Majestic Hotel ho Chi Minh City

... English fairly well. They LOVE the US dollar! One-dollar bills in your pocket are a must-have. Our tour bus returns to Ho Chi Minh City and we're set loose among the 3-million people and all their motorcycles! Streets are a maze of traffic coming from ...

We got into Saigon/Ho Chi Minh City and were escorted to our hotel. Although the tour guides were convenient, we were relieved to know that Vietnam was one of the last times we would have a tour guide. It's certainly advised to have one but to an extent ...

... side of us we went to battle the evil motorcycles like the brave 300, the victory cry ‘Tonight we dine in Ho Chi Minh City’ sent shudders of fear through the ferocious motorcycles and the ugly brute trucks (lorries for you English). Once on ...

... flight to Ho Chi Minh City (formerly Saigon). A one hour journey through Vietnamese airspace. The taxi from the airport to Ho Chi Minh City cost 5 bucks. Unfortunately, the two arrived at the hotel for which they had a reservation only to find that ...

We asked ourselves what one word would describe our first impression of Saigon (Ho Chi Minh).  Short answer is that there isn't ONE..........Bewildering, Jaw Dropping certainly!  The drive from the airport was the scariest ever with hundreds of ...

Salut de Saigon! We've been in Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC) for the last few days, and the best way to describe it is through some key sensory words. Sounds: beep beep beep, HONK, beep beep, HONK, beep, "Massage," "Would you like massage?" "Sir, sir!" ...

... - marble columns & lovely! We had a beer or 2 at The Shamrock Hotel (lovely irish pub).  We walked to the Majestic Hotel & enjoyed cocktails on their roof ("wow wow" & "bayside breeze") before having dinner at a french restuarant ...

... they cannot own property and are not offered the rights of regular citizens and are resigned to being rickshaw drivers! The Majestic Hotel has a rooftop garden overlooking the Saigon River and it was nice apart from the stingy cocktail sizes! Back ...

... 6 hours with about 4 hours spent on Cambodian soil and the rest through Vietnam densely populated areas before reaching Ho Chi Minh City.Although, there are some similarities between the two countries, the contrasts and differences are more obvious. For ...

We arrived in Saigon, or Ho Chi Minh City or even HCMC for those in the know, at around midday to be picked up at the airport and transferred to our hotel. HCMC is the capital of Vietnam with a population of about 6 million people and just as crazy ...

Decided to take the road from Phnom Penh to Ho Chi Minh City(HCMC) instead of flying.There is no better way to see the country and its people other than going by road. Booked our tickets two days earlier at Mekong Express at Sangakat Wat Phnom.Ticket ...

... flaky croissants for breakfast, a morning swim in the pool and some reading time, we left Nha Trang and flew to Saigon (or Ho Chi Minh City).  This city is much more modern, with fancy shops and broader streets.  The traffic is absolutely nuts ...

... . I already have a bunch of posters of her so I am all set.    ***Update: The girls are here!!!! Our flight to Ho Chi Minh City was fine, (only problem was we thought we were going to fly Vietnam airlines, but it ended up being Cambodian Angkor Air, so ...

... many linked with casinos and targetted at the Chinese market. Visit now before this place loses all character ! I then flew to Ho Chi Minh City (HCMC), better known to most as Saigon. In the 1950s this was a city of opium and decadence where Graham ...

... -reunification name. Since the city fell to the North Vietnamese Communists in 1975, the city's name was changed to Ho Chi Minh City, after the heroic founder of the Vietnamese Communist Party and the president of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam from ...