This was booked at the last minute as our overnight stay on a boat in Halong Bay was cancelled due to impending bad weather. Anyway it was a generally comfortable hotel, spacious room, good wifi, good aircon. The staff at reception were friendly and spike quite good English. We went out to a restaurant for dinner but had breakfast at the hotel; there was a wide choice of food and decent coffee. Halong is a big holiday town and we didn't see much of it but I walked some nearby streets and fossicked in a supermarket where I bought some reasonably priced local coffee. We had a full day out on Haling Bay, it was wonderful, such lovely scenery! We were served a very nice lunch on board and later got to go to a little beach for a swim, so a good day in all