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I completely agree with the other reviewer. It's small and the equipment is not top-of-the-line, but the place is clean and unpretentious and the staff are very friendly. Most of the other customers are local Vietnamese. Echoing the previous reviewer again, it's a good place to break a sweat (not that you need one in Hanoi!) and get some exercise, not an easy place to do so what with riding scooters absolutely bloody everywhere.
It's not the cheapest, though, with monthly rates from $60-$80 depending upon whether you use the gym on- or off-peak.
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Tastiest Thai in the capital. Mmmm...chicken in pandan leaf...mmm...
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This place is tasty and reliable. There's usually a dirth of lime (!) and the pho matron can be a bit testy at times but all in all it's tasty stuff. It's also often usually eerily quiet.
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Very lovely place, great service, food was good but nothing incredible
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Laid back atmosphere, friendly staff and a very interesting looking buffet on Sundays ... but ... the food isn't really that tasty. Definitely well below average for its price range. Unless you fancy stir-fried camel ... and who doesn't sometimes?!?
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Questions (3)
Does anyone actually go here? I went by the other day and it seemed ... insalubrious ... and the staff also told me foreigners aren't generally allowed.
Anyone?
Anyone know good places to buy ethnic minority textiles/fabrics in Hanoi, especially places that might have fair trade/sustainable development fabrics and textiles?
Cheers
I'm going to be in Saigon for a month and I'm looking for a short-term apartment. Any advice? A kitchen and something in the First would be ideal.
Cheers.
Answers (4)
Posted Wednesday August 30th, 2006.
Oops! I meant to say, does anyone actually go to the Club Olympia gym in pho Tran Hung Dao?
In response to the question: Does anyone actually go here? I went by the other day and it seemed ... insalubrious ... and the staff also told me foreigners aren't generally allow...
Posted Monday February 19th, 2007.
The EFEO is dead easy to use. Unlike many other libraries, it's very easy to get access to. The library holds a considerable number of volumes, mostly in Vietnamese, French and English. The librarian is quite friendly, and you only need to fill out a little form to get access. I believe you need to have some academic affiliation (ie, doing a PhD or some such) but ... well these things can be fibbed if you don't have one, can't they? They don't investigate or require anything official ...
NB - The staff at the library speak only Vietnamese and French.
Opening hours are Monday to Friday 8am to 12pm and 2pm to 5pm.
In response to the question: Has anyone visited the Ecole Francaise d'Extreme Oriens (EFEO)library at 54 Ngo Ha Hoi? I'm interested in stopping by on a return visit to Ha Noi...
Posted Wednesday September 3rd, 2008.
I'm told, not that I've been, that there is a gym at the Community Centre at the top of Ngo 13, Xuan Dieu. My mate said it's a basic but very functional bodybuilding gym that costs 70,000d/month.
In response to the question: Does anyone know of a small (or large) weightlifting gym near the Tay Ho area? Local gyms are preferred, but if I have to join a chain then I have to...
Posted Wednesday September 3rd, 2008.
In the early 1930s, there was quite a scandal with two different cemeteries. One was just east of the train station and was moved, with much acrimony, to allow for the draining of the area. It was quite swampy and thus malarial. The second cemetery, as the previous poster, opera, pointed out was where the Hai Ba temple is. The movement of the graves from this area caused quite a contentious--and very interesting from the point of view of an historian--public debate about the conflicting interests of devout Vietnamese visitors to the cemetery and the use of urban space for burying foreigners, be they missionaries or not, foreign or Vietnamese.
The majority of the graves were moved to Van Dien, as grubby pointed out.
In response to the question: Hey, ...so where are Hanois graveyards located? Particularly where the locals used to bury the Hanoians sometimes around 50-100 years ago? Im tryin...
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