Mango Home Riverside

Wanting to escape the noise of HCMC we took a 2.5 hrs taxi ride on a rather boring drive to the Mango Home Riverside. on arrival we opted for a late lunch to the noise of a coconut factory across the river. The only available soup was utterly tasteless and the fish dish totally over salted. We subsequently had ‘’dinners’’ in the lounge consisting of Springrolls and Banana Fritters, hardly what we wanted but better safe than sorry . The so called Sunset Cruise was an expensive rip-off and included a plate of chips with the Coconut Juice to be paid for extra. The river is sadly over polluted and the riverbanks lined with noisy, smoke belching factories. No romance to the ‘cruise’ but a 4% surcharge on our payment by CC - better carry tons of cash….. Let’s not talk about ‘breakfast’ but the staff with only some friendly and welcoming. Given the small number of guests more effort could have been made apart from the obvious lack of training One final note of caution. The water from the shower is not only hot but BOILING hot, a waste of energy and so was our trip to the NO Mangos ‘home’ which lacked any homely feeling and management

Situated 6 kilometres outside Ben tre at the bank of a river. Very good price quality ratio. Plus points of this resort: quite a large terrain: beautiful lush and green. Nice swimming pool and daybeds including sun umbrellas. Bicycles can be used without cost. Staff very friendly and helpful. Breakfast a great mixture of western and asian food. Sun downers at the bar area are a great way to end the day. Peaceful & quiet. Food in restaurant for lunch/dinner also nice. Rooms are simple, beds and blanket quite small. But outdoor seating area is nice and the bathroom partially outside gives a very authentic feel to it. We would recommend a stay for 3 nights. Do a bicycle tour and a boat trip to discover surroundings and relax!

A rural area on the river. Quiet. Very clean. Very nice and helpful staff. Would stay here again. Best mango ever for breakfast every day.

A hidden gem of tranquility We loved our stay here, so calming and restful! Just what we needed after HCMC! Excellent service, great food, clean spacious rooms with good beds and a lovely chilled pool area. Wasn’t bitten to death by mozzies although was expecting to be. What makes the place so special are the staff! A huge thanks to Ben (he really was so helpful) good English and very helpful with local information and transportation to onward destinations. Can recommend the local white wine really not bad! and goes well with soda as a spritzer. Highly recommend this place, the sunset cruise was good. Borrowed their bikes FOC and had a good ride around the quieter lanes, nice to see local village life. Good value!

There are many options for staying in Ben Tre. We choose Mango because of the lovely surroundings. We are only spent one night. Pros: beautiful natural surroundings in the river with a nice view of sunset, sitting by their sunset lounge . Played Pool after dinner and was told we could play as long as we like, same as the pool, swim as long as we like. Small and adequate pool. Room was nice with good outdoor shower. Bicycle was nice for a ride once you got off the busy main road. Cons: We were greeted by a welcome drink but then hounded us to pay our bill right away for the night. They didn’t tell us times for breakfast or dinner. Dinner was just fair, I ordered the fried rice with squid and shrimp which were hard to find and seasoned blandly. Meat dishes just ok. Breakfast was buffet but they ran out of banana bread . Eggs or noodle soup was offered but small amount of fruit. Just ok, not a bigger spread like in most hotels in Vietnam. Right after I checked out I wanted a little water to bring along for the trip back, one staffer directed me to the restaurant to buy a small bottle of water. I was surprised and asked another staffer and she offered to fill my water bottle up,which was just fine. So I don’t know if I would stay there again but I did like the environment and pool and playing pool and the bicycles.