Visiting dalat in nov

Hi,

Welcome to Da Lat! It can rain much now. It rained from the early morning to midnight when I visited Da Lat one month ago.

Regards

That is, I believe, why they call it "The Rainy Season".

It ends in October.

Dejavu.dot wrote:

Hi,

Welcome to Da Lat! It can rain much now. It rained from the early morning to midnight when I visited Da Lat one month ago.

Regards

It should not rain in nov

Eighteen days in Da Lat?

Hope you plan on visiting Nha Trang - great seafood. There is Madam Nga's Crazy House in Da Lat - very unique.

Book your hotel NOW!

Dreams Hotel
138-141 and 164B Phan Dinh Phung Street
Da Lat
Dreams Hotel web site
I can personally guarantee there is no better 1 star hotel in Da Lat.

My wife owns a hotel 'over the hill' in Buon Ma Thuot and our staff always recommend the Dreams (both of them).

P.S. I have no commercial relationship with Dreams - so book NOW with confidence!

Dream hotels are quite far from the market.

The owner is a Hue Lady who is very gentle when you book the hotel.. but also very " decisive like a knife" when you cancel your booking.

There are many better hotels near the market which arent advertised in agoda or any sites.

Dejavu.dot wrote:

The owner is a Hue Lady who is very gentle when you book the hotel.. but also very " decisive like a knife" when you cancel your booking.

Agoda, Hotel.com are plain and simple rackets. The 5% 'deposit' is actually money they keep and you pay the balance to the property. They cannot guarantee a room will be available.

Dreams doesn't worry about cancellations as they generally have a 100% occupancy rate - so there are always others to fill rooms. Been like that ever since they opened years ago.

Personally I don't care where the OP sleeps, but he better make arrangements ASAP. Unless they've moved the market, it is about 13 minutes walking from the Dreams area.

The market area is noisy, dirty and very commercial. I stayed in a hotel there and there was a large crack in the wooden door covered with Duct tape! Rated as 2-star, too!

I like Villa Pink House. Stayed there for a week in June and already have my reservation for a few weeks in December.

The BIG bonus to staying there is that you can take "Mr. Rot's Secret Tour". A must for anyone who wants to learn about VN culture--things you won't figure out on your own... there's also great food!

Jaitch wrote:

Agoda, Hotel.com are plain and simple rackets. The 5% 'deposit' is actually money they keep and you pay the balance to the property. They cannot guarantee a room will be available.

Dreams doesn't worry about cancellations as they generally have a 100% occupancy rate - so there are always others to fill rooms. Been like that ever since they opened years ago.

Yes I agree with you. Dream2 is one of the best Da lat hotels agoda offer through comments. That's why it always has many customers. I know how to book a hotel without deposit and I always make sure that is the only hotel I want to stay. But the problem was about the location. Dream2 locates in a dark ally while I usually arrive the hotel at 1 -2 am and there is no food selling around. So I cancelled my booking at the last minute. Immediately Hue lady told me that there are some people waiting for my cancellation and that really made me feel released although she hung up the phone without saying bye. The hotel I stayed is next to a bank. Rather big and isn't nosy at all cos I lived in a second building.

Jaitch wrote:

The market area is noisy, dirty and very commercial. I stayed in a hotel there and there was a large crack in the wooden door covered with Duct tape! Rated as 2-star, too!

I guess I knew where you stayed. Is that the block opposite to Golf 3?
I don't believe on *** cos it can be bought easily. Just 5-4.5 star hotels can be trusted

Regards

Dejavu.dot wrote:

Just 5-4.5 star hotels can be trusted

The star rating system in VN is broken. The provinces rate the hotels and, strangely, all provincially owned hotels get high ratings.

Especially when it comes to casino properties.

There are no 1/2 star hotels owned by the DakLak tourist authority and the Gia Lai bunch are even worse.

For 15 years our company inspected/rated hotels - the money lying around for good ratings is unbelievable. We used chemical test kits to check toilets and showers.

If you want to perform a D-I-Y hotel room cleanliness check, just drag the furniture around checking the carpet/floor under them also run something white around the tops of doors and picture frames.

Frequently the lower starred, owner run properties were the cleanest. These hotels are their home-from-home and they keep them spotless.

A hotel that shall remain nameless, but has a name beginning with C, and is opposite the old South VietNam parliament building had bed-bugs. We took videos and then sticky-taped them and showed them to the Front Desk. We ended up with a nil bill.

If an old mattress seems very heavy it is likely because of the dead mites, etc. The boom-boom hotels are generally filthy.

The old VietNam Airlines Hotel in Da Lat has a V-shape. This means rooms face each other. Some of the views were better than a porn movie!

Book direct, give the hotel all your money. (Tour operators get discounts of up to 75% discount off rack rates)

Dreams hotel is good but they do not have a room available for me, 10 min walk is not a problem as I plan to do a lot of walking. Next year I will probably stay in buon ma thout, hopefully you can give me your hotel name, looking forward to it.

Jaitch wrote:

The star rating system in VN is broken. The provinces rate the hotels and, strangely, all provincially owned hotels get high ratings.

No. The rule is quite strict for 5 or 4.5 star hotels.

I sent 2 emails to dream hotel with no answer from them, so much for the hired help.
I have a question about the water quality in dalat, is it safe to drink from the tap or do you need to buy water by the bottles ,
How about water quality in general in vietnam.

I've never drunk out of the tap; though using the water for brushing teeth hasn't killed me, yet.

Everyone I know drinks only bottled water--it's less than US$1 for a liter.