After opening to welcome guests from outside the province, many resorts in Hoa Binh are full on weekends, even booking until the end of the year, most of them from Hanoi.
Reopening to foreign guests from September 22, in the first two weeks, Avana Retreat in Phang hamlet, Mai Chau, Hoa Binh province reached 90-100% occupancy on weekends. On Saturday and Sunday (October 9-10), capacity reaches 80-90% and is expected to be 100% full by the end of next week (October 16-17).
In which, resort guests mainly come from Hanoi, a few are domestic tourists. They usually stay for 3 days and 2 nights, many stay long-term for a week. The resort is isolated, so visitors often use the entire time to experience food, stream spa, four-season infinity pool, outdoor cinema, miniature ethnic museum, fishing lake, chicken farm, natural waterfall… in a closed space and not outside.
Currently, tourists tend to book rooms close to the date and in the last 3 months of the year, the resort has received 30% of the rooms, on weekends and Tet holidays, the room has been booked about 50%.
Similarly at Mai Chau Hideaway, the first week’s capacity when reopening (September 25-30) was moderate, but on October 3, it reached 100%. The resort’s representative said that there are still many customers interested in booking rooms here and predict that the room capacity will reach 80-100% in the coming weekends.
Tourists come to the resort 80% from Hanoi, 10% in the province, and 10% from other provinces and cities. Usually, guests stay here for 1-2 nights to return to the locality when the Covid-19 test results are valid for 72 hours. The resort is located on the peninsula of Hoa Binh lake, so visitors often have experiences in the resort such as bamboo rafting, kayaking, renting motorboats to visit places on the lake such as Ao Tien, Ngoi Hoa Bay, visiting raft houses. fish farming, spiritual site of Ba Chua Thac Bo temple.
Reopening from September 25, Mai Chau Ecolodge receives a large number of bookings from customers. However, there are still many people who are still afraid of the epidemic, the conditions of vaccination and testing, so they have not decided to leave immediately.
Currently, visitors from localities that do not apply Directive 16 to Hoa Binh province need to have a negative test certificate for SARS-CoV-2 by RT-PCR method or rapid antigen test, within 72 hours of arrival. sample. In addition, visitors need to bring an ID card or citizen identification and complete a medical declaration. According to the feedback of many visitors, they did not face any difficulties and inconveniences when coming to Hoa Binh and returning to the locality, especially when carefully advised by the staff at the resort.
Nguyen Thu Huong (30 years old), a tourist from Hanoi stayed at Serena Resort Kim Boi (Sao Bay commune, Kim Boi district) on October 4. Her family consists of 4 people, including 2 children under 6 years old, so there is no need to be tested for Covid-19, and she and her husband perform the test according to the rapid test method at a cost of 150,000 VND/person.
She said that after a long time of social distancing, the trip helps the family to relax and relieve the stress of work. Because she guessed that it would be crowded at the weekend, she chose to go at the beginning of the week to have the most private and safe space possible. Her family stayed for one night to return to Hanoi when the test certificate was still valid within 72 hours and did not encounter any difficulties. Ms. Huong shared: “Determining to live with Covid-19, the epidemic prevention and control regulations including testing is inevitable. So I don’t feel inconvenient but comfortably enjoy the trip.”
Booking agents and collaborators at resorts said that right after Hanoi ended social distancing, a series of guests asked for information about the accommodation facilities that were open and planned to book a room. The destinations and services that tourists are interested in now are resorting to private villas near Hanoi, isolated resorts in Vinh Phuc, Hoa Binh, Thanh Hoa, Sa Pa (Lao Cai), or Ha Long cruise. (Quang Ninh). However, among these, only Hoa Binh receives tourists from other localities, other places do not have a uniform policy in welcoming foreign tourists, causing difficulties and creating anxiety for tourists. .