Beautiful Saigon Hotel is the new kid on the block in Saigon backpackers hostel area having been fully renovated less than 6 months ago. So you can expect all the advantage of a new hotel like a flat screen plasma TV, working water heater and new and clean beds (although they are on the hard side). Within this short period of their new set up, the Beautiful Saigon Hotel had already gathered lots of good reviews, particularly from TripAdvisor.com, one of the leading travel guide site. The only 2 negatives, from my personal experience and also from what’s read on TripAdvisor.com, is that the standard room (costing US$26/night) is very small and can be quite noisy (they are located opposite 2 big and very popular pubs in the Saigon’s backpacker’s area). If you can afford it, I suggest taking the deluxe room at US$45/night. The deluxe rooms are bigger and being located on higher level, the noise issue should get better.

Images of the War Remnants Museum Saigon…

Got invited by ‘QT’ (a big fan of Vietnam720 and you can read about him here) to Phu My Hung for coffee. We met at this Paris Coffee which is at R1-25 Hung Phuoc 4 Street, Phu My Hung. Nice cafe by the corner of a T-junction which is good for people and traffic watching. The purpose of this post is to highlight a few points:

Images of the Saigon Exhibition Convention Centre (SECC) at Phu My Hung, district 7 of Ho Chi Minh City. Huge and modern compound with international standard facilities. The SECC has a website listing their all their events at www.secc.com.vn. Good to check out their website for interesting events to tie your future trips to Saigon Vietnam, be it for business deals, sourcing of materials or to visit just for fun…

This is the last post on the Cholon series closing with the food and the general scene…

This is the 3rd part of the Cholon series featuring the Vietnamese this time…

Because there are so much to show, I’m dividing this Cholon post into a 4-parts series with this being Part 02 on the shoes, cloth, helmets, hats, hair clips…

Because there are so much to show, I’m dividing this Cholon post into a 4-parts series with this being Part 01 on the bags and wallets…

Images of the Reunification Palace Saigon…

Vietnam pictures of Vietnam sleeping beauties One culture of Vietnam is that the Vietnamese can almost sleep anywhere…