Which hotels in Ho Chi Minh City allow me to stay in the same room with my vietnamese girlfriend?

Question

My vietnamese girlfriend lives in Vietnam and I come to visit her, but I heard it is often impossible to have her staying overnight in the same hotel room than me unless we rent two rooms. Aren´t there any decent hotels in Ho Chi Minh City without such restrictions ?

Answer 1

Although Tom T is usually right in his posts about Vn, he is wrong this time. I dated my wife for several years before we got married and she was always able to find us a decent room.
Each hotel owner is different. Viets are romantics at heart, if they think you and your girlfriend are in love, they may bend the rules for a slightly higher rate. Don't begrudge them that, they could lose their hotel and go to jail, or at the very least, pay a hefty fine.
Obviously, she will do most of the talking, it would probably be better if she was your fiancee, just be up front and honest.
There is a hotel along the park outside Tan Son Nhut airport that we stayed in before we were married and still use to this day because the owners were so kind.
We also stayed in many other hotels in Vung Tau, Nha Trang, etc. Just remember to smile and thank the hotel owners whether they rent you a room or not , you're not in America or Thailand. The Viets are quite happy with their own culture.

Answer 2

I've been told that you cannot stay in the same room if you're not married ONLY in government owned hotels. I'm not sure how to tell which are privately owned and which are government owned, but you can always ask at the desk if it's possible. Personally, I've stayed in the same room with my girlfriend while we've gone to Dalat, Hue and Nha Trang and I've never had a problem. Perhaps she figured out all the details for me... so I would recommend you ask your girlfriend too.

p.s. Having said that, I've never stayed at a hotel in Ho Chi Minh City with her, because she lives there so she stays at her house and I take a hotel.

Answer 3

No hotels anywhere in Vietnam, regardless of ownership, will allow a man and a woman without proof of marriage to stay in one room. This is the law and is much more rigorously enforced when the man is a foreign national and the woman is a Vietnamese citizen. The woman can't even visit the man in his room or vise-versa.

Some foreigners try to get around the law by having their "girl friends" stay in different but nearby rooms in the same hotel. This does not work either as single Vietnamese women cannot easily rent rooms in hotels even if they had the money. Vietnamese have to show their national ID's when booking rooms and their local addresses will arouse suspicions as why they need rooms in a hotel.

The law is designed to control prostitution, at least the kind that's "in your face" . So far, it has successfully helped Vietnam from becoming a sex vacation spot like Thailand.

Answer 4

Vietnam Sex Vacation

Answer 5

i had that problem in another country once, i had forgotten about it until now, man am i still bitter about it.