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A Saigon river cruise can cost as little as 15,000 VND if all you need is a seat on the public Saigon Waterbus. A one-hour sightseeing boat starts at US$12.50, a two-hour sunset speedboat costs 1,699,000 VND per adult, and dinner cruises start at 980,000 VND per adult with tax and service included. The pier […]

Shopping in Ho Chi Minh City is easiest to plan around Ben Thanh Market and the streets of Le Loi, Dong Khoi and Le Thanh Ton. Go to the market in the morning for coffee, tea and souvenirs you can bargain for, then walk to Saigon Square for inexpensive clothes or Saigon Centre for fixed […]

Yen Rooftop Bar, on the roof of Silverland Yen, won Luxury Rooftop View Hotel in South East Asia 2025. Hours, sunset times, how to get there and how it compares.

Silverland Yen stands at 73-75 Thu Khoa Huan Street, on a short block in Ben Thanh Ward. Guests book it for the quiet, then discover the more useful thing about the address: it sits at the edge of District 1’s museum quarter, not its shopping quarter. Independence Palace is a four-minute walk. The Museum of […]

Silverland Yen is a 4-star boutique hotel with 63 rooms at 73-75 Thu Khoa Huan Street, Ben Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, part of Silverland Hospitality. It sits 335 m from Ben Thanh Market, on the quieter side of it, and within a fifteen-minute walk of the Independence Palace, Tao Dan Park, the War […]

Thi Sach is a short street, and if you walk straight down it from Silverland Jolie you arrive at the river: 280 m from our door at 4D Thi Sach, about four minutes on foot. This whole guide grows out of that short walk. It is written for two kinds of readers: travellers deciding whether […]

The fresh-food section of the market opens at four in the morning, and the bookshop on Le Loi stays open until nine at night. Almost everything in this guide sits between those two hours, and within a few hundred metres of our door at 14-16 Le Lai. It is written for travellers still choosing a […]

A 24-hour guide to Silverland Mây, the 4-star boutique hotel with a 150 m² rooftop pool in Saigon. See how a relaxing day here can unfold, start to finish.

Ho Chi Minh City's main fireworks launch from the Saigon River tunnel entrance. Rooty Bar, on the 15th floor of The Myst Dong Khoi, sits inside that viewing corridor.