First class hotel!

Written: 2 january 2018
Travel time: 15 october — 9 november 2017
Who does the author recommend the hotel to?: For a relaxing holiday; For families with children
Your rating of this hotel:
10.0
from 10
Hotel ratings by criteria:
Rooms: 9.0
Service: 10.0
Cleanliness: 10.0
Food: 10.0
Amenities: 9.0
Reviews about Vietnam (Na Trang)
Positive:
- Weather, always the same temperature, albeit high. Accordingly, the water temperature is always stable.
- The local population is not yet accustomed to tourists.
- Sellers do not "rush" to tourists (unlike soviet Turkey and Egypt).

Negative:
- the age of vacationers is more than 40+, there are practically no young people - sadness (
- Chinese! It's crazy, they're everywhere. They behave in the most disgusting way: even those few of our compatriots who have not learned to behave normally look normal against their background.
They make noise, push, there are no signs “it is forbidden to walk on the lawn” for them (very pleasantly surprised, unlike the Chinese, the Russians did not trample only the planted grass).
- Chinese! I repeat - not everywhere and it is very frustrating and annoying.

- Money exchange. Rubles cannot be exchanged! This is very strange, considering that 1/5 of the tourists are from Russia (3/5 from China and the rest from other countries).
I visited 4 central banks, namely branches, they don’t exchange rubles anywhere, the same thing in hotels, jewelry and others. Everywhere change dollars. In our hotel, almost everything was changed, except for rubles.
- Departure. It's tough, it's much more difficult for them to fly away than for us, even though there is an airport the size of a doghouse. We stood at the front desk for 1h40m - lol! ! It's a piper! As a result, the last registrants barely had time to land. Many did not have time to sit in the waiting area, have a bite to eat and visit the dutik.

Hotel review.
In short: TTC Hotel Premium - Michelia (somewhere it is listed as TTC Hotel Premium Nha Trang 4 *) - the hotel is super! He corrected the whole impression of Vietnam. Thank you for such great service. This is better than 5* in Cyprus and 3* in Greece (which had the same excellent reviews at the time).
Positive:
- cleaning in the rooms. Every day, everything is changed and even the strongest mess is cleaned up. Left a tip 1.2, 4 € - did not take. maybe a little)
- air conditioning, unlike standard air conditioners, a well-thought-out climate control is installed here. The temperature cools slowly, the air flow itself is directed along the ceiling. The best that I have met among Thailand, Greece, Cyprus, Egypt.
- food is the most diverse: there are European cuisine and Chinese and Thai. Thais clean tables all the time, take away all used dishes at once during meals, like in restaurants. This is very convenient, given that visitors took 3.4 plates of food. He himself moved out 2 plates, scored a couple extra ..
- every dinner - fresh seafood on the grill: you collect how much and what you want. Shrimp overeat, tuna is very tasty. True, there was no crocodile - you can try it, and much more, in the grill garden for only 200 thousand baht. (~540 rubles per person).

Negative: None

Tour operator.
Went with Anex Tour. I can compare with Biblioglobus, Briska, Pegasus.

Service, the level of service is certainly better than Pegasus, approximately on par with the biblioglobus. From BG I flew to Thailand, and I want to note that there they learned how to skillfully squeeze money from tourists for all sorts of excursions. In Vietnam with Anex, either the employees were not so greedy, or they had not yet learned how to “milk” tourists - the employees were normal, they didn’t force anyone to go, they told normally, they didn’t pressure. In general, I liked it more than in BG.
Pros:
- Service is top notch.
- Not annoying employees.
- Thanks to Denis, with whom we visited Ho Chi Minh City.
- Even when departing from Moscow, an employee called to warn about the transfer of the flight.

Minuses:
- it seems that employees live in Vietnam for 1-3 years, and some cannot answer standard questions about the city: where can I exchange rubles (do they even know that they are not exchanged anywhere?
), normal (cheap) grocery stores and things, where it is better and what to buy on the road, when what opens and how long it works, and much more.
A wish to the tour operator: a huge request to notify tourists BEFORE leaving for the airport about how the inspection will take place at the airport and what attention will be paid to. Everyone already knows about the amount of alcohol exported from the Internet, but many were not aware of some fruits and souvenirs, as well as baggage allowance before arriving at the airport.

Excursion. From Anex I took one - Hochemin. In principle, it is satisfactory.
Positive:
- Museums - offset. I flew there mainly for them. Unfortunately, it took 1.5 hours for the catacombs and 1 hour for the war museum.
- Excellent guide - Denis! Knowledgeable, funny, responsible, attentive. Thank you very much!

Negative:
- Night city - nothing.
- All other stages of the tour - boredom.
An attempt to do similar excursions in Thailand, but still falls short.

Visited Winpearl amusement park on his own.
Super! It's worth spending a day or two on!
My advice to those who decide to go there:
1) How to get there - definitely a taxi.
Fast, convenient, relatively cheap! We went back and forth by taxi for two days - 110 each way (it turned out 110 +/- 5, taking into account the fact that the taxi drivers were different all 4 times). We returned in the evening, there were no price increases from taxi drivers who scared us.
2) Water and food with you.

We were there 2 times, both times neither us nor the people nearby were examined. It is possible that they forbid carrying baskets of food in the open, but in a backpack you can carry water with you and have a bite to eat.
3) When to go.
If possible from the very morning, it will be difficult to get around everything even in one day. For those who travel in the off-season, go in the morning (in the afternoon the sun hides behind the clouds - and it's not so hot).
For those who come on the hottest days, you may have to go after 13 - 14, when the sun begins to shine weaker.
4) Way back
It is worth remembering that it gets dark early in Vietnam, and after that it will no longer be possible to visit some parts of the park - the central part remains for the audience to visit.
If you want to visit the fountain show, then you can watch not the whole part, and leave in 5 minutes - as a result, you will queue for half an hour less.
If you return before the show, then there will be no special problems with the queues.
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