Riverside Hotel Saigon

... and settle in for a blissful two-and-a-half hour session. A release from school, an antidote to the blandness of Riverside, a window onto the Vietnamese working-class world. There was nothing fancy or pretentious about the Saigon Café; it was a ...

... one of the sachets. If only life were like 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. ...

... two "beds"(wooden platforms) available to hikers and tourists that want to stay overnight. Our third stop was for lunch at a riverside restaurant. I think all we really wanted was the cold beer as the heat was brutal. They served us an elephant ear ...

... , although unsurprisingly for an infamously well camouflaged route, there wasn't that much to see. Next stop was Hoi An, a quaint riverside town of well preserved pagodas and 19th century shop houses, gorgeous, if a little Disneyfied. Hoi An is also ...

... stayed at so far, and it's not even a hotel--it's our friend's apartment. Many expats and foreigners live at the Riverside Hotel...oops, Apartments. The complex has a restaurant, tennis courts, swimming pool (which we used finally), salon, and laundry ...

... . 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.  I can't even begin to describe for you what the motorcycle traffic is ...

... like an army, especially since everyone is wearing helmets since it was mandated in a recent law. Anyway, safely in our beautiful riverside hotel courtesy of Mr. & Mrs. Stern, we let Vietnam soak in. We ate dinner at a traditional Vietnamese ...

... sit in the breeze on the top of the boat and watch the banks of the half mile wide Mekong pass languidly by. Through the riverside border crossings 3 hours later, and then another hour to Chao Doc where we were met by our guide Binh & our driver Tho. ...

... dodging and we made our way around safely. First stop was the tourist information office for a better map and then to the riverside. This was disappointing as a lot of its length was occupied by a largely disused shipyard which, we were told later was to ...

... 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 ...

We are strangely sad to leave Saigon - although we have seen the main sights I feel that we have 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 ...

... of crazy and chaos than Hanoi, but in reality, it came across as a much more modern and orderly city. We checked into the Saigon Mini 5 hotel.  Well, it really lived up to the name... it was tiny!  But absolutely perfect for us and at a bargain ...

... ).    On this first day the bus stopped near the Ben Thanh Market and from here we walked to our hotel. The Saigon Mini Hotel 5 in District 1 is in a street of hotels, eating places, bars etc. The area obviously caters for tourists as there is ...

... leader, Bau, took us to the crappiest restaurant in the ritziest part of town.  Afterwards we headed down to the riverside to see the giant piranha looking dinner cruise boat bedazelled with glittery lights and tacky flowers.  We could have ...

... right next to the river where a full meal of Vietnamese chicken curry cost $3.00, and drinks were $0.75.  Not bad for a riverside restaurant. After dinner, Connie and Vassy left us to go shopping and Dad and I tried to get some nice night pictures by ...

... and settle in for a blissful two-and-a-half hour session. A release from school, an antidote to the blandness of Riverside, a window onto the Vietnamese working-class world.      There was nothing fancy or pretentious about the ...

... is the backbone of Saigon and rather French, where a lot of the expensive hotels and restaurants are as well as the riverside. We followed a planned walk around the area which allowed us to see many of the city's museums and colonial remnants including ...

... locals is more exciting than being herded around like sheep on tour buses. We got off at a river and walked over to the nearest riverside cafe, where it offered "Cold beer and wifi". We left back to our hotel as soon as we were given warm beer. The ...

... pig, as almost every dish includes pork in some form. Oddly, I haven't laid eyes on a single live pig. The Long LIfe Riverside Hotel is lovely, although the staff here is not pleasant at all. They don't take credit cards because the government won't allow ...

... about the war and was very interesting to see the perspective. After a day sight seeing we chilled out in the bars around our hotel. Saigon is a nice city, its a lot nicer than Hanoi, i really liked it. Although it is just as busy if not more so than ...

... seeing it for the first time in the morning light and questioning again the reliability of our eyes. And then we reached the riverside hotel we were eyeing for the remainder of our stay and were reminded of the drawbacks of such a laidback place. Imagine ...