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Cheap hotel in heart of Ho Chi Minh City's shopping district
If Internet search engines are anything to go by, the Y THIEN HOTEL in downtown Sai Gon seems to be popular with... foreign families seeking to adopt Vietnamese children. More upmarket than then the backpacker joints around Pham Ngu Lao, but not as expensive as the grand hotels on the Saigon River waterfront, for example Legends and the Sheraton, the Y Thien Hotel nonetheless caters to its own particular niche.
The hotel, at 247 Ly Tu Trong Street, is in the heart of the city's shopping district -- the fake North Face bags and food stalls of Ben Thanh Market are just a stone's throw away. But what about all the adoptees, where did they spring from? what brings them here? Is it a kind of promotion, that the hotel staff have running with adoption agencies in America and Germany, or something like that? Is it the hotel's close proximity to the bureaucrats and South Vietnam government offices? Faith International Adoptions Vietnam Program Coordinator Amy Anderson blogged not so long ago: "I am now back in my hotel room in HCMC. I am staying at the Y Thien hotel. It is very nice, not too fancy or anything, but perfect for me. It is in a great location, a short walk from parks and shopping. Tomorrow Jing will take me to the market on her scooter to go shopping. I'm so excited to finally ride on one of these scooters! They are everywhere.
"Let's see. . . today is Thursday the 1st, on Tuesday I arrived in Can Tho with two of our families who are both adopting older children. The drive out to Can Tho was about 4 hours, including a ferry ride over the river. It was a fairly smooth ride, not like Nam Dinh..."
Another Vietnamese adoption blog, Adopting Van, had this to say about the Y Thien Hotel (the name means something Something Heaven according to my limited grasp of Chinese characters!): "Hi everyone, sorry it's been a while, but I am borrowing the computer at the hotel desk, so I do not want to tie it up for too long. We have been to Ben Thanh Market where you can buy anything from intestines to silk. It's extremely hot here. Race slept most of yesterday and is finally caught up on his sleep. I went to bed at 12pm and woke up at 2am, so I am still messed up. Keith can adapt to anything, he is doing well. We met a Vietnamese student today and he wanted to practice English, so went spent a lot of the day with him, he showed us several places. Mandy we ended up staying at Y Thien Hotel. It is basic and cheap, nothing fancy. We are leaving at 5:30 pm Monday (2 more hrs for us) to go to Can Tho..."
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Wikitravel: http://wikitravel.org/en/Ho_Chi_Minh_City.
Wikitravel rates this as one of the best midrange hotels in Ho Chi Minh City. It writes: "This full service hotel is 5 minutes from Ben Thanh Market and offers a range of rooms from tiny and windowless (yet functional) to quite nice with a full wall window overlooking the city and streets below (try the 4th floor room to the right of the elevator for US$20-25). Rooms are clean, bathrooms are large and recently upgraded (overkill on the shower remodeling). TV with cable, air-con, fan, 'fridge, elevator, all night guard for bikes, in hotel safe. If you don't want to stay in the backpacker area, and are willing to pay a little more, it's a good option..."
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