Blue Ocean Resort Hotel***
Our brief comments:
The Blue Ocean is a fairly basic resort, but offers good value for money. The resort is located midway along Mui Ne beach.
Accommodation is in terraced brick chalets with thatched roofs. Rooms are somewhat spartan, but the beds are comfortable and the terra cotta floor tiles are cool to the feet. Bathrooms are adequate, but there's no bathtub.
At 1.8ha (approximately 4½ acres), the site is large in comparison with other hotels on the beach. The space allows for a larger than usual pool - the vivid blue tiles resonate with the name of the resort.
There's no dedicated children's pool, but as the maximum depth is 1.5m, it should be safe for small children providing they are carefully supervised.
There's also a Children's Playground.
The Moon Light beachfront restaurant and the reception area are minimalist structures with rendered brick walls, terra-cotta floors, wooden beams and an open void thatched roof.
The simple design and straightforward furniture is refreshingly uncluttered, a theme echoed in the guest rooms.
The Moon Light serves a combination of Asian and European cuisines. The pool bar provides light snacks as well as drinks and cocktails.
An incongruous element is a 'Sheridan's Irish Bar' in the lounge lobby - as far as we know, Mui Ne has no Gaelic associations. It's a reasonable pastiche of a Dublin pub, but Irish music on a tropical beach in Vietnam is a surreal concept.
The Irish pub serves Guinness and Irish ales at exorbitant prices and other drinks and food.
The Blue Ocean Resort is good value if you're looking for a place to relax at an affordable price, but don't expect a sophisticated level of service.
(Last inspected in February, 2003 - comments welcomed if you've visited more recently!)
Room facilities:
Room Categories |
Sea View |
Garden View |
Pool |
Number of rooms |
14 |
38 |
6 |
Air-conditioner |
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Satellite television |
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Shower only |
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Bath with shower |
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Bath + separate shower |
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Personal safety box |
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Coffee and tea facilities |
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Laptop connection |
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Free broadband access |
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Extra bed available? |
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Child's cot available? |
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Room size (m2) |
36 |
36 |
36 |
View |
sea |
garden |
garden |
Additional room facilities:
Hotel facilities:
Outdoor pool |
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Non-smoking floor(s) |
n/a |
Pool bar |
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Non-smoking rooms only |
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Fitness/health centre |
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Vietnamese/Asian restaurant |
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Sauna |
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International restaurant |
Massage |
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Patisserie/coffee shop/cafe |
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Jacuzzi |
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Business centre |
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Additional hotel facilities: babysitting service, safety box are reception, books for loan, windsurfing, sailing, tennis and karaoke are available at an adjacent resort, golf available at the Ocean Dunes Club at the rear of the Novotel Coralia in Phan Thiet
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