Palace Hotel Saigon Reviews

... someone so you don't get ripped off 'quite' so much. We'd limited our time in HCMC after hearing other travelers reviews on the place but in hindsight wish that we hadn't. The shady tree lined streets, inner city parks, fantastic ...

... and was encouraging us to use his company for all tours but it was nice to get some information. We arrived in Saigon at about 5.30PM. We set about finding a hotel for a few days. By now we have learned to look around if you want to get good deal so we ...

... ;Then we research options using our guidebook, travel websites and, if we're lucky, advice from friends or other travellers.  Reviews may be outdated, misleading or simply written by people very different from us.  We decided to book in advance ...

... massage parlor alley (i.e. brothel town).   We ended up having a $5 beer (unheard of here!) in the Saigon Saigon bar which is on top of a tall hotel.  I wasn't pissed because the price was 5 times what they should cost, or that there was a ...

... to last year!]. After lunch, we headed to the Reunification Palace, which was the last official site of our Saigon Tour. The palace was the residence of the South Vietnamese president and was very interesting. We saw ceremonial rooms, private areas ...

... called the Reunification Palace – this is a huge landmark in Ho Chi Minh City. It was the former presidential palace of Saigon, and the place where North Vietnam’s communist tanks crashed through the gates in 1975, forcing surrender by the ...

... by the thought that it would be our last ever bus this time in Asia!  We had booked into the Bich Duyen hotel in Saigon (now called Ho Chi Minh city) and found the most comfortable beds and pillows and best shower we had yet encountered!  It ...

... to Vietnam. Nice, relaxing day today - apart from the shitty morning. Tomorrow, we head out to see some more Saigon sights - including the Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum, which is supposed to be the best thing to see of all the ...

... It was a bit more expensive but I knew it was open so I headed over via tuk tuk.  I ordered the steak based on the reviews.  It was...in fact...one of the best steaks I've ever had; perfectly cooked with a light peppercorn sauce on top.  In ...

... Heng Hotel.  http://sokhaheng.com/ for about $20 per night Reviews are here: http://www.tripadvisor.com/Hotel_Review-g293940-d1226011-Reviews-Sokha_Heng_Guest_House-Phnom_Penh.html The food and beverages they sell are waaaay overpriced.  My ...

... great sights, food, people and beach-- and we feel incredibly relaxed as we move on despite seeing so much. We've heard mixed reviews of Cambodia and truly don't know what to expect. We don't want to arrive with low expectations or a biased mindset but ...

... We were only spending one night at Mrs. Long's as she was booked out for the rest of the time because of her excellent online reviews. However we found we were invited back for coffee with her every morning for the rest of our stay in Ho Chi Minh City. ...

... some other task to find out what he could do to help us. We left considerably irked and, irrespective of the great reviews, decidedly against choosing to tour with them. On the return to our hostel we came across another agency where the service ...

... took to opportunity to sort out some things amongst our Visas for Cambodia and sightseeing at the former president palace. If Hanoi was busy – Saigon, of 8 million citizens, is worse. Just crossing the street where there isn’t traffic light is ...

... around the old town, doing some last minute eating and shopping. I also did some research on Jetstar Pacific, which involved reading reviews of old, decrepit planes and other alarming information, and I managed to tizzy myself up so much that I seriously ...

... our hostel never did turn up, so we caught a cab and arrived at Hanoi Backpacker’s Hostel (which we’d heard rave reviews about during our travels) with a few hours to kill before we could check in. After a hearty breakfast we walked through ...

... slightly unidentifiable so we chose to wait til we got to Phnom Penh. We were slightly nervous about Phnom Penh as we'd read mixed reviews, a lot of them very bad. We were preparing ourselves for the worst, and as we got nearer to the city it seemed our ...

... NhaTrang- beach resort, weather bad here, hotel next to a building site and I am sick so this place does not get great reviews! Dalat- mountains, lovely and cool in the mountains and very scenic. Took a motorbike tour with the "Easy Riders" to show us ...