Hue Guest Houses - Reviews and Rates

OK arrived off the night train early again and headed straight to the mandarin cafe for breakfast and to book ourselves on the perfume river tour...Mission accomplished we then headed to the pier.

On boarding a dragon boat i fell straight asleep! I was so knackered because we had a total prat sharing a room with us on the sleeper train wh...

After our very adventurous trip to Halong Bay we were all nice and tired so off we went to get the night train to Hue. We had booked a first class compartment with "soft beds" (I think the alternative was a bench so we didn't have much choice). I don't know what it is about me maybe I smile too much or I have a really innocent face but the minut...

Despite spending only slightly over 24 hours in Hue, we loved it. Firstly, upon arriving our coach was boarded by a hotel employee, and we agreed to look at the room she was offering, conveniently only feet from the coach. The room was great, 3rd floor with enough views to keep us people-watchers happy, crisp white sheets, marble bathroom, TV, f...

We woke early, looked out the window and it was absolutely beautiful outside :)

We were moored in a very picturesque bay, surrounded by 20-30 other junks, it was very pretty.

We knew that not many people have a view like that when they wake up, so we felt really lucky.

It was cloudy pretty much all day yesterday except fo...

Hue is a surprisingly big place after the quaintness of Hoi An, finding the backpacker (cheapskate) area we come across Thai Binh hotel and 4 of us share a room together. Across the road is Cafe on Thu Wheels run by a mad Vietnamese woman called Thu greeting us with 'top of the morning to you lads' in her squeaky Vietnamese voice. Food is cheap,...

Yesterday we experienced the Vietnamese tourist bus system. We decided to fly to most of our destinations in Vietnam to save time but also to avoid the buses. Buses here are run by private companies, and are ridiculously cheap. You can pay $22 and get an "open ticket" where you can travel from HCMC all the way to Hanoi. Very cheap! However, you ...

The journey to Hue was pretty cool. Me and Ross got a train from Hanoi at 1pm in the afternoon and got to Hue at 2am! We didn't have any accommodation booked, we travelled in the cheapest seats and it was really good. Trains are definitely the best way to get round Vietnam. Wegot out the station, half-expecting to have to sleep there but we were...

From Hanoi we took an overnight sleeper train south to Hue. We were lucky enough to have the whole compartment of four bunk beds to ourselves and were quite surprised at how comfy it was. We had booked our hotel in Hue on the net and were shocked when we arrived at what luxury a small amount of money can get you in Vietnam. Our room was like the...

A day of two halves. In the morning we took a tour of the Citadel. This is a walled Palatial City in Hue. It took 28 years to build at the end of the 19th century. It is 2.1km by 2.1km and housed over 60,000 troops, the royal family and all the support workers to make the Citadel totally self-sufficient when under siege. The buildings are in var...

Another shameful hibernation day - who would have thought a bus journey could wipe you out like that? I can barely move my legs and have suspicions of possible Deep Vein Thrombosis setting in - after all, we DID have the worst seats in the bus... The truth is that HBO has sucked us in. Help! Perhaps these days of sloth will help us appreciate th...