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Here are some photos of my room at the Royal View Hotel at Sapa. Being opened for only for about half a year, the room is in very good condition and the design is very nice and cosy. Furthermore, there is a balcony with fantastic views of the mountains and town (the balcony even have a nice bench to sit on). The only problem is that there is no heater for cold weather but there are extra blankets in the room (the fireplace in the room is non-functional). There are some rooms without the mountain views so it is very important to ask for a room with a view beforehand to avoid disappointment. Leave a Comment
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The Royal View Hotel (3 star) is opened in year 2006 and it is a very good hotel, clean with cosy rooms and fantastic views of the Sapa town and surrounding mountains on a clear day. It is located along the stretch of road just after the Sapa market and this is where most of the hotels in Sapa are located. In fact, this hotel is located next to another famous hotel in Sapa called the Green Bamboo Hotel. Everything is good (including food) except that the free internet at the hotel lobby is often used by hotel guests and the connectivity is rather slow. As for breakfast and food, they are tasty but the variety is limited. Please see part 2 of this tip for the hotel rooms. Leave a Comment
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Baguette & Chocolat is a French style cafe cum mini hotel specialising in French pastries, and set up by an organisation for disadvantaged youth.
There are only 4 rooms in the hotel so service is personal. The rooms are clean and very French (reminds me of my hotel in Tours, France).
They serve the best and tastiest cafe food around Sa Pa and lounging about the cafe in the morning for an extremely French petit dejeuner of baguette or croissant makes me feel as though I could jolly well be in France.
Absolutely the best place to cosy around and chill out during rainy afternoons. Leave a Comment
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The range of hotels built at the edge of town (along the stretch where the Mountain View Hotel is) have good views of Mt Fansipan and valley.
The reception at Mountain View hotel was professional and helpful though I found it a little impersonal (the same staff asked us thrice for our room number during our one night stay there and staff at the cafeteria asked for payment of the included breakfast).
The room is beautifully furnished though the mattress is a little worn out and the shower sporadically throws out cold water at you when you really need that hot bath late at night. Worse still, it sometimes turns into a trickle and the gas heater makes me a little edgy and paranoid as the flame flickers and spurts.
Then again, could it only be that one room?
Redeeming features = Good view of mountain, good day trips organised by hotel Leave a Comment
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Baguette & Chocolat is a cafe that also maintains and rents out four quaint rooms at US$18-20 a night (and you get a wonderful breakfast thrown in!). We didn't actually stay here, but we got the manager to show us the rooms, which were simple and clean. At these prices the rooms are very decent value, just don't expect the frills that you get at the Victoria Sapa.
The cafe / B&B is a run as a non-profit organisation to help disadvantaged youths. So you'll be helping out vietnamese youths by spending your money here. Leave a Comment Theme: Bed and BreakfastPrice: less than US$20 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: ThacBac Street, LaoCai, SapaPhone: (84-20) 871.766Website: www.hoasuaschool.com Other Contact: hoasuaschoolmrk@fpt.vn
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There are two buildings for Sapa Goldsea Hotel (2-stars) offering comfortable, rather than cosy, rooms.
Rooms come with TVs and attached hot shower rooms.
The view from our room was quite nice without the fog. Leave a Comment Theme: HotelPrice: less than US$20 » Currency ConverterComparison: less expensive than averageAddress: No. 58 Fanxipan Road, Sapa Town, Laocai Province, Vietnam.Phone: (84-20) 872 180 or 871 869Directions: On the road to Cat Cat village and 150 m away from the market.Website: http://vietnamtourism.com.vn/sapagoldsea-hotel Other Contact: sapagoldsea@hn.vnn.vn (email)
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Did not actually stay there though had dinner there. Dinner isn't fantastic but passable - a little on the steep side.
On the street where most of the guesthouses are (along with Mountain View Hotel). Leave a Comment Theme: Pension/Guesthouse
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Make sure you get the room on the main building and with a balcony view of the valley.
The hotel has some rooms without windows and another older block of rooms.
Restaurant also has a nice balcony view of the valley. Staff are friendly.
Hotel is located outside of town center but only 10 minutes walk to the main market. Theme: HotelPrice: US$40-80 » Currency ConverterComparison: about averageAddress: Cau May Street, Sa Pa townPhone: (84-20) 871075
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This budget place has rooms in beautiful, old-fashioned French villas right in the centre of Sapa. Unfortunately it is state-run, meaning bad service and the otherwise lovely rooms are a bit scruffy, esp. the bathroom.
15$ for a double.
04/2000 Leave a Comment
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Just came back from Hanoi Sapa tour. We went on our own and booked cat cat Hotel through email.
We arranged with Cat Cat Hotel for a guide and transport to the Sunday market in Bac Ha. They gave us a very old army looking jeep without air-cond. We had to stop breathing whenever there is a car in front of us as the amount of dust was horrible(unpaved roads). We tried to ask the driver to keep a distance from other cars but the driver ignored our request. The guide was a local hill tribe girl who slept all the time throughout the journey as she said she had to wake up early to pick us from train station at 6 am. (unbelievable work attitude :-(
After the sunday market, we went to Ban Pho village, our guide just took us to ONE house and concluded the village tour as she claimed all the rest is the same. lol
We then checked into Cat Cat Hotel and find that the room is about 6 or 7 storey high without lift, worst still no light to walk up the outdoor staircase to our room at night. We were lucky to come back intact and survive through it.
We booked our 1st class wooden cabin train ticket through our Hanoi Hotel(Golden Sun), we got Ratraco very clean and nice. We asked Cat cat hotel to book the return ticket for us. They told us they booked Et-pumpkin 1st class for us. When we boarded the train, we almost had heart attack to find that it was a local train (not even a tourist train) with hard sleeper. Gosh, they charged us 1st class ticket but gave us 2nd/3rd class seat that costs half the price we paid. They claimed that they didn’t know but refused to refund the difference to us. (No wonder they only gave us the ticket in Lao Cai train station, too late for us to find out)
A piece of advice, beware!!!,
The hotel is family run business, no fixed room rate, breakfast not included in the room rate. They claimed to be hotel but more like a guest house. Theme: HotelPrice: US$20-40 » Currency ConverterComparison: more expensive than averageAddress: near to Cat cat Village
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