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Dear Ms Thu Hien,
Thanks for your email. I will try to write a good answer.
We really liked Vietnam. Ho Chi Min is a nice city with houses well taken care
of compared with China. The traffic is more load as all mopeds are using petrol.
In China many are using batteries so it's not so noisy. The traffic behaviour is
better in Ho Chi Min :-) Phu Quoc was a nice Island with nice people. We were
impressed by the high quality of cars being used for taxi driving and such nice
and polite taxi drivers. Same reflection in Ho Chi Min.
We were met at the airport when we arrived and our hotel in Ho Chi Min was good.
My parents in law from Sweden arrived the following morning and we spent some
days together. We joined Christmas eve at the hotel adn it was nice. Breakfast
and Christmas eve had very good food and good service. We can recommend the
hotel.
At Phu Quoc and our first hotel Thien Hai son Resort we had booked two rooms.
Both were on the first floor just near the lobby. One was facing the pool, the
other one the tennis court. Quite old rooms and bathrooms. I woke up at 5.40am
the first morning as three cleaning ladies "had a meeting" just outside our
room. 6.10am I went outside to ask them to be quiet - they looked at me
strangely...Our bathroom had no fan so they installed one the second day. We had
heard that sometimes the water and electricity supply could have problems so we
did not complain about not having hot water in the bathroom until the second
day. Just to be informed that there is no hot water in our room as there is no
hot water heater installed!!! So, what to do? We were moved on the following day
(day 3) to a room on the second floor facing the tennis court. There was no room
available on second floor for our children so they stayed downstairs. Now my
husband and I had a room with hot water and were awake at 6am every morning by
people playing tennis instead of cleaning ladies having meetings. I don't know
what's best? The tennis court was open 6am to 11pm!!! Could have been 7am/8am to
10pm.
Breakfast was good, their little restaurant at the beach was fantastic, the pool
was clean, the beach was clean, nice water. I believe staying in a bungalow is a
really good option at this hotel.
Then we moved for the last four days further south on the beach to Thanh kieu
Beach resort. Nice place with good service and a good breakfast. One room with a
fan and two beds with mosquito nets, just a simple hanger to hang clothes and
things. A small refrigerator. We just unpacked exactly what we needed as there
were no place to put the things. To flush the toilet we had to use a bucket as
the flush did not work. It was very basic more like the places I stayed in when
I was a backpacker in Asia back in 1990. Nice veranda, fantastic view over the
beach and sea. A nice place, but a bit too small house for us as a family and a
bit too simple regarding the bathroom/toilet area.
We did a lot of walking around the area and we are positively sure that the best
place to stay at is Sea Star Resort at Phu Quoc.
We did a snorcling, island hopping trip. The food on the boat was fantastic, the
diving was so so. Unfortunately the sea is not being taken care of so many of
the corals are dead so it's very brownish at all four stops. After the boat trip
we were driven to a beach on the east coast called Sao Bao Beach with white
sand. We went into the water, but it was full of plastic bags and rubbish.
Awful. I believe it's important for Vietnam to keep good care of the ocean and
land to provide an good environment for animals and humans.
Then we flu back to Ho Chi Min and arrived at Green Saigon Hotel. They were not
expecting us, but were very kind and called your agency to check everything up.
The first impression was "What is this for sort of place". We arrived late
afternoon and would leave next morning before 6am so what to do? They gave us
two rooms. The children's room had a window covered by a curtain and behind it
was a wall! Both rooms felt dusty and not clean. Sheets were very old and in our
rubbish bin was a used pink condom. This place felt like one you rent per hour
not per night if you get my meaning? The man from the lobby was really nice. As
they could not offer breakfast that early he went out and bought breakfast for
us the night before to keep in the refrigerator. In the morning they helped us
to get a taxi and we left for the airport and flight back to China. I would
never like to stay there again.
I hope this summary will help you. We are happy to have been in Vietnam and will
be glad to go back some day.
With kind regards
Kristina Rosen
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