Our flight on Jetstar Airways from Ho Chi Minh City ("HCMC") to Da Nang was seamless and we arrived around 10:00pm and took a cab to the Hyatt Regency Da Nang, where we would spend the next 3 nights. We had booked a suite for 18,000 Hyatt Gold Passport points per night (54,000 total) which included buffet breakfast, afternoon appetizers, and drinks during the day. The room was perfect for our family with a separate master bedroom and tons of space for the kids. There was a giant jacuzzi tub that the kids thoroughly enjoyed.
We headed into Hoi An on the first shuttle at 10:00 am the next morning and quickly found a tailor (or should I say the tailor found us) to make the kids some shoes. This was one of the main things we wanted to do in Vietnam. The tailors of Hoi An are well known and we had been promising the kids that they could design their own pair of shoes. After some bartering the kids had picked fabric, colors, and with a little help from Eliza a shoe design. The design was similar to the 'Vans' brand that you would get in the US. Eliza ordered a couple pairs of sandals as well. We dropped our laundry off to some random lady for $2/kg.
We bought the kids some Vietnamese pijamas and we even saw a fight (2 Vietnamese guys going at it about 10 feet in front of us while we were wandering the streets in the middle of the day). We had some lunch (the beef Pho was delicious) and headed back to the hotel to enjoy the pool and beach.
The beach was incredible...very clean. The sunset just made you feel peaceful and relaxed. Cody could have stayed in Da Nang for a week, he loved the hotel and the beach. The sunset and the waves breaking and churning up the sand made the water look red-orange. The weather was awesome and we pretty much had the place to ourselves. The pools at the Hyatt were expansive with tons of shallow areas where the kids could run around. The kids loved it.
We were going to head to the Marble Mountains, but after reading the tripadvisor.com reviews and just wanting to relax a bit (we have been on the move for a while), we decided to just chill out at the hotel.
The next morning after breakfast we dropped the kids off at Camp Hyatt and went into Hoi An alone. We got some Northface gear (9 backpacks, 3 ski coats) for amazing prices. This place is a gold mine.
Went back to the hotel for more beach and pool with the kids and hung out at the club talking with Shanghai expats from Denmark, Australia and England.
Off to Hanoi at 10am the next morning.
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