Hotel Graham Greene Saigon

Taking yourself on a graham greene tour of ho chi minh city you should begin in the rue catinat now called dong khoi.
Hotel graham greene saigon. Here by request is a recap of the most significant landmarks. 132 134 dong khoi st district 1 ho chi minh city vietnam. The rex hotel is still here too as it was in greene s day and so is the chinese market full of over eager traders.
84 838 299 201. Graham greene slept here see 1 650 traveler reviews 1 342 candid photos and great deals for hotel continental saigon at tripadvisor. Graham greene stayed in room 214 as he wrote the novel the quiet american.
During the period march 1952 to june 1955 graham greene made four trips to sài gòn as a. Great location full amenities a sense of history. This is a noisy city but still very much the landscape of the quiet american hotel continental saigon.
Being fed up with the hotel we usually choose in ho chi minh we decided to try the continental because we. Room rates from us 80. The hôtel continental is a hotel in ho chi minh city vietnam it was named after the hôtel continental in paris and is located in district 1 the central business district of the city the hotel is situated on đồng khởi street by the saigon opera house and was built in 1880 during the french colonial period.
Review of hotel continental saigon. Indeed vietnam today is full of astonishing contrasts to the opium soaked decadent world of greene s novel and the irony of some of these contrasts can only be deliberate.