Hotels and areas of Hanoi where to stay

Prices, where to book hotels

Hanoi offers a huge selection of accommodation options for tourists, ranging from private apartments to five-star hotels. Prices for accommodation are generally affordable, but by the standards of other cities in Vietnam, located not on the coast, are quite high. The reason for this is the rapid growth in popularity of Hanoi among tourists in recent years, and accordingly rising prices.

So, the price for a simple room for two with air conditioning and a private bathroom in the tourist area starts from 300 000 VND (approximately 11.41 USD, see the currency of Vietnam and its exchange rate), but this price still needs to be obtained, which is better done by early booking via the Internet. You can stay in a hostel from 120 000 VND (approximately 4.56 USD). At the same time, Hanoi has very low prices for hotels of a higher category. For example, for 1,000,000 (approximately 38.02 USD) you can stay in an excellent four-star hotel, and for 2,300,000 you can even settle in "the five". When placed outside the central areas, you can get even more favorable prices.

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Map of Hanoi with hotels

Features of finding hotels in Hanoi

Almost every, even the most "seedy" hotel in Hanoi, has free Internet (WiFi), sometimes a simple breakfast is included in the price, usually scrambled eggs or baguettes to choose from, and coffee or tea. The vast majority of hotels are urban - type, without swimming pools and their own territory.

Hanoi is famous for tourist "wiring" when looking for on-site accommodation. Only here there is such a kind of deception of tourists as "fake" hotels. Under the guise of famous hotel chains or popular budget hotels, "fake" ones are opened, located in remote areas from the center and of very poor quality. To settle tourists in them, a whole network of distributors on the streets is used, as well as taxi drivers who, under various deceptive pretexts, bring travelers who have just arrived in the city to these places. You should beware of such offers, otherwise instead of a comfortable clean room you can get, for example, this:

In general, it is best to book accommodation in advance, and do not succumb to the offers of taxi drivers and touts to change your booked hotel to another.

Another traditional "wiring" of hoteliers is the inclusion in the account of taxes and fees, which you "forgot" to tell when you checked in. Therefore, if you have already found accommodation on the spot, it is better to pay immediately after agreeing on the price, and save the receipt before departure.

Another feature of accommodation in Hanoi is the optional availability of air conditioning in winter. Approximately from November to February in the north of Vietnam, winter passes, and the temperature of the night drops down to 15 degrees. As a maximum, at this time there will be enough fan, so in order to save on accommodation, you can look for rooms without air conditioning.

Areas where it is better to stay

Mostly tourists settle in Hanoi in tourist area and around the lake The Returned Sword (tourist area on the map). This place is the tourist center of the city, and here is the largest number of budget hotels and hostels, hostels, tourist services (travel agencies, restaurants, transport) are concentrated.

This is the perfect place to stay if you come to the city as a tourist and you are on a tight budget. Many hotels are located on other sides of the lake, but most of the inexpensive options are located just to the north, in old Hanoi). In this zone you can find both quite decent hotels of the average price category, and good hostels and hostels.

There is no fundamental difference where to settle, in the north of the lake or on other sides of it. Everything here is very compact and close, so if you settle on any side near the lake of the returned sword, you will always be close to the center of events. On the other hand, keep in mind that the tourist area north of the lake, especially the most saturated part of it, can not be called clean and quiet. Even if you stay in a clean, expensive hotel, when you leave it you will still find yourself on dirty streets, stuffed with trade and its waste, and an endless river of motorcycles riding on the road and sidewalks.

If you prefer a cleaner and quieter environment, you can consider another good tourist area - the French Quarter, but the price for accommodation here is one and a half to two times higher. French colonists used to live in this place, and accordingly the architecture and layout of the area were created according to European standards. There are beautiful colonial buildings, wide streets and clean wide sidewalks. Of course, clean and tidy not everywhere, but in general the area is more spacious and comfortable for walking. There is no such concentration of tourist infrastructure and trade as in the Old Town, but if desired, you can walk to the lake and to the tourist area. There is a French neighborhood on the southeast side of the lake (French district on the map).

As for comfortable multi-star hotels, there are none in the tourist area. Expensive upscale hotels are scattered throughout the city. Several are located around the perimeter of Western lake, there are many luxury options in the business center of Hanoi, which is very far from the tourist area.