Rex Hotel


The Rex Hotel Saigon (Vietnamese: Khách Sạn Rex) is a famous luxury and business hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam.




The Rex Hotel in 2010.


The 286-room, five-story building is located in District 1 of the city, close to the Saigon Notre-Dame Basilica and the Municipal Theatre.


In 2003, the Rex Hotel underwent extension and renovation works in its architecture, interior design and engineering services.


Rex Hotel is owned by the state-owned enterprise Saigon Tourist.




Contents





  • 1 History


  • 2 Decline and revival of the Rex


  • 3 See also


  • 4 References


  • 5 External links




History




Facade of the legendary -Rex Hotel-, through the busy city streets. Ho Chi Minh City (former Saigon). Vietnam


Constructed in 1927, for French businessman Bainier, during France's colonial rule of Vietnam, the building started out as a two-story auto dealership and garage complex, called "Bainier Auto Hall". The building showcased Citroën and other European cars. From 1959 to 1975, Mr. and Mrs. Ung Thi renovated the building into the 100-room "Rex Complex" hotel, which featured three cinemas, a cafeteria, a dance hall and a library.


The first guests in the Rex came in December 1961, while it was still in its final construction phase. They were 400 U.S. Army soldiers, 200 each from the 57th Transportation Company from Fort Lewis, Tacoma, Washington, and the 8th Transportation Company from Fort Bragg, NC. They were the first company-strength units to arrive in Saigon, equipped with twenty H-21 twin rotor Shawnee helicopters, on the USS Core, on December 11, 1961. They were billeted at the Rex for a week or so while their tents were being set up at Tan Son Nhat for the 57th, and the 8th at Quy Nhon. A Thanksgiving dinner, held a few weeks after the actual holiday, was cooked in the men's field kitchen on the rooftop of the Rex.


The hotel was made famous during the Vietnam War when it was hosting the American military command's daily conference, derisively named Five O'Clock Follies by cynical journalists who found the optimism of the American officers misguided. Its rooftop bar was a well-known hangout spot for military officials and war correspondents.[1]



Decline and revival of the Rex


After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the state's Saigon Tourism Bureau took ownership of the hotel and renamed it Ben Thanh ("The City Port").[2] The hotel was used as the location for the press conference announcing the reunification of Vietnam in 1976.


In 1986, the hotel was renamed Rex Hotel.[citation needed]



See also


  • Hotel Continental

  • Hotel Majestic


References




  1. ^ "In resurgent Ho Chi Minh City the scars are still visible" by Graeme Leech, The Australian, March, 09, 2009.


  2. ^ Ben Thanh market Archived 2012-06-18 at the Wayback Machine., Vietscape website




External links


  • Official Website


  • The hotel's history at the SaigonScene website

  • Saigon hotel

Coordinates: 10°46′33″N 106°42′5.4″E / 10.77583°N 106.701500°E / 10.77583; 106.701500







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