Told Hubby I wanted a holiday, we actually wanted to plan in end Dec to celebrate our 10 year of togetherness. Hubby wanted to bring me see fireworks countdown 2017 but the plan didn't happened due to some reason.
March is Hubby's birthday, so let's go out! Hubby give me a few choice, Dubai, Hanoi and one more country I forgotten where. I told him I don't want to spend too much for this trip I just want to get away. So after some calculation we shall go Hanoi. Hanoi is one of the country we thought of bringing my mom there so Hubby did some research of that place before. But in the end mom choose Beijing, but never mind the planning still works for us.
From decision to travel till booking the tickets and hotel was quite fast. We booked our air tickets from Vietnam airline. Our 1st time taking Vietnam airline my expectation maybe same as budget airline loh. Hubby keep saying it's not budget airline hor got flight meal for us ok?
So having not much expectation, up we go on Vietnam airline. Departure time 1.30pm the flight depart on time didn't delay. We felt everything was done very nicely and quick.
Reach Hanoi airport around 4pm, got our luggage and went to purchase sim card. There's a few booth at the airport, they provide transportation to your hotel staff sell hubby the service. Although it might be slightly more expensive if you try to get cab outside he decided to take the offer. He also booked the car for going back to Sin as our timing to reach airport is quite early. So we have 1 thing less to worry about, the car that picked us up was a big car very comfortable.
Reached our hotel for one night around 5.15pm, checked in the hotel and went to the restaurant (Madame Hien) opposite our hotel for early dinner. Hubby say it's a expensive restaurant many tourist will come, but since he didn't know what to eat for 1st day we shall do the tourist thing. Play safe as I'm not a street food eater, not to mention even eat at the local small eatery where they sit along the road and eat.... I told hubby to try his best to only eat in restaurant here.
Although the food might be expensive, the food is very nice! I must said it changed my thinking about vietnam food. It's really very yummy and indeed all the diners in the restaurant are tourists.
After dinner it was still early we went to one tourist location, the St Joseph Cathedral since it's very near the restaurant. When we check in hotel, hotel staff told us that there will be a weekend night market at one of the street if we got time we can visit. Which hubby didn't know there's a weekend night market, thanks you for telling us else we will just nua in hotel room. Night market! Shopping time!
The things they sell at the night market is quite almost the same from store to store. We didn't finish walking the whole street, as we need to walk back from where we came back to hotel. Didn't purchase a lot of things just a few key chain that I find them cute. We went back hotel to rest as next day we need to wake up early to travel to Ha long bay.
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