Xin chao!: Where to stay in Ba Be national park

If you look for a basic hotel/guesthouse, come to the park headquarter area

Pay 150,000VND (7USD), you will have a private room with fan in a basic guesthouse. Shared bathroom with hot shower.

With 350,000VND (17USD), you hotel is large and the room is big with hot shower, air-condition, Tivi, free wifi...

Those who would like to experience homestay in traditional stilt house of Tay ethnic minority people, come to Pac Ngoi village. Pay 70,000VND and you will have a sleeping place on a shared wooden floor. Shared clean bathroom with hot shower.

The Park Headquarter area
1/ (My stay) Tru Dien guesthouse
Address: Na Mam - Khanh Ninh - Ba Be (about 1km to the park headquarter and 4km from Buoc Lom boat station)

Tel: 0982 006 103 (Mr Tru) - 0281 3894 468

Room rate: 150,000VND (7USD)

Overview: This nice guesthouse has basic small rooms with fan, shared bathroom and hot shower. Mr Tru, the owner, once was an English teacher, is very friendly and helpful. His wife is a Tay people

    Bonus: There is a big map of Ba Be national park in the ground floor and useful information of what to do in one or two days. Motorbike for rent (and sometimes for me!). Serve lunch and dinner (should order in advance. I loved the fish, tofu sour soup cooked by Tru's wife)
                 From My Dinh bus station of Hanoi, there is one daily bus to Ba Be national park. The bus will let you get off in front of this guesthouse

Minus: Water pressure sometimes is quite week

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2/ (My pick) Ba Be Post Office hotel
Address: Na Mam - Khanh Ninh - Ba Be (about 500m to the park headquarter and 4km from Buoc Lom boat station)

Tel: 02813 894 455 - 0943 916 684 (Mr Hoang)

Email: hoangbabe@gmail.com

Room rate: 220,000VND up (11USD)

Overview: This hotel has one building and one stilt house. Rooms are large, clean with hot shower, Tivi, free wifi. The 220,000VND (11USD) is with shared bathroom. The 350,000VND (17USD) is with air-condition and private bathroom

Pac Ngoi village area
There are many homestays in this village which is about 5km from the Park headquarter. Here are two of them

1/ (My pick) Dat Diem homestay
Address: Pac Ngoi village, Nam Mau ward, Ba Be district

Tel: 01676 591 853

Room rate: 80,000VND/person

Overview: Shared basic sleeping place on a wooden floor of clean stilt house. Shared bathroom with hot shower. Located at lakeside with green ricefields. Friendly.

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