[FreshJives]

A itinerary for my virgin 6 days 5 nights trip to HCM with a friend (both first timer), arrive on 3Apr at TSN airport and back to sg on 8apr. As usual, this post just bookmark for my future reference, and welcome all feedback , also would like to take the opportunity to learn from some old timers here...here it goes:

1st day:
Book the jetstar flight during promo period a month ago, cost less than $90. Upon getting the passport chop, on the left are some shops selling sim card. I did not get any sim card there cos got 3 telco, not sure which to get unless ask one by one..Took a cab after exit from airport, on the left, there is the taxi q, look for the vinasun guy(in green uniform) and request for a cab. First day hotel is at Tan Binh District, advance booking from website and after checkin at hotel (passport return after register), ask for bike rental but too bad, no bike to my likings..haha, so was hoping that i can come across some rental shop later, but sadly couldnt locate one. the rest just travel around by foot and get a sim card from one phone shop, price not so good. i got the viettel at 70k and was thinking of subscribe to those daily data plan after top up 40k( eg. MT5), but fails, donno why, so sale girl just advise to sub for 70k or 80k monthly data plan 1.5GB, so ended up paying round 150k for whole thing done..Rest of the day just jalan jalan, went to normal cafe for my fav viet coffee, pace slow and relax, nothing much except went to nambo for suckling pig dinner. here in hcm, the piglet size is smaller, with thicker meat and bone, in contrast, what we have in jb is the thin layer of skin and meat and boneless...bill is abt 800k for half piglet and 1 grill chicken and some beers. Not much action here, will skip this district unless u intend to stay here cos is nearer to airport and rent a bike to move around other districts..

2nd day:

Got a uber and move to district 10 LHP. just move around and u can spot plenty hotels for st or overnight stay. Ended up, we book 1 night at Dona hotel, main reason is the manager speak fluent english. And he assist us on the bike rental, price is 150k per day, fuel top up on own...(here in hcm the traffic is quite heavy and slow, exp daytime) and my first biking experience after more than 20 yr..dun dare to venture to the heavy traffic yet..haha..weather is damn hot and everywhere u can find stalls selling drinks or coffee by the roadside, so we hv some drink and coffee the kill the thirst...around evening, which traffic is lighter, we travel around and found alot more cheaper hotels along VSH street, also those saloon shops with many girls sitting inside, all wearing same outfit...was approach by one guy sitting outside the shop, and quote 800k for FJ..so we skip this without further explore the rest.. next we had our beef bbq dinner and move to cafe mifa...we stay for nearly 3 hrs and 3 lady dj taking turns if i rem correctly. luckily both the girls sitting with us can speak Chinese, got their contact. ask for bill, abt 80k for 2 beers, wanna tip each girls 50k, but quite shock, they ask why???? after this, we went for hotel massage as recommend by another chion ster, ticket is 100k. facilities wise not bad, got pool and a big resting area ( massage open 24hrs, added to my liking abt vietnam), girls 2 shift working 8 to 8..u can request for foot massage at the resting area too..went for a quick shower before marshal to a small cubicle, i also checkout the vip room with tv and individual steam bath/sauna room, price is 250k, will try it next time if revisit. the massage girl assign not bad looking, can speak little english. Came in, ask any drink, so i order coffee. then began with hotstone massage follow by normal massage sitting on my butt..haha..after flip over and continue massga. after a hard and relaxing massge for 45 mins, she ask: can i massage ur baby?. i ask her how much, she say: up to u ...so proceed with HJ and touching the boobs as she pull her bra to one side, and for the cubicle, there is this round glass panel which others can see from outside..after time up, write the amt of tip on the slip of paper ( i wrote 200k, is this appropriate , need advice here and for the vip room got more action??) pay everything at the counter when leaving, total for me is 320, tip 200k and ticket is 120k, maybe charge for coffee or hotstone..then moving around, saw some cafe with girls sitting alone, sorry not good in remember the name of streets..will venture more on this during next trip too..haha next we had our supper along the roadside stall...nice wan ton mee..many ingredients ...before back to hotel..sorry for the lengthy post
to be continue day 3 on next post