Thursday, May 04, 2006

Trip to Ho Chi Minh - Day 1

29th April 2006, Saturday
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My Sis and me set off to airport at 12noon. Our flight is 2.35pm Via Vietnam airline VN740.

When we reach, there is a long Q and checked in counter is not open yet, so we decided to have our lunch first. After our lunch, we went to Q again. We are advised that the flight is delayed upon checking in, it is departing at 13.35pm. The flight was then further delayed till 17.35pm and we are given S$15 food vocher at the food center upstair.

Finally went in the gate and was advised that there is a change of aircraft and hence the siting is not valid, it will be free seating......very unhappy about it, everyone is crowding at the gate prepared to rush in and grab the good seating. We are initially assigned the window seat, now we are only manage to sit at the back middle row, crap.

Arrived HCM around 19.35pm, but when we step out of the plane, we are trapped inside the passage way, not sure why the airport gate is not open, was delayed for about 15min. Clear the customs etc, we are out of the airport around 8pm, saw our tour guide holding my name, he is so happy to see us, cause they had waited for very long, imagine we are suppose to reach around 16.35pm but we arrived 4 hours later.

We are supposed to check in the hotel and go for Dinner cum magic show, but due to the delay, there is no more magic show, they sent us directly for dinner.

The dinner is at a nice place beside a river, but its too dark to see anything outside when we arrived. The cusine is kind of cute, mixture of vietnamese food and western food, not fantastic but nice enough.

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After food, we proceed to our hotel, check-in and rest.

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