Phuoc an River Hotel

... bus all day, and it was definitely the right decision.  Even in the first few minutes floating down the river into Vietnam after a painless border crossing, something felt different: the colours seemed brighter, the scenery more varied and ...

... pounds door to door in an air conditioned taxi rather than a scramble for the bus and another taxi the other end. We arrived at the Phuoc An Hotel in Hoi An at 10.30am - quite a bit ahead of schedule and far too early to check-into our room ! We made ...

... hours of this, which at parts were hilarious, in our sleep deprived states, we arrived in Hoi An. We checked into the Phuoc An Hotel - pronounced fook Anne! The hotel was good - swimming pool, large bath, big king size bed, a/c, free breakfast, free ...

We arrived in Hoi An on Friday evening and checked into a lovely hotel called Phuoc An Hotel. It was recommended to us by the New Zealand couple we met in Ninh Binh and it was easily the best hotel we've stayed in since we started traveling. E8 a night ...

... over a great dinner in one of the many cute restaurants. Overall, Hoi An was our favorite town in Vietnam. We recommend: - Phuoc An Hotel - the best service we've had so far - Eating Cao Lau & White Rose at Van Loc Restaurant (Tran Phu ...

... I don't mean to complain and normally I would say, any massage is a good one, but clearly the girls both in our Phuoc an hotel and even at the resort had never been trained in massage and while we easily could have afforded a massage everyday, the ...

... of beer, we went back to our hotel. 4 February 2005 (Friday) We had breakfast in a nicely-decorated dining hall of Phuoc An Hotel. Two sculpted walls had images of Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary and Hoi An Ancient Town – the two attractions near or ...

... to get most of my stuff done.  We went to Phuoc An tailors (mostly because we're supposed to get a special discount as Phuoc An hotel guests).  They charge a lot more than some of the other shops in town.  For example, our wool dress coats ...

... we were studying the Lonely Planet and went for the safe 'our pick' bet, so off we went on motorbike taxis to Phuoc An Hotel. WORST DECISION EVER! The hotel was lovely but the journey not, when disembarking one's bike Alice burnt her leg on the exhaust ...

... , a tailor for which I'd seen several recommendations online and in Lonely Planet, and which is rather joyously affiliated with my hotel and therefore entitles me to a 10% discount. Hoi An is absolutely rammed with tailors, literally hundreds of them, so ...

... after shop of beautiful lanterns, bags, silks, shoes, jewelery and clothes.   As it was raining on our arrival, the hotel told us about a clothes shop that was part of their chain and that we would get a 10% discount on anything we ...

... for a bit as I was still feeling a bit rough. Five minutes before my suit fitting at 4pm I took a free bike from the hotel's rather decrepit and antiquated collection and sped off to the tailor's. To my amazement in only 24 hours my suit and five shirts ...

... 50 beers, walk across the bridge to Salsa Club, dance, sing to Journey, stumble back across the bridge and home to the hotel.  The same continues yesterday, except Nadia and I, along with Paul and Dave from england, had to pour ourselves onto a ...

... in this case we had a bunch of locals jostling for you to employ their taxi services and then they usually drop you off at a hotel where they are paid commission... I know that may sound like no big deal, but can be frustrating being 'taken ...

... from the river that runs through it!) On one of the nights in Hoi An we were cycling back to the hotel and we saw that the water in the river had risen so high that in one part it had flooded onto the road!! We tried to get some good pictures ...

... were walking! In the fish section, which backs onto the river, were squid and their big cousins cuttlefish, buckets of large brown river clams and small white sea clams. We also saw baskets full of chicks and ducklings, women chewing and selling betel ...

... let my lack of bearing get in the way of leading out confidently in a new town, and we had to settle for a cafe next to the hotel when I couldn't find the place I was looking for. Luckily, Cafe 43 (Listed in the Lonely Planet, as I found out later) sells ...

... for hire at the hotel and took them out several times on rides out of the town into the countryside. We followed the river along its banks, not knowing where we would end up. We passed through a small fishing town and market, before heading through some ...

... going to last much longer as the entire coastline to the north is under intense development by the big resort hotels. Thousands of hotel rooms and holiday apartments are soon to appear that will change the area for evermore. I don't know whether ...

... before checking in. That evening we took a stroll around, had dinner at a little bar/restaurant opposite our hotel (Son something or other), which was right on the river and then an early night - ready for the next day!!!! We were up quite early and took ...