travel42 Hotel Review: Caravelle Saigon

Caravelle Saigon travel42 Professional Hotel Review

Location and History

The Caravelle Saigon, set opposite the Saigon Opera House on Lam Son Square, is one of the leading luxury properties in Ho Chi Minh City, even though its dated facade may not suggest that is so.

The original Caravelle Saigon opened in 1959 and through Vietnam's wartime period became the hotel of choice for diplomats and journalists alike. It was from the hotel's infamous rooftop (now level nine) bar that war correspondents boasted they could cover the act...