Da House Hotel

... be flying to San Juan, Puerto Rico on May 28th (one week after Jeff graduates). We will stay one night at an artsy bohemian hotel called Da House (I know, funny name), which is near some of the best food in town! On the 29th we will board a Carnival ship ...

... . They all offer mountain biking, trekking, abseiling, rock climbing, horse riding, canoeing, rafting....... etc. Then up to the "crazy house hotel" and a taxi back to our hotel. We went to a restaurant down the road for dinner and ordered a whole ...

... Vietnams biggest holiday and as it fell on a Friday one hell of a weekend! We walked the streets stopping at every guest house and hotel. All were either fully booked or had hiked up their prices by 3 times. One shabby guest house that not surprisingly ...

... argo. Sebenernya kita tidak booking hotel, tapi booking tur dari Sinh Tourist. Dan karena kantor travel Sinh Tourist di Da Lat itu juga berfungsi sebagai Hotel Trung Cang, jadi kita minta dianterin kesana, jalan 4A Bui Thi Xuan. Nah loh, cobaan lagi nih. ...

... farms. In the highlands they could grow a much bigger range of vegetables, because of the terrain and climate. In Da Lat we visited the Crazy House, which was designed by the daughter of the second president after Ho Chin Minh. It’s a quirky little ...

... live there. Anyway, we went in and the admission fee was 16,000 Dong/pax. From waht I read earlier, the crazy is house is a hotel and its like a wonderland inside, and indeed it was!! It was really crazy we felt like we were in the Alice in Wonderland ...

... would do! Spent half a day touring Da Lat on the back of a motorbike each. Saw the lake, the big waterfall, the crazy house, the railway station and the most beautiful temple. Our drivers were part of the company 'Easy Riders' and were really great. They ...

... rice wine place because the pigs looked like they might eat the camera!  Te best thing according to Rory was the Cazy House - designed by a Vietnamese woman who has spent many years studying in Russia - it muct have been crazy.  The house is a ...

... and sincere.  Their kindness and the kindness and openness of their friends has helped me change my perception of Vietnamese. Our house is on a typical street.  What that means is that nearly every house runs a business from the front.  ...

... market selling tacky winter clothes for the locals but not a lot else. The main attraction within the city is the Crazy House which is a hotel built to resemble knotted trees. It's hard to describe but the path twists and turns up through all the guest ...

... only ticket they had managed to book was the top bunk of 3-tier hard sleeper (air-conditioned, thankfully)! Sigh...the hotel receptionist was profusely apologetic, even though the debacle was entirely not her fault. I couldn't really change my schedule, ...

... as our guide (Tin) spoke excellent English. First off we hit the Chicken village (ethnic village) and visited an incense making house inhabited by local nuns, who sell the sticks to raise money for medicine for the local children. Here we tried some ...

... and down for a minute before we decided to give up and head to the second place on our list. This guest house was right in the middle of downtown Da Nang and was in close proximity to the few sights the city has to offer. Even though Da Nang is the third ...

... report not finding the body, too, given the propensity for removing heads to keep things secret...) We had a wonderful lunch at a hotel in Hue overlooking a clean section of the Perfume River and drove back to Da Nang, passing rice fields and other ...

... us to a lot of traditional Vietnamese spots. Flower gardens, rice farms, mushroom farms, coffee bean farms, rice wine making house, a chicken village, a silk farm, the elephant waterfalls, and some pagodas. Overall it was a long, but interesting day. ...

... try another cafe for a fresh coconut and rest my feet. Its another early night for me and check out tomorrow and move to other hotel. Day Two: Visit the bank to get cash on my credit card as my crappy bank card wont work in ATMs here in Vietnam and ...

... where they export flowers, stone quarry, silk worm farm, rice wine maker, silk factory, a waterfall, mushroom farm, and crazy house hotel. what a day. that night was walked around the town and went to the local market so carmen could buy underwear ...

... stay at our Hotel le Castelet des Alpilles (even though we had a couple of cold showers).  The 100 year old house/hotel was in a beautiful spot, we had a lovely balcony overlooking the Alpilles mountains and we enjoyed breakfast in the flower garden ...

... of it. Speaking of staff, there are a lot, more than guests it often seems. Dinner was had at a local eating-house a block from the hotel. We didn't really know what we were getting ourselves into but when we sat down a meal consisting of rice paper ...

... - it looked a wee raw) plus incredibly cheap (helps to have some Vietnamese guides in tow!) Our last stop was 'Crazy House' - a ridiculously crazy hotel very similar to Gaudi's house in Barcelona.  You have to see it to believe it and even ...

... to Da Lat. This is definitely where I will stay next visit to Da Lat. If you get a chance or are mildly interested, google "Da Lat crazy house" or Hang Nga House Da Lat. Reviewers say its like living in a fairy tale - that alone makes me want to stay ...