HOW TO: SAIGON AIRPORT to CITY CENTRE, VIETNAM 🇻🇳 4K
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 17 มิ.ย. 2024
- Saigon Airport, officially known as Tan Son Nhat International Airport, has a dramatic & exciting history. Starting out as a French colonial airfield it fell under Imperial Japanese control in WWII. Later it became a major military base for both the USA & the government of South Vietnam during the Vietnam War & saw heavy fighting a number of times. In this episode of Seeker of the Way we try to find the cheapest easy way downtown, dodging dodgy taxi drivers & any other scammers in the process. Come along for the adventure!
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The drive from the airport into town is absolutely and thoroughly different from 1975, the last time I was in Saigon, a few days before the North assumed control (to be put it politely) of the city. I was also stationed at Tan Son Nhat AFB in 1966 and passed thru in 1965, 1968 and 1974. The road in the 1960s and 70s was two lanes in and out with not divider and barely any space between the traffic and the storefronts. I know that because a bus sideswiped me while I was riding a bike--ended up with a broken left forearm. 'The airport was also quite small and very easy to get from the passport control to the people waiting for you, just some 10-20 meters away.
It's good to get such first hand info, thanks!
I took the 109 orange bus you walked past early this year. Cost me 30K including a large piece of luggage. Was there anywhere to put luggage on the bus you rode on? Guess you could pay another 5K for an additional seat. I always change money at the gold shop. Best rates in town.
People put their luggage in the aisle, but I have heard the conductor charges a little bit for that. The gold shop (won't name) next to Ben Thanh market has one of the best rates - as you mentioned -, but quite a few people have reported they were given the wrong notes (10,000 mixed in with 100,000 notes) which they felt was intentional, so important to count the cash in front of the teller.