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The Hotel Majestic is a historic luxury hotel located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Built by local Chinese businessman Hui Bon Hoa in 1925 in a French Colonial and classical French Riviera styles. [1] Bon Hoa was one of the richest business men in southern Vietnam at the time. [2] The original design of the hotel had three stories and 44 bedrooms.
The Rex Hotel or Rex Hotel Saigon (Vietnamese: Khách Sạn Rex, French: Hôtel Rex de Saïgon) is a famous luxury and business hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.During the Vietnam War, the daily U.S. briefings at the hotel became known as "The Five O'Clock Follies".
The Caravelle Hotel Saigon is located in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.The hotel was opened to the public on Christmas Eve 1959, when the city was known as Saigon, it was named after the Sud Aviation Caravelle a jet airliner operated by the hotel's owner Air France at that time.
The Hôtel Continental, or also known as Khách sạn Hoàn Cầu in Vietnamese, is a hotel in District 1, the central district of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.The hotel is located at the corner of Đồng Khởi Street and Lam Sơn Square, by the Saigon Municipal Theatre.
During the Vietnam War, the building was used by the city of Saigon government under South Vietnam and was renamed Tòa đô chánh Sài Gòn or Tòa đô sảnh ('Saigon mayor's hall'). Since the communists’ conquest of Saigon in 1975, the building has housed the Ho Chi Minh City People's Committee and Ho Chi Minh City People's Council.
In 1952, 500 French paratroopers dropped into the U Ming forest to attack Viet Minh and were never heard from again. [6] During the Vietnam War it was a Vietcong base area. [ 7 ] Officers Humbert Roque Versace and James N. Rowe of the United States Army were captured by the Vietcong during a battle in the U Minh Forest in October 1963.