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Tokyo, Thailand, Siem Reap, Saigon, Kuala Lumpur & Singapore in J

Old Oct 21, 2016, 12:45 am
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Old Oct 22, 2016, 4:27 am
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Le Meridien & Siem Reap

I will give Angkor its own post.

I was able to check-in once I arrived, it didn't seem the hotel was full. The hotel is a big square with a center courtyard so it seems the SPG guest rooms are closest to the elevator/stairs.





Deluxe King and/or SPG Gold meant free coffee/tea from the lobby lounge serving Illy.

Breakfast was served ($15...with the SPG discount and the tax/tip added back in it works out to flat $15) in the Angkor Royal Cafe. Pretty decent mix of things each morning with an egg station and also a local food station.





In addition to that I had some lunch there twice. The shrimp/tofu curry was great as was the beef with mango salad. The Khmer pumpkin curry was super bland.




Across from the cafe is Naga Bar which I had a glass of wine in one night and watched the buffet dinner's Khmer cultural show.


The pool area was nice and of an interesting design.



The tour/transport desk in the lobby has it set up to call tuk tuks on demand for a $3 flat rate to the center of town. It's about a 5-6 min ride and is quite enjoyable. The wagons pulled by scooters are quieter and more comfortable than their Thailand cousins.


The joys of working out in SE Asia at Angkor Muscle Gym...at least it was only $1 entry and the 90 degree heat meant I didn't need to do any cardio. The people watching is worth $5.



The center of town along the river. Not bad to walk around for a bit. Nothing interesting to buy. Though the worst part (along with any other time of the day) is the constant barrage of tuk tuk drivers asking if you need a ride.




The first night I wanted to go to The Station Wine Bar which is gay owned. On the way there I would need to eat so La Marvloux looked good and inviting. Fairly decent food. I ended up finding a "friend" on an app who wanted to skip the drink but offered to drive me back to my hotel.






The day of touring Angkor Wat/Thom a resturant in town liked one of my photos on IG. I checked it out and it seemed awesome. George's Rhumerie is a father/son team from La Reunion Island who moved to Siem Reap a few years ago making their own food and infusion rums.

Also make their own tofu.



I sipped on a shot each of ginger and kaffir lime rum. They also gave me a nip of coconut rum as a digestif.


Just a random place in town called The Slabprea for riverfish amok before going to the gym. Not bad for $4.





The colonial vibes of the city were interesting. For the most part everyone seemed friendly. The traffic seemed to follow its own set of rules.


Walking back from the gym one day I passed Le Gout just south of the Night Art Market so I went back for dinner one night. Really good food. In love with the lemon(?) pepper sauce that comes on the side of lom lak! Nice pomelo salad as well.




First time I've seen this used in a bathroom.


All in all a nice place to visit serving as an outpost for the Angkor Park. There is an interesting blend of upscale (T's Galleria Shopping Mall, Rimowa store, some high end fine dining) and the local flavor of scooters passing you with 40 dead chickens hanging off each side or two pigs tied to the back who just had their throats slit (wasn't fast enough with the camera, sorry).
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Old Oct 22, 2016, 8:54 am
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Angkor Archaeological Park

So I didn't really look all that into how much touring I should do. Most things I saw online were 1, 2, 4 days. When I checked the hotel to book the airport transfer they also had a tours inquiry so I went through there. They sent over some proposed ideas and stuff but in reality just have come to the tour desk and look through lots of other things when you arrive.
The tour desk is managed by a Texas born of Cambodian descent guy who has lived there for about 10 years. I hinted at trying to get him to just pick 2 days for me because I really didn't know what to decide. Eventually I decided to do the "inner" and "outer" Angkor circle. I wanted to do a sunrise so the inner "Great of the Greats" tour would take care of that. First day was $129 + $15 sunrise surcharge for Lexus, driver, tour guide...he second was $104. In addition that on your own you have to pay for a park pass at $20/1 Day, $40/2 Day and a week I'm not sure how much. They take your photo and print it on the pass which leads me to believe whey tours aren't able to bundle it in.

4:45am departure from the hotel. Headed a few km away to the visitor center under darkness where tuk tuks and a few cars are swarming in the big round about entrance. The lines for the 1 day passes were huge, 3 day had a few counters and I was able to walk right up to a window. CASH ONLY.

10-12 min later driving back up CdG Blvd to walk to Angkor Wat. People buzzing about, tuk tuks putter...the coffee stand lady blasting "Rhythm is a Dancer". Walking along the causeway by phone flashlight the guide, Long, was talking about how we are going over the moat and about to pass through the entrance gates. Still not any twilight so not even a faint outline yet, though the nearly full moon does cast a pallid glow. We arrived at the ponds and he said we could go to the left...the "crowded side full of Chinese groups" or the right which is usually less people. So we went off to the right to wait.




The blue gave way to purple which gave way to pink before letting orange emerge.

Nothing in your life will prepare you for it.



We walked around to the other pond to take a few more photos...though I went without my toes in it.


We then made our way into Angkor Wat and through the 3 levels.







At 6:45 they open the stairs to go to the highest floor.




On our way out he took me to the center of the universe.


The beauty with this tour was by 7am I was back at the hotel to have breakfast and a snooze for a 9am pick up to head to Angkor Thom.

Past the old and new faces of peace and anger on each side holding the naga.









Here we spent a decent amount of time walking through Angkor Thom and Bayon Temple as well as past where the King's house would have been. One of the structures that were made of wood thus it does not exist anymore.









We would end the tour at Tha Prom which is the "Tomb Raider" movie location.











By 11:30 or so I was back at the hotel with the day to spend as I'd please.

Day 2 we would start at 8am to make our way past Angkor Wat and through Angkor Thom to go on the outskirts to some of the smaller, lesser visited temples. Various ones of size and importance for the King's father, sister, an island hospital and such.





























So I was a little irked that this "full day" tour had me back at the hotel at 10:45am. The temples were nice I'm glad I saw them, for the $100 I think it was worth it. I just would have liked to added something else on to this. I know I'm pretty fast but I don't see how this could take a group of geriatrics who are photo happy more than 3.5 hours. There's a famous "pink temple" and some floating village tour combined that I would have loved to done instead had I known.
With that said I would have loved another full day in Siem Reap, I really think 3 full days of touring would be good.
In terms of photos, there's just SO much. You could spend 3h in each temple/site taking pics and still not capture how amazing it is...after a certain point you just have to appreciate what is there and in front of you and say screw the people back home (or on FT) they just need to come see it themselves!
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Great pics - Angkor Wat is amazing - I did sunrise but only after having seen it during the day. To see Angkor Wat emerge from the night would have been awesome.

I stayed at Mens Resort - which had tut tut drivers (from the resort) who did the full day tours for $35USD and the first day which I did Angkor Wat, Bayon, Thom and Nha Prom the guide was $30 USD.

I was there for 8 days, and had the 7 day pass which was great as I was able to tut tut out to some of the other temples, for an hour or two then head back to the pool.

Off Pub Street is a great cocktail bar called Miss Wongs in the Shanghai speak easy style, totally great.

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Old Oct 22, 2016, 8:09 pm
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I could have hired just the car/driver for like $45/50 a day and then directed him where to go and be put on my own in the temples. Had I spent a few hours researching where I wanted to go maybe I would have done that but I was happy to also pay the extra to hire the guide. I didn't have to spend my nose in a guidebook, could put some $ back into the local economy and I felt walking with the guide the little urchins didn't bombard me to buy post cards or silks.

I saw Miss Wongs and was tempted to go by from the name/sign alone. But I had some rum and ice cream and already used up my bad calories that night.
I also found the "friendly" massage place to be cheaper than Thailand. I can't speak for "lady boom boom" massage as I was offered a few times walking around.

I for sure want to come back in 7-8 years when my nephew is old enough to appreciate. I would have liked another day but a week alone may have been tough.
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Old Oct 23, 2016, 9:40 am
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Cambodia Angkor Air REP-SGN

Chalk one up for getting to add another small airline to the tally! I could have also flown out for added effect on one of their ATRs but it was in the morning and didn't feel like rushing and getting up early so the 1:55pm flight was on an A321 (I believe they lease from VN).
Leaving the hotel 2h before the flight is plenty of time to arrive and check in.

A few people trickling into the check in areas. My bag was 24kg but he didn't blink an eye with the 20kg weight limit. No OLCI or advance seat assignment. I forgot about that and didn't even ask at check in...I got my BP and looked down when walking to immigration control...row 35.
I seriously thought I would be at the last row of the plane but once I got on wifi saw I wasn't and figured it was all done for W+B so I didn't press the issue.

On arrival the airport seemed fresh and polished and it certainly was leaving. Very nice departure facilities and security making LGA look like a 3rd world dump.




I stopped at FCC who runs hotels in SR as well for one more lom lak before I took off for the hour I had to wait.



There's also a Plaza lounge.


I went to our assigned gate but it showed a flight to China and hour after ours. I walked around looking for a main display but saw nothing. The gates are grouped in pairs so on the way back I saw in the next set over it had our flight listed. No announcements were made. I think the staff finally realized they were swapped and walked over and announced to the people sitting there the gate change.



We boarded about 10 min behind schedule, but they have it listed as 40 min before the flight. We ended up leaving about 5 min early.







I was assigned an aisle. I figured that the sparse gate area meant most rows would be of just the groups traveling together. 2 Aussie girls sat next to me and the row in front and behind were also full of mixed group travelers. The 5 rows behind were sparsely populated and eventually once the door closed I moved 2 rows up to an empty row window seat for the nice 1h flight. Water was passed through and that's it.



We arrived...so close yet so far. We were parked at a gate position but still got a bus...



Immigration had fully staffed counters with about 10-12 people waiting in each line. Didn't take too long and by the time I got to the baggage claim my bag was already out. I made myself a millionaire at the currency exchange and noticed that every sim card place also offered taxis. I picked the one right in front of the door that seemed the biggest and for 22,000 VND ($10) they escorted me to a car waiting and sent me off to the scooter circus to take about 1:15m to get to the hotel. Could I have got one for $7-8? Probably but I'd rather not walk around find the normal queue or figure out what's going on to save a buck.

Again...sadly not my transport.
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Cambodia Angkor Air REP-SGN

Chalk one up for getting to add another small airline to the tally! I could have also flown out for added effect on one of their ATRs but it was in the morning and didn't feel like rushing and getting up early so the 1:55pm flight was on an A321 (I believe they lease from VN).
I believe they are VN subsidiary (or at least Vietnam airlines paid for creating this airline).

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Renaissance Riverside Saigon

I booked the Ren because from what I gathered (not knowing anything about HCMC) the location seemed nice, price was decent and I wanted it to be one of the properties where I would get breakfast/lounge included.

Not disappointed. The lobby is clean and sleek, check in was super easy.






The lounge is on the 18th floor and does breakfast from 6-10:30, coffee/tea/sweets all day, hot snacks 5:30-7:30 and wine and cocktails 5:30-9:30.
I actually forgot to take pics of breakfast but each morning it has been pretty good with 2 Vietnamse dishes, bacon, potatoes, Japanese fish/rice, cheese, fruit, cook to order eggs, yogurt, salmon and usually another little dish or two.
The evening snacks have been great as well. Changing every night from mini pho to tomato soup, nicoise salad to mini banh mi, cheese, meats, fruit, deserts, sushi and more.







The lounge attendants do a great job. After my first visit the main girl there most nights has remembered my name. They clean up the plates fast, make a little convo and are happy to pour you some more.

The gym wasn't bad for a hotel workout. I peeped at the pool area but couldn't tell if it was under construction or being set up for a private event.


It's also been great walking out to Saigon Center, lots of restaurants in the area, quick walk to the Opera House where a tour picked me up, easy to walk up to Dihn Doc Lap and some other sightseeing.

My first time in Vietnam and I'm loving it. Can't wait to write the other entry into the TR and already trying to figure out if I can come back next year for a month and motorcycle around.
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Saigon / Ho Chi Minh City







A tinder date took me the first night to get banh mi which sucked, thought I could trust a local. Was pissed I ate those carbs.
"Wow how do you know what banh mi is, this is your first trip to Vietnam."
....they have Vietnamese people in America.





I spent 45 min the first morning trying to find 22 Ly Tu Trong. I wanted to find a place to see the Fall of Saigon helicopter pic of the US Embassy...which I learned was not actually the US Embassy. Instead it was a CIA safe house. The building is home to a petrochemical company. A little down the street was a building full of art galleries, boutiques and cafes. I climbed up the main stairwell as much as I could until I got to the dead end at the top, I found an open door towards the back and went up 3 more flights to come face to face with history.






Grabbed lunch at Relish & Sons.



Just needed some CCR to complete the G.I. 'Nam vibe.






Chanel and Socialism!


I planned to go to the gym and saw it was near Dinh Doc Lap so I stopped there on the way. Named "Independence Palace" after the South was liberated it now stands as a furnished time warp to the 1960s. I thought it was pretty awesome.











One thing does seem a little out of place/time.


You can also go down to the bunker command center.











You can also play a joke on your Mom and text her that this is your hotel room to which she will frantically ask if your wallet got stolen and you need to get wired some money.



I was able to dodge the rain and get a workout at Mach's Gym. Not bad for $2.50/day.




Walking back and a little hungry I stopped in here. Not bad, geared towards tourists.




Played "Count the UA Tulips" on the way back.


Walking out and about to get dinner I ended back up at Saigon Center which has a Takishamaya dept store and typical food places like the rest of SE Asia malls. I'm a sucker for Pepper Lunch so had one for dinner.


I had an issue with my Stealth Topas Rimowa again. In Krabi a little pin nearly fell out of one lock and then I noticed the other one was cracked. In Feb it came off the belt at HKG broken in half, luckily they have an entire service center in HKG. Bangkok couldn't fix it but it seemed liek it was fine. When I checked it at REP I noticed a lock was cracked. I was worried it could break in half again so I saw that Saigon has a Rimowa "retail corner" in the Caravelle Hotel. I popped in and he said it would take 3-4 days to fix it. Going back to get it and bring it over I saw around the corner next to the Sheraton was a much larger, actual Rimowa retail store. He said he could fix it in 5 min.
On the way back with the case I was also on the eye for a laundry place...that's when a lady approached me with a card asking if I needed laundry. Perfect. I got the suitcase fixed, she drove me back to my hotel an waited while I brought down my 4.5 kg of laundry. $16 USD and she would have it delivered back in the morning...sure enough she did!


She saw me later in the week and came across the street to say hi and ask if everything was okay. Apparently she's at that corner across from the Sheraton every morning.

Sunday would be fun because an old classmate from NY moved back to VN. She was going to take me around to eat and then also dinner later in the evening.
First stop we went to Cong coffee shop which was actually in that arts center building I climbed up to to see the roof top. "Communist era feeling" she billed it as.




Then we got some banh xeo.




Also a much better banh mi.


Went to District 2 to Mekong Merchant which she said was a much more gentrified Western area.



After freshening up we met some of her friends 3 min walk away from the hotel for some "real" VN food including pig ears, frog curry and other things including make your own kumquat rum drink.




Just across the street was a swanky cocktail place The Ramcha Room. I had the "Smoke and Mirrors" which was quite literal.





Got to bed early because at 8am I was meeting a tour group at the Opera House to head down to the Mekong Delta.
I actually booked this tour and the Cu Chi tunnels through Viator which was my first time finding out about this TripAdvisor branch. This was billed as a small group tour capped at 14, there were 12 of us. Took us about 1:45m to get down to where we would get on a boat.



We went across and over to one island to taste some "local fruit", see a bee thing and then made our way to a coconut candy place.






We also got to taste some coconut liquor, banana wine and...snake whiskey.


From there we took a "tuk tuk" to lunch.







From there we got on smaller paddle boats making our way down a little inlet to where the larger boat was waiting to take us back to the van.





This tour ended up being operated by Urban Adventures. Our guide was great and it was nice to go down there...but it wasn't what I expected. I felt we were just led through a bunch of things that weren't particularly interesting. I thought it would be more cruising up around the delta, maybe stopping at a small place here or there and watching more local life unfold. I also would have preferred to do one of the tours where you take a boat all the way from Saigon down there as I found out from a woman on the Cu Chi Tunnel tour.



I had a decent dinner at Ganh which seemes to be a chain of 3-4 in SGN.



Up even earlier the next morning to be picked up at 7:15am to take a speed boat up the river to the Cu Chi Tunnels.
Operated by Le Rives this was worth the money. It would take us 1:20min to get up. While they can't control the weather it was still a comfortable ride up. They had banh mi, fruit, coffee and drinks for us as we sped up at 28mph.









I didn't get in for this photo op because I saw how dirty it made the other people.






Pretty interesting stuff. Moved through one of the tunnels for about 100m...which they said was increased almost 2.5x wide from the original size. No way some all American boy from Iowa deployed in the war was going to fit down the original size chasing one of the Viet Cong.

They make their money by selling bullets for 40,000 VND/ea with a min buy of 10 bullets. AK-47, other riffles and then the jeep and post mounted M30 and M60. I gave the M60 a blast. My dad has most of the other riffles so there was no novelty to shoot those.


Before we left on the dock they had a great lunch set up for us also.


I really enjoyed Saigon. People were friendly, I was in a really good mood the whole time. I will say holy traffic hell was some of it intense. Swarms and swarms of scooters. Crossing the street was not for the faint of heart, I just waited for a local and hid behind him/her. This trip has made me feel really comfortable about coming back for a few weeks, buying a motorcycle and going all up and down the country.
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I got up pretty early to get breakfast and check out and grab a taxi. It took me almost 90 min to get to the hotel the other day so I wanted to make sure I had time since I had never flown out of SGN I wasn't sure the check in lines, immigration queues, etc.

I went to the Web Check In line...the Economy line was pretty busy so I figured even though I had to check a bag and I already checked in online I was good to go there.
When I gave her my passport and she pulled up my info she said "You are flying business class."
I used Option Town to pay/bid for an upgrade to J when I booked the ticket. I think it was like $40? I never got an email saying it cleared...it must have been in the 2h between when I got up and checked in and got to the airport. She was a little ticked off that she had to load a J BP into the machine and also walk over and get the tags telling me "Next time use the business class line."
I would have if I knew lady!



It was nice because it meant I could cut the security line (all those guys in front of me got turned around because they thought one guy they were with was flying J/Sky Priority and they could all go with him.

Also a quicker immigration line.


Good thing I had lounge access because I got to the airport at about 7:45 and the flight was 10:10.






I made my way out a little before boarding to change my money and check out the airport. Seemed decent enough, a nice upper level with some food and stuff and then some shops on the departure concourse.
We ended up at a bus gate and after a fake out to line up to board they had us sit down for a bit because "the flight may be delayed".

A nice touch for J/SP pax is similar to LX when you get a bus gate you get your own van...however, IIRC the LX one is actually only for J/F pax, not elites in Y.








Only myself and an Aussie guy would be in the whole J cabin. Got a snotty look from two suit and tie Western guys who were on the van as SkyP but flying in Y. Hey, not my fault you didn't bill an extra $40 to the client to ride up front!

Lovely FA who took good care of us. 3 options for lunch! I took the beef and rice...other was seafood noodles and something chicken.
A little bland but had a chili sauce packet that helped.


We ended up leaving 50min late because it turned out we swapped aircraft from our original one. We would end up landing 40min late.

Saw this "whited out" MH 747...didn't say cargo on it so I'm not sure if that's what it is actually used for. But you'll notice no windows.


Their poor slumbering giants.


We landed at a satelitte so after walking to find the train and walking and walking it took about 15min to get to the immigration counter. From there it was pretty smooth sailing through to grab the bags, get some MYR and then buy one of the vouchers for a taxi to the city. Considering it's about a 45 min ride it was pretty cheap to get the "Premier" car (a mid size Nissan thing) for 100 MYR, the "Luxury" were mid-00s E-classes for 200 MYR and I'm not sure the price of the budget but they were some older compacts.
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Small world. My gf and I took the exact same tour last year. Because it was the off season, we only had 4 people on our tour. I think we also had the same guide(she was great). As someone who doesn't usually do "tours", my feeling about the experience was similar to yours.

Loving the report!
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Small world. My gf and I took the exact same tour last year. Because it was the off season, we only had 4 people on our tour. I think we also had the same guide(she was great). As someone who doesn't usually do "tours", my feeling about the experience was similar to yours.

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Her name was "Linda" (she kept refering to us as "her family") she was great, said she grew up about 20km away from where we were.

Small world as well in that one of the girls on this tour was on my Cu Chi Tunnels one the next morning and she had some similar feelings about the overall experience especially when we heard from the German lady how her tour they took the boat down, made lunch at an orphanage, stopped as some places that seemed less geared up on the tourist trail.
I'm not even sure the last group tour I did, I think it was maybe the free walking tour of Prague I got that the airport transfer company did. Mostly I like to do things on my own at my own pace but found out 4 full days in Saigon was a bit much and I'd need to go out of the city to fill up the time.
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