“Best budget hotel in Hanoi!”
Was this hotel awesome? Yes it was.
The hotel is located on the upper east side of Hoan Kiem Lake. It was only a 5-10 minute walk to everywhere. The lobby was inviting and the staff were very eager and gave us the rock star treatment.
We were upgraded to a superior room. Note when we came back after our trip to Ha Long Bay we were back in a standard room, only we couldn't tell the difference. Both rooms were spacious, nicely decorated, very clean, and super cozy. The bed itself, which was memory foam, was especially comfortable.
The free breakfast...oh, the breakfast. It was better than most you'd get at a US hotel. Delicious. Fresh. Local and western choices. The best items were the fried spring rolls and Vietnamese coffee with sweetened condensed milk. Mmmmmmm.
We have nothing bad to say about the hotel and would absolutely stay there again.
The only not-so-positive: the hotel also functions as a travel agency and one of the staff members tried to steer us from our reservation to Ha Long Bay with a competing agency in favor of one of their own by "offering to confirm our reservation" with that company and then telling us it wasn't a valid phone number. We were confident in our reservation and kept it anyway and sure enough someone came to get us in the morning. However, one thing he said was true: make sure you have an actual boat name if you want a nice stay on Ha Long Bay.
Fyi, the name on the building only reads "Thaison Hotel" instead of Thaison Palace Hotel.