Sofitel Plaza Hanoi Hotel
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1 Thanh Nien Road, Ba Dinh District Hanoi, Vietnam, 84-4-8238888
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After three days in Hanoi it is fair to say that this is the city that we have liked the least, the city has sat under a pall of haze/smoke day and night for the whole time we have been there. One interesting architecture style is the stand alone 4 or 5 floor house about 4 meters wide, they prop up quite stand alone and look quite strange, with a mixture of French and neo eastern block style. We stayed at the Sofitel Plaza a 5 star hotel that sits across a small lake between the Old Quarter a...
Hanoi, Vietnam capravr
October 18, 2009
Hanoi
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel, and then enjoy a city tour with visits to One Pillar Pagoda and the Museum of Fine Arts. Then visit Temple of Literature, Lake of the Restored Sword and the Old Quarter. This evening, enjoy a Water Puppet performance, followed by dinner at a local restaurant
Hanoi is a very hectic place...Crossing the streets is a challenge, with all the moto and cars moving in all directions all at the same time
It is extre...
Lugares recorridos en Hanoi 1.- El mercado 2.- Mausoleo de Ho Chi Minh 3.- Espectaculo de las Marionetas Acuaticas 4.- Maravilloso paseo por la ciudad en ciclo tour 5.- Templo de la Literatura
Hanoi, Vietnam franloosli
After a traditional vietnamese breakfast (pho...which is a noodle soup with beef, chives, green onion...yummy) we took a noon flight to Hanoi. As a side note, the methods of travel in Vietnam are bus (which is dicey and tourists don't do for long distances), train (which travels at about 30miles an hour and has sleeper cars with a minumum of 4 to a cabin...most backpackers travel this way) and plane (which we opted for most of the time b/c it is so reasonable - the most we paid for a flight w...
Hanoi, Vietnam kandjmidd
-Bus ride -City Tour -Water Puppet Show -Wandering and Night Market
Hanoi, Vietnam mhonan
I've travelled quite a bit and I've never experienced anything like Hanoi. The photos we took can't begin to capture the noise, the crowding, and the speed here. You take your life in your hand each time you cross the street as mopeds, bikes, women carrying baskets, and cars whir by at unbelievable speeds. You learn to weave your way through all the traffic. Today, we walked along the lake (where John McCain landed after being shot down), visited a beautiful temple pagoda, saw Ho Chi Minh's m...
Hanoi, Vietnam vanhise
Historical Traveler Reviews of Sofitel Plaza Hanoi Hotel
Food and coffee terrible..stay elsewhere!
Update or take the Sofitel sign down
If you come to Hanoi, don't confuse this with the grand Sofitel Metropole.
Agradable estancia
Nuestro desayuno lo servían en el piso 19 y la variedad era razonable.
El hotel está a unos 3km del centro de Hanoi. El taxi desde el Sofitel Plaza al centro costaba alrededor de 35,000 dongs, pero en el regreso (aún teniendo un taxi con contador) salió en cerca de 50,000. Hay dos tipos de taxis en Hanoi, así que asegúrate de tomar el oficial.
Worst customer service I have ever experienced
¡Alójate en el otro Sofitel!
Por otro lado, el Plaza Sofitel tiene comida casi no comestible, un estilo del "Eastern Block" (un vestíbulo enorme y poco personal, y habitaciones marrones básicas). Cuando estuve allí, estaba lleno de grupos de turistas que se sentaban en el vestíbulo mirando fijamente a todos aquellos que pasaban. Mi habitación era una suite en el piso 16, que cualquiera pensaría que estaría por encima del ruido de la calle, pero aparentemente, las ventanas de doble cristal no han llegado a Hanoi, porque podía escuchar las bocinas de los coches toda la noche.
Pleasant stay
Our breakfast was served on the 19th floor and the choice was reasonable.
This hotel is about 2 miles out of the centre of Hanoi. The taxi from Sofitel Plaza to the centre cost around 35 thousand Dongs but the way back (even that we got metered taxi) came to about 50 thousand. They have two types of taxi in Hanoi so make sure you take the official one.
Stay at the other sofitel!
The Plaza Sofitel on the other hand has almost inedible food, a sort of eastern block aesthetic (massive, impersonal lobby and basic brown rooms). When I was there, it was packed with tour groups that sit in the lobby and stare at anyone and everyone walking by. My room was a suite on the 16th floor, which one might think would be above the street noise but apparently double paned windows haven't made their way to Hanoi yet because I could hear honking all night long.
Nice hotel, shame about the location
We seemed to have the opposite experience - we wanted a queen bed, but got two separate beds. The first room we were shown smelt of smoke, but we were then transfered to a room with a river view which was fine (apart from having two beds.....) Bathroom was lovely.
Breakfast buffet was good, with lots of choice.
Eating in the hotel was expensive, but good quality. The problem is that around the hotel, as the previous reviewer mentioned, there really isn't anywhere nice to eat, unlike in the old town.
Service was fine - just a bit slow at breakfast if you wanted more tea/coffee.
Mind you, we did adjust our expectations downwards on this trip - 5 star hotels are more like 4 star in Europe, 4 star like 3 star etc.
As we were on a guided tour, the location wasn't a problem for us, but if you have come to explore Hanoi by yourself, it´s not the best location.
Never again
The Hotel is situated at the West Lake, next time I would choose a hotel close to the old center of Ha Noi as there is not really lots to do around the West Lake except for a trip with one of the swan boats...
Breakfast is okay, the staff however is absolutely unfriendly, they do not tidy up the already used tables what we found really strange.
I cannot recommend this so-called 5* Hotel.
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