Hoi An Villas - Reviews and Rates

...so we went strait to bed when the bus dropped us off at 5AM and I got up at 9 to meet a few of the girls for breakfast and to go to the tailors. Felt pretty tired! Everyone was going mental for the clothes- buying suits, boots and dresses. I decided on a purple cotton day dress (charlotte from SATC style) and a satin dress I saw on a perfume ...

It was 5:30am and the train pulled into its first stop. I was in a 4 berth sleeper with 3 others, two of whom got off here and the next 1 hour later. That meant I had the 4 sleeper berth to myself for 6 whole hours up to Da Nang. I passed the time by just staring out of the window and marvelling at the morning shrouding the highlands. By 11am I ...

Hi everyone! I've made it to Hoi An, as you can see from the map I'm over halfway down the coast of Vietnam now.

Sorry I didn't update you from Hue, but I was at a little bit of a low point, and didn't really have much to say. I think I may have hit the 'wall' travel-wise, do you know what I mean? I just needed a bit of normality, and to ...

Friday 17th July

Cooking class this morning. An early start: 8.30 - 1pm. Was great. More later. Check out the photos.

The Red Bridge Cooking Class and tour was on our agenda this morning. This started with a walk through the local wet markets where our guide/chef, Phi, pointed out some of the more interesting food items. From the m...

Hoi an is known for two things. First, its adorable. Second, it's got a lot of tailors--literally hundreds, in a town of about 50,000. My school wardrobe has been getting increasingly worn over the last few years and I tore out the elbow on my favorite jacket, so I figured I would get some clothes while I'm here. I went in, chose fabric, a style...

Well decided to give the long coach journeys a miss for a bit and so we flew to Hoi An from Saigon and said goodbye to Robin and Ash. The flight was only 1 hour which is great. We have also booked a flight to Hanoi to save some travelling time. Hotels nice we got the wrong one though, Robin and Ash recommended the An Hoi, I think our taxi driver...

Today we went to My Son (Pronounced ME SHON) not MY SON but the guide told us a hiilaarrriiioous tale about a Westerner asking for directions which lost a lot in his translation but I laughed. My Son is another Unesco World Heritage Site of the Cham people and let me tell you it is a trek to get their and I mean a trek through the jungle. Thanks...

We go into town and see what the tailor has done and both shirts are ace, with the dress to be finished later. We go for lunch at a restaurant called 'The Mango Rooms' and have these amazing baguettes filled with seared tuna steaks and grilled beef vowing to go back later for dinner. We walk to the beach not realising how far away it is with the...

Troy has arrived! I took a bus down here from Hue (everyone tells me they think it's a waste of time) The ride was uneventful. Disembarking from the bus, we were accosted by a swarm of touts. Three of us quickly made our way down the street - any street, saying we had a hotel already. Once away from the crossfire, we turned to each other, introd...

If Tam was a buddhist and believed in the seven levels of heaven then Hoi An would definately be one level for her... Hoi An is the tailoring mecca of Vietnam. Over 200 tailors in a town about the size of Cooma (and that's just the clothes tailors). We have spent the last three days going from clothes tailor to clothes tailor to shoe tailor to c...