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Halloween at Ho Chi Minh City hotels


Halloween is approaching at the end of this month so members of Saigontourist Holding Company including the Rex Hotel Saigon, the Majestic Hotel, the Palace Hotel Saigon and the Saigon Boat Restaurant will celebrate the fright night for ghouls and ghosts, Vietnam travel.

Rex Hotel Saigon (141 Nguyen Hue Boulevard, District 1, tel: 3829 3185, email: rexhotel@rex.com.vn)

The five-star Rex Hotel Saigon in downtown Ho Chi Minh city will celebrate Halloween Festival at its Rooftop Garden, one of the most beautiful bars in the city, on the night of October 30.

Come and enjoy the generous spread of delicious dishes and wine with music by professional DJs and a Halloween costume show put on by the hotel employees. If you want to join in the fun and frights, come dressed up or get into the costumes and makeup provided.

Couples with the most terrifying and funniest costumes will be given prizes.

The tickets cost US$40++ for adults and US$26++ for children. Guests of the hotel will get a 15% discount while outside customers in fancy dress will get 10% off.

The Rooftop Garden, which was a favorite rendezvous of American officers and foreign journalists in the 1960s and was selected to be one of the best bars in Southeast Asia in 1996 by the U.S.-based magazine Newsweek, is located on the fifth floor of Rex Hotel Saigon. It is an ideal place for groups or couples to relax in a fresh, airy space with a bird’s eye view of Saigon’s night life.

Majestic Hotel (1 Dong Khoi Street, District 1, tel: 38295517, email: banquet@majesticsaigon.com.vn)

The Majestic Hotel will celebrate Halloween Night at its M-Bar on the eighth floor from 6: 30 pm -11 pm on October 31. The party with special food and drinks, coupled with games and live acts, promises plenty of fun. Guests can have themselves dressed and made-up as something gruesome for free at the festival. The best and most original costumes will receive prizes.

The ticket prices for the Halloween party are US$26 for an adult and US$13 for a child.

M-Bar is the right place for relaxing and meeting friends with live music by a Filipino band. The bar has a panoramic view of the Saigon River. It’s one of the top choices to view fireworks displays on holidays and festivals.

Palace Hotel Saigon (56-66 Nguyen Hue Boulevard, Dist. 1, tel: 3829 2860, email: palace@hcm.vnn.vn)

“The Halloween Night” will be held at the Golden Palace Restaurant of the four-star Palace Hotel Saigon from 6: 30 pm to 10 pm from October 29 to 31.

The restaurant will be turned into a ghost house with exciting music, fanciful scenery and funny ghosts and cute witches. You can also select from the 70-course seafood buffet and a wide range of desserts and fruits. Plus free beer all night.

The ticket prices are VND350, 000++/per adult and VND175, 000++/per child (under 12 years old and below 1.2 meter tall )

Saigon Boat Restaurant (Bach Dang Quay, Dist. 1, tel: 3823 0393, email: tausaigon@vnn.vn)

The Saigon Boat Restaurant will entertain guests with a Halloween dinner buffet on the nights of October 30 and 31. To get the laughs started, guests will be served by merry, lovely “ghosts.” Drinks include Australian wine, Russian Fifth Ocean beer and cocktails. The buffet has more than 40 dishes, including pumpkin soup, grilled shrimps with lemon sauce and grilled sheep ribs with garlic.

Be entertained by the Latin Eyes band, Philippine singers, Hawaiian and Gypsy dances and photo opportunities with Dracula.

The boat will start boarding and serving cocktails at 6p.m. It will start a one-hour journey between Bach Dang Quay and Ben Nghe Port from 8: 30-9: 30 pm After the ship docks again at Bach Dang Quay, the dancing night program will begin for an hour. Tickets cost VND500, 000 for an adult and VND300, 000 for a child.

The Saigon Boat Restaurant is 55 meters long, 10 meters wide and 6 meters high. It has three different style decks and capacity for 600 people not including crew. The boat is much known for seafood dishes, namely tiger shrimps steamed with coconut milk, seafood hotpot and duck meat fried with taro.

(Source: SGT)

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