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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.
By the time the French finally gave up on Vietnam in the mid-1950s, jet travel was opening up Asia to tourists like never before. Indeed, when the Caravelle Hotel opened in 1959, it did so with a name that paid tribute to one of the sleek Air France jetliners of the day. Caravelle Saigon Hotel
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.
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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.
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 ...
Chợ Lớn was incorporated as a city in 1879, 11 kilometers (6.8 mi) from Saigon. By the 1930s, it had expanded to the city limit of Saigon. On April 27, 1931, Chợ Lớn and the neighboring city of Saigon were merged to form a single city called Saigon–Cholon.
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