Hang Mua Homestay

I really liked this place, the service was really good and the owners daughter was an excellent translator to English. The location is good because it is in the middle of the tourist attractions (either stay here or Tam Coc AREA) and in the middle of Tet they had one of the few restaurants open in the area. At the time I was staying they were doing a little construction so the view from the room did not match the website exactly

We had a thoroughly enjoyable visit to Ninh Binh and were able to see so much of the area in just one day. The location of the home stay was super for this and we were also delighted that the staff were helpful in arranging transport to the train station and Trang An. Until we came to leave, we would have been comfortable leaving a 3 or 4 out of 5 rating. We were however made to feel extremely uncomfortable by the man who oversaw our stay, as he began hassling us to leave a review before we had had breakfast. This intensified when we returned from our day out; we were obliged to leave a review before he would drive us to the station (which we had already paid him for). We left a generous review on *********** (averaged at 8.0/10) which did highlighted the one area we felt was lacking - the cleanliness of the rooms and bathrooms. The man then proceeded to drive incredibly unsafely (including at points driving without holding the steering wheel, across two lanes in relatively busy traffic and far slower than the rest of the traffic) whilst using his phone to translate his haranguing of us about our review, eventually resulting in us having to speak to his boss on the phone about why we hadn’t left a 10/10 review. The entire interaction left us feeling distinctly uncomfortable and spoiled the end of our trip. We were relieved to get out of the vehicle, even though it was not in the drop-off location we had agreed.

The place was filthy. The bathroom hadn't been cleaned in a while. There was thick scum on the taps. The shower didn't drain and eventually sewerage came out. There was a used tampon in the soap holder. The pool was brown. The bed was rock hard. The bicycles kept breaking and half the menu was unavailable. The only two redeeming features were the friendly staff and the location.

The room was clean, cozy, hot water available, nice mountain view. Good free breakfast with pho and coffee. Scooter rental is cheap, good location to visiting around, only a few minutes to the Mua Viewpoint and Trang An. Reasonable prices for the room, laundry, meals.