I was surprised that there were no PJ’s available for the flight. I am aware it is a daytime flight, but some people prefer to sleep, so when asking for PJ’s and you are told none available – it makes you question logic. I asked another FA a little later into the flight to go and raid the F cupboards and find my wife a set of PJ’s, this FA willingly obliged however came back with greys! So much for none onboard.
The service on QF was reasonable till the shift change. It quickly deteriorated to a point that when I wanted a cold drink, I just got up instead if paging as this seemed to be pretty much ignored and rudely interrupted the flight attendants in the galley talking about this and that. I got the look once from one of the FAs but bit my tongue and gave him a million dollar smile at the same time telling him I would be back for a G&T soon instead of the copious amount of water that I had drunk during the flight!
After the following shift change, the attitude in the cabin was refreshed and it became a happy place again... hot and cold service and there wouldn’t be an attendant I would nominate for a smiley badge let alone a service award on this flight.
The Museum was boring without substance. I would have been pretty unhappy paying more than the couple of dollars entrance fee. It’s a modern take on modern Vietnam with focus lost on modern art pieces rather than historic items and fact.
A child growing up in Vietnam would struggle to understand the bigger picture of the American War and how it was more a civil war with international help on both sides rather than an invasion by the US. I see the need for a less biased report here to keep the memory alive and hopefully avoid the same thing in the future – but unfortunately in Vietnam, the aggressor was the USA, all atrocities committed were by the USA and the imperialist dog was beaten back by the glorious Viet Cong forces – a sad explanation of the war offered by the Ho Chi Minh museum.
We left the museum rather disgusted and meandered off through the grounds in search of the mausoleum – at least this would be factual. Sadly the mausoleum was in lock down so we never got a close look.
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Be warned – 2 weeks later and I am still sick – I think I have Giardia which I believe I may have caught on the boat – I ended up brushing my teeth with the tap water as the bottled water had run out – I saw a doctor yesterday and have a drug that will fix it – it’s not nice… Take the usual precautions and you will be ok though, and if you run out of bottled water – have stink breath for the day!
We met in the exec lounge for breakfast then went to settle the bill. I have been doing the cash only thing on this trip to cut down on credit card transaction fees, possible credit card fraud etc – so I had lots of USD with me and the next time I holiday, I will be doing the same, it worked out really well without hassle. I sat down with the exec lounge lady to pay up and she said that because I was such a handsome and great guy, the Hilton had decided to give me a 20% discount. I’m unsure why oz_mark got the 20% discount as well though… (lol)
Nice touch Hilton, thank you very much! I might add though, I advance purchased my room around 4 months earlier locking in what I thought was a good rate (and it was), however, with the 50% off link on AFF, I could have paid the same for a very large suite – win some and loose some.
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