Romana Resort and SPA Romana Resort & SPA

Hotel Romana resort and spa.
Booking. com offered us a villa with sea view, with breakfast, for $84 per night, while the hotel offered it for $175. This predetermined the choice. There was a desire to take a villa in the Victoria hotel, it was offered for $ 215 per day. Let's say right away that if we take into account the cost in Romana from the counter, i. e. 175 per day, then we must definitely take Victoria for 215. Victoria is definitely the best, we would even say the only best hotel in the resort.
Romana and Victoria have a secluded location (these hotels are 3 minutes drive from each other), away from the local walking street. We don’t want to offend anyone, but if you like something like that, fly to Turkey or Egypt, save a lot of money and time on the road.
Walking street is a rather dirty place strewn with boutiques with cheap and low-quality fakes, all kinds of food with Russian names, this is essentially not Vietnam.

I wonder if there would be 156 million people in Romania, would such resort places be strewn with inscriptions in Romanian? !
By the way, the expensive five of the famous Anantara chain stands on the same street, but this is probably one of her most unsuccessful projects. The hotel is expensive, but in itself is not worth the money that is asked for it, hotels with such prices cannot stand in such places.
Returning to Romana:
-good and beautiful territory;
-quite friendly staff;
- more or less decent English only at the reception (if you want to use the room service, call the reception directly);
- with some reservations, a normal restaurant with an average cuisine in our opinion and decent enough food prices, alcohol prices are adequate;
- ironing is very inexpensive, but it is not of very high quality, but quite acceptable in resort realities;
- there was a sufficient amount of living creatures, a mouse lived in our villa, large flying cockroaches periodically came across, there was one frog, but in general everything was fine in this regard; the only minus that is very significant for us is the evening midge (it is silent in the villa, respectively), it is not visible / not heard, but it bites everything. . Buy something to protect against them, it brings out in earnest;
- in our villa the air conditioning was noisy at night;
- there are no complaints about the pool at the villa in terms of water quality;
- TV did not turn on, we do not know;
- the refrigerator worked, everything is ok;
- normal breakfasts;
- Cleaning is normal, I would even say satisfactory. They have one peculiarity: if you ordered something from food, then they put the dishes from under it next to the entrance to the villa, which, most likely, according to the plan, should be removed by other services, the set of which has not yet begun. We have everything stood for a week, periodically replenished.

- the beach is not stone, as for some reason they write in other reviews, it is sandy with a smooth entrance to the sea. We do not know how it is in other months, but at the end of November the sea is not calm, there are waves. Towels, sunbeds - free of charge.
- the local spa is pleasant enough, but the prices are high for Vietnam, which is probably why it was almost always empty when we passed by. We used it once, when we got burned, we did a wrap. Basically, we went to the spa, which is a minute away from the hotel (its appearance is not presentable, compared to the hotel, but the quality of the massage is the same for the price three times lower) who needs it, we can give contacts. By the way, there is a good steam room there;
- wifi. We needed it for work, and here, of course, the main disadvantage is that it is only not at the reception, they say that it is still in the restaurant, but our iPads did not find it there. There is nothing in the room.
Next to the reception there is a small room with two stationary computers and wired normal internet;
- as a result, $ 84 is an adequate price for this villa with breakfast, the villas themselves are quite shabby, compared to villas in the same Victoria.

Tip for buying food/drinks outside the hotel:
We went to the coop mart, which is located in Phan Thiet (about $ 6 for the cost of a taxi per way one way), this is a traditional supermarket where locals are bought, just be prepared that there are a lot of them. There we drank water, beer, fruit, etc. In principle, you can go there once at the very beginning, the price tag for everything is very attractive.

As for restaurants, or rather a restaurant outside the hotel, it is definitely the best / with excellent service, decor and, most importantly, brilliant cuisine (it may well not upset the stomachs of those who are used to A. Novikov's restaurants or, say, the Ginza project) is a restaurant at the Victoria Hotel.
Good selection of Aussie/French/Italian etc. wines, there is a menu with both Vietnamese dishes and a western menu (there is also a good Australian lamb though at the right price, different pastas, French onion soup, gazpacho) Gorgeous desserts, we tried everything .

We met the chef, a very interesting Vietnamese who speaks good English, which is interesting, he has been running this restaurant for the entire 15 years that the restaurant has been operating.
What is also very important: the restaurant is located on the veranda in close proximity to the sea, which only adds to the romance.
We dined there every night, paying $70-$120 for a dinner for two, never regretting a single cent.
General advice on taxi drivers / transfers: everything is inexpensive, but we often took a taxi, there are taxi drivers who allegedly do not have change and they do not understand English, although they could understand until the moment of payment, there were also those who, with a straight face, gave less change (although they don’t “squeeze out” much), so have it with you exactly for the calculation, and for tea “to taste”.