Happily, six Ah Pohs went to LCCT's Old Town Kopitiam to have breakfast before our flight to SGN. Somehow by the time we finished breakfast, it was boarding time already. Not only that, the queue at the security X-Ray was mega-long. The six of us were in two different queues. C, J and I were in the shorter queue. As we were taking the escalator down, we heard our six names called for FINAL BOARDING. Rushed like crazy to the gate....but we still had to wait for the other three. The AirAsia fellas announced ALL six names again. And then, I saw the 3 Ah Pohs entering the duty-free shop. I quickly ask C to go call them.
AirAsia Guy - Where are the rest of your friends???
Me - I've already asked my friend to check if they are held up at the immigration (have to bluff bluff lah. Can't exactly tell him they went into Duty Free Shop, right??)
But then, he saw them rushing out from the Shop.
AirAsia Guy - AHHH?? Pergi Shopping? ADOI!!!!!!
Needless to say, we were the LAST people to board the plane.
Then on the plane, W (the only non-Malaysian Ah Poh) in our group suddenly asked "Err. Does Vietnam need Visa?". We knew that Malaysian don't require one for Vietnam. But other than that?? Who knows?
On arrival at SGN, we all went through without any hiccups. Then W was denied entry, and proceeded to the VISA ON ARRIVAL counter. And guess what? Needed a sponsorship letter, which she didn't have. So...there was going to be a long wait of RED TAPE and what-nots. KC waited with W, and 4 of us went ahead to the hotel first.
Apparently, the airport officials even printed out the return boarding pass for W...ready to ship her back to KUL. Anyway, there was some travel agent guy or whatever in there, which then "assisted" with the sponsorship letter from his office. A small price to pay for not being shipped back immediately! W and KC joined us about 3 hours later at the hotel.
Now..the hotel. It's a new small boutique hotel right on Dong Khoi. It's location is really GREAT, right across from the Sheraton Hotel, and there are lots of shops, restaurants in the area. The room is new, clean with crisp white sheets, duvets, LCD TVs, bathrobes, slippers, mini-bar....
The only drawback?
It doesn't have a REAL window....Thus, we really don't know whether it was still dark or bright outside!
Fake Window in the Room
Anyway, we went to Pho 24 for lunch on the first day. Just in the Dong Khoi vicinity, there are like three branches! What did I have? Pho Bo and of course, the Vietnamese Coffee...
Vietnamese Coffee @ Pho 24
Other stuff that we had....on other days....
Lunch @ Lemon Grass
Lunch @ a Chinese Restaurant, Mekong Delta
Coconut Ice-Cream @ ????
Took some photos of the other food places...will post tomorrow...
6 comments:
Wow cool. You went to Vietnam.
Had their coffee too..
Hope I'll go there soon.
What drama to start a vacation!! Trust everything went well from then on.
Well, at least your hotel room was decent despite having no windows. Mine sucked big time!
jonzz - Their coffee is very good. Only complaint is that they tend to put too much condense milk...Too sweet for me!
SAHM - Yeah. Luckily everything went on smoothly thereafter...
DQ - How sucky? Got bed bugs?
For the price I paid which was US$75 per nite, I got a room worse than those in Chow Kit (though I've never been to one) with the disco music blasting away 2 floors down. Wrong timing - peak season, so had to make do. :(
Wahlah... names edi called n still go in DFS. These shopaholics no cure edi loh. hahaha
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