Hanoi Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

Anyway, back to the travelling, we've crossed from Laos into Vietnam and we are in Hanoi at the moment, we had a pretty long trip getting here, it took about 24 hours to actually get from Savvanaket in Laos to Hanoi. We were hoping to get an overnight train once we were in Vietnam but had to settle for a coach in the end but it was quite cool, w...

We arrived at the Chinese border after a long train journey. The journey took us through crazy shaped mountains, rocks and fields of rice. At the border there was a pretty colonial building and an arch. Getting through the border was pretty straight forward and then we were in Vietnam. The instant we stepped over the border the weather got warme...

A quick day tour around Hanoi before departure to Halong Bay - notable events avoiding the mad motorcycle drivers in the rain !!! and water puppets quite appropriate considering the area has had there heaviest rain for fifty years. See the pictures Ho Chi Min Mausoleum, One Pillar Pagoda, Museum of Ethnology and Water Puppets

Another early morning rise and it was back on the junk. Semi clear day so a nice cruise through the many islands. Stopped off for people to see a tiny floating village with school, we opted to stay on boat so engrossed we were in postcard and diary writing, before continuing on to Halong Bay. Upon arriving the heavens opened and we were complete...

WE finally got to Hanoi. There was a funny guy waiting for us at the airport we had already asked the hotel manager for this service since I'd heard a lot of problems with possible scams and people who try to drive you to a hotel where they get a comission for that. The driver was waiting for us with a sign saying WElcome and my name on it. we d...

We had an early start - breakfast at 7.30pm. A couple of people were feeling a bit worse for wear after the night befpre and one poor girl had quite a dodgy stomach. We sailed back to the mainland where our bus was waiting. On the drive back to Hanoi we stopped off at a cermaic factory. It was really fascinating to see how all the pots, plates a...

Notre arrivee a Hanoi s est trop bien deroulee! Retour dans le temps : on sort de Macau, apres avoir passe 2 douanes (meme si theoriquement, on n est jamais sorti de la Chine) et Renee nous epate avec sa maitrise du mandarin en ecrivant la destination souhaitee, le type de bus et l heure de depart sur un bout de papier! A notre grande surprise, ...

We flew back to Hanoi with the intention of picking up our things and heading south to HCMC. Somewhere along the way, we got stuck: at that time, there were no full-time positions in HCMC, so we decided to stay in Hanoi for the summer. The summer turned into much longer -- in fact, we're still here a year and a half later. But it's been good: bo...

Throughout the trip we have heard mixed reviews of Hanoi and so approached it with a certain level of intrigue. One thing was sure, arriving by plane was the right option, opting to miss out on a 13 hr overnight bus ride was one of the best decisions we have made in the last 6 months!! First impressions of Hanoi were great. We were expecting qui...

Howdy y'all from the Socialist Republic of Viet Nam - it's strange that I am in this country that we've all seen so much about and read about - but amazing nevertheless. Hanoi is a great town too, the bicycles have been replaced by motorcylces everywhere honking and going nuts, but you just walk and they go around you. That's actually not that i...