Sapa Small Hotels - Reviews and Rates

Woke up early to the sound of rain & roosters & the valley was covered by mist. Sat around talking with everyone & eating yummy banana pancakes.




Set out in our rain ponchos & the track was slippery & muddy like you would not believe. Some people in another group were covered in mud as they had fallen so m...

Le Vietnam a aussi ses montagnes.
Au Nord notamment, aux confins de la frontiere avec la Chine. Le train de Hanoi fait etape a Lao Cai avant de franchir la limite avec le grand voisin. De la, une route nous mene au travers des montagnes et nous emmene a Sapa, a 1600 metres d'altitude. La temperature baisse.Et la route se fait plus sinueuse a...

Alright last entry was rather boring i know!!

anyway arrived in Hanoi early morning and had to wait to book in to the hostel where i was staying. Another great bus journey with no air con to get to Hanoi!!

Anyway booked in and met a couple of decent Aussie lads and kiwi so ended up chilling at a beer hoi place for most of the day c...

When we read in our Lonely Planet that you should choose accommodation in Sapa with the best views, we scoffed. We figured that we weren't planning on spending much time in the room so why bother with a nice view. How wrong we were... You just need to look at the pics of the view from our room to understand!

We looked around and decided o...

Tonight we caught the night train - 8.30pm to Sapa - a 10 hour journey up North into the hills of Vietnam. We had tried to get the best cabin we could for the journey though the breakdown of communication with the ticket office resulted in us getting a cabin that had two sets of bunks in it. Ended up with a local man sleeping in the other bunk. ...

It was a hearty hilltribe breakfast of banana pancakes this morning before we started out on our short 5km trek to our pick-up point. On the way we went past an awesome waterfall which I just had to get into the middle of. It was quite lively due to last weeks floods. It looked like a massive great water slide and was quite tempting. There were ...

After a marathon trip from Thakhek to Hanoi (5 buses, 2 tuk-tuks and a moto in 17hrs) I stayed just one night in Hanoi before heading on north to Sapa. The small town on the highlands in famous for its variety of nearby hill tribes and for standing at the foot of the highest mountain in South East Asia (Mt. Fansipan - a bit close to fancy pants)...

We manage to get some sleep on the train, but its intermittent and at 5am we are woken by the attendant going down the carriage offering tea or coffee. We arrive at the Lao Cai station about half an hour later and are met by our guide for the next 3 days - Thanh. We load our small packs into our car and we set off towards the village of Sapa, hi...

Saturday morning we're the 'old' group and that means we're kicked out of our room at 8 am, still barely awake. The hotel staff keeps barking at us, "you say 2 minutes, now 1 hour!" but we're too sleepy to feel for his dilemma. It is our fault we're getting out on the later end, but they're really not much for service; everyone seems to be in a ...

There are loads of places in Hanoi that try to sell you trips to Sapa. So we thought that it must be the place to go to have a look at....so we did. We booked a four night thingy. Two over night trains with one night staying with a family in their home and one night in a hotel. We booked a first class train teh day before we left but holy god al...