Hanoi

[QUOTE=Horny Toad]Where are the girlfriendly hotels?[/QUOTE]My impression is that the peoples committee have Hanoi well under control. There are some tarts at the New Century disco but that seemed to be it.

In general in Vietnam the big hotels are not girl freindly and you need to find a small place with less than 30 rooms.

Haiphong sounds good to me!

If you just come to hai Phong for fucking purpose then it is a waste of time and money IMHO. I don't know if there is anything interesting in Hai Phong to see beside the fact that it is a port area for export. If you are a stranger, going to HP is asking for trouble as this town is notorious for tough guys who are always eager to prove their brawniness on strangers. A majority of Viet drug dealers in Canada and US are originally from Hai Phong. Be careful! Let your brain think instead of your dick.

[QUOTE=Stinger 100]What's the scene out there then, Oldian? Can't imagine it being bars in the north - is it Karaoke or massage joints?

In Do Son, there are tons of massage and karaoke, but seems to me that the karaoke was without karaoke, basically just rooms and ladies available. I can give you the name of one place in particular in Don Son if you'd like. They'll be thrilled to see another foreigner. These guys were great to me. 18-21 year old stunners day after day after day with absolutely ZERO attitude and great fun. At 100,000 dong a go and no hassles. I prefer to stay in Haiphong for the amenities, and go out to Do Son (bus 4000 dong every 20 minutes or so, runs pretty late too) for fun, but Do Son does have plenty of hotels and good seafood. I also found Cat Ba in Halong Bay to be pretty good. Tons of karaoke places. Locals pay 70,000 dong, foreigners can pay 150,000 if they know the price.

[QUOTE=Silly Puppy]If you just come to hai Phong for fucking purpose then it is a waste of time and money IMHO. I don't know if there is anything interesting in Hai Phong to see beside the fact that it is a port area for export. If you are a stranger, going to HP is asking for trouble as this town is notorious for tough guys who are always eager to prove their brawniness on strangers. A majority of Viet drug dealers in Canada and US are originally from Hai Phong. Be careful! Let your brain think instead of your dick.[/QUOTE]Yeah, I wouldn't come to Haiphong just for sex, but after several months in Vietnam, I'd live in Haiphong over anywhere else in the country. Good food, great cafes and beer hoi, very relaxed, fantastic people, more English spoken than elsewhere, in two weeks in Haiphong had absolutely zero hassles or ripoffs. Maybe all the riffraff have gone overseas! There are 5 or more universities in Haiphong which may explain the large number of beautiful women, decent english speakers, or open attitudes I found everywhere. At least in the center of the city, couldn't have felt safer and with a greater group of people than in Haiphong. The city has an air of prosperity not found elsewhere in Vietnam, and as there are almost no tourists, there aren't the usual scam heads and other lowlife to deal with. There are a few sleazy moto drivers who hang out downtown, try to get you girls every night, they are mostly harmless. Once they knew I could get girls in Do Son every day for 100,000 dong, they cut their crap and dropped prices.

Are you Vietkieu? You sound like one. I bet there are many girls like you said. Just like you go to China's rural areas - same situation applies- without the language barrier one can be at ease and find cheap fuck relatively simple.

[QUOTE=Silly Puppy]Are you Vietkieu? You sound like one. I bet there are many girls like you said. Just like you go to China's rural areas - same situation applies- without the language barrier one can be at ease and find cheap fuck relatively simple.[/QUOTE]No, I am as white boy as they come. I just have a penchant for getting off the beaten path and paying local prices. I live in Thailand and have a ton of Asia experience, so I suppose I have good street sense, price sensibilities, and know how to avoid trouble. Looking forward to going to Yunnan in the fall.

Can you get a visa on arrival here ?

Im a Brit who will travel from Thailand !!!

[QUOTE=Patterson]Can you get a visa on arrival here ?

Im a Brit who will travel from Thailand !!![/QUOTE]

It takes about 2 days and US$60 to get a visa.

[QUOTE=Mediboy]Spent 2 days in Hanoi for work, Horizon hotel stay, very good value for money in the 5* range. City's dead after 10pm. Only New Century disco is rocking, went in around 10pm, was packed. About a dozen of freelancers upstairs not too puchy but not too great either.

The Massage place opposite to Hilton (reported before) has friendly staff, massage for less than 10USD, add another 250K Dong and can neg two (!) BJs, one to start with to calm things down for the massage and one at the end to conclude. nice.[/QUOTE]

Decided to try the place across from the HIlton based on past reports. Easy to find - it's almost directly across from front door of Hilton.

Clearly a HJ is on the ticket. But I couldn't negotiate anything more - BJ was definitely not on the menu with my girl tonight! And the massage was about the worst I have received anywhere in the world. Way too much pressure and everytime I asked her to tone it down, that lasted about 3 minutes, and then we were back to massaging a horse. Bent digits back too far and the like. When this heavy girl offered to walk on my back I said definitely no thank you to that one. I also declined her HJ, as her skills at everything else were so slim that I had no reason to think it would do anything but turn me off. After she just ab out massaged the skin off my face, I got up and ended the massage a few minutes early. She pretty much demanded a tip, which I was in no mood to give.

Probably the experience varies froim girl to girl and with better language skills than I have in Vietnamese. (Me- none). But if you find yourself with a short smily chubby girl from HCMC, you might want to check into switching to another!

Does anyone know of the action across the Fortuna Hotel, namely, Oasis Sauna? Price, performance, quality, system?

Instead of waiting for comments and reports, I decide to check this place out. It is located right across the Fortuna Hotel..can't miss it.

Place is relatively clean (somewhat upscale for Hanoi), with rooms separated into VIP or regular rooms. VIP rooms go for $25 per 1.5 hr, while the regular rooms are $12 per 1 hr. Besides difference in time, VIP rooms feature in-room jacuzzi, steam bath and massage bed, while the regular rooms only feature a massage bed. Needless to say, with the facilities installed, VIP rooms offer value-added services such as having the masseuse bathe you - but I wonder if having her rub clean your shlong was worth the $13 difference. Long story short, I was there at 7:30pm, and there were around 45 girls to choose from (quite a bit, huh?). I'd have to say the quality of masseuse were all above a score of 6 out of 10, and a few I thought were 8s or close to 9s (Fair skinned, tall, balanced figures, slim-long legs, better than average face) No FS was offered, but the No.30 that I had gave an extremely well-techniqued HJ after an hour+ of good massage. Damage: VND 150k for the girl as tips and $25 for the room. Bottom line: I'd recommend it to fellow mongers looking for attractive women to give nothing more but a good HJ.

Hi guys,

I will be travelling to Hanoi for the first time in a couple of weeks. I've RTFF and there doesn't seem to be much info on GF hotels. There was a post that the Hilton is the only 5* that is GF? Has anyone stayed there lately and found it ok to bring back lady or ladies? Is it possible to check in to a good hotel with a VN girl? Any help would be much appreciated.

Given that internet server activity in Vietnam is monitored by the government, at least sporadically, have any users encountered a problem with accessing ISG inside the country? Advice from users living in Vietnam would be particularly welcome.

[QUOTE=Jayman 05]Hi guys,

I will be travelling to Hanoi for the first time in a couple of weeks. I've RTFF and there doesn't seem to be much info on GF hotels. There was a post that the Hilton is the only 5* that is GF? Has anyone stayed there lately and found it ok to bring back lady or ladies? Is it possible to check in to a good hotel with a VN girl? Any help would be much appreciated.[/QUOTE]

Stayed at the Hilton about 9 months ago, and no not GF friendly. I had a girl drop me off one evening after dinner and I was as sick as a dog and she was scared even to take me to the lifts, but would not enter.

I have also stayed at the Melia and my girl reckoned it was ok for her to be there, but only until midnight, although think that was a load of BS, think she had a boyfriend to get back too. Have also stayed at the Daewoo and by all accounts the only girls they would let to your room were the ones from Club Q downstairs. Last time I stayed at the Daewoo the the girl I meet in Club Q (actually the same girl I spoke about in the Melia and Hilton) wouldn't come to my room and I had to take her to a short time hotel.

Vietnam isn't the most GF friendly place, especially at the 4*+ end of things.

Thanks JC,

First time in Hanoi so appreciate the information. Will post a report on our experience in Hanoi.