Serenity Hotel

I think this is a very good choice that I made in Hanoi.

In front of the hotel, there is a market. You can buy shirts, food, souvenirs, whatever.

My room is incredibly spacious, I think it is around 5 X 10 m2 including the bathroom. This is the largest hotel room I have ever had through my entire lives (besides Presidential Suites in Sheraton Bandung that I stayed couple years ago). My room is Deluxe Triple. It costs USD 35 (Now, what I read from their official website, it raised to USD40).

Flaws: there is no rugs in front of the bathroom so your wet feet will spoil the cleanliness of the floor. Also, the tiles inside the bathroom are very slippery. They should change it with one that has rough surface to avoid people get fall.

The room has a wide flat TV with normal channels (HBO, Star movie, Cartoon Network etc) only that we didn't have time to watch the television at all because we had a tight schedule and also very tired. We did not have the chance to have a breakfast in that hotel though it was included in the hotel price. That's because we have to leave very early in the next morning (at 6.00 am) to catch our morning flight to Bangkok.

The hotel was clean, the staffs were very friendly and ready to help. They served fast whatever you need something.

Another flaw: the phone to call inside hotel numbers (room to room or to receptionist) has a bad line. We hardly hear what people said on the other edge. They should improve this point.

One nice thing to point at is in Hanoi, normally the hotels equipped themselves with Wifi or computers with internet access and this facility is free of charge. Serenity certainly is one of those. It has 3 computers near the lobby and the internet speed is fast enough. I used the computer to load hundreds of my pictures from digital camera into my USB. Thus emptied my digital camera's memory.

In short, everything I need was satisfied by the hotel and I was very pleased to highly recommend this hotel whenever other members of TravBuddy have a plan to visit Hanoi, Vietnam in the future.