The Long Hotel

Girls Getaway Weekend to the Jersey Shore. This is a review of the Ocean Place Resort hotel, beach, and tips on local restaurants. Traveling from New York City on the train.

...   We got back to land, exited the boat, got in the van, and drove a short way through Ha Long, back tracked, then found our hotel. After some tense moments waiting, J. stuck by her guns and got us the rooms at the previously agreed upon ...

... wollten wir von Chau Doc nach Vinh Long mit dem Boot fahren, doch leider war dies nicht moeglich (ausser mit dem Victoria Hotel Speedboat fuer 100$). So haben wir uns auf einen Vietnamesen verlassen, der uns den einheimischen Weg erklaert hat :-) In Chau ...

... In Long Beach! Depois de tantos acontecimentos no dia de ontem, agora chegou a hora de desfrutar da area de Long Beach onde estamos hospedados, e bem como do hotel. Mais uma vez, ao abrir a janela do quarto apos o cafe da manha na cama, qual nao foi a ...

We flew Vietnam Airlines to Hanoi and arrived quite late at night. Our hotel, Hanoi Rendevous (a wonderful sort of boutique hotel for US$30 with a full breakfast), arranged a driver for us from the airport--thank goodness. Basically we had a small ...

... reach the same destination as we had, but they were being hassled left and right by local taxi drivers and salesmen. Furthermore, the hotel they had researched ended up being full…you get the point. The trip started early Friday morning (we all took ...

... part of the world and I'd definitely come back to Cat Ba Island to do some more exploring. That night we checked into the Holiday View Hotel and after dinner, Tash, Ryan and I went out for a few drinks for Ryan's 28th birthday.  The beer here is so ...

... like pigs, but we actually did it! Woohoo!! We may even participate in a trek in northern Thailand now! After that, we checked into a hotel and walked around the town (if you can call it that - it was a dump) before heading to Monkey Island. The monkeys ...

... Sands Hotel" on Cryde road near Braunton & North of Barnstaple in North Devon. Lovely 4 star Hotel at the egde of a cliff surounding a lovely and very long beach. Spent few months there with Franck, one of my friend from the Dinard College (Bar ...

... to return. We then checked into our hotel for the night - Sunflower 1 Hotel in Cat Ba Island, absolutely god damn minus 10 star hotel.  Our bed was hard as a rock and I mean hard as. Troy describes the place as 'a shit hole'.  Wires hanging ...

After a long day of flying, we were warmly welcomed by the Sheraton Gateway Hotel staff.  After a hot shower I was ready for a late bite to eat and a few cold drinks.  Karen set up the internet WiFi and stayed in the room.  I ran into one ...

... nights, we stayed on the boat the first night, which was relaxing and fun. From the boat we got a look at the spectacular Ha Long Bay scenery. The next night we stayed on Cat Ba island, followed by a drive across the island and another boat trip back to ...

... !! We do not have appropriate clothing for the 5* restaurant (more money saved!) Took free bus service into town of Long Beach. First stop...gentleman in wheelchair waiting...bus suspension dipped to kerb and automatic ramp to sidewalk (like the ...

... time exploring the natural side of California but we are ready to hit some civilization now.  Instead of driving west straight to Long Beach we took a detour south taking in Laguna Beach, Newport Beach and the edge of Naples.  One of the best ...

... ri au nez en lui demandant ce qu'il comptait faire des autres touristes à bord et surtout des suivants qui les attendaient à Ha Long city... Caroline était là aussi pour me soutenir et les faire chier autant que moi. Quand on leur a dit qu'on allait ...

... thrown over us by a guy to shower us off. It had to be done considering we now had a 30 minute journey back to the hotel for lunch. We spent the afternoon walking around town abiding by the ridiculous rule we had made to only drink Pepsi as a pose  ...

... nbsp;  The disappointment of the lost camera was pretty much the end of our Ha Long Bay trip, and we were slowly taken back to the mainland by our junk before being bussed back to Hanoi where we found ourselves another hotel for the next two nights. ...

... to Cat Ba island where we would disembark and stay in the hotel for a night (you don't get much of the cruise feeling when staying in a hotel). The boat dropped us at the far side of the island and we had to take a bus to the other side (why couldn't the ...

... the mass of tourist lining up at the dock and we knew it was going to damage our expectations of the famous Ha Long Bay. Instead of heading onto the hotel's boat 'which is what they told us' we were sold to another tour group and spent the next 3 days ...

... a massive pizza, get in! We checked out early in the morning and headed back to boat to get back to Ha Long City where we would have lunch in a hotel and you guessed it… fish and rice yay! After feeding we then headed back in our bus to Kangaroo ...

... and jumping I was very proud of myself but I do wish I’d managed to look a bit braver in the photos. That night we slept in a hotel on Cat Ba Island and had a meal at the rooftop bar on top of the hotel with beautiful views of the bay and a distant ...