Phuong Thao Homestay — Hotel in Xã An Bình

rooms look decadent with lots of stuff in need of repair. mosquito net had lots of holes. rooms are a bit open air, expect (like me) bats flying around your bed at night and lots of mosquitoes. wifi wasn't working||||Even thou i've talk to the owner before hand to make sure we would meet, because i went on a assignment as tour leader to find spots to organize tours and i wanted some tips to do smtg else beside the customized tours of 'rice paper' / 'coconut candys' etc. just when i arrive he says he's on a wedding for the day (could had said before). so tells me 'next day morning!'. sure, until 11am he wasn't there and even when i met him, took 5minutes before leaving forever. He couldn't care less. the atitude of "i don't give a sh*t". ||||All the prices are overpriced (if u've been to other similiar spots before u'll understand). the whole atitude of the place and other people was a bit the same looking kind tired of doing that work. there's almost no options for food in an binh, so they overprice, even thou for me the real problem was the frozen spring rolls (you can ask whatever u want, but please, deliver quality at least), the worst ones i ever had. reflecting the general atitude, you can guess there's not much love in that food.||||if he's not there, all the tours he runs will be with someone who's hanging around on the spot, so expect almost no indications/english. they will point and threw some key words. again, tours are super overpriced, especially for the quality.||||There's many homestay's around (and in Ben Tre) with lovely vibe's, with super extraordinary food and with people that really care for their business's and are willing to do that extra mile to hand you a superb experience (and without over pricing). this one, was probably good once in a distance past, my experience felt like a bad...

We stayed a 6 days in the Mekong region, and in retrospect it was better to skip this town and homestay. The homestay is more like a guesthouse, quite big and not personal. The owner though is very friendly and English speaking. The rest of the staff does not speak English. This could be improved. The quality of the food was poor (we had menu 5): dry chicken and tasteless cury and noodles. The setting is nice. Thy organise a boat tour to the floating market, but they forgot to say this one has almost disappeared with the arrival of new bridges and motorbikes.. also the tour leaves at 7am, too late to see (what is left of) the action between 5-7 am. The tour coats around 10 us dollar per person for 4 hours. Probably the market is non- existing next year. The rooms are good and there are many clean toilets and showers. The walls are not attached to the roof so we had some small batts flying in our room late in the evening. They provide free bicycles wich is a nice way to see the surroundings. So in conclusion it is okay, but not the personal homestay experience you are maybe looking for. Compared to our boat trips in Can Tho, the one in Vinh Long is...

Wonderful little guest house, wonderful staff and very helpful.|Food is simple & nice, rooms are clean, many bathrooms and showers - also clean.|The hammock and chill atmosphere was wonderful and we ended up staying 3 nights instead of one..|The floating market is indeed non existent anymore, the owner told us that in advance before we booked the boat tour. It was still a wonderful tour, it also included a candy factory and that was awesome.| We tried booking though Phu the owner a second tour the next day, to see the rice fields but for some reason there was a misunderstanding and an inexperienced boat driver came, got lost a little in the tiny rivers, dropped us off to see a ceramic factory but really there's nothing to see there. The trip ended after 2 hours instead of 4 and didn't include the rice fields, but Phu of course apologized and reimbursed us.|Yes, there are mosquitos (but they have a very effective mosquito net) and once in a while you see an enthusiastic fruit-bat zooming though the hall, but they're not harmful and I thought it was cool to see nature as it is. ||It's a wonderful peaceful getaway,...