Hanoi Posh Hotel

Travel Blogs from Hanoi

Goooood Morning Vietnam!

A travel blog entry by banyon

'This is your pilot speaking, we are starting our descent to Hanoi, the local time is 2am and the ground temperature is 24 degrees C'. Sounds like a chilly night in Hanoi, good job we're wrapped up warm and have nice big heavy rucksacks...

We breeze through passport control, get our visas, claim our packs and stumble out into the …

Day 1 in Hanoi

A travel blog entry by beckylou28

After arriving late last night and for reasons unbeknown to us we were moved hotels. Ended up at Hanoi posh hotel which is lovely, and had pho for breakfast which was amazing!!!! Tim and I ventured out to the streets and visited a variety of shoe shops, sock shops (although they would not budge on price) and then had a pedicure (average) and then …

The Land of the Minibus and Taxi Mafia

A travel blog entry by nikkimurr

Boarded the plane in Danang in the middle of the pouring rain... touched down in Hanoi and came out to a load of dodgy taxi drivers.... We were raving and raving, raving with sheer anger by the end of the night!!

We arrived in Hanoi at roughly 12pm and knew whatever taxi we stepped into was going to give us hassle. However we had to get …

Good morning Vietnam

A travel blog entry by sarahbellecher

22 hours, 5 meals, several films and a lot of Super Mario later we finally landed in Hanoi where we were greeted with pouring rain and 32C heat.

Thankfully we had already booked up our hotel and in the price we got free airport pick up so 40 minutes later we were crashed out in the room guzzling down ice cold water from the mini bar.
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"I Think We Just Ate Dog"

A travel blog entry by smallman-wong

... only in hindesight we suspected that by "special" the lady had meant: "WARNING: May contain dog".

We had survived our first day relatively unscathed, but the trouble with Hanoi is (apart from the constant danger of eating man's best friend) that trying not to die on the roads couldn't leave you feeling less lively. Keen to get out of the city, we booked a couple of excursions that would allow us to see more of the surrounding area. ...