We hit up the coastal town of Phan Thiet on Wed and Thur.  It’s roughly a 4-5 hr drive out of Saigon. A drive which would probably take only 1 hr with US standard roads and drivers. I’ll talk about the gnarly driving conditions in another post. Video included!

Our destination was the Romana resort, one of many as we noticed cruising down the coastline. Too many resorts really. I can’t imagine them ever filling up at capacity. We probably only had a total of 20 guests at our hotel, 15 of which were frogs, bats, centipedes, and jelly fish.  

They pictures sure makes it look nice though right? Well aesthetically yes, comfort was so so.  List time!

1) They lied. No wifi in room. Only a weak ass router signal picked up by the front desk and the adjoined business center. An open air front desk  means you’ll be checking emails while mosquitos peak over your shoulder to key log all your passwords before they proceed to steal your blood. Hacking parasites. The worse. 

2) A centipede crawled out of a drain located behind the toilet in my bathroom while I was taking a number 2. I would have numbered 2 in my pants if I wasn’t already number 2ing. 

3) The jetty they constructed is fantastic at calming the waters. Calming the waters so much that trash gets trapped in the swimming area. They had a guy whose soul purpose that day was stand on shore and cast out a net to haul in the floating debris. I almost got stung by a jelly fish masquerading as a plastic bag again. Never again!

4) The check-in was a cluster eff. I don’t think the staff actually had any guests before so they were uber overwhelmed by our requests for our keys or the right room reservations. 

BUT LOOK HOW NICE IT LOOKS! The pictures of the food are from a joint in the cozy little coastal town and not the resort.