In the lobby just before leaving the Saigon Floating Hotel
Early start on our own account [unguided]. Taxi to Jade Emperor Pagoda…
– then money exchange hunt & short shopping spree and return to hotel for pick up…
…and then schlep to Phuket – three hours at Bangkok [airport] especially wearing. Overnight at pretty decent Dusit Laguna Phuket.
It wasn’t possible at that time (still might not be) sensibly to get from Ho Chi Minh City to Phra Nang in one day, so we arranged an unwanted afternoon & night in Phuket. Actually we rather took to the Laguna and returned there (although to a different property) for a short break in 2017.
But back in 1996, our short stop at the Dusit Laguna Phuket looked like this:
All the photos from the part of the journey that featured Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam & then Thai resorts can be found through the Flickr link here or below.
