Rex Hotel ho Chi Minh City

... liking but the rest loved the food very much especially Daddy AY and Princess SR! 2100: Back at hotel for early rest. See Rex Hotel's review & photos: ...

Well after another six hours bus trip we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City just as it started to pour with rain. We had a look through the accomodation listings before we arrived to decide where we might stay and thought we would look up the Rex Hotel as ...

We are now at the airport awaiting the first flight of our long journey back home. We had a very short stay in Ho Chi Minh City. We arrived yesterday afternoon and were immediately struck by this busy, cosmopolitan city. Although the hotel is only 7 km ...

When you get around city of Saigon(Ho Chi Minh City),it's better off not on foot. Touts, "guides" and motorbike taxis will follow you every few metres or stand in your way, calling "hello!" or "oniisan!("mate/brother!" in Japanese).　It's so ...

... ;on the Traveling Tessier Tour. However, we will continue to update as things happen and go backfill later. We arrive in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) tonight after a flight from Da Nang. The weather here was much better than we expected because the typhoon ...

... to Ho Chi Minh City I finally arrived at 13:00 pm. I took a taxi to Bui Vien Street which is the backpackers area of Ho Chi Minh City. After a shower I walked to the city center and had a lunch at the famous Kim's Cafe. There is a lot of traffic and the ...

Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City 4th February 2007 You guessed it.. another long bus ride but this time to Ho Chi Minh City, previously known as Saigon (this name now only applies to District One, which is the central part of the city and where we are ...

... known was the capital of the Republic of Vietnam from 1956 until 1975 when it fell to the North Vietnamese forces, it was renamed Ho Chi Minh City by the Hanoi government. The city is progressing at a rapid rate and is really a fantastic place to be. ...

... 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 ...

... hours traveling of my life on the coach today.  So uncomfortable and long, just couldn't settle, but in the end we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, which if the title of this post didn't give it away - is MENTAL. There are 9 million people in Ho Chi Minh ...

... back to London tomorrow.  Discovered that over the last four days we were in the same three cities Siem Reap, Phnom Penh and Ho Chi Minh City.  Also, on 3 of the 4 nights we all watched the same movies at night.  I guess that's probably ...

Today was my first day in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.  Ho Chi Minh City is formally known as Saigon.  We had to travel up the Mekong River to get to the city but unfortunately or fortunately depending upon your view of boat collisions we did not ...

Today we arrived in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. We soon learned that no matter what the official name of the city, it is still called Saigon by its residence after more than a generation of it newer official name. Being on one of the smaller cruise ships ...