Ethnic House lounge bar, hostel & restaurant — Restaurant in Đồng Văn Town

I wanna post this on booking.com but I can’t because I chose Ethnic house as a random pick when I arrived to Dong Van, so I’m posting here to tell my story. There’re 2 guys welcoming us, one is a “nice guy” and another is a “rude guy”, the “rude guy” is a cashier and also the one who arranged room for us (me and my friend). Everything was going well until I heard by chance the “rude guy” addressed us as “thằng”, when I’m taking a bath upstair and It goes like: “Cho hai thằng mới ở hai giường gần cửa ra vào”. Let me explain, “thằng” in Vietnamese is an extremely rude way to address to male guests when your work is related to customer service. It’s also like you call a female guest as “con”, that word is used to call an animal. Well, funny, then I came back I realized that the light bulb didn’t work so I went down to tell the “rude guy” to go up and fix that and by the way tell him about what he just said in front of other guests up there. But he assigned that task for the “nice guy”, when the “nice guy” went up to check, it didn’t help and at that time I talked to the “nice guy” about the problem with the presence of some guests there. He was a bit embarrassed and apologized me, but I said to him that: “ you don’t have to take that personal because it’s not your fault, just help me send my message to the “rude guy” and tell him to turn down his voice so that no one can hear it. It is disrespectful and ill-educated.”. I wonder what’s the worst if he uses this word to call behind his guests frequently including foreigners who can’t understand local slangs. Habit dies hard and he needs to be trained. This is not the first time and also not the last time I travel to Ha Giang, but I will never come back and tell my friends should avoid this place. Thank you and never...

I wanna post this on booking.com but I can’t because I chose Ethnic house as a random pick when I arrived to Dong Van, so I’m posting here to tell my story. There’re 2 guys welcoming us, one is a “nice guy” and another is a “rude guy”, the “rude guy” is a cashier and also the one who arranged room for us (me and my friend). Everything was going well until I heard by chance the “rude guy” addressed us as “thằng”, when I’m taking a bath upstair and It goes like: “Cho hai thằng mới ở hai giường gần cửa ra vào”. Let me explain, “thằng” in Vietnamese is an extremely rude way to address to male guests when your work is related to customer service. It’s also like you call a female guest as “con”, that word is used to call an animal. Well, funny, then I came back I realized that the light bulb didn’t work so I went down to tell the “rude guy” to go up and fix that and by the way tell him about what he just said in front of other guests up there. But he assigned that task for the “nice guy”, when the “nice guy” went up to check, it didn’t help and at that time I talked to the “nice guy” about the problem with the presence of some guests there. He was a bit embarrassed and apologized me, but I said to him that: “ you don’t have to take that personal because it’s not your fault, just help me send my message to the “rude guy” and tell him to turn down his voice so that no one can hear it. It is disrespectful and ill-educated.”. I wonder what’s the worst if he uses this word to call behind his guests frequently including foreigners who can’t understand local slangs. Habit dies hard and he needs to be trained. This is not the first time and also not the last time I travel to Ha Giang, but I will never come back and tell my friends should avoid this place. Thank you and never...

Wow. You really don't expect to come up into a small remote mountain town of northern Vietnam and find a hostel this comfortable and level of boutique-ness. It's a different experience than staying in one of the many authentic local family homestays around but I couldn't and wouldn't turn it down. Plus you have a gorgeous view out of the rooms and very delicious breakfast included. I mean this literally has to be one of the nicest, or possibly even the nicest well-designed hostel in...