PRICE:
Frommer's Recommended

This was the first of the downtown, boutique hotel trend in the nation's capital. And while we would like to stay loyal to original purveyors, it is getting hard to ignore the past few years' slip in quality. Rooms are beginning to show their age with marked walls, scratched, floors and small water stains in the bathroom. Staff members are helpful, but somewhat begrudgingly so. However, the hotel still sits right in the middle of the action on busy Nha Tho Street, a popular café-and-shopping area near Hanoi's large Catholic cathedral. The lobby is spotlessly clean with modern Vietnamese oil paintings adorning the walls. It remains a good choice for comfort and downtown convenience.

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

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