The hotel experience and hospitality was extremely good (except finding a grape stem on the washing basin just after checking in, which I can well forgive) until after we checked out.
We booked our transport to and fro Ha Long Bay via La Siesta. The trip back was on a private car, the driver barely spoke English and didn’t explain to us why he stopped half way to buy fruit on the road side.
The other thing was, I paid $1 USD each for the hotel to send 2 postcards when I checked out. My friends have yet received them, while the postcards I dropped off directly in the airport have safely arrived Hong Kong in a week. This gave me some mark deduction for the otherwise excellent hotel experience La Siesta has offered.
Moreover, it’s next to the very special train line between buildings.