Travel Day Redux

Today was our final day in Hanoi before adventuring south to Da Nang. Having completed all of the obvious tourist experiences in Hanoi we allowed ourselves a lazy morning. Check out wasn't until noon so we had more than enough time to putter around and get ready for the trek to the airport.  

During our time in Hanoi we stayed at The Hanoi Old Town Hotel and all things considered I'm giving it a solid 6 out of 10.  From like an upper-middle class western white boy perspective.  The hotel has the feeling of its district, that being old and rundown-ish but with obvious effort made to modernize and westernize the whole experience. The room was clean, homey and more or less comfortable (the bed was rather hard but coming here off jet lag as long as it was a bed with clean sheets I was happy.)  Some of the short comings were a bathroom which had a rather bizarre shower / tub arrangement with a nozzle that shot literal water needles out of it. As well as a bed that squeaked loudly just by looking at it.  But, whatever the hotel lacked in one capacity or another it made up for in the service of its staff. Single handedly some of the nicest, most helpful people I've met in the service industry.  Regardless of whether your flight got in at midnight and you needed a ride from the airport

- cough us cough - 

or if you needed a local, non-tourist trap dinner recommendation they had you covered.  

Now begins a bit of a stop and go city hopping extravaganza. We spend a day or two in each of the next four cities culminating in four days spent in Hoi-Chi-Minh (Saigon) before saying goodbye to Vietnam altogether.  

Our flight into Da Nang today was delayed four times so we had plenty of time to kill before liftoff. I brought the book Eragon with me and I'm going to see how far I get through it before I get back to Vancouver.  

Anyway Jack and I are about to pass out and I think tomorrow is going to be a suuuper stressful one and by that I mean we're probably going to spend most of it by the beach.

Night  

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