Ninh Binh Legend Hotel

An enormous room, I mean big! Ninh Binh was quite hot while we were there and the Ninh Binh Legend Hotel was a very welcome break from the heat at the end of the day. The staff was very friendly and attentive and we really enjoyed our brief, but restful stay.

The hotel must be truly a legend in the area. When told taxi drivers to go to this hotel, they all well recognize it. The free shuttle service from/to train station was very reliable and convenient. The 2 people (Nancy and Thik) who helped us during the stay were truly 5-star employees. They helped us arrange and car, taxi, exchange money and store our luggage. We are extremely thankful that you have employees like them.

The hotel is of a high standard with good sized rooms and good staff. The area is undergoing some development and is not too handy for restaurants

Very nice hotel, good breakfast

Lovely hotel, big spacious rooms and comfy beds. Staff are just lovely, extremely courteous, and the management team went out of their way to make us feel welcome. We had some excursions cancelled due to an approaching storm so the managers son took us for a private tour of the area to local historic sites, even visiting a relatives house for a cup of tea in their courtyard eating fresh lychees while the rain fell, was very special to be welcomed as though we were old friends like that. A couple of things in the rooms are showing their age like an older TV but they are in the process of building a new additional complex and those things were minor. Everything is very clean. The steam saunas and private massages were very good. We will definitely go back there.

Awesome experience!!! Service was great!!! Particular grateful has been Ha, personal chief at the hotel!!! I recommend completely this option!!!

Overall was very happy with the hotel . Staff were excellent- specially Thao who went out of her way to be helpful. A great spot to explore Ninh Binh from... we rented motorbikes(scooters ) from the hotel which was very easy. Otherwise you need a car or driver.a lot of building around the hotel but it didn’t bother us.

The hotel is situated in an area of demolition and rebuild. In essence this hotel is in the middle of a building site and the area is pretty unattractive. As a lone female traveller I asked the hotel for advice as to where to eat in the evening in the city. They sent me in a taxi to a very inappropriate area where I felt very unsafe and there were no restaurants. I got the impression they mustnot have known the area. I struggled to get a taxi back to the hotel and it was quite a scary experience! Ninh Binh is not a tourist town. In the daytime the surrounding attractions are nice but these are best done as a day trip from Hanoi. My advice... Avoid this hotel!!! It looks nice in the pictures however the pictures do not show the outdated rooms nor the setting of the hotel externally. Also the massages are the worst I have experienced.

The plusses: 1. Clean and new. Everything works. 2. Staff friendly and try to help with limited English abilities. The minusses: 1.,Location is terrible. Maybe in 3-5 years when the area is built up it will be okay, but for now not good. You cant go for a walk anywhere... Not safe. 2. Staff can hardly speak or understand English at reception or in the dining room. You ask for one thing and receive another. 3. Meals sub-standard. At breakfast the cook was hardly able to make an omelette. He had no cheese available and did not even know that one of the basic ingredients of an omelette is cheese. Once he understood the order, he fetched cheese from the cheese table!!! End result looked more like a scrambled egg than an omelette. 4. Massage salon provides only very limited options. Massage itself was good though.

Very friendly staff, helpful with excursions. Nothing much directly around the hotel, you have to walk some km to the city or a supermarket, but by taxi you can do a lot of nice excursions.