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Latest Ho Chi Minh City hotel reviews
Pro
Vibrant Culture, Friendly Locals, Delicious Food
Con
The traffic & it can be expensive if you don't know
In a nutshell
Unpolished diamond yet to be tainted by mass tourism
Out of Saigon - Cu Chi Tunnels
100 Reviews My wife and her mother went shopping, so my 7-year old daughter and I took a half-day bus tour out to the Cu Chi tunnels, where they have wartime tunnels left over you can crawl through, a display of various booby-traps, exhibits, movies, and lunch. I fired 15 rounds from an AK-47 5.45mm fully...
72 Reviews Saigon Night Market is not just for lovers, for those who like to bring his family here to eat, shop and walk around at night ... this place is also a place to meet friends for a long meet, just food, chatted recently confided. While they may not be as bright and shiny as malls or supermarkets,...
5 Reviews and 436 Opinions All rooms offer pool of City views with full luxury amenities. As true sense 5- Star hotel, it is...
8 Reviews and 465 Opinions Was there, seeing in the New Year, as part of a family of 8, from 4yrs to 70years of age. Having...
80 Reviews Number 1 yellow - like a red bull but not carbonated and without the foul aftertaste Number 1 red - Strawberry Number 1 "black" - cola ( they will tell you it doens't exist but I have had it) Number 1 White - I forget maybe soy milk Number 1 Brown - I forget Number 1 Bap - "Corn" Sting -...
37 Reviews I have just dined at this restaurant (29/12/2011) and want you to know how awful it was both in terms of food and service. I ordered a beer and beef skewers with rice. The beer was served in a boiling hot glass - just out of the dishwasher and when I informed the waiter he laughed. Then the beef...
16 Reviews Absolute MAJOR rubbisdh! Got charged entrance fee for what is effectively a freelance-hooker pick-up joint. Oh, but u get a free 'can' of warm beer for that entrance price!!!! Doormen were idiots and actually tried to impose some kind of dresscode on one of us who was wearing a 'vest'. Once inside,...
13 Reviews TIP: Though this place is listed under Patricia Shultz's "1000 places to see before you die", I feel that it is over-hyped. Not a must see, in my opinion. This place is simply known as the REX ROOFTOP BAR but I call it the 'elephant bar' as the whole place is eccentrically decorated with bird cages...
56 Reviews if you get a good taxi driver - one that gets you to your destination efficiently and seems to try hard, maybe will stop the meter for you to pick up something etc. You can ask him for his cell number. Then when you want a taxi call him or text. For example he will wait for you to eat dinner then...
23 Reviews Saigon Many times while travelling in and through Vietnam and Cambodia I have chosen to use The Mailinh Express Bus Company. I found them very handy to where I was in Saigon in Pham Ngu Lao area and are located beside the ABC bakery ..another great find.. I used this Company on many accassions...
113 Reviews This is market for rich people or foriegner. yes of course they always start at a high price everythign here is overpriced for tourist. Just try to have fun talking them down. You don't have to be rude, its their job to rip you off. Besides, they only ripping you off for maybe $5 or $10....
29 Reviews This is a nice store near our hotel. Apparently, visiting foreign dignitaries buy their Aodais here. Aodai, the traditional Vietnamese dress. Silk is best. For the quality, the prices here are quite reasonable but higher than other shops in the area.
54 Reviews If you are eating at a semi-outdoor /streetside place and you are set upon by beggar children, its best not to give them anything. If you do, it can start a frenzy and cause trouble for the proprietor. Once I saw the owner smack the kids and lock one in a closet because of them annoying the...
25 Reviews HO CHI MIN CITY (SAIGON) When just visiting or travelling through the country of Vietnam BEWARE of bagsnatchers and pickpockets. This is a tourist "ripp off" Mecca..Seems as economies do it hard the tourist is the focus of "easy money". Always be aware of your surroundings here especially where...
32 Reviews Well, yes, in our short visit to this city we couldn't encounter any threats or danger here with the exception of the very crowded crazy traffic. But well, those are in every large city and also here the scooters drive like crazy.
10 Reviews Stall 626 in Ben Thanh offers d best Dong for your buck. As at Sept 20, 2011, airport moneychangers n Parkson Dong Khoi offering dong 20,810 per US$ (no comm to pay anywhere), but Ben Thanh was offering slightly higher than 21,000 dong. Its not that easy to find in d maze of stalls though...
25 Reviews Be VERY careful of the cyclos. Negotiate the price before hand but be aware that when you get off, they may demand more money from you. Whilst in HCMC friends got bailed up against a wall and more money was demanded from them. Cyclos are a great way to experience the city but the safer way would be...
18 Reviews The hotel room toilet was equipped with: Toothbrush with toothpaste Comb Razor Shower Caps Sanitary Bags Bath Foam Shampoo Body Lotion Sewing Kit The room comes equipped with 1 power outlet (2 round pin) which is insufficient for most electronic equipped guests nowadays.
Out of Saigon - Cu Chi Tunnels
19 Reviews The Cu Chi tunnels are located a little outside Saigon and they are one of the most interesting things you can visit in Vietnam i think. It´s really facinating to see how the Viet Cong digged their way under the enemy and for most of the war sat right under their butts just to come out at night and...
2 Reviews Saigon Water Park is just a great place to visit. The hotter it is the more refreshing this place is. The water park was built with the aid of an Australian company so the standards are just like in the west. The entrance fee is 60.000 Dong. There are around 30 water slides, a wave pool, a...
65 Reviews Dont go during TET, many places are closed and everyone goes home to their home town to be with family. Its a great happy time if you are vietnamese and are back home with your family but for tourist, not so much. Services are more expensive during that time Oct - Nov will usually have rain...
22 Reviews Christmans in Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica The Christmans day all the people walk around the streets in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon). But most of them are around the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica to celebrate the Christmans day all the night to the morning. If you be there you see how wonderfull is...
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Home - Things have changed dramatically since I first started coming here over 12 years ago, it's modernising, you can buy just about anything (well sort of, you can get marmite at least now) and the economy...
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Q: any suggestion where could i get a nice but affordable hotel near shopping area in HCMC?help...
A: google thienhonghotel you can get 4 beds family room for VND 168000/about 8 US Dollar per person it is 600 meters from Ben Thanh market, or An An hotel (higher price the...
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Written before the trip @ Changi Airport : I'm filled with anticipation as I'm writing this. I'm finally going to HoChiMinCity! Since I only have a few days here, I intend to have a blast of a time......
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Saigon: to enjoy, forget about hygiene
When we resist our fate, we suffer. When we accept it, we are happy. We have time in abundance, an eternity to repeat our mistakes ...but we need only once correct our mistake... ...and at last hear...
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Things have changed dramatically since I first started coming here over 12 years ago, it's modernising, you can buy just about anything (well sort of, you can get marmite at least now) and the economy...
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..."The David that made the mighty Goliath fell flat on its face into a couldron full of ash. Come and see the place that the US thought it would impulverise with imperial might by bombing it...
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Saigon was kind of a magical name to me. After seeing so many movies and books about old Saigon, Saigon at the colonialist period, french Saigon... I admit I had an idealised concept of the city. I......
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