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3.5 of 5
Quarter 5, Mui Ne 202277, Vietnam
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Pandanus Resort
Ranked #6 of 18 hotels in Mui Ne
4.0 of 5 stars 151 Reviews
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  • Mui Ne(19)
  • Very good(7)
  • Great Place(6)
  • Breakfast buffet(6)
  • Ho Chi Minh(5)
  • Pool area(5)
  • Free shuttle(4)
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Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam
1 review
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
“An OK experience”
3 of 5 stars Reviewed 5 February 2012
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Generally a nice place to stay. Room was good. Beach area was pleasant to look at but by midday it was so windy that sand was blowing in our faces. Food in restaurant in the evening was actually pretty good. Breakfast was rubbish - except for the egg station. The rest was very poor - there was a display of lettuce, onions, er some other stuff - all taking up space to fill the table. One other thing worth mentioning was the very whiteness of the sausages. Odd. Entertainment was provided by the cheestastic Stardust, and in the main restaurant three rather grumpy Vietnamese going through the motions. Quite charming, in a way. We called them Sawdust. By the way this place is around 8 miles from the main Mui Ne drag. They provide a bus but it was for about 11 people. Book it up on arrival.

Two main complaints:
1. Garden view was looking out onto the perimeter fence of the hotel. There was some grass and few trees but not really a 'garden'.
2. Needed to do some work while on hols. Booked room with wi-fi. Guess what (see other reviews)? No wi-fi. So the excuse was it gets windy and that does something or other to the signal or blows down something(?) Well, what a surprise. Don't worry we will move you was the offer from the Customer Services lady. Never happened.

On balance, I would not recommend. Shabby service and no excuses are valid.

If you cannot stay somewhere nice on the main drag I would not bother staying here.

  • Stayed January 2012, travelled as a couple
    • 3 of 5 stars Value
    • 2 of 5 stars Location
    • 4 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 3 of 5 stars Service
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Steve Raymond, Manager at Pandanus Resort, responded to this review
5 February 2012
Thank you for your review, Archie. I'm sorry that your experience was not as good as you would have liked. I would like to respond to some of your comments and clarify a couple of points.

Your complaint about our breakfast buffet is paradoxical to the comments offered by almost every other guest in the hotel. We do not create a salad bar to take up room, but rather to provide a wide variety of dishes to please all of our guests from different cultures and tastes, as we cater to a very international clientele. Some guests like to have salad at breakfast, so the salad bar is one item we offer. Additionally, we have twelve hot items in chafing dishes, eight types of bread and rolls, six varieties of sliced meats and cheeses, four types of cold cereals, four types of fresh fruit, a Vietnamese soup station and the egg cooking station you mentioned. The reason that the sausages were white is that they are chicken sausages. On other days, we will offer beef or pork sausages. Chicken sausages are always white.

Your comments about our bands are also contrary to those we receive from virtually every other guest. The reason that Stardust has been here for five years is that they are a great band that has an extremely large repertoire and can sing in various languages. The comments about them from virtually every other customer are glowing. Their ability is unmatched by any other band in the Phan Thiet area. The other band that performs nightly in the resort is not Vietnamese, but rather, Cham. Their music is traditional to their culture, which dominated this area for 1,500 years before the Vietnamese arrived.

As I have mentioned previously, we are in Mui Ne and located just over one kilometer from the center of town. Mui Ne is a cape (Mui means cape in Vietnamese) and a town of 22,000 people. Just past Mui Ne, headed towards the city center of Phan Thiet, is the tourist strip of Ham Tien, which you are confusing with Mui Ne. Ham Tien is ten kilometers long and all along the ten kilometers are small resorts, restaurants and guest houses. If one wishes to go to Ham Tien, one may either take our free shuttle, or the public bus which stops in front of the resort every few minutes between 06:00 and 22:00. (The cost for the public bus is about 50 cents). However, there are many good Vietnamese restaurants within walking distance of the resort for people who wish to dine outside.

Our resort is made up of ten hectars of gardens, with six different room types facing in various directions. Most have very nice garden views. I apologize if your view was not as pleasant as you would have liked.

You are correct that there is no excuse for shabby service and I will check to see why you were not moved to another room. If you were here during tet week, then we were sold out every day, so there would have been no other rooms available to move you into. Also, unfortunately, our in-house IT manager was off during tet, so if there was a problem with the wifi, we had nobody on staff to fix it.
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Beijing, China
1 review
2 helpful votes 2 helpful votes
“very enjoyable experience”
5 of 5 stars Reviewed 27 January 2012
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We stayed here for 6 nights in a family suite. The suite is quite roomy and has the ocean view. The resort was beautiful and was beyond our expectation. In the first 4 days, the resort was very quite. There were few people on the beach in the morning, and we never saw those many sea stars and it was quite of our every morning fun. But then the last two days were Vietnam public holidays, and suddenly you feel a lot of guests coming in.
The staff are very nice. They always smile and provide very good service. We left our iPad in the room when packing our luggage. They found it and now are sending it to us.
Our kids just love the place and now we can't wait to return next year, but we will try to avoid the public holidays as it would make a big difference when it gets too crowded.

  • Stayed January 2012, travelled with family
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Galati, Romania
1 review
3 helpful votes 3 helpful votes
“relaxing stay”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 23 January 2012
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We have stayed here (2 adult and 1 son of 15 y.o) between 04 - 14 January 2012. We shared a family suite as it offered enough privacy for our family having 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms.
The accommodation was very good, the staff willing to do their best to fulfill your demands. The BBQ party to be held about twice a week was very nice being located next to the swimming pool.
Very good food and relaxing time at the SPA. We would like to wish all the staff a Happy New Year for the Thet Festival and thanks for their daily care. Andrei, Romania

  • Stayed January 2012, travelled with family
    • 4 of 5 stars Value
    • 5 of 5 stars Location
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 4 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 4 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 4 of 5 stars Service
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Gatineau, Canada
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12 helpful votes 12 helpful votes
“Perfect place to unwind”
4 of 5 stars Reviewed 20 January 2012
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We stayed here for 4 nights in mid-December. Pandanus is a perfect place to unwind! We were there during the week so there wasn't too many other guests. However, the resort is so large that, even with more people, there should still be quiet spots for everyone. The grounds were very well kept and beautiful. The beach was also clean since there is a team of cleaners working at dawn making sure of that.

The reception desk service was very friendly and quick to answer to your needs. It would be better though, at the tour desk, to have posters and information about places to visit in the area in English or Vietnamese. The days we were there, the posters were in Russian and German! Loved the free morning tour to Mui Ne Village, the fishing harbour, and the market. Just ask the reception to book you on one of those tours, they start early (6:30 I think).

The free access to the gym was also nice in case it rains or you're a gym-addict. The buffet breakfast included was fabulous. So many choices of both Vietnamese and Western items! We just loved it! Make sure to taste those dragon fruits since they're from the region! Meals in the resort were tasty but on the expensive side, of course, it's a 4* resort! You can also step outside and eat at several local places just across the street. The one just in front of the resort is the less interesting one, it seems to be geared for German tourists. Just walk the street heading either south or north (towards the red sand dunes) and you'll find a bunch of good restaurants. At night, there's a Filipino band playing by the pool. We were there for a BBQ one night. Great selection of food, loved the grilled seafood! Pandanus also offers free shuttles to Ham Tien, the tourist strip where most of the other resorts and shops are.

If you're coming from Ho Chi Minh City, the most comfortable way to get there is to take the train. The Golden Train to Phan Thiet is very comfortable and there is no road congestion to be afraid of. Arriving in downtown Phan Thiet, you can take a taxi to Mui Ne where Pandanus is located. Alternatively, you can take one of the Open Tour Bus, it's cheaper but we just hate to be stuck in traffic.

  • Stayed December 2011, travelled as a couple
    • 5 of 5 stars Value
    • 4 of 5 stars Location
    • 5 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 5 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 5 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 5 of 5 stars Service
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Steve Raymond, Manager at Pandanus Resort, responded to this review
23 January 2012
Nicolas,

Thank you very much for your wonderful review.

In response to your comment about the signs at the tour desk; they are placed there by the various German and Russian tour companies that book our hotel. They have local staff who live year-round in Phan Thiet and come to the hotel daily to sell tours to their clients. The signs at the desk are put up by these local tour company representatives. English tour descriptions are posted on our activities board next to the front desk. Also, if any English speaking guests wish to book tours, both our pr manager who sits at the tour desk most of the day and our reception staff will help them.

Local Vietnamese guests never book tours, so it isn't necessary to have descriptions of tours in Vietnamese. They always know where they want to go and how to get there, either in their own cars or their chartered tour buses. Usually they are only interested in going to the sand dunes. Overseas Vietnamese all speak English, so we provide them with English tour descriptions.
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Sai Gon
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12 reviews 12 reviews
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7 helpful votes 7 helpful votes
“would not recommend this resort”
2 of 5 stars Reviewed 16 January 2012
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I stayed in this resort during weekend and there were many groups checked in the same time. No staff paid attention to us. Both beach and resort was no longer quite as it should be. My room were clean only for some minutes as later on I found a huge spider on the wall. It was a nightmare when waiting for the housekeeping to come and took the spider away. However they didn't come after my third call to the reception and the housekeeping. My friend had to manage to catch the spider and it was not a great experience absolutely, neither the feeling about this resort. The resort was fully booked therefore I had to stay in the same room with the fear of another huge spider would appear at night.
The next morning was another bad memory as the restaurant had a lot of flies. They had to cover the food with many mini flies nest to save the food from flies. A 5 stars resort did not have pancake, waffle for breakfast, this was unbelievable and a big disapointed. I could not eat other food as the quality seemed poor.
Nobody came to us for the spider case when I checked out. Even the check out service was bad. All in one I will not come back to this resort.

  • Stayed September 2011, travelled with friends
    • 1 of 5 stars Value
    • 3 of 5 stars Location
    • 3 of 5 stars Sleep Quality
    • 2 of 5 stars Rooms
    • 1 of 5 stars Cleanliness
    • 1 of 5 stars Service
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Steve Raymond, Manager at Pandanus Resort, responded to this review
17 January 2012
We are very sorry that this guest did not enjoy her stay at the Pandanus. Although there is no excuse for poor service, she checked into the hotel as some large groups were arriving and the front desk staff were swamped. When she complained about the time it took her to check in and about the fact that our housekeeping staff did not respond quickly when she called about finding a spider in her room, I offered to give her a complimentary one night stay in the resort.

She is correct about the flies. She stayed with us during the rainy season and, being next to a large fishing town, the flies that hatch in the sand when it rains are annoying. The people in the Phan Thiet area unload their fishing boats and dry the fish on the sand before sending them to the factory to create fish sauce. This process makes the area a wonderful breeding ground for flies. So that the flies do not get on the food on our buffet table, we cover the serving plates with a netted covering. When the rains stop in November, the flies mostly disappear.

I thank this guest for thinking that we are a five star resort. However, her comment regarding pancakes is incorrect. We offer pancakes at our egg cooking station.
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