Pho Hoi Riverside Resort & Hotel Hoi An

Overnight soft sleeper (again) to Danang and then six of us shared a taxi to Hoi An. Here by 06h00 - in the pooring rain! Well, although its highly tourist orientated, we liked Hoi An so much we stayed an extra day! Happily its one of the few historic places to have been spared significant damage during the American/Vietnam war. It really has the architecture and feel of what you like to hope an old town in this part of the world would have. The weather seems to have broken and it rained a lo...

moving on from Mui Ne we had our first experience of a sleeper bus,its a bus with beds...kind of so you can gently fall asleep whilst you travel the country and wake up fresh and ready to see new things....well not quite. the tour bus drivers are budding race drivers and masters that famed musical instrument the horn. a typical night will involve constant overtaking even if it is 3 lorries on a dirt road with headlights coming the other way (and yes this a full size coach!). The horn is used ...

The trip from Nha Trang to Hoi An is 11 hours by minibus, so we started at 6.15am. We arrived in Hoi An at 16.30 pm after we had a lunch stop at 14.00 pm. I had the intention to book a room in the Huy Hoang Hotel but the nearby Pho Hoi Hotel is comfortable too. I booked a room for $6 with a view on the Tho Bon river. In the evening I had a very tasty dinner at Cafe des Amis along the riverside. There is no menu, just a set meal which changes every day. Get the price worked out first-you pay b...

In a lovely old town of Hoi An, on the coast aboot mid way down Vietnam. I only stayed in Cat Ba for 2 nights and mosied on..to get from the island to the main bus station had to take a bus, boat and another bus. Then wait for another bus to head south a couple hours to Ninh Binh, only to wait there for 6 hrs for yet another bus with Hoi An being my end destination finally the next morning. Told you i was gonna move quite fast...i met a nice Malaysian guy in Cat Ba that booked the exact same ...

Merry Christmas everone! My Christmas Eve was spent on a 12 hour bus ride from Attapeu, Laos to Hoi An, Vietnam. This was not a ride for people with motion sickness! The whole trip was through curvy mountain roads (the lines on the roads seemed optional and horns were used to round corners instead of caution!) but once I crossed the strange, empty border crossing at Bo Y with one other Vietnamese person (I was the only foreigner the whole bus trip) the views were amazing! The lush jungle moun...