Mira Bai Xep Quy Nhon - the Hidden Jewel - Hostel

There are only 2 hotels in this tiny, filthy fishing village and Mira Hotel is the worst one. We came here at the ‘best’ time of year (March) and it rained constantly, the ugly grey sea lashed the filthy and rocky beach nonstop with dangerous waves, and we were trapped here with nothing to do except hang around Haven which is the other hotel and has a decent bar and restaurant. This is an hour motorcycle ride from absolutely anything and there are no activities to do here except eat seafood and pick up garbage on the beach. Whoever recommended this village or this hotel to you must be laughing at you behind your back because it has no redeeming features whatsoever. We booked what looked (on Agoda) like a pretty room in a pretty hotel but every photo of this place has been heavily photoshopped and the reality is far from pretty. Mira first tried to fob us off with a tiny toilet sized (and scented) room and when we showed the pictures of the gorgeous room we had booked with the artistically arranged fishing net in the ceiling and blue and white European chic decor, we were shown a slightly bigger and slightly less stinky room that still didn’t resemble any room we’d seen online. It was getting late and we’d already carried our bags down several dark tiny alleys from where the taxi had to drop us to where the hotel is actually situated, so we gave up the fight and accepted the substandard room. Breakfast is in a picturesque location on the roof of the hotel but the buffet itself is awful and they don’t even provide Vietnamese coffee. The boat on the roof has dog excrement inside and the wood is so rotten that 2 people injured themselves while we were there. I suspect the boat on top of Mira Hotel will soon be at the bottom of the hotel, probably with a few instagrammers still inside. Staff are friendly but not well informed and speak very little English, and their motorbike hire is the most expensive I have encountered in Vietnam - 200,000 p/day. The same motorbike rental service is cheaper at Haven and if you really feel that you just MUST stay in this utterly unremarkable village in the middle of nowhere, then I suggest you stay at Haven and avoid Mira Hotel at all costs.

This place is a nightmare and ruined my honeymoon. I paid in advance with my credit card. At the end of the stay they demanded payment for the hotel . Despite showing my confirmation details proving my pAyment already made. They said the didn’t understand English despite my Vietnamese wife translating for me. They just yelled at us for the cash, unfortunately they were keeping my wife’s passport so I didn’t have any negotiation power. You will charged to times And threatened for your life to pay it.