Members RA1 Posted March 25, 2016 Members Posted March 25, 2016 Great report. Thanks so much. Best regards, RA1 TotallyOz 1 Quote
Guest Captainmick Posted March 25, 2016 Posted March 25, 2016 Thanks for the interesting and informative report. Love the picture of your young friend cuddling his pillow on the Qatar Airways flight. Can you please provide the name of the hotel you stayed in as I will be in Hanoi this Autumn? Quote
paulsf Posted March 26, 2016 Author Posted March 26, 2016 We stayed at the. Essence Palace Hotel. They have 3 hotels very close to each other. This is the newest and closet to Hoan Kiem Lake. www.essencehanoihotel.com. I was told if you book directly thru them, you get free breakfast. Nice little perk. TotallyOz 1 Quote
Members MsGuy Posted March 26, 2016 Members Posted March 26, 2016 Wonderful pair of posts, Planetime. Well written. I truly enjoyed them. And your sleeping friend was uber cute. lookin and TotallyOz 2 Quote
paulsf Posted March 26, 2016 Author Posted March 26, 2016 Thank you for the kind words. You know, you should never go back and read a long post you did yesterday. Auto-correct really makes you look bad. TotallyOz 1 Quote
TotallyOz Posted March 26, 2016 Posted March 26, 2016 Beautiful reports. You seem to be relaxing and enjoying the trip a great deal. I did love the photo of the boy sleeping in business class. He fit right in. I know what a big difference you have made in his life. Do you have things you have missed on this trip that you plan to get done on your last week or two? lookin 1 Quote
paulsf Posted March 27, 2016 Author Posted March 27, 2016 We spent all our time in Hanoi, in the city. Next trip I would like to see the surrounding area a bit. My friend wants to go to Halong Bay for a few days. That will probably happen. Better to do more towards summer. It looks beautiful In Thailand I still would like to get to Chang Mai. Then maybe Cambodia. A lot still depends on getting my bad leg fixed and more pain free mobility. It's just frustrating to not be able to walk more than a few blocks. I've been happy with the time I spent in Bangkok, but the trip to Hanoi got me wanting more again. MsGuy and lookin 2 Quote
Members firecat691614502759 Posted March 30, 2016 Members Posted March 30, 2016 when is your next trip. I will be in Thailand Nov6- Xmas at least that is the plan right now. 4 days in BKK on the front end and 4 days on the end of the stay. Quote
paulsf Posted March 30, 2016 Author Posted March 30, 2016 I head home next Tuesday after two months here. I need to get back and see what's going on before I set dates for return. Probably a couple of weeks in Sept and some time between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Quote
