PRICE:
Frommer's Very Highly Recommended

This hotel is a veritable Asian wonderland, enamored with carved wood and bamboo furnishings in a faux "Imperial" style. Tacky? Yes. But it's also kind of fun. Standard rooms are clean and comfortable, in basic bamboo, but the bathrooms are a disappointing dormitory style, with plastic shower curtains and no counter space. Try to get a good deal on one of the Royal Suites, with carved-wood walls, grandiose furniture with inlaid mother-of-pearl, and a massive wooden room divider -- sort of a minipagoda right in your room. The words "emperor" and "bordello" both leap to mind. The Royal Restaurant, worth a photo just for its gaudy gold-and-red-everything design alone, is for prearranged group dinners, during which the costumed staff serves a fancy traditional dinner at a hefty price. The River Front Terrace Bar is the best place in Hue to have a drink and watch life on the river. Splurge for a river-view room and enjoy a fine meal at the Hoa Mai restaurant.

Copyright: Excerpted from Frommer's Vietnam, 2nd Edition, (c) 2008, Wiley Publishing, Inc.

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