Royal Hotel Saigon

There's a particular kind of property that travellers keep coming back to in Ho Chi Minh City: Royal Hotel Saigon, a four-star in District 1, fits that bill. The strong location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, within an easy walk of the city centre, with the kind of rhythm a city traveller tends…

There's a particular kind of property that travellers keep coming back to in Ho Chi Minh City: Royal Hotel Saigon, a four-star in District 1, fits that bill. The strong location score reflects what guests actually feel on arrival, within an easy walk of the city centre, with the kind of rhythm a city traveller tends to want. Inside, the rooms are well-appointed, and guests pick out reliable wi-fi and an in-house restaurant as the small things that add up over a stay. There's a particular atmosphere to the place, neither overdesigned nor neglected. Pull the review pages apart and you find well over 1,900 reviews, with a strong consensus that's hard to engineer. Reputation has held up across enough stays to mean something. Expect to pay something in the region of €39 a night, a fair-value entry on the board, especially when stacked against nearby alternatives. The honest read on Royal Hotel Saigon is that it deserves a side-by-side look against the bigger Ho Chi Minh City names rather than a headline of its own.