Hanoi - Day 1 (31/10) PART 1
The flight was delayed, Air Asia mah, what do you expect? so when i arrived, i was already very tired and hungry, not to mention helpless. My adventurous spirit was gone. when i saw my name (& fren's name) on a paper held by a man (taxi driver), i just went straight to him & hop on the taxi. OK OK, at first i wanted to ignore the taxi provided by the hotel i booked, coz i have emailed them to cancel but no reply from them. But then when i saw this young man (quite handsome too) waiting & in fact he might not get any passenger to go back and cover his fuel to come to airport, i pity him, that's why i follow him.
i arrived at Real Darling Cafe Guesthouse at around 7pm (malaysian time 8pm) to check in to the twin room i've booked (which i have emailed to them a day earlier to change to a single room coz my travel partner won't be joining me for the 1st 3 days), but like what happened to the "cancelled" taxi, they forced me to take up the twin room with an offered price USD7 instead of the original USD8. well, so it's only 1 dollar difference to the single room which would cost me USD6... so i said WTF, give me the twin room then, but i demanded single room for the next 2 nights, but i guess they just have too much empty rooms, or is it bcoz they are too lazy or just not cost efective to change room and change linen, they offered me to stay in the same twin room with the single room price USD6... well, good enough, i'll take it!
Then like any usual hostel/hotel here, they started to push me into buying their tour packages. OK, they are not that pushy really, they only started to hardsell when i asked... so it's partly my fault, i have given them the opportunity to harrass me.... wuahahahaha! anyway, i just told them i was too hungry, maybe i should talk to them only after dinner.
So, i go to my room #305 through a series of steep staircase, a very basic room with no table or no nonsense at all, just 2 single bed, a hanger, cable TV, basic bathroom with hot shower. the staffs are frenly and helpful too. all in all, a good hostel!
i arrived at Real Darling Cafe Guesthouse at around 7pm (malaysian time 8pm) to check in to the twin room i've booked (which i have emailed to them a day earlier to change to a single room coz my travel partner won't be joining me for the 1st 3 days), but like what happened to the "cancelled" taxi, they forced me to take up the twin room with an offered price USD7 instead of the original USD8. well, so it's only 1 dollar difference to the single room which would cost me USD6... so i said WTF, give me the twin room then, but i demanded single room for the next 2 nights, but i guess they just have too much empty rooms, or is it bcoz they are too lazy or just not cost efective to change room and change linen, they offered me to stay in the same twin room with the single room price USD6... well, good enough, i'll take it!
Then like any usual hostel/hotel here, they started to push me into buying their tour packages. OK, they are not that pushy really, they only started to hardsell when i asked... so it's partly my fault, i have given them the opportunity to harrass me.... wuahahahaha! anyway, i just told them i was too hungry, maybe i should talk to them only after dinner.
So, i go to my room #305 through a series of steep staircase, a very basic room with no table or no nonsense at all, just 2 single bed, a hanger, cable TV, basic bathroom with hot shower. the staffs are frenly and helpful too. all in all, a good hostel!