Existentialism aside, The Albatross is brilliantly located in the heart of the city centre, with beds from £16.50pn.
I started noticing a few years ago that many caravan sites were brilliantly located, often very near the smart house we'd paid a fortune to rent, and often closer to the beach.
Cheaper, wildly popular, and brilliantly located opposite the gorgeous façade of San Francesco, a 13th-century church that's been lovingly restored, the Antica Focacceria San Francesco (Via A. Paternostro, 58; 39-091-320-264) serves everything from stuffed focaccia to grilled swordfish.
177 Ly Tu Trong Street, +84 8 3827 5275, sanouvahotel.com, doubles from £43 B&B Ho Chi Minh's hotel scene lacks innovation but this new Vietnamese-Australian venture is brilliantly located for sights, eating, drinking and shopping, and has been attractively re-fashioned from a 1980s narrow building with a bright-white sculptural facade depicting a multi-branched tree.
Paul Thomas Anderson directed and wrote the film, which was inspired by Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel, "Oil!" Writing in The New York Times, Manohla Dargis said that Mr. Day-Lewis gave "a thrilling performance, among the greatest I've seen, purposefully alienating and brilliantly located at the juncture between cinematic realism and theatrical spectacle".
Paul Thomas Anderson directed and wrote this film, which was inspired by Upton Sinclair's 1927 novel, "Oil!" Writing in The Times, Manohla Dargis said that Mr. Day-Lewis gives "a thrilling performance, among the greatest I've seen, purposefully alienating and brilliantly located at the juncture between cinematic realism and theatrical spectacle".
