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08-25-20 00:20 #2298
Posts: 204Originally Posted by Alex7J [View Original Post]
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08-24-20 01:03 #2297
Posts: 1316Originally Posted by Amanut [View Original Post]
Have you been in Vietnam now?
Sorry I am a bit confused. No pussy since 2 weeks now in USA closes my brains.
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08-22-20 19:00 #2296
Posts: 49Originally Posted by Zippy [View Original Post]
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08-22-20 00:11 #2295
Posts: 204Visas
Originally Posted by CaptainSolo [View Original Post]
While they were arranging to have my visa stamped I bought my SIM card from the kiosk located inside the customs area. I believe it was offered by Viettel. Again they offered very reliable and inexpensive service. I think it was something in the range of $25.00 for thirty days for a 10 gig a day data package. Given that free wifi is offered almost everywhere in Vietnam, it is actually overkill. Packages for sending and receiving texts messages are sold separately and required if you wish to send texts to phone numbers. Skype and other messaging apps will work with a data only package.
A woman I know in Da Nang has been telling me about the atmosphere around the city and country. She and others I have talked to are terrified about the current spread. Vietnamese respect and follow their government's directions and social pressure. Individual rights and freedoms are not open to discussion in situations like a pandemic. I have no doubt in my mind that the Vietnamese government will get this latest outbreak under control in relatively short order. I suspect the general lack of willingness to try to control the pandemic in the U.S, will mean its going to be long long time before Americans will be welcomed back to Vietnam or most other places in Asia for that matter. It's just my thoughts, but those are the differences I feel when comparing a country that stresses individual freedoms to a Communist country, however under normal circumstances you would almost never know you are in a Communist country when you are in Vietnam.
Flu season is coming so be prepared for a long delay before Vietnam is willing to reopen other than to Asian countries with similar records of controlling the virus.
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08-21-20 15:19 #2294
Posts: 183Poor P4P
So I must have read 30 pages back in this Hanoi forum, and I have to say how disappointed I am in the state of mongerdom in Hanoi so far. I recently moved here and I figured there would at least be an abundance of happy ending massage parlors for reasonable prices (considering the extremely low cost of living and average monthly wage). But wow. You guys are routinely paying around $50-60 USD for a massage with a jerk off ending by mostly mediocre women in a developing country where most people make like $200-300 a month in wages? Just wow. You must be recent expats.
Obviously, I'll need to look around and go off the beaten path because I certainly won't be paying these prices. By the way I've been an expat for many years- Indonesia, Venezuela, Colombia, Panama, Russia, etc. Etc. You guys are paying more than in any of these destinations. Makes no sense.
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08-19-20 20:08 #2293
Posts: 6531Vietnam
Alex73.
Vietnam is shut down again after CoVid outbreak in the Nang. All passengers arriving from out of the country must undergo 14-day quarantine. Domestic air passengers from infected areas, like the Nang, have to do 7 days.
Visas have to be applied at consulate prior to departure. Visas on arriving have been very difficult to obtain. Without current visas airlines will deny boarding as they don't want to deal with stranded passengers.
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08-19-20 20:00 #2292
Posts: 14Originally Posted by CaptainSolo [View Original Post]
Too bad they didn't buy 2 Airbuss A350 series.
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08-19-20 19:50 #2291
Posts: 14Originally Posted by Alex7J [View Original Post]
The Nang is locked down tight. My friends are staying in the mountains and can't return home w / o 14 days isolation.
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08-19-20 04:46 #2290
Posts: 1316Originally Posted by CaptainSolo [View Original Post]
Guide me friends what is the latest on ground position any flights available and visa restrictions.
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08-18-20 22:04 #2289
Posts: 6531Vietnam Air
MuShuu.
Vietnam Air is not flying direct from SFO or LAX yet. The flight from LAX to SGN was code share with Korean Air with 3 hours lay over in Seoul.
They have been approved fro direct flight in Jan but will need a few months to set up operations besides the CoVid delay. Vietnam Air has bought a couple B787's for this route. The collapse of air travel under CoVid will undoubtedly take a big bite out of their capital budget.
Quote Originally Posted by CaptainSolo.
With Vietnam Air's excellent customer services, hot, young flight attendants, brand-new airplanes and highly-experienced pilots (or is it the reverse? Tasty food and endless Hanoi, Saigon beers and wines on long flights, I would book flights with them again, even if their prices are slightly higher than competition.
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07-07-20 15:54 #2288
Posts: 55Finding Online
Originally Posted by Sebastiane [View Original Post]
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06-10-20 03:21 #2287
Posts: 44Currently visiting China and been waiting for Vietnam border to open to visit Hanoi and do son.
Been pondering visiting hekou first, because Vietnam opens on July 1.
Was coronavirus the only reason there were maybe not as many girls as usual in hekou recently? Was it because border was closed and so most are waiting until it opens?
Thanks in advance!
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06-09-20 05:17 #2286
Posts: 65Originally Posted by MeoDen [View Original Post]
Mentioned as to bring your own beer type of party but ehh I prefer a buffet but at the very least the cafeteria. Anyone with experience in that north highland region? TIA.
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06-07-20 03:05 #2285
Posts: 93Originally Posted by Mushuu09 [View Original Post]
Tourists have always needed a visa to enter China. I don't think arranging this will have got any easier.
Last reports I have is that the Hekou scene is kaput.
Lao Cai has never been worth the detour.
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06-06-20 20:12 #2284
Posts: 65Originally Posted by CaptainSolo [View Original Post]