Alexander Kägi, Switzerland citizen, visited Vietnam on 12 Feb 2010
HTML clipboardDear Ms. Nguyen Thi Nga,
First of all a big thank you for your great help and services!
I´ve tried to find some time to write a travel resumée, but I was very
tired in the evenings due to jetlag.
But now I have some time and I really much like to write a feedback.
Firstly we all really loved the vacation in Vietnam. Your services were
absolutely perfect, you answered very quickly to all our questions. We are all
very satisfied. Thank you.
Don´t worry about the car pick up from the airport in HCMC, we already
suspected that the driver wouldn´t wait so long, as we had 1 and a half hour
delay plus the Visa on arrival took quite some time. So when we got out of the
airport we didn´t search long for the driver and took a taxi.
We have been informed about the breakfast problems at Thanh Kieu when the
manager of the hotel came back from his holidays. He was very kind and skilled
in English and gave us back a little amount of money, and from this point we ate
right next to Thanh Kieu hotel in the Cassia Cottage, which has a very diversed
buffed. - It wasn´t big of a problem.
The Metropole hotel pleased us very much, diversed breakfast buffet. Clean
and big rooms with good view. Actually I am surprised that they close because
the hotel is in a very good condition and doubtlessy worth the money and I would
definitely recommend it to anyone travelling to Saigon. On our second stay
period at the hotel we even got 3 room upgrades to 3 suites, which were
absoulety gorgeous!! I don´t know why we got them but we were very pleased! So
that was more than enough of a compensation for the failed car pick up at the
airport :)
So Metropole hotel was superb.
Further about the Mekong 3 day tour. There is just one word to describe
it: unsurpassable. - The whole tour was absouletly gorgeous. When we arrived at
the Le Cochinchine we were quite overwhelmed when we noticed that we were the
only guests on the boat and we had the whole crew just for us! The service and
food were excellent. I really much liked to dine while floating on the river and
watching the landscape.
The boat is in a very good condition and beautiful. And the evenings and
sunsets on the boat were intoxicatingly beautiful.
But the biggest joy was the guide - Mr. Christoph. He knew everything we
asked him, we had quite some long talks about Vietnamese culture, the history,
people and so on. A really experienced and wise man. We would recommend him as a
guide to everyone. Please send him Greetings and again a big Thank you from us!
And in the end the Thanh Kieu resort. The staff was kind and Hung could
speak good english. The garden of the resort was nice and the 3 beach front
bungalows were cozy. They are pretty basic but I like that. The beach of the
resort was beautiful but the rainbowbar really doesn´t fit in the scene. I think
they should restore it as it disturbs the ambience. Just a little bit of
painting, maybe some nice chairs and tables and menu cards. Though I noticed
that the Thanh Kieu Resort is currently setting up an own restaurant right at
the beach, that´s really good. So we mostly ate dinner at the Mai House
restaurant and the Cassia Cottage restaurant which were both very delicate. So
in conclusion the Thanh Kieu Resort was quite good with some little improvements
to make like an own restaurant, restoring the rainbow bar, and maybe a breakfast
buffet.
About Phu Quoc Island in general I can say it was really paradise. Few
tourists, gorgeous landscape to be discovered with a motorbike, beautiful
beaches ( Bai Sao, and the resort beach Bai Truong or Cocobeach ), kind people
and delicious food.
So after the vacation I can say that we are definitely going back to
Vietnam someday. It is a pearl and actually I´d like to go back to Vietnam
immediately to spend some more weeks :)
And when we visit Vietnam again we are doubtlessly planning our trip with
you again. Once again I would like to thank you for your great services and the
gift you sent us to Thanh Kieu Resort when we were leaving. It is a really nice
picture of Phu Quoc :)
Goodbye until next time :)
Best Regards
Alexander Kägi and Oliver Kägi, Ildiko Kägi, Daniel Loosli, Sandra Loosli,
Daniela Loosli
... We really had a wonderful time in Vietnam and we do appreciate the work and efforts you have made to put the program and activities together. Everything was really perfect and we are very pleased with the guides and drivers as well as the hotels you had reserved together with all activities ...
... We really had a wonderful time in Vietnam and we do appreciate the work and efforts you have made to put the program and activities together.