Coral Sea Resort

The whole resort feels run down and badly needs restoration and rebuilding. Rats were running around in the garden, and the restaurant where breakfast was served was not clean at all. The linen was smudgy enough that we weren’t sure it was clean. The bathroom setup was especially awkward. An exposed air conditioner drain pipe runs out into the shower and across the floor. The shower drain is in the corner behind the toilet, so after showering the whole bathroom floor is wet, and using the toilet means getting your feet wet. Really not a great place.

The resort was quiet and close to the beach, and I liked the buffet breakfast and swimming pool, though the pool was a bit small. The furniture was old. I visited in December, and the beach wasn’t very nice: it was dirty, with lots of broken shells along the coast. You have to cross about 2 meters of broken shells to get into the sea, which hurts. The water looked more gray than blue.

The room was clean, the A/C worked well, and you can walk straight from the resort to the beach. The resort itself was okay, but breakfast wasn’t good and there wasn’t much variety. The location wasn’t strategic, far from the tourist spots and the famous seafood restaurant, boke seafood bbq. Bring cash in VND or USD, since I couldn’t find any shop that accepted credit cards.

One of my better hotels in VN. The rooms were clean and big enough for two, with a lovely pool and access to the beach, though the dirty beach isn’t the hotel’s fault. The buffet breakfast was decent, and beers were 10k dong.