Was sad to leave my luxury hotel, but that soon turned to anger and disappointment when I arrived at my new starting hotel, as stated by the G-Adventures communications…only to find the hotel closed and empty! Just a sign on the door…
There were two workers there when I arrived, that couldn’t speak English. Neither of the numbers worked for me, and when I got one of the men to call, the person on the other end hung up!
I called G-Adventure HQ to ask what the hell was going on and also messaged by the old CEO from the Vietnam tour. Even though he had time off, he responded to help me and managed to get the new hotel address. When I arrived, my new CEO Zam was there to meet me, I was the only new addition to the tour, so everyone else didn’t have the same issues as me. I then found out that the other hotel had been closed since October. As soon as I got in my room, I wrote a complaint email to G-Adventures! What if it had been a 19 year old on her first big trip! It was just not acceptable that they had not communicated anything on it! To make matters worse for the new CEO as this was my 7 G-Adventure tour this year I got upgraded to a VIP so Zam got calls about me lol Though I’m still waiting for an official response from them! Zam brought me a cocktail to cover my taxi cost from the old hotel to the new one, but I want them to confirm they have fixed this for others!
1 person was leaving the group, and I was joining, so after dinner, we headed for beer street! I heard it was more mental than Hanoi, and there weren’t joking!
The music was so loud and the light crazy! There were dancers, though very slow, I’m assuming due to the heat, though some of them looked drugged up! We went to Lost in Saigon for drinks before heading back to the hotel! I found out there are two groups within the tour.. Team Bar and Team Bed!
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