November 12, 2024
We got up and had our last breakfast at the Park Hyatt. We both discussed on how we were going to miss their hotel breakfast. After checking out, we headed to the Ho Chi Minh airport. As we sat and waited for our Vietnam Airlines flight 126 to Da Nang, I people watched. I guess the latest trend is to where crocs with hole fillers. I also noticed quite a few young women carrying around stuffed teddy bears or stuffed animals. I can see being able to get away with that as a teenager but in the mid-twenties, it struck me as being a little odd.
The flight was just over an hour long and it was uneventful. We arrived in Da Nang, met our guide and headed to the TIA Wellness hotel. As we drove to the hotel, the first thing I noticed was that the hotel wasn’t close to anything but other large resorts. Marriott had three large resorts along with Radisson and Wyndham. None of that had been there on my previous visit 15 years prior. I also noticed that there wasn’t a village or any restaurants around. I guess we would be eating most of meals in the resort.
Normally, I don’t book spa hotels, but the hotel was right on the beach and it included two wellness treatments, including massages, per day. I thought it would be fun to do something a little different. Unfortunately, it was pouring rain so we didn’t get to enjoy the pool or beach that day but we would later on in our stay. The resort was very nice. We had lunch a the poolside restaurant and Cau Lau, a central Vietnamese pork noodle dish which we both enjoyed.
I had to get a chuckle out of the bathroom. When you opened up the door to use the restroom, the lid to the toilet opened up automatically in addition to a light in the bowl lighting up!
Afterwards, we went for a massage – I had the bamboo rub out and it felt good.
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