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Rex Hotel (Ho Chi Minh City)

Vietnam / Dong Nam Bo / Ho Chi Minh City / Pasteur street
www.rexhotelvietnam.com/

The Rex Hotel is a famous luxury and business hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Built before 1959, the building started out as a two story garage complex. From 1959 to 1975, Mr. and Mrs. Ung Thi renovated the building into a 100 room Rex Trading Center with three cinemas, a cafeteria, a dance hall and a library. It was made famous and popular by American troops during the Vietnam War when its conference room hosted a daily press conference, nicknamed the The Five O'Clock Follies, by the press and its rooftop bar was a well known hangout spot for military officials and war correspondents.[1] After the war, in 1975, the city's tourist bureau took ownership of the hotel and renamed it "Ben Thanh." The "Ben Thanh" hotel was used as the location for the press conference announcing the reunification of Vietnam in 1976. In 1986, the hotel was sold and renamed the Rex Hotel. The 230 room five story building is located in the District 1, close by to the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica and the Municipal Theatre. In 2003 the Rex Hotel underwent an extension and renovation including architecture, interior design and engineering serivces provided by Archetype Group.
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Coordinates:   10°46'32"N   106°42'4"E

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  • ganuong (guest)
    Rex Hotel giờ đã hoàn tất giai đoạn 1 dự án nâng cấp Khách sạn Rex lên tiêu chuẩn 5 sao, hiện dự án đang tiến hành giai đoạn 2 với việc thi công các tầng tại mặt đường Lê Lợi
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