Beautiful hotel, good location, excellent pool for laps and lengths, great room, nice extras, small but functional gym, terrific breakfast, wonderful dining room, excellent service, easy check-in and check-out, helpful employees, good housekeeping services and a nice lounge.
I picked the Muong Than hotel for the pool, the location and the price range. Based on reviews of the hotel and others I didn't expect much but I was pleasantly surprised.
The pool was 20 meters long, about 5 meters wide and about 1.5 meters deep: it was excellent for doing lengths and laps. The pool is in the open air on the 11th floor with a great view on three sides. There's dedicated pool bathrooms and six lounge chairs. The pool was pretty clean (a little bit of detritus on the bottom) and didn't have a chlorine smell. There were plenty of towels and the water was pleasantly cool.
The room was good with windows that open, clean bedding, decent desk space, a nice TV, a very nice bathroom and a shower with both fixed and hand-held heads.
The complimentary breakfast buffet was excellent and served in a very nice dining room on the 3rd floor with floor to ceiling windows and an entertaining view of the street.
The hotel is within walking distance of the independence palace, war remnants museum, history museum, Ben Thanh market, two rivers, Diamond Plaza mall and post office.
The hotel is right next to the US Consulate and there are always guards out. Not sure if they'd help but they look nice.