We flew to Hanoi on a Tigerair flight on a September Tuesday afternoon. Having applied for visa on arrival in advance, we proceeded to the counter for visa application with the entry form and waited for our turn for payment. We waited for about 20 minutes before a freshly printed visa was attached to our passports. After another half an hour, we were cleared by the immigration and had our luggage collected.
For the first time in my life I was welcomed at the airport arrival hall by someone holding a cardboard with my name neatly written on it! Transportation from the airport via the private car was free with a minimal booking of 3 nights at the hotel. The impossibly strict speed limit in Hanoi (80kph on highway and 40kph in the town area) meant that the ride to our temporary home in Hanoi took an hour.
Our hotel Charming 2 Hotel, located at the north-western corner of the Old Quarter, was about 10-15 minutes walk from the town centre. After the exhausting and dehydrating journey from Singapore, the icy welcome drinks and the warm greetings from the hotel staff were most welcomed. In fact the service that we received throughout our stay here was always outstanding. The staff were ready to give us any assistance needed at any time of the day and were never seen without a genuine smile. The rooms were spacious, clean and equipped with a computer with reliable Internet connection which I am using now. Complimentary fruits and bottled water were left in the hotel room every day and I have not missed their daily breakfast even once. Their recommendations on restaurants and itinerary they gave were excellent. To think that I only paid USD$45 for each night, I cannot recommend Charming 2 Hotel more!
Above is the hotel room which we stayed for the first 2 days.
This is the family room which we got on the last night, with a balcony from which we could watch all the actions in the Old Quarter.
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