Villa Louise Hue Beach Boutique Hotel

Poor experience. Our room had a very strong odor of damp and moldy. The whirlpool tub drained into or room. (Room 40). We were eventually moved to another room around midnight after attempting to clean up the water. Next room had no hot water and the electrical outlets shorted out. In the morning we tried to book a car and had zero luck. We were in Timbucktoo with no way back to the city. They offered to call a car for us when we asked how we get out of there. All in all a horrible stay.

Approx 30 minutes in a taxi from the centre of Hue. The staff were extremely friendly and helpful. The standard of decor, fixtures and fittings was as per rating, poor. We chose the “ancient Hue” ocean view villa and based on our experience, we reckon that we paid twice as much as it should have rightly been. I got a minor electric shock unplugging one of the lights and noticed that the wire was loose. Most of the electric sockets in the room were faulty. The beds were very comfy and a highlight of the stay. The food in the restaurant was ok-ish but we were repeatedly served warm cans of beer with a bowl of ice to apparently scoop into the beer to cool it and water it down! I asked for cold beer but apparently not available. In summary, extremely expensive for what’s on offer. In the main, tired, peeling paint, potentially dangerous electrics and just too far off the beaten track, too expensive and too dated to merit a repeat stay.

The first point was this place is extremely hard to find. There are no signs off the main road and it’s not correct on Google so our taxis kept getting lost. The first time we arrived we ended up walking 20 mins on the beach with our luggage. The next point is you have to check in at the front desk where the cars enter which is very dated and far away. It looked so bad we thought we were at the wrong resort, this arrival experience caused us stress and was not a good start. The customer service was great, the food was incredible so this made up for the other points. The worst part is we paid a lot of money to use their laundry service and unfortunately everything shrunk. I’m guessing they were washed on 60 degrees. This was annoying as we have limited clothing with us and some of these items were vintage and had sentimental value.