Arrived in Hanoi today, Wednesday November 1st, 2017. Weird that we left on Monday and arrived on Wednesday- missing out on Tuesday (Halloween) altogether!
– Cab ride from airport to the Old Quarter was $18 USD in a nice, clean Toyota Corolla. If the driver asks you for money or a ticket for the toll road, shrug your shoulders. We had no ticket and refused to give him money until we were at our hotel and it wasn’t a problem.
– Air Asiana was great. The service was great, the airplane was clean and the media service was great. Not a bad 30 hour trip at all. We did have to go through security at every transit point, which was odd. Go figure the Canadian’s took away our extra liquids (we were over our 1 quart bag by two small bottles), and no other airport security (USA and Korea) even asked us to remove our liquids.
– Got SIM cards at the gioi di dong – the big yellow store. 3 GB cost $8USD and is good for 30 days. We also added 40 minutes of local calls for 100,000 dong.
– The rooster outside our hotel window doesn’t care what time it is. He likes to remind us of his presence constantly.
– Dinner at Pizza 4P’s and Pho for lunch. Pizza 4P’s really is fantastic! The service was amazing and the pizza with homemade cheese is great!
– Hotel is great – so far all is good! Looking forward to getting on the bikes in a few days!
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