Wildbird Hotel

Stay one night to visit Tram Chim. The boat picked up us from the hotel and the staff prepared for us to have breakfast on boat. Lovely place to watch sun set

Spacious/ clean room, adjacent to the Tram Chim National Park, very supportive staff to help you arrange excursions and other things

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The hotel was clean and very comfortable, super easy to go on an early bird-watching excursion since the hotel has its own pier to enter the National Park's waterway. They also provide breakfast on the boat if you go on the tour at 6AM. Next to the tour, there are 2 short walking routes for bird-watching, but don't expect too much. In case you need (extra) binoculairs, they have multiple available to borrow at the reception desk (free of charge).

Difficult to communicate with some of the staff, even when using Google Translate. Restaurant is okay, but not great and it's the only option for dinner if you don't have a motorbike. Unfortunately only 1 English-speaking boat-tour guide, so make sure to check availability in case you don't speak Vietnamese (or go without a guide)

This is a wonderful place. Perfectly located for the national park, great facilities and an excellent breakfast. Be sure to go on the 6.00 am boat trip for close up views of the birds - organised through the hotel. If you want a great local bird guide you can email phuquy.wildbirdtramchim@gmail.com - good English, very reasonable prices and will get you access to parts of the national park that are normally off limits for your sea.

We stayed two nights and ate both our evening meals in the hotel restaurant. The food was a bit bland (unlike the wonderful breakfast) but I guess there are other eating options in the vicinity.

Staffs are super-friendly, helpful and communicated in a proper manner.

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Its very clean and inside of the bird sanctuary

If your only reason for coming to Vietnam is to visit Tram Chim National Park, it will be worth it. And the ideal place to stay is right inside the park in the Wildbird Hotel. Once we had checked in we were offered loan binoculars for free. If you don’t have your own, make sure you take up this offer. Huge tip: TAKE THE BOAT TOUR The highlight of our stay was the 3 hr guided tour with brilliant English speaking guide Quy (pronounced Wee) – make sure you ask for him for a stunning and knowledgeable commentary of every bird you’ll see. He would generally spot the bird first and have a photo of it taken in an instant, ready to show you if you missed it. Incredible skills. We saw many rare and endangered species that got Quy so excited we ended up taking 5hrs for our 3hr tour. As for the hotel (which only opened in April 2023), the rooms are clean, comfortable and adequate size. Super decked out bathroom with a proper shower. No fridge or TV, so don’t expect them. The outdoor restaurant is very pleasant, but bring google translate AND search for pictures so you know that riceland prawns are not ordinary prawns raised in ricelands (they may well be) but prawns that are about the size of a grain of rice. Impossible to shell, and have an unpleasant mouth feel. Our favourite dish was stir fried vegetables with mushrooms, which wasn’t even on the menu but was offered when we requested stir fried vegetables with no meat. Oh – the English menu has no pictures, so ask for the Vietnamese one as well. Do yourself a favour and come and visit this delightful corner of Vietnam. Addendum: There didn’t seem to be a distinction between ground floor and 1st floor rooms when we booked, and ended up with a ground floor “lake view” room (“canal view” would be a better description). Not quite what I expected, but if you can find out how to book a 2nd floor room, good luck.

Tips for the hotel management: Supply some hand cleaner/body wash at the washbasin. It’s annoying having to duck into the shower to get some soap every time you need to wash your hands. An internal security lock for the door would be a welcome cheap addition. Add a non-slip sheet between the mattress and the bed base. Every time you sit on the bed it feels like the mattress is sitting on an ice rink. Add a bedside lamp to BOTH sides of the bed – not just one side. The single bedside lamp is fine for one person, but not good enough for the 2nd person, so if you want to read in bed, you have to leave the main lights on, and since there is no light switch at the bed to turn the main lights off, you have to get up to turn the light off. The WiFi is unsecured. I could have snooped anyone’s unencrypted traffic it I’d wanted to. This is so easy to fix by adding a WPA2 password. WiFi does not re-connect automatically if you close your phone or move out of range, so unless you are VERY careful, you end up using expensive phone data even while in the hotel. Very annoying. There are many systems that can provide a better WiFi service, and would fix the unencrypted traffic problem too.

The excursion boat picks you up from right in front of the hotel, which also provides tickets. You can also use the roof of the building for birdwatching

The food was not very good the first day (meat was very tough), so we ate elsewhere after that