9th - 16th February 2013
Our flat lease in Wan Chai ended on 16th February 2013 which happened to fall in the week of Chinese New Year. Auspicious may be - but given the fact HK shuts down not a good week to move. So we decided to move out a week early and then take a week's holiday in Viêt Nâm. We chose the Victoria hotel on the Hau River in Cân Thơ - about a 4 hour drive from Sai Gon south into the Mekong Delta.
The Victoria hotel has a colonial charm about it and has been recently been renovated. It seems that much of the business is tour parties who stay one night en route to a Mekong cruise so very often we were the youngest in the pool.
The town was a 10 minute walk away and although many of the shops were closed for the Têt holiday - it had a great deal of charm. We managed to find a few nice restaurants and a very nice spa !
Our flat lease in Wan Chai ended on 16th February 2013 which happened to fall in the week of Chinese New Year. Auspicious may be - but given the fact HK shuts down not a good week to move. So we decided to move out a week early and then take a week's holiday in Viêt Nâm. We chose the Victoria hotel on the Hau River in Cân Thơ - about a 4 hour drive from Sai Gon south into the Mekong Delta.
The Victoria hotel has a colonial charm about it and has been recently been renovated. It seems that much of the business is tour parties who stay one night en route to a Mekong cruise so very often we were the youngest in the pool.
The town was a 10 minute walk away and although many of the shops were closed for the Têt holiday - it had a great deal of charm. We managed to find a few nice restaurants and a very nice spa !