Royal Hotel
Check rates and availability for this hotel
Find the best prices for Royal Hotel from our 2 partners. Show all partners
Travel Blogs from Sapa
The Hill Station Sapa
Hello from the hill station Sapa, a beautiful little town that is in northern Vietnam. We took the 'Night Train from Hanoi' (new version of an old song). That was supposed to be a comfortable 'soft sleeper.' Hardly soft, and no sleep really at all. But, I was hopeful. I had this romantic notion about sleeping on the train. I remember doing this in …
Travels with Tien
We had an amazing trek into a verdant (love that word) valley outside Sapa. The rice terraces have been here for generations, passed on in the family. They start at the top of a mountain, and work down, moving earth with small spades, to create flat areas to grow paddy rice. In some areas, the berms are 5-6 feet tall. The only way to till this …
Sapa
Saturday night I took the overnight train to Sapa. It was comfortable accomodation. I booked a 3 day 4 night tour from Hanoi so everything, including my train ticket was included. I had a soft sleeper with AC. They were tiny compartments but comfortable for sleeping. Each compartment accommodated 4 people. I was with three 20 year old Austrian guys …
Is this Sapa, or Hanoi? I can't tell
Day 65 - The train arrived at Lao Cai at 5:30am and there was certainly no shortage of buses going to Sapa. I shared a minibus with a few tourists that were mostly on organised tours from Hanoi and was lucky to get a fair price of 30,000 Dong (I later heard of many tourists paying over 150,000 Dong for the same trip!). The journey takes about an …
Chilling in Sapa
Sleep most of way in our four berth compartment (sharing with 2 others) trains very clean but full of tourists (loads of French in Vietnam unsurprisingly) Arrive an hour late at 07.50 at Lao Cai on the Vietnamese/China border and get minibus 50k to Sapa. Fortunately on this bus they have western seating arrangements. Drive through the fog and …
Amenities
- Free High-Speed Internet
- Restaurant
- Free parking