Hanoi Lemon Hotel — Hotel in Hà Nội

I am currently staying in Room 601. I have been here for 3 weeks. The guesthouse is under new management. It is now called Lemon Hostel, not Lemon Hotel. I've read all the previous reviews below. Times have obviously changed. A lot. ||||My room is spacious (about 4m x 8m) and scrupulously clean. It has a flatscreen JVC TV, a bar fridge, a comfortable double bed and an equally comfortable single bed. It has 4 large cupboards. The air conditioner works perfectly. I have free wifi and it hasn't ever been unreliable, which is good because I'm looking for work.||||My room has a picture on the wall - a rural Vietnamese landscape with a cottage, a stream, trees at the edge of a forest and mountains in the background - that l really like. The bathroom is a reasonable size and very hygienic. The "bum gun" works fine but there is high-quality toilet paper if that is what you prefer. Bearing in mind I'm on the sixth floor, the water pressure is more than adequate. The hot water never fails. ||||You get free water bottles every day. There is a supplied-for-free box of tissues that are premium quality. There are packets of Rejoice shampoo in the bathroom and the usual toothbrushes in plastic packets with miniature tubes of toothpaste.||||Breakfast is included in the rate. Two fried eggs, two pieces of toast, delicious bananas and 3 in 1 coffee (Ca Phe Thu Thiet), which in my opinion tastes quite good. There is hot water for coffee (or noodles) available in the foyer . ||||The staff couldn't be friendlier or more helpful if their lives depended on it. The room prices are extremely reasonable. Like some previous reviewers I took a somewhat unofficial taxi from the airport. It cost $16, which I've since established is a very acceptable price. I wanted to go to the Old Quarter but it brought me here instead. I'm so glad it did. Old Quarter is a 10 minute stroll from the guesthouse, anyway, and Ba Dinh is known as the French Quarter. It has a real charm to it, in my opinion.||||Lemon Hostel is wonderful. Make no mistake, I'm a very...

Rooms are okay and the stuff is nice! It's a little bit far from the old quarter! The Manager of Lemon hostel is a really bad person, so don't trust him at all! He's trying to trick you!||||They kinda kidnapped us. We arrived at the airport and took a private driver. While he drove us to our originally hostel he was on the phone talking vietnamese all the time. We actually didn't arrived at the hostel we were supposed to (didn't know at this time). A man was waiting in front of the hostel telling us how sorry he is but there was a misunderstanding about our booking.He said that there is not enough space for us but we can go to the hostel of his sister close by and will get a private room instead of a dorm room so we accepted the offer. ||The hostel we originally booked for contacted me, telling me that they are worried since we didn't arrived. ||Lemon hostel also overcharged us for all the tours, they took additional cost for the tours etc. even though they said they wouldn't! Since it's our first time in Vietnam we didn't know what to do! ||We got help from very friendly local people, so finally we got all our money back and found another very good hostel!||||do NOT...

Avoid this place.||||Me and the mrs had just landed after about 23 hours of traveling and this cheery fella asks if I want a taxi, I do want a taxi so in we jump. He starts asking us a lot of questions such as; how long we are staying, where we are staying and our names. Friendly stuff.||||Then we get to our hotel and another chappy opens the door and tells us that the hot water doesn't work, but we can stay at this 'Sister hotel' ||||We arrive at this place after all of this in a horrible room. We didn't feel safe.||||They tried to sell us tours too, but we just left the next morning and will never go back.||||My advice would be to only ever use Mahlinh or VinaSun taxis when in this country, especialy...