This hotel is atleast 1 hour taxi ride
From central Hanoi, and given that most tours are a further 3-4 hours (Halong bay etc.) from central Hanoi- this is highly inconvenient. None of tour operators will pick you up from hotel, so an extra 200,000 Dongs each way trip in addition.All good restaurants again based in centre. Breakfast does have some variety- with local and Japanese cuisine- mainly catering for conference delegates etc. and breakfast room extremely busy and crowded. Personally we have had better breakfast in other hotels in Vietnam. We were apparently booked for only 2 breakfasts( despite checking in for family of 3)!-Again unusual as no such problem in the other ones that we had booked. We had to argue about this, and finally did not have to pay. Again asking to pay for extra bed, which other hotels happy to arrange for free.
We had sought advise from concierge for Halong bay trip and they recommended a company that has very bad reviews on trip advisor that we thankfully decided not to go ahead with finally( for some reason they hesitated to offer us even the name of the tour company, and we were just glad that we insisted that we needed it). The taxis that they recommend which stand outside the hotel cost us twice the charge of other taxi companies return- so not sure whether hotels get Commission for this.
On the whole, poor overall experience, just not catered for visiting tourists- avoid this if you have other options!