Bitte_Kein_Lexus wrote: ↑Tue Sep 07, 2021 9:02 am Yeah I went to Halong Bay around 8 years ago and wasn't impressed. After a boat ride from Cat Ba national park through to Halong (we were coming via Haifong), we decided we'd had enough and just drove on to the next town to sleep. Didn't even have an urge to visit the city.

clutchcargo wrote: ↑Mon Sep 06, 2021 7:22 pm
Thousands of hotel rooms, condotel units, and row upon row of cookie-cutter shophouses, villas, and residences are being built as far as the eye can see.

“They’ve got more rooms than Sydney, Australia. There’s something like 30,000 hotel rooms, built, under construction, or in the planning stage,” said Atkinson, whose firm provides financial advisory and transaction support to investors. “That’s excluding Vingroup’s 12,000 additional rooms, and before all the condotels, villa developments and residences, which means at least 40,000 hotel rooms.”

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Most of the projects appear to be aimed at the fast-growing Vietnam middle-class. Many of their websites are in Vietnamese. The vast majority of the five million visitors who visited in 2019 were locals, said the experts interviewed for this article.

I’m afraid that Phu Quoc can’t be as natural with fresh air, beautiful beach and forest as it used to be,’ a Phu Quoc resident told Insider.