after a fun few days of eating drinking and experiencing the biggest city in vietnam
it's time to move to the next destination tonight our hotel is going to be this vip
overnight sleeper bus from ho chi minh city seven hours up north towards dalat
we are at Thanh Buoi bus station i'm probably saying that all wrong but tonight we are going on a bus a vip bus from
ho chi minh city to dalat it's nine o'clock in the evening now so we've got about an hour until
the bus goes and it arrives at five in the morning this bus to dalat cost us £16 each which is
not bad considering it's a vip bus let's hope we get some sleep on this bus but if not we've booked
a attic room in a really nice hostel in dalat so we can have a really long nap there and we'll
show you that hostel it looks really nice it's actually crazy how many bags we actually have
whilst we've been traveling through thailand 16 months we started accumulating
a lot of stuff as you can imagine um so there's a lot of stuff that we're carrying around with us
in thailand we did have some storage but we don't have that here in vietnam so we're taking
everything with us hopefully all the bags won't be a problem when we board the bus we've
seen quite a lot of buses arrive already so hopefully ours is coming soon yeah i'm excited
Got everything?
i hope so one two three four five six yeah six bags oh the door's still open
so we've got six bags that's how we know we can keep track of our stuff we just count how
many because there's already too many of them but some of them are very very very small and
usually they fit inside of each other so don't judge too much and now it's darkness
so we've now been moved to a sort of like another bus station i think they do this
quite often in vietnam they take you from the main bus station in a little minibus to another
bus so you can come to where all the bigger buses live can't see our bus yet but there's
a few people waiting we were the only people on the minibus but there's four people waiting here
let's get our 5 000 bags and put them in
one two three four five six okay good yeah
shoes off
my little bag of shoe!
this looks cool it looks like a capsule hotel so we've just got our little beds and we're
actually just opposite from each other i've got three that's four i think these are ours
this is really nice i really like this
this is nice
hello that's good they um they give you a sticker for each of your bags oh good so
when you leave you know where they are yeah okay keep them safe somewhere please any lights here
yes the one that says light on the buttons behind you oh see there's more lights
ah where did you find the other one there's a small button right in the corner
wait where it doesn't push can you come and try to push mine
hello let me try and fix your light
i'm not being a weirdo like that's not pushing in oh your light doesn't work okay ha ha
when we found this bus online dylan did say he was like manage your expectations it might not
be as nice as you expect because i was like look all of the led lights look so cool and he was like
maybe not but i'm really pleasantly surprised this is so cool i feel like i'm traveling in a
spaceship it has a lot of stuff so first it has a little panel for buttons here they do
a few different things there's one called sleep and the sleep one basically changes all of these
little led lights so if you're just wanting a little bit of sleep light on it also turns
that one on and off um quite cozy actually then there's another one just called light which
obviously does the light which is very blue so if i look a little bit dead that's probably
why there is a light here that is quite handy there is a little led thing here and
the bed itself comes with a kind of pillow i think i'm not mistaken this can turn into a seat
i can sit up oh that's even better to do some work actually yeah here's a little bus branded
bottle of water very fancy here is a little remote control for the tv that's just
over here if you click for example photo it seems like all you can really see is photos from a
memory card but there's no memory card in there because who would put their memory card in this
lcd so there's nothing really to see or to hear from what i can tell but maybe i'm using it wrong who
knows? there's plenty of leg room each one comes with its own pillow and a blanket so you can sleep
it's about 10 p.m now so i'm definitely gonna be sleeping got my laptop there so i can do some work
do some editing as we're on the bus there's also a compartment here to keep your shoes mine don't
quite fit a little bit too big i did think i was going to be really really cold because normally on
transport even if it's in a really hot country i'm always freezing so i brought my jumper and
everything but i don't think i really needed to it's quite comfortable i'm wearing long trousers
and i'm not hot but i'm really not cold either oh this is not so bad i can lay down completely
straight now i don't know if dylan can do the same because he's quite a bit taller than i am i'm
five foot eleven not quite six foot but i can fit pretty much i think if you were at six foot you'd
struggle a little bit here we're saving quite a lot of money on our hotel for the night because
we don't need a hotel this is our hotel for the night i'm quite excited this is really nice
i think i'm gonna try to get some sleep so i'll see you tomorrow good night
okay so we just very abruptly got off our bus it's half past three and the bus was not meant
to arrive till five so we woke up at half three like this oh are we here are we here
and we are putting our phones on are we in Da Lat yes we are get off the bus
so apparently we're 10 minutes away from where we're staying but it's super early in the morning so maybe it won't even be open
we've made it to the hostel but as we thought
there's no one in sight so it says it doesn't open until six
in the morning and it's what like four now so hmm i don't know what we're gonna do
it's not too bad this is only two hours didn't investigating behind me but it looks very closed
i don't know if there's maybe people sleeping inside but reception is obviously not open yet
but i'll take this moment sat next to the lovely water feature to uh speak a little bit about the
bus i was super comfortable i slept like a rock the roads were going absolutely crazy
i was rolling side to side but i slept solidly it was it was really nice
after a fair few hours of sitting outside on the curb waiting for the reception for this hostel to
open we are finally inside the sun is now shining it's much warmer and we're very happy to be here
this hostel is called pi hostel or maybe it's pi i'm not 100% sure it was about £28
pounds per night we're here for two nights we have actually booked the attic room so there's
cheaper rooms as well and there's also much more affordable hostels but this place looks
so nice and we're at the very very very very top room so let me give you a quick
tour i haven't stayed in that many hostels dylan stayed in a lot this is definitely the
nicest one i've stayed in it doesn't feel like a hostel it looks like a hotel it's
very very nice but the most important thing for us since we're very very tired is the bed normally i
would make a jump start but i'm quite tired so i'm just gonna slowly climb onto it oh that's so nice
oh yeah oh everything's quite soft we're gonna sleep so well here tonight we need it
then from the bed you can see the tv but not really from the bed i don't think we're gonna
watch it to be honest we're here for such a short period of time and there's so much that we want
to do in dalat that we're probably not gonna be watching this tv anyways it doesn't really matter
where it is there's a really cozy corner over here i have to show you when we saw this place
online or this specific room we were like oh it looks so cozy i feel like i should just sit here
drink some tea read a little book ooh living the parisian lifestyle but this is actually so so nice
there's no air conditioning in here but it is a lot cooler in dalat like i mentioned earlier
so when we arrived this morning it was about 14 degrees celsius it's now much warmer i think it's
around 24 degrees on average at this time of year so you don't really need an air con but there is a
fan in here so that's that's good welcome to the bathroom now normally when you think of hostels
you don't get a private bathroom or you don't normally get a bathroom that's this nice this is
so fancy it looks really sort of boutique even the mirror in the bathroom has like this led
rim light around it the clock on it is very much wrong so it is not quarter to six in the pm um
but it's really nice rainfall shower loads of like little things that you don't normally get
in a hostel i mean i think already this place has already changed my mind on hostels yeah okay this
is not a shared room and it is a little bit more costly as a hostel goes but it's very nice another
really really nice thing about this particular room and some of the other rooms further down as
well it's got a balcony now i don't know if you're meant to be standing outside on that bit so i'm
not going to i'm very scared of heights and you can look clear through the floor so i'm just gonna
keep on the more solid ground appearing bit but the location is amazing you can see mountains all
around and it's just i mean we can see the whole city we're so high up we're on the fifth floor
it's really really nice i've never been to dalat before i've never even been to vietnam before
but it's really really nice to be up here you can just hear the tooting of the city center and it's
bustling but it's not as crazy as what you mean oh it's nothing comparison to ho chi minh when
we were walking here this morning it was like four o'clock in the morning right but it looked really
really beautiful it was completely quiet but very very nice looking city we have a lot of really
exciting things planned here in dalat but you'll have to wait for the next video to see those
but if you enjoyed this video then you might enjoy the video that's on the screen right now
where we went and saw how much food we can get for only five us dollars in ho chi minh city vietnam