Renaissance Riverside Hotel Ho Chi Minh City

Wow we just love the Victoria hotel - awake early and down for breakfast - superb - fried eggs bacon baked beans pancakes maple syrup bread toast yoghurt passion fruit et etc etc slightly annoying as Nhad arrived early and came and sat with us ahhhhhhhh! nit very sociable first thing! On the road by 0800 its a long journey back to Saigon :-( lunch at 1154 - too early for us and not very nice either ;-( we getting grumpy !! 2 ferry's i lunch and 6 =hours later !! On the steps of the Renaissanc...

Bad start to the day - the hotel was full of kids on a football tour and they were all having breakfast when we were - the food was awful too :-( Set off on the journey at 0800 our guide then gave us further bad news we had asked for a bigger car for the rest of the trip and were assured this would happen - this morning it was not the case - they were too busy and all the bigger cars were booked up! I rang Hanoi to discuss this - several minutes later they rang the guide to say we would be ge...

We are strangely sad to leave Saigon - although we have seen the main sights I feel that we have not done it justice and it would easily sustain a few more days' investigation. We were transferred the five minute journey to the Renaissance Hotel to register on the Pandaw cruise. There was a fair amount of chaos with the baggage and I wondered if that did not bode well for things to come - I could not be more wrong. After a 2 hour coach trip we arrived at My Tho and we welcomed aboard the Meko...

Bentan Market, Night Market, museum, old prison. Enjoy great finds like home decors and paintings at really cheap prices.

Hello. Of all the countries I'm visiting, Vietnam was the one I was looking forward to the most. I eat regularly at a Vietnamese restaurant in Seattle. Many of my friends at the Renaissance Hotel are Vietnamese. I'm intrigued by the country's recent history. However, after arriving in Hanoi, I booked the first ticket back to Laos. Travel is obviously one of my passions. I'm glad that my friends benefit from my experiences too. One way of describing it is like a fish out of water. It's a famil...

Thirty thousand feet above the ground, I cannot wait to land and begin my two weeks in Vietnam. The countryside below resembles a quilt made in the dark with jagged and uneven rows of rice fields haphazardly cutting this way and that. Unlike the United States, there are no suburbs, no cookie-cutter houses, no pools, no golf courses, no baseball fields, and certainly no shopping malls. There are roads (some of them dirt), farm plots, and foliage - lots of foliage. The jungle mesmerizes me as I...