Once again, I am back in Danang. I travel to Danang quite a bit because this is the staging point for most of our recovery and investigation activities for most of the year. For the past ten years since I have been a civilian employee in Hanoi, our staff and teams have stayed in the Furama Resort, but with the recent explosion of resort hotels along the former China Beach, a change of venue has been long in the coming. So, this go around we got our reservations at the Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa.
The Hyatt is definitely a step above, and I love the gym and food here. The water this far south from town seems to be much cleaner, too! The down side is we are even farther away from downtown. That means it is cheaper to eat at the hotel than it is to take the $8 one-way taxi ride into town and eat. You can save money by adding people in the taxi and splitting the costs, but in a lone situation, it just makes sense to stay in the hotel.
There are a few of us who already want to go back to the Furama. To each his own I suppose, but the whole reason we are here right now is the Furama didn't have enough rooms for us all. And, I still remember the time we had reservations for our teams and the Furama unilaterally canceled to make room for higher paying guests. That's just bad business practice. It is unlikely the Hyatt will lack rooms for our teams in the foreseeable future. This place is huge!
Anyway, the teams are in country and ready to deploy out in all directions (except East). I am looking forward to a successful field activity! I will be out with the boss checking on team progress at the end of next week.
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