Nice Swan — Hotel in Nha Trang City

Unless you are in your early 20s, looking for cheap beer and hectic night life Nha Trang is not for you. The whole place is a construction site, 24/7 , so if you still wanna go, bring ear plugs. The place is full of Russian tourists and Chinese, so menus, signs are in Russian, and their English is very poor.||From the airport we took the bus, we showed our hotel address to the ticket selling girl and she informed us where to get off, this cost 50.000 dong x person (2 dollars). We stayed at hotel Nice Swan, which is very good price-quality; it is on the street parallel to the seashore, just 3min walk to the beach. Paid about 20eur x night for clean, modern hotel room with 2 double beds. It also has a small pool, which was nice for quick morning swim. It had good water pressure for the shower and all basic amenities.||Round the corner you can find breakfast places (baguette, omelette, coffee), next door you find massage places. The traffic is intense, crisscrossing hooting motorbikes and cars and construction lorries. Going across the street takes some courage.||||Food remained a disappointment, we were cheated at a couple of places too. When menu has no price, make sure you weigh your fish and ask the price immediately. The prawns were small and tasteless, as were the crabs. Beer is cheap, local Saigon about 20.000 dong (less than 1 dollar).||Shopping: was expecting to find beaded bags but most shops at night market were selling all same stuff: fabric bags with same prints, coffee/tea, small statues and trinkets.||Same in the main market place; the shopping malls had better quality but very expensive stuff. In one shopping mall the sales girls was following and yelling us and we couldn't figure out what was the problem. Finally with the help of another salesgirl we understood that she thought we had stolen one bag from the mall (which actually was from market).||||Sightseeing: if you have been to Asia before the few sights in Nha Trang are not worth the effort. The best part of the trip remained the huge waves in the sea along the long beach.||Most local coffee places offer only coffee or tea, and no buns/biscuits are available. For that you need to go to bigger chains like Highland coffee, which also offers wifi (as most more modest places too).||We took the hotel car to the airport for which they charged us 250.000 dong, it takes about 45-60min depending on traffic.||There is intense construction taking place as more tourists are crowing the place and the airport is getting too small, so make sure you go well in advance as we had to wait in the queue for more than 40min for the...

Two french guys in vacation, we were there for 3 nights.|The welcome was horrible, no smile, just a cold hello. The receptionnist are very bad english speakers and make no effort.|| I hope you like sport, taking the elevator is more long than the stairs.||Concerning the room, small and you can't keep the air conditioning on when you're out. The shower is literrally over the toilets. There is no wall around the shower, so when you've finished it your bathroom/toilets is completely flooded. The toilet bowl too. ||The cleaning women are very loudy and scream in the corridors at 7 am. After the first night, they went into our room at 8 am, without knocking, as we were sleeping. So the next day we put the "do not disturb" thing and take it away a 9:30 am. So they didnt clean our room.||You dont have free water bottles and i hope for you you dont go diarrhea because you have only one paper toilets roll.||We had booked and paid for a taxi to the airport when we checked out. Our flight was at 7:20 am anf the airport is 45 minutes away. I asked the receptionnist the day before leaving if this cab was always ok. She said " yes, 5:25 am tomorrow."||So we came at 5:25 am this morning, and the only thing who worried the receptionnist was to pay the water bottles. We gave the 35,000 dongs (1.5€..), asked to have our passport back who had been confiscated when we checked in. After that, without smile he asked us to wait. We wait. We wait. And then the car never came. So he phoned for a taxi. 5:45 am, the taxi wasnt here. So I asked him to call a taxi on the street who was plenty of taxis, and he declines. He said to me "It should be better if you booked by yourself". It should be better if I've never came in your hotel ! 5:55 am, the taxi finally arrived and we were in the airport just 5 minutes before closing !||Dont go there. Dont waste your time and...

Average hotel with rude receptionist.||||It was their policy that if we leave the hotel, we'd need to give the key to the receptionist. The 2nd day that we were there, my wife and I left for lunch so we handed the key over to the older receptionist (the older lady). Once we got back we asked the same lady for the key so that we can go up to our room. She told us that we never gave her the key. I insisted that we did give her the key but she became very agitated and accused us of lying. I patiently tried to explain to her that we did provide her the key and if she could check. She blatantly said that I must have forgotten the key up in the room and now accusing her of lying. She then told us that she was busy tending to other guests so she didn't have time to look for our key. ||||After waiting for about 30 minutes in the lobby, the receptionist then sent one of the bellboys with their master key to go up to our room to see if I left the key there. I then insisted that I went with them to prove them that the key was not in the room. The bellboy and I went up and there was no key in the key slot. When we came down to the lobby, the lady handed me the key and casually said, "it was under a pile of newspaper". She didn't even apologize to me or my wife while making us wait for more than 30 minutes. ||||We stayed there for 5 days and we found out that not only the older receptionist was really rude, most of the staff there were very unfriendly. ||||We will never stay in this hotel again. There are other hotels in the area that definitely can provide a much better service for the same...