Hilton Hanoi

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... hit the gym while Pho worked diligently on this blog.  Today we checked out of the Intercon (awesome hotel) and checked into the Hilton Hanoi Opera House.  Just for your info, it's not the infamous Hanoi Hilton.  Flo made a new buddy that ...

      Hello Hanoi heat wave! Our taxi took us to the Hilton Hanoi Opera. It was in a lovely section of town adjacent to the opera house, posh hotels, parks and a lake. But it was hot! We ran inside and hid from the heat until the much ...

... .  On a side note, a few years ago the Hilton Hotel chain opened up a hotel in Hanoi but they called it the “Hilton Hanoi Opera Hotel.”  I’m guessing maybe they felt calling it the Hanoi Hilton had a bad ring to it but I think ...

... suit on display. It was amazing how well these American pilots were treated during their imprisonment, they actually nicknamed it the "Hilton Hanoi." There were lots of pictures showing the daily life of the US POWs and they were allowed to play ...

... pho for me!  Stuffed, we headed back out into the Hanoi heat and humidity.  We went to the Hoa Lo Prison (Hilton Hanoi) and walked around for an hour or so.  Much of the prison has been torn down and replaced by office towers, but what ...

... . This afternoon was free time,  so I headed up to Ho Loa (aka the colonial french prisons, called by US troops Hilton Hanoi) , that were later used in the Vietnam war to hold US pilots that were captured (Including Us Senator  John McCain). The ...

... really the only thing she did as a leader that we didn't really agree with, other than that she was excellent.   So to the Hanoi Hilton (HH), and no it wasn't a chain of the hotels where we could grab a slap up lunch. The HH is the nickname given ...

... Chi Minh was a General."  They also have a Hilton, but the huge western hotel that rises up above the original "Hanoi Hilton" (known as the Maison Centrale, or Hoa Lu prison here) is not actually a Hilton.  The Hilton is near the ...

... a difference in view from the regime at the time were seen as trouble, so they were dealt with violently! The nickname Hanoi Hilton comes from when the prison housed American POW’S, including people like Senator John McCain who was shot down over ...

... cold!   After walking for hours and a great pho lunch, our last stop was Hoa Lo Prison Museum... better known as the Hanoi Hilton (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanoi_Hilton). This is where Senator John McCain was a POW for 5+ years and many other ...

... " in the near future.  Inside the French Quarter we visited the Hoa Lo Prison, affectionately known to Americans as the Hanoi Hilton.  For most of the prison's history it was used by the French to imprison nationalist Vietnamese who were against ...