Country Info
- Hanoi
- Capital
- Dong (VND)
- Currency
- 79,939,014
- Population
- VN
- Country Code
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Top Hotels in Ho Chi Minh
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Lake Side Hotel Hanoi
10 reviews -
Lan Rung Beach Resort & Spa Vung Tau
29 reviews -
Jysk Hotel Hanoi
8 reviews
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Bongsen Annex Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
112 reviews
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Saigon Domaine Luxury Residences Ho Chi Minh City
24 reviews -
Festival Hotel Hue
59 reviews -
Bamboo Sapa Hotel
135 reviews
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Hanoi Lucky Hotel I
55 reviews
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Hong Ngoc 4 Hotel Hanoi
12 reviews
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Rising Dragon Hotel Hanoi
362 reviews
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Green Field Hotel Hoi An
226 reviews
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Hanoi Mike's Hotel
176 reviews
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Saigon Royal Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
25 reviews
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Hoang Minh II Hotel Hanoi
1 review
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White Sand Doclet Resort & Spa Nha Trang
33 reviews
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Tien Thinh Hotel Da Nang
3 reviews
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Royal 2 Hotel Hanoi
61 reviews
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Hanoi Municipal Hotel
11 reviews -
Hanoi Lucky Iii Hotel
10 reviews
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Vi Da Riverside Hotel Hue
2 reviews
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Serenade Hotel Hanoi
131 reviews
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Hue Heritage Hotel
29 reviews
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52 Tran Phu Nha Trang
1 review
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An Phu Hotel Hoi An
113 reviews
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Lucky Star Hanoi
52 reviews
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Queen Star Hotel Hanoi
9 reviews
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ICC Hotel Hanoi
3 reviews
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Hanoi Elegance Ruby
973 reviews -
Dolphin II Hotel Hanoi
50 reviews
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Que Huong Hotel Nha Trang
21 reviews
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Coco Beach Resort Phan Thiet
117 reviews
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Ho Tram Beach Resort & Spa Vung Tau
53 reviews
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Sunrise Resort Cat Ba
72 reviews
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Vesna Hotel Hanoi
2 reviews
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Tan Hoang Ngoc Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
34 reviews
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Grass Land Hotel Hoi An
67 reviews -
Blue Moon Hotel & Spa Dalat
26 reviews
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Victory Hotel Hue
121 reviews
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Green Hotel Nha Trang
25 reviews
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Hanoi Elegance Sapphire Hotel
686 reviews
Ho Chi Minh
Travel Blogs from Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam
Leaving Cambodia
This is a top pick! Day 74 - Phnom Penh - Ho Chi Minh City Another un-horrific bus journey (actual travelling wise anyway) and we've arrived in Saigon. Like I say, the travelling was fine despite the best efforts of the bumpy Cambodian roads (the Vietnamese roads are ...
Ho Chi Minh City
This is a top pick! Day 75 - Ho Chi Minh City I arose early this morning (admittedly with the assistance of the alarm clock) and resisted the temptation to scream "Good morning Vietnaaaaaaammmm!". Just. HCMC (or Saigon as it is still referred to by practically all the ...
Last Stop in Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... 're fed some information (via a lot of really good photographs) and some propaganda. Better off to read 'Idiot's Guide to the Vietnam War' available at Borders Books!! It still is amazing to be here and to see a different perspective and photos taken by ...
Vietnam, Ho Chi Minh and Mui Ne
This is a top pick! ... items and cheap meals, one can also spend a lot, depending on where you are and what you eat and buy. Corinne 20 janvier Vietnam (Ho Chi Minh-ville et Mui Ne, près de la plage) Drôle comment vous pouvez passer une frontière et soudain les choses sont ...
Saigon
This is a top pick! Ho Chi Minh City-Saigon 16th&20th to 22nd January 2009 We have decided to take the easy option and jump on a cheap Jet Star flight to Saigon. At Saigon airport we took a metered taxi, note the word 'metered' unlike the majority of Hanoi taxis whose ...
Beach capital of Vietnam
This is a top pick! Nha Trang, Vietnam - We were heading to our first beach stop! There's nothing quite like walking into the sea, Daniel Craig esque, after weeks of sweat, mud, heat, humidity and buses and trains! Speaking of buses, we had an odd one for the ride to Nha ...
Saigon and the summing up of Vietnam
This is a top pick! ... " Which from what we now know among other words means 'challenging.' You (the reader) will have noticed whilst reading this Vietnam blog that the words overcharged, scammed and ripped off appears often. Of course in most countries this is common for ...
Tourist Paradise
This is a top pick! ... the end of World War II, Ho Chi Minh received financial assistance from the US to be used against the invading Japanese. Ho Chi Minh means "Bringer of Light". The Tet Offensive was the turning point of the Vietnam War. On the lunar new year, in ...
Ho Chi Minh City
This is a top pick! Days 76 - 77 - Ho Chi Minh City I had no pre-conceived ideas as to what Ho Chi Minh City would offer but I have been impressed thus far. I knew there would be hassles but they are never as bad as you fear. sure you are offered allsorts of merchandie ...
Hanging with Uncle Ho
This is a top pick! ... even by the locals - I don't think they're doing back-flips about their "liberation" yet). The city is named after Vietnam's answer to Chairman Mao, Ho Chi Minh. Everywhere you go around here, his smiling face is looking down on you (he looks a bit like a ...
More of HCMC
This is a top pick! Day 78 - Ho Chi Minh City Our second day trip - this time to the Mekong Delta and we were fortunate to land ourselves another decent guide (Hoang - used to be a VJ on Vietnamese MTV (verified by the fact all the younger people recognise him) but had to ...
May 12 2008
This is a top pick! ... conference hall. The second floor has a map room, the office of the president of the republic of Vietnam, the president's international reception room, the national reception room, the vice-president's reception room, credentials presentation room, ...
May 11 2008
This is a top pick! ... and seemed to pass out, the flight was over before we knew it, although we arrived about 40 minutes late. We survived Vietnam customs and picked up our bags quickly. We walked out looking for the driver we arranged for to our hotel. ...
Indigestible Capitalism
This is a top pick! ... from which the South Vietnamese forces were commanded, during the Vietnam War. In other words, it was the counterpart of Ho Chi Minh's modest houses that I had seen in Hanoi. There was a bunker and a communications center at the basement, conference ...
Miss Saigon
This is a top pick! ... the back of my arms killed from hanging on for dear life!!!! On a more serious note we went to see the Chu Chi tunnels just outside Saigon - the biggest network of tunnels built by the Viet Cong during the war. I found it really upsetting especially ...
May 14-15 2008
This is a top pick! We decided to sleep in because our bed is so comfortable. Having no outside window doesn't make it any easier to get up. Our room is pretty dark with the lights off. We finally got up and went for some breakfast/lunch at Brew ...
Long wait..........
This is a top pick! Day 146 ; Ended up waiting an extra hour and a half for our bus all because the people running them don't have a clue what is going on, didn't end up too bad, we got a free upgrade!! To sleeper and as the girls who got on the other bus we were ment to ...
AK47....
This is a top pick! ... started well. Along the way we were told about the tunnels, 220 km on 3 levels, in a seven square kilometre area around Cu Chi region. The first level between 1.5 and 3 metres deep, second level - 5 to seven metres and third level - ten metres ...
May 13 2008
This is a top pick! We thought today we would go to the War Remnants Museum. We got up early and had our included breakfast at the hotel, which was made up of tea, juice and a toasted baguette. A bit stingy we thought. We then made our way north of the ...
Apocolypse now!
... boiled fish with a spicy sauce and learnt how to roll a spring roll... then feasted! As an end to our time in Ho Chi Mihn city we ventured into town for a few drinks and bumped into a group of Mekong delta doctors celebrating there colleagues ...
Mighty Mekong Mission
After our two consecutive night busses we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City at about 6am, very tired and even more sweaty! We had booked a hotel but it took a while to locate as everyone on the street tries to coax you to different guest houses for ...
Ho Chi Minh City 1
We took the "Mekong Express Limousine Bus" from Pnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City (Only USA $12 per person) - and, in fact, it was excellent! ... 6 hours, comfortable, smooth and organised passing through Cambodian and Vietnam passport/visa controls, and even ...
Museum and train ride
We started the day again with a sleep in.. After the sleep in we decided to go to Ho Chi Minh National Museum for a quick look around.. And have a early lunch/dinner.. So we would have a full belly before we would get in our train at 19:00... The lunch we ...
Nevermind Tours - Motorbiking VietNam - blog 2 SGN
... 8 hours to SGN but all good because the flight (VN Airlines) was less than half full. Plenty of room to stretch out and dose. Ho Chi Min City (formerly SaiGon for those who can remember and is still known as SaiGon to the true locals) Is a Fantastic ...
halong bay - written in saigon, on mum's bday!
... going to happen that i couldn't help but feel that maybe it had been staged, but sean assures me that no security guard in vietnam, in his right mind, has the time to sit about playing games with the monkeys to entertain the falang - of all people! ...
Flower show
Friendly faces As I exited Ho Chi Minh Airport, I was bombarded with a sea of people waiting for their relatives who were returning for the Chinese New Year. The place looked like an open air market where people jostling for their goods. There were ...
Vietnam
January 27- Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon)January 28- Cu Chi TunnelsJanuary 29-30- Mekong DeltaJanuary 31- February 3- Mui ...
Saigon... Or is it Ho Chi Minh City?
... was not liberated but destroyed and thats why people originating from the South call it Saigon and all others refer to it as Ho Chi Minh City. With that said, I went to the museum and lasted only an hour. The gruesome, uncensored pictures were a little ...
'Miss Saigon'
From the flooded town of Mui Ne we headed to Hoi Chi Minh city (HCMC), the old capitol. Hanoi was then made the capitol after the Vietnamese war, and the South wasn't allowed to have the capitol, anyway! As we were only there for a day we squeezed as ...
Vietnam War & Tunnels
After today I want to go & buy Vietnam war movies and watch them after finding out more about the war here that happened in the 70's. We Grabbed a bakery item down the road for breakfast as we caught the 8am bus to visit the Cu Chi war ...