<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Originally posted by naxos:
Yay! Going back to Vietnam in 2 weeks with an add on to Angkor. OZ Any hotel recommendations for Siem Reap?</font>
Congratulations on another trip to Vietnam .. love that place .. and don't forget the tailoring in Hoi An if you are in that neck of the woods.
naxos, my trip report linked above from 4 years back was as it happens rather prophetic:
I wish I could invest in land around this Angkor Wat area - it could be THE boom tourist site of this century, now the country is a lot safer to visit. In February 1999 only 3000 foreign visitors arrived there. By February 2000 it was up to 18,000 - you do the Math! A figure of 50,000+ by next year would not surprise me. Maybe double that. What a place to own a hotel! Go see it NOW before Pizza Huts, Macdonald's and Sheratons dot the landscape!
I think right now there is a TON of accommodation to choose from. And more going up each day ..... rather sadly.
A FT'er I have met from DC
Suzy1K was there a month or so back and seemed pretty shocked at all the hotels going up. She might like to add some recent first hand info if she sees this thread?
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Try and make it down to SYD for "OZ FEST 2004" - May 21-23
[This message has been edited by ozstamps (edited Feb 19, 2004).]