Hotel Equatorial Ho Chi Minh City - Ho Chi Minh City 10.75835, 106.68411

This hotel is really fancy, has nice rooms and large gym. Pool is nice with pool side bar. Well shielded from the street noice. Large firm bed. I got discounted price for 3 nights booking and took up the offer. Very happy over all. Hotel doesn't have free internet. Just walk around to Tran Phu street on the other side for an internet station. Hotel food was so expensive ($100/person buffet) that most of the time i just took taxi to town center or taxi to Nguyen Trai street where they have many great restaurants such as Tan Hai Van (chineses), Din Ky (not at all dinky), and other breakfast cafe Rita on Nguyen Van Cu, SOHO on Nguyen Thi Minh Khai. Taxi to town is cheap.

My partner and I stayed three nights at the Equatorial Hotel in Ho Chi Minh City in November 2009. It was almost exactly what we expected, based on the photos and descriptions online. I chose it mainly for its beautiful swimming pool , open daily from 6AM to 10PM, which really does look just like the photos. Oddly, it doesn’t seem to get much use. The front desk, pool, restaurant, and door staff all speak English fluently. The concierge was helpful and knowledgeable, except regarding the city bus. The location is actually not bad: It takes about 20 minutes to walk from there to the Reunification Palace. Food vendors in a small park two blocks along the road provide an inexpensive option for breakfast, although the USD 15 buffet in the hotel restaurant is quite impressive. Other than the relatively high price, the only major drawback is the lack of complimentary internet access. Most hotels offer free WiFi in the room, or at least, in the lobby, but this one charges USD 6 per hour or 16 per day, which is outrageous. Also, there is a dearth of internet cafes, convenience stores, and other traveler-related services in the immediate area. And finally, while the air-conditioning worked very well, the room had a faint odour of mildew. This hotel was a very nice place to crash after a long flight from the US, since its international standards allowed us to put off dealing with culture shock until the next morning. It is an okay place to stay if you can get it at a discount (or if someone else is paying for it) and you don’t care about internet access; otherwise, you might do better staying somewhere else.

Nice new hotel.

Their new business floor on the 11th floor was great. The rooms were very spacious, clean and comfortable and the ammenities of breakfast and snacks available as well as assistance at the business center was extremely helpful.

Great room for cheap price

Hotel was undergoing renovation during our stay. The construction noise was loud. Should be much nicer to stay there after the renovations are complete.

Hotellet ligger litt utenfor gå avstand til det mest sentrale Saigon, men i den grad en kan si beskyttet fra trafikkstøy i HCMC, så lå dette hotellet i en rolig gate og var dermed litt beskyttet fra den verste tutingen fra bil horn. Hotellet oppfyller forventningene og har som alle hotellene vi besøkte i Vietnam en veldig hyggelig og effektiv betjening. Videre transport til andre steder i Vietnam ble effektivt og enkelt ordnet i resepsjonen.

Godt hotel centralt beliggende. God service og god restaurent