Renaissance Riverside Saigon

... to see things I might otherwise miss. This morning at 8 am Nam came to get us with our bags and take us to the Renaissance Riverside Hotel for check in to room 725. Traditional, opulent, comfortable. I could live in hotels. I could live in this hotel. I ...

... swordfish creme brulee and digestifs! Oh my! Sleep! La Forchette quality 4.5/5 service 4/5 val for money 4.5/5 ambiance 4/5 total  17/20 Riverside Renaissance ambiance 4/5 service 4.5/5 room 4.5/5 breakfast 4.5/5 total 17.5/5 ...

... make for some fun bargaining and very careful calculations over the next 4 weeks. Today's flights were without incident and I arrived in Saigon at 2:00pm.  I got in a taxi and arrived at my hotel.  Saigon is one teeming mass of humanity.  ...

... not done it justice and it would easily sustain a few more days' investigation. We were transferred the five minute journey to the Renaissance Hotel to register on the Pandaw cruise. There was a fair amount of chaos with the baggage and I wondered if that ...

... way to a bus that took us to our hotel. I had lucked out and was placed in the staff/faculty hotel. The Renaissance Riverside is a five star resort that has hosted many celebrities including President Clinton. My room was incredible with a huge bath ...

... salmon cheese cake ice cream (green tea and almond and rum and raisin) more salad and more wine. Renaissance - Buffer Dinner quality - service - val 4 money - ambiance - total Renaissance Hotel ambiance service room breakfast ...

... behind on blogging, I haven't much choice. So in the interest of pith, here's Ho Chi Minh abridged. The first morning in Saigon we hailed a taxi and headed for the town of Cu Chi. Due to its extensive Viet Cong tunnel network, Cu Chi witnessed intense ...

... to the ballroom. Fallaci writes: The appointment with Nguyen Van Thieu was for eight in the morning in the presidential palace in Saigon, where the president invited me to have breakfast with him. And at eight on the dot Nguyen Van Thieu entered the room ...

... chaos, just chaos. 8-10 million people in the city and 6 million scooters. too much! We stayed at a place called the riverside renaissance and it was a five star hotel. It was really, really nice and since i hadnt stayed any place like that lateley it ...