одного раза достаточно once is enough

Actually, the review refers more to Vietnam as a place to stay than to the hotel itself. Although we can also say a few words about the hotel. We stayed at this hotel from January 3 to January 12.2011. This is our first time in Vietnam and we are unlikely to go there again, although we went there joyfully. Holiday experiences are mixed. On the one hand, seeing the sea and palm trees in the middle of winter is, of course, good, and can make you forget about the unpleasant. But, on the other hand, all this is also in Thailand, which is closer and, from our point of view, better.
To begin with, in the restaurant of this hotel, on the second day, the wife was poisoned with fish in batter, so that she vomited all night and lay in the room all the next day. A few days later I was already poisoned, in the Forest restaurant, which was recommended to us as the best in Phan Thiet. And I got poisoned in such a way that I had to go to the clinic and spend four hours there under droppers, and then swallow pills for five days. I had to pay for the services of a doctor, because insurance from Russian insurance companies is not accepted there. Now I’ll go to Ingosstrakh for a refund, I don’t know if they will reimburse me. So, people, keep in mind that the insurance policies that you have on hand are not accepted in Vietnam, take some cash with you for these purposes.
Excursions are generally a separate song. We bought a tour of the "white sand dunes" and "fairy stream". It sounds nice, but these are such garbage dumps, and there is absolutely nothing to see there. In general, you have to walk a kilometer and a half to the dunes, there is no service, nothing interesting. They showed some red ravine, they said that it was a landmark. And everywhere impudent Vietnamese boys demanding money. Beggars are bolder than our gypsies.

Then they booked a tour to the "lying Buddha" and got stuck again. We paid 60 dollars at the Lotos travel agency, agreed that the next day a taxi would pick us up at 14:00. The next day the taxi arrived, we showed the taxi driver a receipt, he nodded his head and we drove off. We went to the Buddha, looked, returned to the hotel, and then the taxi driver demands that we pay him according to the meter (which is $ 50). Let's go to the "Lotus" to understand. There they witnessed a swearing between this taxi driver and the woman whom we paid for the tour. In between a skirmish in Vietnamese with a taxi driver, she told us in Russian that she did not send this taxi driver to us, and another taxi driver was supposed to call for us, and this one is just a deceiver... In general, a madhouse. In the end, she returned half the cost to us and that's it. The taxi driver did not lag behind us, we had to give him another ten.
Now about the sea. In Moscow, we were told in a travel agency that the sea in Phan Thiet is calm. But it's not. There is always a very strong, high wave at the sea, so it is very difficult to enter the sea. For kite surfers, this place is good, but if you just splash in the water, then not really. My wife longingly remembered Thailand. The beach at the hotel is not its own, there are few sunbeds, even less sunscreen fungi. It’s just impossible to lie on a sunbed, you burn out at the moment, and there is nowhere to hide under a canopy. Why the Vietnamese do not make canopies for vacationers remains a mystery to us.
We did not see rats in the hotel, but gray fluffy squirrels - yes.
Concluding my report, I would like to say that, in our opinion, Vietnam is still half way up to the level of a normal resort place, they still have a lot to do to reach the level of a developed resort. Compared to Pattaya, Phan Thiet is just a village: along the only street there are several restaurants with live music, several shops, pharmacies, and massage parlors. In the evening there is nowhere to go, the hotel is empty and quiet, there is no animation. No multi-storey shopping centers, theaters, bowling alleys, billiard halls, normal cafes and so on, melancholy. So we will not go to Phan Thiet anymore.