Renaissance Saigon

... a holiday in a five-star hotel all the time. TRAVEL NOTES Renassance Riverside Hotel Saigon 8-15 Ton Duc Thang, District 1 www.renaissance-saigon.com Notre Dame Cathedral 1 Cong Xa Paris Square, District 1. Open 9:30 on Sundays for English mass Minh ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... rest of our trek. Once fortified we wandered round Saigon looking at historical buildings (the GPO, Notre Dame, Rex Hotel and the Renaissance Palace) which were interesting but not much to describe, really.  We ended up in the War Remnants museum; ...

... in the Western world.  So during our medieval times, the Mongolians were taking over Asia.  And during our renaissance, the Malays were fleeing their own war to Southern Vietnam.  It really gave a greater perspective on world affairs and ...

... also had a great day wandering round down to the river, taking in the view from the 21st view of the swanky Renaissance hotel, stumbling across galleries, and sheltering from the torrential rain in the Victorian GPO complete with massive portrait of Ho. ...

Hallo ihr Lieben! Wie ihr der Ueberschrift entnehmen koennt, sind wir gut in K.L. angekommen. Das Hotel Renaissance, in dem wir fuer drei Naechte bleiben werden, ist der reinste Luxus! Da schlaegt das Herz einer Rucksacktouristin hoeher! :) Die Fahrt ...

... 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 ...

... what they are when you come over!      After 3 nights at the Park Hyatt we moved to the Renaissance for a night, which I was able to get using my Marriott points.  The hotel reminded me fondly of my past business travels, a ...

... schon um 9 Uhr früh 40 Grad im Schatten hat. Aber das hatte auch sein Gutes: Wir konnten recht günstig im 4-Sterne-Renaissance-Hotel unterkommen und eine Nacht ein bisschen Luxus genießen. Um halb 9 abends sind wir in den Hotelpool gesprungen und es ...

... you know it. Not that I am an expert on Musicals, but i have seen my fair share in New York and Vegas (and even Miss Saigon in London actually) and this was so beyonf anything i have ever seen before. I highly recommend everyone to go see it if given the ...

... the beaches. We stayed on Long Beach in one of the cheaper ones. It turned out to be one of the best places we've stayed (Renaissance in Hong Kong is not on any level of anything else when I talk about accommodation by the way). The hotel was on the ...

... 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 ...

... with Buddhism until recent restoration of contacts with other global Muslim communities in Vietnamese cities, but Islam is now seeing a renaissance, with new mosques being built. "Malaysia has some Cham immigrants and the link between the Chams and the ...

... 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 ...