Sapa Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Ok, it's about time I wrap this Sapa story up! My tour guide Chi and I make our way out of Sapa town, followed of course, by my entourage of H'mong village women. By now, the little ones have trailed off to stay in town. I'm left with four women, between the ages of 30 and 50, one with a new born slug on her back. They each take their turn askin...

Sapa is a small town up in the Northern Mountains of Vietnam. It is the gateway to hill tribe country and is like stepping back in time!!

The train journey up from Hanoi was super luxury compared to the Thai trains. I shared a cabin with a Vietnamese couple who were really friendly and blew apart any remaining doubt that the Vietnamese we...

Cold, wet, foggy and amazing. Last day in Hanoi was freezing - so bizarre, cold, cold wind. I had on all the fleece I have been hauling around since China and my Down Jacket which doubles as a pillow. Was very happy to have something warm to wear as it was cold and rainy. We boarded the night train for Sapa at 8:30 pm and were pleasantly surpris...

I almost canceled my Sapa trip due to my knee injury, but at the very last minute I decided that I had to go. I definitely made the right decision. I know I've made wanton use of the following phrase, but Sapa is absolutely the most beautiful place I have visited thus far. The natural beauty takes on a form that I never knew existed nor could ha...

During the October school break, Jenny and I went to Sa Pa with Jenny's sister Elizabeth and her friend Sue. Sa Pa is a town close to the Chinese border in Northern Vietnam and is home to the H'Mong people, one of the many ethnic minorities in Vietnam. We traveled by over-night train form Hanoi, leaving at 9:15 and arriving in Sa Pa at about 7:0...

Great weekend getaway but prepared to catch up on sleep when you get back into Hanoi if taking the train and you can't sleep! We left Friday night. Sze was great in handling all the logistics, we got our tickets (you're given vouchers first) through an agent which were then exchanged for real tickets at the train station through meeting up with ...

The train to Sapa departed at 8:15pm on Sunday evening. We found our seats and couldn't believe what we saw. Four lovely made up beds with nice sheets, pillows and duvets, air-conditioning, lamps and a door with a lock. 5 star hotel compared to what we had traveled on in India. We settled into our compartment 1 hour before departure and were joi...

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With the nightmare journey from Kunming to the Vietnam border behind us, we looked ahead to some trekking in the peaceful and lush green hills around Sapa. The town is nestled in the middle of the Hoang Lien Mountains with the tallest peak of the range (and all of Vietnam for that matter) being Fansipan at 3143 m. We didn't conquer it, but we di...

Hello, This entry finds me in Sapa. It has been crazy. I can't even begin to describe this trip! We went by boat to the Perfume Pagoda yesterday. It is a natural pagoda that is built into a cave. I saw my first buddist monk at the pagoda yesterday. I watched a rooster get his throat slit. We, 5 of us, were rowed in a boat for about an hour each ...