Hotels under $20 in Hanoi | Cemetery tour

Hotels under $20 in Hanoi | Cemetery tour

Today we’re moving yeah it’s moving day in  Hanoi yeah but we’re moving somewhere else   in Hanoi yeah we’re still staying in Hanoi but  we’re trying to find a less populated or less   tourist area basically yeah and see what  uh cheaper lodging looks like yeah uh we  

Went with something a little low mid-range  no this low range oh yeah I guess it’s it’s   the high end of low um it’s the high it’s one  of the lowest cost private rooms you can get  

Yes that is not a Hos yeah yeah that has all  the amenities that we want like AC uh toilet   hot water yeah um it’s own bathro yeah yeah  24-hour access because some of these places  

You’re you’re doing a home stay with people and  you’re not I mean you don’t want to be rude and   come in at midnight when they’re trying to sleep  and they have to go to work the next day so but  

Uh we’re going to go get some coffee and we’ll  show you the we’ll do a little hotel room next   or hotel room tour we’ll do a little hotel tour  I can’t even talk this morning cuz we haven’t  

Had coffee I’m excited to get this coffee it’s  so good let’s go look at it all right let’s get coffee so this is is uh the coffee shop  and it’s literally across the street from   the church and it’s pretty good coffee it’s a  little more on the spendy side but good coffee  

At least Liz is going to go get us a table  over there and there’s a lot of tourists   in this like this is the heart of tourist  town in uh in the oil quarter as you can see

So I’m going to go get some coffee  with Liz but first I got to cross the [Applause] [Music] street did we just get the same shot so this is  our coconut coffee uh B best enjoyed with the

Spoon oh yeah it’s basically a little bit of  coffee uh and then Frozen coconut that’s uh   Blended up like ice cream pretty much and it’s  topped with toasted coconut it comes different   at several different uh places this is probably  the most beautiful presentation we’ve seen yet and  

We’ve had it like four or five different places  but it is delicious and good for you yeah this   place is a little more on the spendy side you can  find coconut coffee for sometimes 30,000 35,000 uh  

This place is $50,000 which is $2 so four bucks  for the both of us for amazing coffee drink   totally worth it which might I add $4 for the both  of us when you can go to Starbucks in the states  

And pay more than that for one Cofe yeah you can  probably get black coffee for $4 I know last time   I ordered a Starbucks a white chocolate mocha with  cocon of milk it was $8 so this is half the price  

For two of them have something in my beard I do  that happens the uh joys of having a beard all   right we’re heading back to the hotel to check  out and go find another hotel we’ve already got  

One booked but we got to find it now hi just to  show you guys the location of our hotel uh there’s   the coffee shop we just had here’s the church  and uh we’re going to go down this little alley

Here which there’s usually really great  food right here at this corner uh we ate   breakfast there one morning and there’s  actually was two food stalls there that morning so we turn this way and uh you got Hotel uh travel agency nails spa

Hotel and just a lot of different  options you got convenience store here um another hotel hello wel hello  good another hotel some more food   which smells delicious by the  way travel agency another coffee shop another hotel so there’s plenty of  hotels here to choose from and then tons  

More stuff down that way this is the  way that uh we’re going to go to our hotel it’s a motorbike rental store  they got some nice looking bikes   here but at looks like a lot of the  hotels include motorbike rentals Liz  

Used to have a Ruckus like that yeah  it’s actually called a Zoomer here huh more delicious food uh hello massage uh and then around the corner  here we just had breakfast literally   right there there so this is very Savory  and delicious and lots of garlic added  

And lots of uh chilies the meat is  really good and uh and it’s a good location oh no we had breakfast over there I get  turned around sometimes and our hotel is here the   queen Hotel and Spa too and they do bike rentals  out front they even have a travel office in the  

Back of the lobby and uh it’s just a good place  probably the only downside and it’s not that big   of a downside of this hotel is the stairs the  80 stairs to the the um fourth floor where we  

Were at but we’re getting used to them we’re sad  to leave but I’m going to give you a quick tour   most of you guys saw this in the first video we  got bathroom sink tub toilet this is the room I  

Think it’s bigger than a queen-size bed because  it feels like we have more room here it feels like   something in between a queen and a ging yeah it  could be um TV with uh Vietnamese channels on it  

Uh we usually bring our chomecast to hook up to  the TV so we can cast YouTube to the TV instead   of watching it on our phones nice workspace nice  chairs mini fridge with options uh excellent view  

Of the anoy city life from above this is room 403  we’re on the fourth floor excellent view of the   Bonsai Garden um there’s a lady that comes out of  this door every once a while to hang her washing  

Uh there’s a lady up here that uh sometimes does  yoga this uh this building here there’s no window   there but they close those little things every  morning and then open them again so it’s kind of   interesting there’s another building here that  nobody’s been in the whole time but that looks  

Like a cool place to stay as well plus it comes  with the best cleaning lady in the world so our   new friend ma she let left us food yet again um  so it looks like this is like a puffed rice yeah  

It sounds like she made it and then she called  these cookies but um she said that these were   cookies and these were were sweet treats yeah it  looks like sesame seeds and that and then this is  

Some sort of like rice pastry ooh like a spongy  sponge cake type thing yeah um but all in all   great location excellent location at this hotel uh  what do you think dear uh yeah I would stay here  

Again I mean obviously we kept rebooking it uh  because the location and the comfort and our stuff   was safe here like we left all our belongings out  and left for entire days and yeah um no issues and  

Uh it was this much a night uh original booking  was done on I believe Price Line uh if I’m wrong   I’ll put that here uh thought it was booking.com  I think I did this one on Price Line okay I don’t  

Know there’s many options to book here uh so  to extend it basically you just go down to the   front desk and say hey I’d like to stay two more  nights and if they have availability they let us  

Stay they did that two times so an additional four  nights to our first two so we’ve been here seven   days now yeah yeah and when we went down to rebook  they honored the price that we got online Yes  

Actually they they they honored it but they added  on some credit card Fe so it was a little bit more   but like pennies pennies um but all in all great  place to stay but today is our last day we have to  

Check out within the next hour checkout time is  noon which is awesome um and we’re going to hit   the the city bus since we’re pros at that if if  you saw our last video um bus Surfers now yeah bus  

Surfers and we’re going to we’re probably going  to take two buses to the next hotel and fingers   crossed sorry I guess I can’t say that don’t  yeah you can’t do fingers crossed in Vietnam  

Uh it’s offensive yeah um if you want to know  why I look it up yeah yeah you can Google that   um so uh hoping for the best at the next location  we try to pick something out of the heart of the  

Touristy part so we’ll see what what we get come  along oh and one more thing I wanted to add about   this hotel yeah yeah is so there’s somebody that  he actually sleeps down there at the front desk at  

Night so that adds another layer of protection too  knowing that like there’s like a person down there   like we’ve gotten up super early especially when  we were adjusting to times and just like tiptoed  

Her in behind him so we wouldn’t wake him up yeah  um I’m sure he woke up when we touched the door   but and the first night that we were here uh I  there was a number on the the door and I called  

The number the guy woke up and he checked us in  and it was 1:00 a.m. yeah and carried our bags   upstairs oh yeah and carried our bags upstairs so  it was nice very nice place thumbs up I would give  

This probably 9 out of 10 for for the price range  for lowend uh lodging yeah highend yeah I’ll leave   the the details in the description below and most  of you guys saw our packing video we’ve adjusted a  

Little bit since then this is everything I have  this is everything Liz has um in that bag and   that bag and uh we’re seeing how this works oh  plus I have my my handy dandy purse um my fanny purse but uh we’re we’re seeing  how this goes so far so good uh  

Especially doing laundry at the laundry  place that you saw us do in a previous   episode but let’s get on the bus and  see what our new neighborhood looks like I guess that’s how I roll for [Music] now foreign spe okay so the bus situation did not work well

Um the bus started going on the wrong way so now  we got to hop on another bus to try and find the hotel and that was a little rough  wasn’t it dear uh yeah I’m glad I   eventually got a seed yeah I’m going to  be so sore from just trying to like not  

Fall down yeah that was rough we ended up  getting a grab ride instead uh it was a lot easier Okay so we were just dropped off by our grab  driver which is basically an Uber here in   Vietnam it was how much uh 48,000 which is just  under $2 I tipped in the other 20,000 which made  

It equal to $2 exactly uh it would have been 68  cents on the bus and we would have had to walk   a lot farther but our hotel right there Corner  have any of you ordered an Uber that was less  

Than $2 I know right all right let’s find our  hotel it this is it all right so first thing we   have an elevator here which is nice yeah and uh  here’s your room we just paid 600 dong uh 616,000

Dong oh there’s a refrigerator and a freezer  okay a desk to work at a TV not much of a view I think this is your typical um Vietnamese  Hotel view is a little rough around the edges um first things first bed check yeah  I’m going to give them a little bathroom  

Tour though oh there’s the bathroom’s  kind of nice uh okay it’s got a very   we got to film you walking into the  shower to see if you fit inside of it got the butt sprayer uh oh weird the  toilet paper doesn’t have a thing in the  

Middle let’s see what kind of oh all kinds of  toothbrushes oo they gave um Q-tips that’s a   nice touch what else what is this okay  toothpaste I’m guessing by the picture   of the mouth that’s a big bottle we might not  have to buy toothpaste here and then we’ve got

Shampoo [Music] ooh and this is relaxing  shower whitening oh so it has skin Whitener   in it uh Vietnamese women um value  they think that lighter skin is more beautiful um let’s see goat milk what is this  exclusive whitening moisturizing   shower gel lots of whitening stuff oh there’s a

Comb and a hair this is actually okay  floor is wet um the fridge is cold that’s good and oh a laundry bath oh hey a fulls size mirror hello everyone yeah I’ll subtitle AC  huh I’ll subtitle that oh look at this tiny  

Drawers oh my gosh lot of storage here this  is one you could kind of stay a while well   it is called Apartments yeah yeah this  is an apartment but we’re only renting  

It for a few nights so far so far I like  that it has a fan as well as an AC um but   I think everybody wants to see if you fit  in the shower okay it pass the bed the bed  

Bug check okay I mean you’ll fit in the  shower but the shower head is a little low he’s scrunching down it’ll be interesting yeah at least it has a  handheld one too but oh is that the hot water  

Tank instant hot hot water tank there’s a couple  hangers in here for drying clothes yeah um it’s   not super clean but it’s clean which is a weird  thing to say it’s bubbles I think it’s cleaner  

Okay in the toilet but I mean $111 oh shoot we’re  wearing our shoes in here dang it this room comes   with slippers the last one came with slippers  too yeah I think that’s common and we need to  

Get out of this bad habit of wearing our shoes in  here but anyways that’s the room tour let’s check   out the neighborhood I just want to reiterate  that bus ride that we were on that was crazy  

Uh you had to hold on for dear life in order  to uh S stand up straight it was hard for me   to check my phone to see what stop we were  getting off on uh unfortunately the bus did  

Not follow the route that was on Google didn’t we  say we were professionals at this um this morning   uh so it uh turned out we uh we we could have  gotten off and then hopped on another bus and  

Then uh continued on for 65 more cents but it  was only $2 to take a um a grab so definitely   worth the $2 just to get here and no weere at  the right spot cuz he dropped us off literally  

Like I could see it from where he dropped us  off and this uh apartment SL Hotel thing is   in an alley so it is one of the harder ones to  find but let’s go uh see what’s around this area

So we’re out exploring our new neighborhood  for the next couple of days just uh navigating   the Maze of Alleyways and side streets  and things and uh get nothing but weird looks bunch of little shops everywhere we just turned down this  quiet street and uh I think we found  

A temple uh we walked alongside that  building and then looks like there’s   another up here let’s check it  out look at the detail on this fence beautiful wow this is [Music] beautiful there’s a Buddha statue which you  can barely see right up here uh behind that

Sign but the detail work on this is amazing  there some Bonsai too oh wow yeah check out these Bonsai I love bonsai trees and that  is an amazing bonsai tree right there this is gorgeous what is it it’s uh I I don’t want  to butcher it too bad but it’s

M we have cautiously entered the temple  and we’re not sure if it’s okay to film in here but if you can hear in the background  there’s some chanting going on a couple of   these cool little pools with fishes what  I really wanted to show you was these [Music] bonsai For And for check out the vases on this tree  here not a bonsai but the detail   on this is really cool and these uh the  beer and the cookies and the milk are um offerings it’s such a beautiful place here um it’s a jack fruit tree

Yeah uh and then there’s I think these  are pomelow over here smells very citrusy around here beautiful flower tree wow look at this Bonsai that is a nice Bonsai oh they’re not flowers  it’s just got purple leaves they’re kind of flower

Like that’s weird I’m going to look this up so  I believe it’s a a lesser ban Lea I’ll write the   name here because I’m not sure if I’m pronouncing  that right well that was pretty cool a temple I  

Know I wish we could have explored more but  like we weren’t sure if we were overstepping   our boundaries there was people out tending to the  Garden uh they said some things to us and laughed  

Um so I don’t know if that’s a sign of we weren’t  supposed to be there but they were okay with it   well they did say hello to us yeah they did say  hello and then they said seny which is excuse me  

But I think they didn’t understand or think that  we would understand seny uh cuz they were kind of   talking to each other and laughing and they were  like senoy so we must white not were supposed to  

Be there I don’t know uh who knows that’s still  cool I don’t care that was awesome yeah let’s see   what else we can find yeah well until the siren  came by we were in this very quiet area um near  

Our hotel and uh it’s just Eerie we keep getting  these looks from everyone here uh yeah it’s it   makes me feel a little uncomfortable like I don’t  it’s like you can’t just walk down the street  

Without being noticed yeah um which is fine I  guess it’s to be expected like we’re not in a   touristy area I mean we haven’t seen anybody  that no I haven’t seen anybody look local it   doesn’t look local yeah yeah um so it’s just yeah  a lot of people are laughing laughing or pointing  

Um so I don’t know what that is I mean you have  to have a tough skin to come to a country where   and come to a side of a country where they don’t  see a lot of Tourism so but we’re here to get  

Used to that CU it’s going to be everywhere  boy we just found this beautiful Park in uh   the middle of the city well not the middle of the  city but in the city and the bench says DeMent on it there’s people working out on the free exercise  equipment beautiful palm trees beautiful trees  

We’re going to sit here for a little bit and see  if we can see what else is around this area we   apologize in advance if this is disrespectful  but we’ve always wanted to come see a cemeter  

In Vietnam and we just happened to find one  in the middle of the city here we’re going   to take a short walk through here just to show  you what it’s like so detailed they are they’re beautiful they’re very close together 1941 to 2002 again we’re not sure if this is disrespectful  

Or not we’re also not sure if they’ve  removed Graves to make room for more Graves doesn’t it look like that yeah it’s interesting took us a while  to find the entrance to this beautiful tree in here okay so we just asked two different people  a younger generation and an older generation if  

It was dis respectful to take photographs in  the cemetery and they both said it’s okay so   I feel better now that we got two yeah the first  one and we were like uh like she nodded uh well  

She nodded and then she said no it but I guess I  I worded it a little too complex to just get yes   or no question I said is it disrespectful to  take pictures in your beautiful cemetery and  

Uh I said we don’t want to be disrespectful  so I think she said yes I understand and no   it’s it’s not disrespectful yeah but then we  asked another person and I said so it’s okay   and he said yes it’s fine I think we’re good  yeah so on that note let’s show you around  

It is kind of hard to navigate in here um  but these are beautiful beautiful grave [Music] gravestones and this  is the weirdest leaved plant   I’ve seen I am going to have to see what that is but like you you can’t just walk straight  

Through [Music] here all right let me  see what this is I’ll get right back to you so I can’t I can’t get a complete lock  on it but it is a some sort of mulberry tree plant then you got this one As you can see there is no Rhyme or Reason  to the um orientation of these [Music] Graves they’re just every which way maybe  there’s some significance to it um uh I can   only speculate but maybe they are pointing  towards uh the family’s homes maybe they’re  

Pointing towards the rising and setting of  the Sun at certain days possibly the moon   but I don’t know but it is a beautiful  Cemetery like look at the back of this one beautiful I’ve never  seen a cemetery quite like this this is

Incredible beautiful this this was one  of the things on our bucket list of uh   things we have to do in Vietnam  was visit a cemetery because we   love cemeteries I mean especially like  seeing the way that others honor their

Dead their family [Music] members I see  I mean you can see like as as the gap on   this the way through these some of them are  pointed in completely opposite directions as   the others some of them are at very slight  angles like these two are next to each other  

But they’re not square there’s even some  across the the little pathway over here as well it’s fascinating and are these  ones here waiting for the other family members yeah looks like they’re not sealed in  yet or have the other family members recently  

Passed and they just haven’t had their names  put on yet I have a lot of questions if you   don’t haven’t noticed we both do how  old this cemetery is uh because it is   very confusing not seeing like the  the born and death R yeah and it is giant yeah 1919 to 2015

Wow that person almost made it to 100 and there is a bunch of garbage  next to the cemetery I’m not going   to sugar coat it for you um there’s  even some old pills just hanging out here uh but maybe they are clearing old  houses and this is just the trash from  

The old houses uh to make room because it  seems we’re still in the cemetery walls here well that was really cool to see that  cemetery and just you know be able to wander   through it and show you guys some of the sites  it’s a very beautiful place just right here in  

The middle of the city it’s pretty quiet for uh  for being in the middle of the city but and very   hidden if you hadn’t have seen her on the map  we wouldn’t have known this Cemetery was here  

Yeah and it was hard hard to find the entrance too  so well that was fun that was so much fun thanks   for coming along on our Vietnam Adventures  we really don’t know what’s next don’t but   it’s going to be completely fascinating if  you are fascinated by this today definitely  

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A random pot cooking next to a stack of bricks  not being attended by anyone uh right next to the cemetery

In this episode we do two full hotel tours in Hanoi. One was Queen Hotel & Spa and the other was The Gateway Apartments. Both cost less than $20 a night. We also randomly found a cemetery which we toured in this video to show how traditional Vietnamese burials are done.

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