Adamo Hotel

Hotel was great. Generous breakfast and really helpful friendly staff especially at reception and on the tour desk...but everyone at hotel was really cool. Cleaning staff were brilliant and really funny. Some really awesome bars and restaurants very nearby. Plenty of side streets this way and that way you can walk and stumble upon a fab bar or coffee shop or Italian restaurant for example! The local area was a bit run down however (Seemed a lot of "proposed intended" development going to happen / already commenced and can imagine this place might end up being as awful as Nha Trang is now...sadly.) The Old town area of Da Nang was great. Dragon Bridge worth a look - apparently at the weekend in the evenings it breathes fire - an expensive gimmick by the Da Nang city council however we did not see this. You can walk the beach path/foreshore for many kms (there is also an underpass right outside the hotel here too, which was a nice surprise - in order to cross the road safely to get over to the beach) A must is a trip to Hoi An - about 30 mins taxi and on the meter was around 360,000 - 400,000 VND. Best place we saw in 2 weeks in Vietnam for sure. We also spent a day going to Ba Na Hill and the Golden Hands Bridge. We went on a day tour with pick up from hotel and lunch included. This was OK and tour guide was fantastic, however we were there low season and it was totally overcrowded and no chance of any photos without 2 million others in your pics (all carrying selfie sticks) if I had my time again probably would give this a miss, especially if you are not keen on queuing and crowds...but it was an OK day out as a one off.

There was a vey noisy restaurant next door blasting out terrible music every night until late. (Wondering why at 3 in the afternoon they think this will attract people to come in for a meal??? We noticed this going on as we walked past often!!). A shame as it wasn't the hotels fault and you could hear it from your room very easily all night. Da Nang beach area could have been wonderful but sea was dirty and polluted. I have no idea how My Khe beach gets onto the best beaches in the world on trip advisor???? We walked the beach one day (Only did approx 45 mins walk) in bare feet and when we finished up and sat down to put on our shoes we saw that our feet were absolutely covered in filthy black tar. It took ages to get this off. A taxi driver helped out by giving us a whole packet of his wet wipes! But still had to spend many times in the shower in our room scrubbing our feet after. Was thankful it was too cold to lie on the beach that day at around 24 degrees - else that tar cud been in all sorts of places not just the soles of our feet. We also noticed that this area was really smelly (As in sewers) some of the shops we went in absolutely stank of filthy drains :-( No way would I have gone in the sea here.