Hanoi Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

hanoi isch grad chli ae luuti stadt. aes huupaet a allnae eggae und aendae.... uebelscht. uf dae strossae gohts no schlimmaer zuae und haer als in Thailand. jedae fahrt chli irgendwo, ueberholt wird keck lings und raechts und aes haet roller soweit das auge reicht.

fuer ues isch das chli z'vil gsi, drum simmaer au noed lang bliibae.

Barnaby and his friends travelled on the train from Chiang Mai, to Bangkok. From there, they flew to Hanoi in Vietnam.

Woke up very early on the 16th (Jean-Guy's flight left at 8am) and spent a few hours at the airport (mine left at noon). Got nervous in the taxi on the way to the Bangkok airport... partially because the guy was driving like he was trying to outrun the cops and partially because I knew I was now on my own. Not to worry... it's all good now!! I a...

1) Pho is the national dish of Vietnam. It's pronounced "fuh." Now read the blog title again. 2) I can't take credit for that joke. There's a very good pho shop near our place called What the Pho. But still. It's funny. So as I'm sure you've figured out, we're off to VIETNAM for this year's anniversary adventure. And I'm using swell new blog sof...

I started my first Vietnam experience in Hanoi. Geez, this is a rural and urban lifestyle wrapped into one city. The people seem to be living their old village lifestyle amoungst the hubbub of an emerging city. The small streets are teeming with motorbikes, cars, cyclos, roaming vendors, and people with no apparent rules on right of way whatsoev...

Luckily we managed to get bunks on the train back to Hanoi. They were "hard bunks" (no mattress, just wood with a thin mat), but it was a huge improvement from the hard seats we had suffered on the way there. We arrived in Hanoi at 4.30am and I went back to the same hostel as before, but I'm currently hanging around waiting to see if anyone chec...

Arrived in Hanoi by plane and stayed in a guesthouse found on the internet, We were the first British people to stay here as most guests - usually Danish. It was in the Old Quarter of Hanoi, where all the street names are names after a craft/product that was either made or sold there. Ideal location for Hanoi. We had delayed coming to Vietnam un...

Again we woke early, without an awful lot to do today before our flight to Hanoi.

We were tempted to take a tuk-tuk to one of the nearby waterfalls, but - terrible as this sounds - we figured that we'd probably see much better waterfalls later on in our travels, so we decided to have another nice relaxing day instead!

Katie has be...

Not much to say about today as it was a travelling day. We got up latish and spent the morning catching up on the blog, emails, postcards - that sort of thing. We also had a massive sort out and re-packed the suitcases as this time we are flying and we need to re-distribute some of the weight of our purchases so far! We had lunch at the hotel an...

I never really liked waking up with a hangover in the morning and had forgotten about it until it hit me this morning for the first time in many months. However the tours are daily here and wasn't going to stop for no one so I hopped onto the one taking in the Tam Coc river cruise taking in tombs of the Lay king and his predecessor. His predeces...