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Following the Fall of Saigon in April 1975 ownership of the hotel was taken over by the Ho Chi Minh City Government and Tự Do Street was renamed Đồng Khởi Street. The hotel was closed in 1976 [1] and reopened again in 1986. The hotel was completely restored from 1988-9 [1] and reopened in 1989 as the Hotel Continental.
The Saigon Paragon Building or simply known as Paragon Building is a commercial complex building for shopping centre and offices in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.It is located at 3 Nguyễn Lương Bằng Street, Tân Phú Ward, District 7, in the International Commercial & Financial District (Khu Thương mại và Tài chính Quốc tế) of Phú Mỹ Hưng urban area.
The Caravelle Hotel Saigon is located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. The hotel was opened to the public on Christmas Eve 1959, when the city was known as Saigon , it was named after the Sud Aviation Caravelle a jet airliner operated by the hotel's owner Air France at that time.
The Hotel Majestic is a historic luxury hotel located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Built by local Chinese businessman Hui Bon Hoa in 1925 in a French Colonial and classical French Riviera styles. [1] Bon Hoa was one of the richest business men in southern Vietnam at the time. [2] The original design of the hotel had three stories and 44 bedrooms.
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi. The first hotels in Vietnam catered to the French colonial society, [1] not so much to tourists but to administrators and families. The Continental opened in Saigon in the 1880s and long reigned as the city's prime hotel.
After the Fall of Saigon, the state's Saigon Tourism Bureau took ownership of the hotel and renamed it Ben Thanh Hotel in 1976. [18] [4] [19] In 1986, the hotel was renamed Rex Hotel. [20] [21] In 2003, the hotel underwent extension and renovation works in its architecture, interior design and engineering services. It is owned by the state ...
The Saigon Floating Hotel opened in November 1989 [8] as the first five-star hotel [16] [18] and first international class hotel in Ho Chi Minh City. [17] The floating hotel was at the time of opening also the only hotel in the city to offer services such as credit card facilities, a business centre, international booking, and international ...
The Brinks Hotel in Saigon, also known as the Brink Bachelor Officers Quarters (BOQ), was bombed by the Vietcong on the evening of 24 December 1964, during the Vietnam War. Two Vietcong operatives detonated a car bomb underneath the hotel, which housed United States Army officers.