I can't wait to tell u all about my Hanoi trip. I count my blessings during this trip...............really.... . some of u going to peng san when I tell u all what happen...
One of us had arrange to book at (i cant remember the name) but end up the hotel owner give us Eden plaza without explaining to us . They pick up up from the hotel, and suddenly charge us for the trip from airport to hotel on the 1st day.
Turns out they over book and got 4 of us a 2 rooms at the hotel behind Eden plaza. (I can tell u the bed sheet is really dirty and my friend's don't dare to use the towel cos its dirty. I end up having to stopping touching and looking at the bed sheet, place the duvet set over the bed sheet (so rough and make me itch ) and sleep.
Early morning, got woken up by Jenny. Aiyo this jenny and beeling has forgotten to set the clock back by an hour and woke up early. They then decide to have breakfast and start walking around looking for hotels for standby case. Something prompted beeling to do this (I think its the spirit though she is not a christian, you will know why I said this later)
Everyone was complaining about the Eden plaza hotel, toilet flood lah, air con blowing black soots, etc etc. Beeling and Pat set into action and start negotiating for discount or refund... Per website information this is suppose to be new with elevators but we see no lifts. Well boss said no refund but a $10 discount plus free transport to airport for our trip back. Some of them change room.
The 4 of us had to move our luggage from the other hotel back into this hotel. Hmmm strange smelling hotel oops.. (am I complaining too much)
Boss told us to be back by a certain time for water puppet show.we went back early and suddenly was told the show was earlier and we have to get out own transport there (eh.. strange arrangement)...
The shock we had came on our last day when we came back from Sapa early morning about 6 plus or was it 5 plus am. There was no room for us. Jenny and a few of them went to check out the other hotel that Beeling ling and her check out that early morning (see thats why we said all this come with a purpose) to see if any rooms are available.
We insist to speak to the boss and the poor guy keep refusing until he can't hold on anymore and phone the boss. We threaten to wake up all the hotel guest.. During this time Samy discover something, the boss has overcharge us for a room for 4 nights (don't ask me why we never discover this earlier, I guess when the few of them paid, they were trusting the owner too much)
Jenny and the rest called back to say there is a room available in the other hotel..
The boss actually stay on the 5th floor and really take his own sweet time to come down. Saying there is a group that is leaving for Hailong bay on 7am and we can have the room later, we only paid 70% for the last day.. balblablala.. Pat swing into action to have he explain how he calculate the overcharging.. hmmmm.... finally he admit his error on the calculation.
Well we never take back the $10 disc cos he claim we use one of the rooms for washing up. Well if he wants to charge us, should have say so earlier on, don't have to use such little dirty tricks.. cunning man, 杀人不眨眼. When he came down from 5th floor, he still put on this smiling face , walking steadily down, he already expected us to make noise in my opinion...
The hotel that we move to later is pretty new and good service except we make a boo boo. early check in is consider a day and we need to check out by 12pm, any later will be consider another day's rate. somehow one of us misinterpret and .... when we check out at 5pm later we realise we need to pay double. manage to get a 50% off. Its our mistake so can't complain.
When we take the transport to airport later, the driver suddenly stop halfway. Gosh lucky vehicle never breakdown else if we miss the flight we sill be stranded till the next flight which is next Thursday I think.
Lesson learn:
1) never pay in full for budget hotel stay , always pay day by day. In case u need to change hotel u can always do so anytime.
2) Never go to Eden Plaza, 货不对半, boss is dishonest.
3) Everything must be in black and white, especially in a place where their English is not good, there might be miscommunication
4) Lord is always with us. If not for the last day of room non availability, we would never discover we are being double charge, if not for beeling and jenny waking up early, we would not have a backup hotel and can move in so quickly.
5) Oh ya blur me actually somehow left my shampoo behind one of this day and one of my friend who happen to use the room's toilet pick it up. And on the last day, somehow I left one of my stuff behind and my friend also pick this up ahhaha See people are always looking out for me. :)
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