The Jimmy Hotel in Danang is a small well run place with decent views of the beach from the Son Tra Peninsula across to Marble Mountain. This hotel is a good option if you are looking for a room under $20 a night and its isolation is sure to keep it quiet. By all reports from friends this place is quite good and comes highly recommended.

The Jimmy Hotel is within walking distance of My Khe beach and is only a 5 minute taxi ride to the centre of town. There are lots of great “on-the-street” seafood places nearby and the Zen Cafe is a quiet place to get a coffee in the morning.

The Jimmy Hotel Danang is located in an area that is yet to be developed therefore this area doesn’t have the hustle and bustle you might expect to find on the other side of the Han river. The service is friendly and the staff are helpful, lack of English speaking staff may cause a minor inconvenience.

Jimmy Hotel
F18 An Cu 3, An Hai Bac
off Pham Van Dong street
Danang

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The Green Plaza Hotel is located on the bank of the charming Han river and as such has spectacular river views both day and night. For a non-beach-front hotel this place has the best location as it is within easy walking distance to most sites in Danang, walking along the river in the early morning or early evening are two must do activities while you are in Danang.

The Green Plaza Hotel Danang has a 5 star rating and boasts 173 standard rooms, deluxe rooms and suites. The rooms are of reasonable size and well decorated, some come with balconies some with great river views, all rooms include coffee and tea making facilities as well as everything else you would expect from a 5 star hotel.

Facilities include an outdoor pool located on the 8th floor, a great place to cool off and take in the magnificent city views of Danang. There is also massage service, pool tables, a downstairs cafe, the sky bar with excellent city and river views on the 21st floor accessible via the glass lift on the river side of the hotel. The nightclub in the basement struggles to get crowds and can be a little sleazy.

The Hotel also has offices for lease, conference and meeting rooms, secretary services and modern communication facilities. The English speaking staff are very helpful and friendly, except perhaps for the staff working in the restaurant on the top floor, every time I go there something goes wrong and service isn’t very good.

This can be amongst the most expensive hotels in Danang, I think if you have to pay more $100 a night you look elsewhere. However, due to lack of occupants The Green PLaza Hotel Danang frequently offers discounts and special rates, try to bargain for the best deal and even a room upgrade, discounts of 50% are not unheard of.

View InDanang, Vietnam in a larger mapGreen Plaza Hotel
238 Bach Dang street
Danang

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A Vietnamese chef on the brink of a dream – Life Resort Da Nang chef rewarded for sharing good fortune

HANOI (22 June 2010) — In 2005, Hoang The Anh was part of an intake of 25 trainees from the street and from disadvantaged backgrounds taken in by Hanoi ’s non-profit organisation KOTO (Know One Teach One).

Now, only five years later and still only 21 years old, he stands on the brink of a dream after winning a $20,000 scholarship to study at the prestigious Le Cordon Bleu in Sydney , Australia .

Anh spent two years learning how to be a chef in KOTO’s hospitality training programme. In 2007, he celebrated his graduation and embarked on a career that eventually ushered him into the kitchens of the five-star Life Resort Da Nang.

While his cooking skills have impressed colleagues, it’s his desire to repay his good luck that really caught judges’ attention. He has donated his time freely for more than three years to help with cooking lessons at the Hoi An Orphanage. Judges also revealed how he’d assisted a local lady in setting up her own coffee shop.

Working alongside KOTO graduates in central Vietnam , he had helped them beat occasional homesickness by inspiring them to think of themselves as paving the way in creating opportunities for still more graduates. All the time he was also sending money back to assist his own family in their ongoing struggle against poverty.

In a magical evening at KOTO’s most recent graduation ceremony, Anh was named winner of the KOTO Ambassador’s Award.

As recipient, Anh will study in Sydney for two years and three months once he has mastered English to requisite levels.

“For a guy like Anh this is something he just could never have dreamed of,” said Alexander Reily, executive chef at Life Resort Da Nang. “For any young person, the chance to travel, to live and to learn overseas is an adventure. But Anh’s background meant that up to that moment he can’t have imagined it was an option open to him. As far as he was concerned he was just giving something back.”

ABOUT LIFE RESORTS
Life Resorts owns and operates two resorts in Vietnam and manages two others. On Vietnam’s central coast, the 94-room Life Heritage Resort Hoi An evokes the colonial splendour of a bygone era on a quiet stretch of the Thu Bon River within walking distance of the trading port’s world-famous downtown. On the south-central coast, the 63-room Life Wellness Resort Quy Nhon is dedicated to the tenets of wellness, from yoga, tai chi and Pilates to an ample range of spa treatments and anti-stress and detox programs.

Four hours from Ho Ch Minh City , Life manages the 84-room Blue Ocean Resort, featuring a 153-meter private beach, a 26-meter swimming pool and lush tropical grounds. Life’s newest property, Life Resort Danang, celebrated the grand opening of its 158 rooms on the hottest beach in April 2010.

The Dutch resort company is also developing a property on Halong Bay , scheduled to open later in 2010.

For more information, contact the Life Resorts sales and marketing office at (848) 3.844-3605, sales@life-resorts.com or visit www.life-resorts.com.

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To celebrate Easter, Furama Resort Danang is preparing many treats for this upcoming weekend mixing traditional Easter activities with the stylish Furama touch.

Additional shuttle buses have been arranged for transfers to the local Catholic Church for Easter Mass, and over the weekend you can also indulge in a healthy range of activities on the beach such as Tai Chi, Yoga and sports competitions. We will hold an exciting Easter Egg Hunt, egg painting and cookie making competitions for children, as well as continuing to offer all other activities including excursions to World Cultural Heritage Sites, fishing tours and swimming lessons.

Furama Resort Danang celebrates Easter with delicious meals at our signature Café Indochine restaurant. Both Cafe Indochine and Hai Van Lounge are offering wonderful Easter specials for you, your friends and family. Indulge and delight yourselves with our spectacular Easter buffet dinners priced at only $25++.

Saturday and Sunday, April 3rd – 4th, 18:30 – 22.00

Please phone today to secure your place in any of the activities we have prepared, or for dinner reservations at Café Indochine.
For booking and further information, please contact Ms.Thao, F&B Service before 3rd April, 2010.
*Tel: (0511) 3847 888 – Ext: 3601 *Mobile: 0986 118 286 *Email: fb@furamavietnam.com

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FURAMA RESORT DANANG CELEBRATES TET HOLIDAYS 5-STAR STYLE
While Tet is the most celebrated holiday in Vietnam, it creates a unique experience for our visiting guests. Furama Resort Danang will ensure an unforgettable Tet in Vietnam.

Continuing to play a sacred and meaningful role in today’s life, the Tet holiday is a valuable occasion for Vietnamese families to gather and/or reunite. This period evokes memories such as the well-known saying “A quid of betel and areca-nut starts the ball rolling” which is often included in a grandmother’s story to children. Tradition continues with offerings of pairs of square glutinous rice cakes to ancestors. People are still moved by the parallel sentences at Tet when thoughts of the past, present and future swarm in during the ending days of the year.

During the recent years, international tourists have been traveling to Vietnam during this period to discover for themselves the ever-vibrant celebration of Tet. Furama Resort Danang proudly celebrates this holiday with a wide variety of activities while playing host to both foreign guests and Vietnamese families who are looking for a more luxurious approach at this festive time.

THE GLAMOUR AND WARMTH OF TET AT FURAMA RESORT DANANG
From the entrance, guests will be welcomed with 500 red lanterns and 12 handmade animals representing the Chinese zodiac on cyclos and decorated with Tet flowers. Our beautiful “Spring Garden” will be outstanding with four significant trees, Tung (pine tree), Cuc (daisy), Truc (small bamboo) and Mai (apricot blossom) in a garden with peach blossom trees and a small river. The lobby will feel warm and welcoming, highlighted by the lanterns, parallel sentences and the bright colours of the flower garden ensuring a happy, luxurious and successful New Year for everyone.

The resort’s courtyard during the Lunar New Year will transport you to an ancient Vietnamese market. Drop by “Ms. Ly’s Tea Shop” and taste traditional food featured only during Tet holidays. Rural girls in traditional clothing of kerchiefs and green belts with their flowing black hair will walk by selling goods, a wizened old woman demonstrates how to make and pack square glutinous rice cakes, consult an old fortune-teller, watch a scholar writing parallel sentences and other calligraphy. There will be portrait painting and an exhibition of Dong Ho and Hang Trong folk paintings, a booth of handmade timber toys and handicrafts of conical hats, Non Nuoc stone carving, Hoi An lanterns and a demonstration of SQ embroidery paintings – a well-respected trademark known to domestic and foreign tourists alike.

“Ancient Vietnamese Market” at Furama Resort Danang will present specialties of central Vietnam such as Quang noodle “mì qu?ng”, pork rolled with pancake “bánh tráng cu?n th?t heo”, and Hoi An and Ha Noi noodles to highlight the Vietnamese culinary arts.
For additional entertainment there will be traditional Cham dancing, the haunting melodies of a shepherd playing the flute and other traditional musical performances to welcome in the New Year.
The festivities of the “Ancient Vietnamese Market” at the Furama Resort Danang will take place over three days from 10 to 12 February 2010 (27th, 28th and 29th days of the Lunar New Year).

FEAST AND WELCOME IN THE NEW YEAR
The Furama Resort Danang will host delicious buffet parties at our signature Café Indochine on the last and first days of the Lunar New Year. Come along to enjoy luxurious 5-star service and be entertained by our exciting Filipino band during the final minutes of the Year of the Buffalo and welcome in the Year of the Tiger with a roar!
With a range of inclusive packages offering a host of exciting and unusual extras, including some beauty treatments at the new Furama Beauty Salon, revel in the luxuriousness of our 5-star resort and touch the heart of Ancient Vietnam with our incredible Tet promotions. We look forward to welcoming you to the Furama Resort Danang and wishing you a happy new year – Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

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It is hard not to see the Blue Snow Hotel on your way to the beach from Danang’s city centre. It is on Pham Van Dong Street, quite a long walk from the beach but a manageable walk from the city centre and the riverfront.

The Blue Snow Hotel is a large nice looking place, it is very well appointed inside and has a decent restaurant on the ground floor, buffet breakfast is 50,000 VND. The staff are nice and friendly, good English is spoken. At the moment the hotel is holding a few events to promote their recent opening.

Rooms are priced from $35 USD to 90 USD for foreigners, that’s right there is dual pricing at this hotel, Vietnamese prices range from 450,000 VND to 1,000,000 VND. The double pricing policy is so blatant that they have room rates advertised at reception and then they wrote down the higher price that I was expected to pay. I know other hotels do this but the guests don’t usually know the price difference between foreigners and locals.

Blue Snow Hotel
Pham Van Dong Street
Danang

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Furama Resort Danang is celebrating with a fantastic array of dining and entertainment festivities over the Christmas and New Year holiday period to enhance the joy of the festive season and to spread the warmth and happiness of the season to all our guests.

Christmas is always a good excuse and a special occasion for a luxurious family gathering. With grand-style celerations at Fabulous Furama, do not miss out on the opportunity to feast yourself and your family upon our varied selection of A La Carte Dinners and sumptuous Buffets during the Christmas and New Year festive period.

18:30 – 23:00 December 24th: CHRISTMAS EVE SET DINNER

A sumptuous six-course set dinner will take place on Christmas Eve, at our French Colonial style Café Indochine Restaurant with Christmas Carols in the Lobby sung by local children from the Danang Catholic Church and Christmas gift-giving to children from Santa Claus. Tickets are priced at US$45++ per adult and US$35++ per child.

Unlimited Pizza Night

For those not looking for a gourmet sit-down dinner but would rather enjoy a night of dancing and music then join us in the Club Tourane and feast on our Unlimited Pizza Night, including one complimentary drink. Pizzas are prepared in the traditional way by our new Italian Chef, Claudio Mendini and also listen and dance to the fabulous music of our Filipino band “The Six/8”. The evening is priced at only at US$16++ and will be a great way to celebrate in a slightly less traditional fashion.

19:30 December 25th: CHRISTMAS DAY SPECIAL BUFFET DINNER

The resort also hosts a lavish Christmas buffet dinner inclusive of one glass of wine and all the traditional seasonal favourites as well as a vast array of Asian and international delights in our signature Café Indochine and be entertained by our own resident Flamenco guitarist, priced at only US$45++ per adult and US$35++ per child.

20:30 December 31st: NEW YEARS EVE

Celebrate the New Year in style – and experience precious moments at the luxurious Furama Resort Danang to indulge yourself in a fantastic party atmosphere with a special celebration dinner and party. The celebrations begin with a welcome cocktail reception in our Banquet Foyer overlooking China Beach while Flamenco melodies fill the air with music. The evening will start with a Champagne reception followed by a sensational buffet of gourmet proportions, priced at US$95++ per adult and US$70++ per child. .

In addition to our Festive Dinners and Parties, Furama Resort Danang Staff Choir will perform Christmas Carols each evening from the December 20th – 25th at the Café Indochine restaurant and Hai Van Lounge. Hope you will join us and celebrate this special time of year together.

Tickets for buffet dinners during the year-end festive season are limited and are selling fast, so please make your reservations today to secure a place and enjoy a magical and sparkling Christmas at Fabulous Furama.

For booking and further information please contact Ms.Phuong Thao, F&B Service
* Tel: (0511) 3847 888 – Ext: 3601
* Mobile: 0986 118 286 * Email: fb@furamavietnam.com

Christmas Lighting Ceremony – 11/12/2009 – The Furama Resort Danang

This video was provided by the Furama Resort Danang and really does show how much effort the resort puts into the holiday season. The Furama Resort has quite a few special events for the festive season, I will provide more details in the next few days.

The Furama Resort Danang
68 Ho Xuan Huong, Bac My An
Danang

The Sun river Hotel Danang is a fairly new hotel with a prime location on Bach Dang Street, across for the Han River and within walking distance to good shops, cafes and restaurants. It is a modern looking building which is well maintained and is staffed by friendly and efficient staff with intermediate levels of English.

As it is across from the river it has great views, if you have a front facing room, there also good views from the onsite restaurant that provides breakfast for all guests. The rooms range in size a price, all are well decorated, modern and clean. There are some windowless rooms which are best avoided. Internet is provided in the lobby and there is usually a keen bellboy ready to help with any heavy luggage.

Expect to pay between $40 and $60 USD per night depending on the size of the room and number of guests. it is hard to beat this end of Bach Dang street for location. Mumtaz Indian Restaurant, the Thai Restaurant as well as the Bamboo2 Bar are all within walking distance, as is the Cham Museum and Han market.

Sun River Hotel
132 Bach Dang Street
Danang

I am slowly but surely adding a list of hotels to this website this post is a recap of all of the hotels I have added so far. If a decent hotel that you know of is not on this list then please contact me so I can add it. If you have stayed at any of the hotels mentioned and would like to add a comment, please do so. The hotels are listed in no particular order, for more detailed information please click on the links to go to each individual review page. More hotels coming soon.

Phuong Trang Hotel
142 Bach Dang Street
Danang

Hoa Viet Hotel Danang
08 Phan Dinh Phung Street
Danang

Tourane Beach Hotel
The Beach Road
Danang

Blue Ocean Hotel
Hoang Ke Viem street
Danang

Golden Sea Hotel
26 Pham Van Dong street
Danang

Jimmy Hotel
F18 An Cu 3, An Hai Bac, off Pham Van Dong street, Danang

Green Plaza Hotel
238 Bach Dang street
Danang

Hoa’s Place
215 Huyen Tran Cong Chua Street
Danang – (0)511 969 216

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