Saigon Feb 11-12 2025

We took advantage of the overnight to spend the night in Saigon, taking the ship's "Saigon on Your Own" bus ride. Our guide walked us to the Saigon Prince Hotel (4*-$78 incl breakfast- really nice room), then took a walk around the area. Celebrations for New Year's/Tet continue. We opted for dinner in the hotel restaurant - fresh & fried Spring Rolls and a stir-fried seafood dish. Delicious!!!

In the morning we went to breakfast- everything you can imagine - fruit, pastries, rice & dinner -worthy main dishes, salad... We had typical Western with coffee, yogurt, juice, fruit & pastry, and I had a little bit of salami.

Our tour guide, David, picked us up, and we were off on our adventure after collecting the rest of our people.

We went to the Independence Palace- the Presidential Headquarters during the war. We saw the outside of Notre Dame Cathedral - under renovation. The War Remnants Museum had interesting exhibits, some of which reflected revisionist history. We ended our tour at the Post Office Building that contains a lot of shops as well as still functioning as the Post Office.

We returned to our hotel, and got a Grab back to the port.Read more