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Favorite thing: ADMISSION..........
Entry to all historical sites in Hoi An is via a coupon system.........

COST...VND75,000 ......

gets you a ticket that can be used to enter 5 attractions

* one museum..
* one assembly hall...
* the handicraft workshop or the traditional theatre..
* Japanese Bridge or the Guangong Temple...

Tickets are sold at various entry points into the old town.

Favorite thing: Kims haircut shop. Smack-bang in the middle of the markets!
As well as haircuts, they do facials, manicure, pedicure, hair removal etc. But the worrying thing on their business card:
"Cut skin foot your"

Nevermind. For US$1 I had a lovely manicure & nail polish done!

Tell Kim Betty send you!

Favorite thing: If you stay at the Pho Hoi Riverside resort, take your laundry across the road. The couple are very pleasant, and only too happy to show you their washing machine, and clean washing, at 20000dong per kg, its a bargain. Very happy with the service.

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Favorite thing: Hoi An is an ancient city in central Vietnam on the coast of the South China Sea now in the Unesco List of World Heritage Sites... which is both a blessing and a curse. A blessing because many of the old wooden buildings have been restored, and because the city council had to get rid of drugs and prostitution, a curse because it is now full of tourists and tourist-related shops, in particular taylors... you can have a dress made in one day or in one hour, but in any case the quality is very poor, this at least according to some ex-pats we met.

Fondest memory: Hoi An's importance comes from the fact that it used to the largest harbour in South East Asia, as far back as when the town was called Lâm Ấp Phố (Champa City) in the first century. Plenty of people came to Hoi An, mostly Chinese, but there were Japanese, Dutch and Indians too. For this reason it's full of magnificent buildings to visit... it's a pleasant place to stroll about, traffic-free as some of the streets are closed to traffic. At night, along the river, it's very suggestive and romantic.

Favorite thing: For those of you who have visited Melaka (Malaysia), you may be mistaken that houses at Hoi An to be of Melaka. In fact the only similarities are they are old & gone through the war torn period.

If you're into architecture, some of the older structures will sure make you spending hour observing structural details of these building. Remember, this is a UNESCO Heritage site, there sure have reason why they are listed in the list.

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Favorite thing: someone told me that vietnam was under china for thousand years, so it's logic to find chinese style buildings there.
but also vietnam was french colony for 100 years, in hoi an which i thought only for chinese style building has some french style of building too. they're old and some of them are not reserved. but they're beautiful :)

Favorite thing: hoi an is a small town at the central of vietnam. it's an old and touristy town. it's so old that unesco claimed it as one of world's heritage.
here you can find buildings with chinese and french architecture, but most of them are already changed into shop, restaurant, or tailor!
it's just a great place and worth to visit :)

Favorite thing: Hoi An is a very atmospheric town and there's lots to observe when you walk the streets of the Heritage town. There's people in conical hats transporting goods to and fro in baskets fixed to opposite ends of a bamboo pole slung over their shoulders, schoolgirls in traditional white ao dai's riding bicycles, and lots of colorful French colonial architecture.
Although not a big city (population of roughly 75,000), Hoi An is a prime example of how many Vietnamese towns hustle and bustle with a metropolitan feel. There's plenty of moving and shaking among those residents not directly involved in the tourist trade and the streets of Hoi An are always teeming with industrious Vietnamese.

Fondest memory: Hoi An is a very lively town and its energy is infectious. It's a fun town to bound around, ducking into shops, touring its historical sites, and relaxing in small cafes with fried spring rolls and beer.