Hawkridge Family

Welcome to the blog of the Hawkridge Family in Shanghai. Hopefully this will keep you uptodate with what we are up to while we live here. We also hope to provide an insight in to this amazing city and country. And to inspire you to come and visit!

Saturday, February 8, 2014

From five quid to five star

When we were planning this trip we decided that after six days of pretty intensive sightseeing we would need some time on a beach to recover before heading back for school and work.  Sam discovered that he had collected enough points to get us two nights free at the Intercontinental Da Nang, therefore we decided to go for four!

Our flight arrived pretty late in Da Nang and after a fairly long taxi journey we arrived at our hotel.  Even at 10 o'clock at night it looked luxurious and we were welcomed with ginger tea and comfy sofas.  The resort was built in to a hill to reflect a Vietnamese village.  We were taken by golf buggy to our room which was in a building housing only about eight rooms.  After a quick look around the room we all fell in to bed.

       

                                      

The following morning we were greeted by an amazing view from our balcony and saw more of the resort as we headed to breakfast.  

      

      

We were lucky enough to breakfast most mornings in pods, designed to look like upside down Vietnamese hats, suspended off the restaurant.  

      

     

Each day we followed a similar pattern of breakfast, beach, relax and dinner.  Because of the hilly nature of the resort there was a funicular 'boat' to take us between the levels.  

       

We were on Heaven level, at the top.  We speculated that the others might be Purgatory, Earth and Hell!  However, we discovered they were more appropriately named, Sky, Earth and Beach.  Sam enjoyed getting in the boat each day and asking the girl to take him to Heaven!

Having spent a lot of time inside in Shanghai recently due to the pollution it was lovely to be outside.  William and Oliver enjoyed swimming, building sand castles and wave catching.  

                                 

      

       

                                     


Most of our meals were outside, except for a couple when Oliver and William were drawn by the boat table.  

       

      



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