Victory Hotel Hue
08 Nguyen Huu Tho St Hue, 84, Vietnam
Travel Blogs by Travelers Who Stayed at this HotelVictory Hotel Hue
Animal Tracks in the Jungle
We arrived in Hue an hour earlier than expected, just after 8am and took a taxi to Victory Hotel, Hue (same name as the hotel in Hanoi, but not a chain, totally different owners). We had a quick breakfast and then headed over to the Citadel. It was very similar to the Forbidden City in Beijing, but on a smaller scale. It was the residence of the …
When 10 hrs turns to 14 1/2 hrs.
We left Hanoi on the 8:10pm train, having been told we would arrive in Hue 6 am. As we are slowly learning, people here don't really worry to much about times etc.... WE arrived in Hue at 10:30. Presuming our hotel pickup wouldn't be there, got in a taxi and arrived at the hotel, where they told us our pick up was waitign at the station. We vaguely …
Best do things by yourself.
We booked a city tour through the hotel. $9 for a wholeday, so not to bad. Included lunch, guide, boat trip, airconditioned bus.
all the tours we've done so far have been small groups so naively excepted the same thing. bit of a shock when we got on a bus with 40 other people!!! not exactly our thing. The actual tour was good. We went to a …
Map reading skills put to the test
After the tour the day before. We decided on a bit of a lie in before navigating ourselves to the Citadel.
We got to the Citadel easyily enough. But when we got there we turned right instead of left so ended up walkign around the entire walls. Finally (basically back where we started) we paid the entrance fee and spent about 1 1/2 / 2 hrs …
Motorbike You!!!!
Tuesday morning, still wet and windy, and a morning bus ride to Hue. I arrived around lunchtime to be met at the bus stop by a very smiley man from the Victory Hotel. We popped my suitcase onto his motorbike and soon we were at the Victory Hotel in Hue. A little away from the centre, but I preferred that, a bit quieter and a nice little hotel.



