom is very spacious. I like the courtyard where I had my morning breakfast. My room happened to be located at the end of the corridor and I need to passed through many winding corridors. The neon lights made the place feel like in the late 60s. Visit magdala.myphotoalbum.com to experience this old age charm! This is the only hotel which distributed breakfast vouchers every night through a basket attached to your door. It's definitely unique!

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  • Price: US$40-80    » Currency Converter
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  • Phone: 8488299203
  • Directions: Just mention the hotel and the taxi driver would know how to bring you there.
  • Website: www.continentalvietnam.com
  • Other Contact: continental@hcm.vnn.vn
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    Continental Hotel: Continental Hotel    Check Rates
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    • SirRichard
  • By SirRichard on October 13, 2003
    • Continental at night - Ho Chi Minh City
    Continental at night
    by SirRichard
    In this classic hotel, built in 1901 and refurbished in 1989 took place most of the famous novel “The Quiet American” (Graham Greene), which reflects life in Saigon before the Vietnam War against USA.

    I visited it to take a tea in one of the bars, but I didn’t find it as charmy as I expected. Decadent, but refurbished in a very unipersonal style, this hotel has lost its charm, U can’t imagine how it must have been in the first half of the 20th century…

    Rooms 55-130 USD.

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  • Phone: Tel.: 829 9201.
  • Directions: At theend of the Le Loi boulevard, at the left of the Municipal Theatre.
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    Continental Hotel: The Continental    Check Rates
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    • mafi_moya
  • Updated By mafi_moya on July 26, 2004
    • Continental Hotel - Ho Chi Minh City
    by mafi_moya
    If like me you're an insufferable romantic and sucker for nostalgia then the Continental is Saigon's number one hotel. This is the old Saigon of Grahame Greene and The Quiet American, and the days-gone-by of French Indochina. It was also a main journalist hang-out during the Vietnam War. So come here to sip black coffee, breakfast on fresh croissants, breathe in the history and sit and watch the beautiful girls in flowing ao dais cycle through central Saigon.

    Take away the nostalgia and character and what you're left with is a perfectly fine but nothing too spectacular 3 star hotel. An attractive 19th century French building, it offers good food, good rooms and a great city centre location off Dong Khoi - one of the liveliest streets in the city.

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    Continental Hotel: A beautiful old hotel    Check Rates
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    • judz
  • Updated By judz on September 6, 2006
    • Built in the 1880's - - Ho Chi Minh City
    Built in the 1880's -
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    We loved it at the Continental...we stayed at the Rex last year and found this to be much nicer...we had a corner room overlooking the busy street - a very large room with 4 windows and french doors opening onto a balcony. Everthing was within walking distance and taxi's just outside the door....it just had a lovely feel to it and although we were advised it was only a 3 star, in my book it definitely rated a 4 star.

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    Continental Hotel: The continental - I don't like it    Check Rates
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  • Updated By soopabayit on April 23, 2006
    • They wouldn't let my VN girl friend stay with me. Yeah, they're just following "the law" but they weren't very nice about explaining it.

    Also, they don't restock the mini bar.

    Maybe its okay for some people, but I found it insulting, cold, and expensive.

    the only advantage is that its a little closer to city center but twice the price.

    I don't know if they have internet in the hotel but there is an internet cafe (service) nearby
    I think its 54 Hai Ba Trung. Called internet 9 cafe or something like it

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    Continental Hotel: Historical French building hotel    Check Rates
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    • kelnsha
  • By kelnsha on September 8, 2006
    • Hotel Continental - Ho Chi Minh City
    Hotel Continental
    by kelnsha
    I did not stay here but this is the oldest hotel in the city and is set in a French building.

    One of the city's most historical lodgings and it is recommended in the Singapore Straits Times newspaper.

    It faces the French-styled municipal theatre and is where Graham Greene - the author of the Quiet American - used to stay.

    The hotel dates from the turn of the 19th century and received its last renovation in 1989 (unfortunately, at the hands of its aesthetically challenged owner, Saigon Tourist). Panelled wood ceilings with carved detailing accent the carpeted, cavernous rooms.

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  • Price: US$80-120    » Currency Converter
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  • Phone: (84.8) 8 299 201
  • Directions: Located in the heart of Saigon, adjacent to the National Assembly (now the Municipal Theatre) where the press circle would gather around for collecting the information and discussing political issues and all.
  • Website: www.continentalvietnam.com
  • Other Contact: continental@hcm.vnn.vn (email)
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