{"id":1019,"date":"2016-11-20T00:57:59","date_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:57:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=1019"},"modified":"2016-11-20T00:58:00","modified_gmt":"2016-11-20T00:58:00","slug":"mai-chau-valley-view-hotel-vietnam-simple-comfort-and-warm-hospitality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/mai-chau-valley-view-hotel-vietnam-simple-comfort-and-warm-hospitality\/","title":{"rendered":"Mai Chau Valley View Hotel, Vietnam &#8211; simple comfort and warm hospitality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of Mai Chau Valley stand a number of hotels.. they all have phenomenal views and offer warm Vietnamese accommodation.<\/p>\n<p>Our hotel is no different, serviced by staff that are &#8216;white Thai&#8217; and comforts that are totally acceptable for the two night stay we had planned.<\/p>\n<p>The owner\/manager &#8216;John&#8217; offered us free bicycles when we arrived, but my wife was struggling .. solution? He got Zan his bellboy to ride with us using a motorbike with my wife as pillion passenger.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"1018\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/mai-chau-valley-view-hotel-vietnam-simple-comfort-and-warm-hospitality\/img_3388-1\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"1600,1200\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"img_3388-1\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1-300x225.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1600\" height=\"1200\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1018\" srcset=\"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1.jpg 1600w, https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1-768x576.jpg 768w, https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3388-1-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1600px) 100vw, 1600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After 8km of relatively flat terrain weaving through the minority villages we arrived back.. my wife quite refreshed and me .. well let&#8217;s say I&#8217;ve not ridden a bike for 20 years.<\/p>\n<p>The room with a view that we have is on the top floor of this three storey hotel. It offers a good clean room, comfy bed and nice bathroom. Not too impressed with the fine shower .. kind of brings new meaning to water saving.<\/p>\n<p>Overall this place is worthy of 5\/5 on TripAdvisor but don&#8217;t expect 5 star.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of Mai Chau Valley stand a number of hotels.. they all have phenomenal views and offer warm Vietnamese accommodation. Our hotel is no different, serviced by staff that are &#8216;white Thai&#8217; and comforts that are totally acceptable for the two night stay we had planned. The owner\/manager &#8216;John&#8217; offered us free bicycles&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[32,84,64],"tags":[37,86,79],"class_list":["post-1019","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotels","category-mai-chau","category-vietnam","tag-hotel","tag-mai-chau","tag-vietnam"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/img_3422.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7ZU0a-gr","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions\/1021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fiftyfourandcounting.co.uk\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}