Switching Hotels

This is Yellow House, where my mother has been since arriving here two months ago. We have decided to move to another hotel around a block away where we can have a room with two beds (a double and a single) that will be suitable for when I get the baby.

The staff was very friendly at Yellow House and being right across the street from a police station it was very safe (though I must say I've heard or read nothing about a crime problem here) but it was also across the street from a nearly all night karaoke bar it was very noisy. And the traffic is always noisy here.
This is the eating area at Yellow House. Every morning they served hot drinks, juice, one egg, a banana, and french bread. The winding stairway leads to the second floor--elevators are rare.
This is my mother's room on the second floor, directly above the entrance. My room was directly above hers and was the same layout with slightly different furniture.
The shower was not enclosed. The door to the bathroom was plastic and when it was shut the entire bathroom became the shower. This seems to be a common setup as the bathroom at Chau Doc was the same.
Directly across the street from Yellow House--the police station and Madame Cuc's Hotel. The police station is the white building. Right inside the window into what appeared to be a large meeting room a bust of Ho Chi Minh is visible. Madame Cuc's is reportedly where Michael Caine stayed while he was filming the remake of "The Quiet American". No doubt he stayed on the top floor which would be less noisy than the lower floors.

This is the entrace to the hotel we are in now, Bich Duyen. It actually turns out to be cheaper because we have a double. Breakfast is basically the same but you can't have the egg cooked anyway you like and there is just one baguette instead of three. Breakfast is served in wooden living room style furniture rather than cafe tables.
This is looking outside our room window, which again is right above the entrace (we ask for a second floor room so there aren't so many steps to climb). There are three rooms each on floors two through five and I think there are two rooms on the sixth floor and perhaps a room for the staff. It is very quiet because the hotel opens not onto a regular street but onto a pedestrian street. This setup is very common in Saigon--pedestrian alleys honeycomb the neighborhoods--soom are mostly residential and some are commercial like this one.
This is our room--a small double bed and a small single bed.
The bathroom is "American standard" with an enclosed shower.
The room has an air conditioner and the rotating wall fan. I think the rate is cheaper if you don't use the a/c but for now we are paying for it. Possibly after I get Henry we will forego it to try and prevent him from catching cold due to the sudden change in temperature.