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Published: January 17th 2018
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Worst night’s sleep EVER! For me, at least, Sam was oblivious and passed out unconscious. Maybe I should have had more cocktails. The cute restaurant opposite the hotel is now another trashy bar, in fact there are a whole line of them, catering to a specific type of clientele. Even the side rooms at the hotel are not exempt from the noise now. Earplugs didn’t even take the edge off it. At 4am it stopped but then the vendors on their bikes, some with loudspeakers, were up and down the alley selling thugs we didn’t want. If we come here again we won’t stay on this street, it has changed such a lot. Sad face!
Awake at 6.30,at breakfast at 7.30 feeling non too special. The breakfast was very good, large array of cooked items and a microwave to heat it up in, the usual radioactive jam and margarine all displayed under the sign saying don’t take food out of the room. Oops! We lay groaning for a while after, then packed our swimming stuff and tried to leave the hotel. The road had been dug up the whole way along since last night (and was put back together by
the time we got back this afternoon!). We bought water in Circle K(11,000vnd for a large one) and changed money round the corner (30,800 to the pound, best rate on the street). Walked across busy roads through the mopeds oh so smoothly to the hotel (impressing another tourist, our pulse rate didn’t rise a bit). It was cloudy but we just needed to lie motionless on a comfy sun bed all day and recover a bit. The price to use the pool is now 350,000vnd (£11.24), to be honest if you have the balls you could walk in and just not order anything from the bar as then they ask your room number. Last time they gave us wristbands but not this. My nerves can’t stand the worry of being caught in any case, we paid up. It was super quiet, we got free sugar cane juice, fruit and cold flannels twice and the most expensive coffee and Pepsi, which came to £7.24!
Apart from a Chinese man jumping into the pool in his jeans, pants and belt (twice) and a Chinese woman spitting into the drain at the side, nothing to report. Back to the hotel to check
in for our flight to Phu Quoc tomorrow. I could do it online, luckily, and hope Vietjet will print the boarding cards at the airport (which happens to be the international one, not the domestic, which I was expecting - worth checking!).
The programme for the evening was to get our nails done, eat, drink, shop, in no particular order. Over the road to Eden Spa first, where the girls were eating dinner, could we wait 5 minutes. 15 minutes later they came back inside to find us slumped at 45 degrees. Chose colour and pattern. I decided on Hello Kitty. This turned out to be very foolish, as she obviously had never done this particular design before and I ended up with white blobs, yellow noses, whiskers like bar codes and no ears. I asked for ears to be added and showed her a picture on google. She added them in black and so they are pointless and invisible. Very, very unhappy with the result for 100,000vnd. Sam’s are very nice, although one big toe nail is visibly much longer than the other. My toes are going to fill me with deep sadness for at least the next
3 weeks.
We went to eat further along in the quieter part of the road where you can sit upstairs and watch the world go by, opposite the expensive but tranquil Legend Coffee place. One white wine, one green Saigon beer, spring rolls, green thai curry, steamed vegetables with rice, £5 each. Very satisfied, loads of food. The night being yet young we found ourselves back at the Go2 bar for a night cap. The waitress looked a bit stern-faced at first but then became our best friend when we tried out our terrible Vietnamese. Fast forward and she wanted to find me on Facebook! Yikes! Luckily she couldn’t. They just love English teachers here and are so respectful, which is kind of nice. We chatted to a German guy called Lukas who’d been travelling for 4 weeks on his own, all over Vietnam. Tonight there was a woman fire eater, and the tourists sitting in front of us gave her money. Sad, sad, again!
Great to be here but looking forward to beach/island life for a couple of weeks. Off to Phu Quoc, hopefully to the sun!
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Karen Grattan
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Food looks good
Hi there. You are having quite an experience already, one way and another, including your encounter with kitty! Food looks great, and the pool. Hopefully you will be have some opportunities for more restful sleep though. Thanks for the blog and photos, and happy travels to you both xx