28 Tho Xuong & 41 Ngo Huyen street
Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi city, Vietnam
Tel: +84 (4) 3824 4401 - 3938 0200
Fax: +84 (4) 3825 9460
www.especen.vn
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especen@gmail.com

 

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s the room rates including breakfast, service charge and tax?

       You have to pay only room charge that we've offered, no tax required. Tax will applied only for guest who required a Invoice issued by Vietnam's Ministry of Finance, that kind of invoice only use for Vietnam company with tax code. Room rates are not included personal services likes: drink, laundry, phone call, pickup service, taxi,...
       We don't supply breakfast. But there are many restaurants of Vietnamese & European food just steps near from my hotel, it's very cheap & great. You don't need to have breakfast at hotel, restaurant is much better & cheaper. Do you think that you will try some great Vietnamese food like "Phở" (about $1.50), "Bún riêu cua" (just $0.70),... at breakfast?

Do you offer free airport pick-up service?

       Some other hotels offer free airport pick-up service. In fact, they added pick-up service charge to your room charge already. We offered only room charge with no hidden fee, so you have to pay exactly what you used, that's why travelers like to stay in my hotel. Means we do not offer free airport pickup service.
      •  We also supply airport pickup service $15 with a private 4 seats car, $16 with a 7 seats car or $25 for a 16 seats car. If you like it, please give me the detail of your flight (which airlines? flight number? landing time? flight from?).

Payment?

       No deposit required for online reservation via e-mail.
 
     You can pay room charge and other services by cash or credit card while staying as well.
       Please kindly add + 3% of total payment for bank fee while paying by credit card.
       We accept: VISA, Master Card, American Express, JCB, Dinner Club International
       Please ask the receptionist to give you a receipt after paid & keep it for any complain after.

Where can I change money?

       Changing currency at airport or bank always applied very low exchange rate, changing currency at Ha Trung street at street rates is much better and highly recommend.
 
     We also supply currency exchange service at street rates.

Transfer from Noi Bai international airport to Especen hotel:

It takes about 2 hours from landing time to arrival to your hotel. You have 4 choices to transfer from airport to Hanoi central:

 
     By taxi (VND 250,000 or about $15): please be very quick to call a taxi once you finished passport control procedures & get your luggage if your flight arrived so late. Some bad taxi driver may tell that "Your hotel is full tonight" then take you to other bad hotel to get commission, so please ask the driver take you to exactly address is Especen hotel - No 28 Tho Xuong & 41 Ngo Huyen street - Tel: +84 (4) 3824 4401 - 3938 0200. Don't hear any tout from the Tour information desk at the airport or taxi driver. Not recommended this way of transfer.
 
     Cheap way is by Vietnam Airlines mini bus ($2/person) to Vietnam Airlines Head Office at No. 1 Quang Trung Street, then walk about 7 minutes to Especen hotel. Be careful of some "street boys" who always hold the hotel cards to show you at bus station. He will bring you to some hotel to get commission. This way is more safe & cheap.
 
     Cheapest way is by public bus (no luggage & before 21:00 only): first you get bus No. 7 (yellow & red color) VND 5,000 from Noi Bai airport to Cau Giay, then change to bus No. 9 (VND 3,000) from Cau Giay to Bo Ho (Hoan Kiem lake in Hanoi central), then walk about 5 minutes to Especen hotel. The total costs for both bus trips would be VND 8,000 (or 50 US cents). Please be careful to avoid pickpocket.
 
     We also supply airport pick-up service charge $15 with a private 4 seats car, $16 with a 7 seats car or $25 for a 16 seats car. If you like it, please give me the detail of your flight (airlines? flight number? landing time? flight from?). Highly recommended if you arrival so late or feel awkward.

Please see the map to find the way to Especen hotel.






Other transport

       If you want to go somewhere by taxi, ask receptionist to call a taxi for you always cheaper & avoid bad taxi drivers.
       It's difficult to call a taxi at early morning. To avoid miss your opportunity, please ask receptionist to call taxi in advance from last night.

You can find some useful Travel maps here:

PDF maps (Thanks to www.reidontravel.com)Vietnamese region map

       Hanoi's hotel map
 
     Hanoi's 36 old streets walking tour
 
     Hanoi's France quarter waling tour

OziExplorer maps (Thanks to www.taybacgroup.com.vn)

     Vietnam road's maps:

 
     North
 
     North West
       North East
       North Central part
       Central part
       Western Highlands (Central highlands) & Southern Central part
       Southern

Some useful website to find map in Vietnam:

       www.vietbando.com
       wikimapia.org







Internet connection

       If you can't connect to Facebook.com in Vietnam, please change your computer IP configuration to use the following DNS server addresses:
               Preferred DNS server:      208.67.222.222
               Alternate DNS server:      208.67.220.220

 

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