Hotels in Ho Chi Minh City - Prices and Reviews

L'antiga capital de la provincia de la Coxinxina no es precisament un oasi de pau. Amb 6 milions d'habitants i gairebe 4 milions de motos, es fa dificil trobar un raco o un moment per descansar del soroll i el trafec que envaeixen la ciutat a totes hores. Creuar els carrers es una autentica aventura que posa a prova els teus nervis i la teva des...

We got this sleeping bus into HCMC (Ho Chi Minh City - previously Saigon, which EVERYONE in Vietnam still calls it) and aft** a slightly uncomfortable day trip which took 8 hours, as we couldn't be both**ed to spend anoth** whole day in Nha Trang, we arrived in the centre of the backpack** district at a place called TM Broth**s Tourist Informati...

Here's a summary of our Central Highlands tour with Mr Vui (happy) easy rider extraordinaire. 4 days to Ho Chi Min City, and to get there we go north a bit to Lak Lake (very beautiful and where minority folks live in bamboo houses on stilts) and a nearby national park chocka full of waterfalls (Draynu, Draysaf, Gia Long), and then it's south alo...

We arrived in Ho Chi Minh City early in the morning. I woke up and went out on deck as we were arriving through the Saigon River. It was about 7am and the only people out were the local fishermen in their small boats along the banks. My friends and I got off the ship first thing in the morning and went out to find a taxi to take care of setting ...

22nd January 2008 We flew into Ho Chi Minh City to save time, as the roads aren`t great in Cambodia add on hours to your journey. The contrast from Cambodia was amazing and felt like I was in a developed country again.. It is crazy here! Thousands of motorbikes and push bikes beeping and revving, everyone with their own rules. We learnt quickly ...

1:00pm Last night I had some delicious spaghetti bolognese with some delicious meat sauce at a restaurant by Ching's apartment. Then we went out for a few hours with some of her Filipino friends. This morning I got up after a really good night's sleep, had some breakfast with Ching, and took off. I just had an amazing full body massage (for only...

Lesson #1 of traveling alone - never again share a hotel room with a single British man just for the sake of a) company and b) saving $5. Meet James, a 27 year old hyperactive, investment banker from the South of Britain, with some sort of strange back fungus he contracted in Belize and who likes to drink a lot...and alone. Here is the breakdow...

Spending yet another stop over night in Phnom Penh, this time at the Lakeside area where it was a bit more backpacker rough and ready, we caught the 6.30am boat from Phnom Penh to cross the border into Vietnam, stopping at the first town, Chau Doc. Seeing immediately there wasnt much to see or do here we caught a Transit minibus to Ho Chi Minh, ...

Not a great deal to report from Saigon. I stayed long just long enough to see in the new lunar year, part of the Vietnamese Tết holiday, and for obligatory visits to the War Remnants Museum and the Cu Chi Tunnels. The single tunnel that tour groups are shepherded through is narrow and dark enough that people emerging from the steps at its ...

Unfortunately our little beach holiday had to come to an end and we are currently in Ho Chi Minh City or as the locals call it, Saigon. It's the largest city in Vietnam and has a population of approximately 8 million people. We were pleasantly surprised that it's not as crazy as the Lonely Planet describes it. We have spent the last few days exp...