Name: A&EM Corp - The Petit Hotel
Address: 179 Ly Tu Trong Street District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, 848, VN

2/10

Poor

24 May 2026

Yen

The front desk staff were very nice, but the elevator was broken without any notice. During my stay, the water was shut off for hours, and the hygiene and cleanliness were poor.”

Friends

8/10

Excellent

28 Mar 2026

michael

The room was nice and comfy, don’t expect to much, your there to sleep and clean up. It’s in a great location next to the market -‘d approx 12 min walk to the walking st.

Self

2/10

Poor

23 Mar 2026

Chuong

Ac broke, ac water leaked all over my backpack onto the room floor. Soaked my laptop. Broke it. Staff apologized but that’s it

8/10

Excellent

22 Feb 2026

Jimmy

Great location, amenities are good staffs were not friendly

10/10

Exceptional

12 Feb 2026

thi kim ngan

Good location

6/10

Pleasant

20 Nov 2025

Christie

This hotel feels like a work in progress. There was construction going on our floor. Our room meets the bare minimum. Better to check out other options in the area.

6/10

Pleasant

10 Nov 2025

Dong Jun

staff and wifi and room

Business

10/10

Exceptional

19 Oct 2025

ananda

Yes, shops nearby and staff was curteous and helpful.

Business

8/10

Excellent

30 Sep 2025

Myduc

Leaky shower is a big problem! But the staff at the buffet is so nice and accommodating that we would return in the future 👍😎

Leisure

2/10

Poor

20 Sep 2025

Phuong Thao

We did not get to stay at the hotel on the 9/17-9/19/25 because the hotel could not find our reservation. Very disappointed. We had no problem with Expedia bookings before, until this time. We hope we did not get charged for this stay.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

09 Sep 2025

Loan

Good

10/10

Exceptional

19 Aug 2025

Yoshiaki

good

It was a great location, convenient for shopping and eating.

Self

10/10

Exceptional

20 Jul 2025

Joe

I always stay at A&EM Petit hotel location 179 Ly Tu

10/10

Exceptional

22 Jun 2025

Joe

I have stayed at A&EM Petit Hotel 179 Ly Tu Trong st many times- right in the heart of district 1. The staff is wonderful and accommodating- Receptionist Phuong is extremely helpful and friendly- with a very nice breakfast from 6:30 am to 9:30 am the suits everyone’s taste buds- make sure you book your next stay at A&EM Petit Hotel

Leisure

2/10

Poor

29 Mar 2025

Debbie

Not getting the room I booked and staff not aware I’ve booked and paid. Took a while to search my unitary.

Leisure Family

8/10

Excellent

07 Mar 2025

tai

In good area
Clean room and quiet
Good breakfast
Stay one night

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

06 Mar 2025

Mikael

Very nice place on the right spot in Ho chi min.

Friends_and_family Family

10/10

Exceptional

22 Feb 2025

Richard

Hotels clean staff friendly

Leisure Friends

8/10

Excellent

01 Jan 2025

Wayne

Decent hotel with great staff. Very good location.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

01 Dec 2024

SAMUEL

Excellent

Leisure Family

10/10

Exceptional

03 Sep 2024

Duong

There are two main receptionists who are very helpful! Room condition is cleaner than other places which in the same rated.
The only thing I’m uncomfortable that the food area has flies.

Business_and_leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

11 May 2024

Joe

In the heart of District 1 - the perfect gateway for long or short stays ❤️

Business_and_leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

26 Apr 2024

Ping Wai

無線網路很差,經常斷,連不上。床框比床墊大很多。小腿很容易踢到受傷。浴缸很深,很難爬進去,浴後腳濕爬出時很容易跣足。

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

18 Jan 2024

Tuyen

Anything okay

Friends_and_family Friends

10/10

Exceptional

27 Nov 2023

Vorrasit

The staff is friendly and speaks English well. I like the location that is very convenient.

Leisure Self

10/10

Exceptional

16 Nov 2023

Tommy

Good

Leisure

10/10

Exceptional

12 Nov 2023

Joe

Reception- was very polite and professional- Sally is an excellent person to have as part of your staff- she is experienced in many areas concerning- travel- banking- and very tech savvy!

Leisure Self

4/10

Poor

28 Oct 2023

Christina

The furniture in the bedroom was COMPLETELY different than that on the pictures online.

I chose this hotel based on the online pictures which looked nice. The reality once I arrived was extremely disappointing. I would NEVER have chosen a hotel room that looked the way my room looked.

The pictures on the website are a complete lie!

8/10

Excellent

18 Oct 2023

Tommy

Good

Leisure

8/10

Excellent

18 Oct 2023

Tommy

Good

Leisure Friends

10/10

Exceptional

19 Aug 2023

Jesse

Nice little hotel in district one. Convenient location to shops, restaurants, bars, and nightlife. Staff was very friendly, room was clean, and it was super affordable to people on a budget like myself. Would highly recommend to anyone visiting the area!

Leisure Self

6/10

Pleasant

26 Mar 2023

Tong

Staff and service good, but rooms smells bad, bathroom broken (#404),air conditioning leaking (#504). I feel unhappy about it!

8/10

Excellent

07 Mar 2023

Vincent

The staff were very friendly and helpful. Great location. Would stay again.

Leisure Partner

10/10

Exceptional

07 Nov 2022

STEPHEN

please could use attention to touchups, little paint job, shower leaks alittle, few bugs. wifi is decent. staff friendly and very helpful.

Leisure Self

4/10

Poor

12 Feb 2020

Verified traveler

Friendly staff, better maintenance required.

Staff in hotel are friendly and very helpful (prompt response to room defects) that desired good comments, however, the hotel is not properly maintained. Flatted batteries in room's safe and a/c remote controller; water leakage in toilet; unsecured bench drawer suddenly dropped off twice. It was discovered only one drawer railing instead of two were installed. Most importantly, many small insects (believe are ants) were found around bathroom basin and room's bench corners, a big cockroach was running on ceiling.

Partner

4/10

Poor

28 Nov 2019

RM

The staff was very nice, especially the door-man. Although the conditions of the facilities and the hotel itself is very run down. I wasn't expecting 3 stars, but the plumbing in the shower is badly blocked, there are cockroaches in the rooms, the odor in the rooms are soiled and need access to fresh air. The room I was given was on the 1st floor next to piled laundry bags full of towels and sheets no doubt, this was just outside my room in the hallway to that you could just barely pass by to get to your room, I have a nice photo of it.

To be honest, this should be a $10-12 USD backpackers room not a business person or holiday makers hotel.

Business Self

10/10

Exceptional

01 Nov 2019

Verified traveler

friendly staff

very friendly staffs

Business

4/10

Poor

19 Aug 2019

Verified traveler

Very poor hotel. Better off next door at Sanouva

A&Em was disappointing for various reasons. Only positive was the reception allowed us to check in an hour earlier.
1. Our request for non-smoking room was ignored. The twin Executive room reeked of 2nd-hand smoke. Instead of switching to another room, the hotel sent a non English speaking staff fr housekeeping to open the tiny window & spray air freshener!
2. There was some problems w ac remote - unable to adjust room temp. It’s either freezing cold at 22deg or very warm 25deg. 3. 3. The worse thing was the matured cockroach crawling around the room the next night which freaked me out - I m terrified of roaches.
4. Limited food left for bfast at 830/845am. Most of the buffet selection was 80% gone by then! Management should be more generous with portions for hotel guests if included in room rate.

Friends

2/10

Poor

03 Apr 2019

Verified traveler

bugs in the unit. mosquitos. employee doesn't speaks english well.

Business Self

6/10

Pleasant

07 Jan 2019

Koong

fair price, but condition is not good

Price is fair, but need to up the level of tidiness. Toilet bowl water pipe is making noise whole night. Aircon being set for auto shut-off is rather annoying.

8/10

Excellent

07 Jan 2019

Traveller

The room was large and clean and quiet. The location was good. The price was a little high for three stars in HCM. Some of the staff members are barbarians when they speak among themselves. The breakfast is OK, with little choice. There are no other amenities to speak of.

Friends_and_family Family

6/10

Pleasant

05 Jan 2019

Anthony

HCMC Stay

We wanted a room with a window,the window was not more than a port hole.
The waitress at breakfast was wonderful

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

21 Dec 2018

Julie

Good location

The staff is friendly, especially Mai, the staff serving breakfast.

10/10

Exceptional

16 Dec 2018

Verified traveler

The staff always nice and helpful and organized taxi for me as well as wake up call, thank you

Shower wasnt great, didnt work fantastic but other than that great

8/10

Excellent

08 Dec 2018

Thu

Vẻy pleasant stay

Friends

8/10

Excellent

05 Dec 2018

Poh Ling

Upon check in, I have requested for a non smoking room but however the receptionist gave a smoking room. When I enter the room, the smell was horrible and I saw a crockroch in the bathroom. I immediately called the front desk and ask for a room change.

Family

8/10

Excellent

28 Nov 2018

Alan

Good Location

Good Location, room is a little dark could do better with better lighting

Friends

8/10

Excellent

12 Nov 2018

Jennell

We have had a great time at this hotel and will recommend our friends and family

8/10

Excellent

20 Oct 2018

Matthew

You want district 1. We have district 1.

I liked it. The hotel is in the middle of the action in Saigon. The breakfast is killer and the room is nice for the price.

4/10

Poor

14 Oct 2018

Nati

Nothing like in the pictures it was very disappointing

8/10

Excellent

23 Aug 2018

Verified traveler

Nice , close to everything you need during holiday

Nice Location , friendly people ... convenient to get anywhere. shopping great

6/10

Pleasant

30 Jul 2018

Noor Azni

Just average

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

28 May 2018

Verified traveler

Value for money. Central location. Small room though.

2/10

Poor

18 Jan 2018

SUNNY

Nice Area but room amenities is bad.

Check In is good. Area is good. But room requested high floor but was given 2nd floor. Window is very small. Bedsheet torn, NO 3-1 coffee, NO disposable shaver. Room was small. Breakfast cold, hard & tasteless.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

11 Jan 2018

SUNNY

NICE & CONVENIENT

VERY CONVENIENT, NEAR ALL PLACES.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

04 Dec 2017

Liew

Hotel with Good Proce & Great Location!

This Hotel is beyond my expectations. Good Price, Great Location & Good Room. High Recommended!!

Family

2/10

Poor

08 Aug 2017

Albert

Bad experience

1. Door cannot open and despite several complaints, no rectification effected. Keep changing rooms and all VIP room doors faulty.
2. Breakfast buffet not up to taste.
3. No room essentials such as, writing paper pad, pen, complimenting instant coffee, hotel facility profile. Light bulbs not working.
4. Poor service

8/10

Excellent

13 Jul 2017

Roy

Fairly clean and central hotel

The hotel is centrally located, breakfast needs to be improved due to very small range. The price is reasonably affordable for value to budget travellers who want to be in the city centre... However being there u will see many other budget hotel around the area. Ideally u can book a day and find other ones if u think it is necessary. The building seems to undergo some reno work and room at the X floors units 101 seems to be a little noisy, all thanks to the air con compressor just outside the windows. My first night there was noisy but requested another room away from the compressor seems to help a little. Water pressure was adequate however hotel amenities are very basic with free bottles of water on the desk.

Toothbrush, soap and shampoo is provided. The hotel is 2 minutes away from the famous Cho Ben Thanh market, nearby their is a new open air food court.

2/10

Poor

19 Jun 2017

Vy

Are they closed?

Front lights were off when we arrived around 12 am. I see some people lay on the couch sleeping and I thought the hotel was closed for the night. As we're checked in, they sold our oversold our room type and so called \"upgraded\" to a room with two single bed. This room has jetted tub, but atmosphere feels very icky with no window that i would be surprised if someone could enjoy using the tub. Bathroom room decor seems to be marble but overall decor appeared cheap. There are holes that cut for wall faucet. These are larger than the cover and were left exposed to see how thin the tiles were. Barely have warm water for shower.

4/10

Poor

18 May 2017

Verified traveler

Great location but that's about it

The location of this hotel was spectacular - very close to the market and an easy walk to anything you want to see. The breakfast was pretty good too.
Other than that, we found the staff generally unwelcoming, the a/c in the room made it incredibly dry and uncomfortable, and you could feel every spring in the bed.

4/10

Poor

27 Apr 2017

Verified traveler

Not a comfortable place to stay

Not a hotel I want to come back. The room is dark and in bad condition. Nothing like the picture. Did not clean up room until they were asked to.

Partner

10/10

Exceptional

23 Apr 2017

Si

Good for 3.5 stars

Good hotel cleaning & comfortable

2/10

Poor

26 Mar 2017

Verified traveler

Bait and Switch

It was a classic bait and switch . The room shown on hotels.com was not what I got by any stretch. After check in , I immediately protested that the room was much smaller and nothing like the photo. I showed them their room photo, description and size on my phone, to which they said I was showing them a different hotel . I scrolled down from the photo and showed them it was their hotel and address. After I proved their advertisement was deceptive, they said \"this is the room you get\". I had no choice but to accept the room, then found out the air conditioning did not work. They then put me in an even smaller room that had a barely functioning AC unit. I spend a hot sweaty night there and will not ever book this property again.

8/10

Excellent

16 Feb 2017

Alan

Happy with stay

The area was good, with stores and restaurants outside the door. The subway is just across the street which is very convenient. Hotel was modern and clean. Like many hotels in SE Asia, beds are satisfactory but somewhat hard. Staff was friendly and breakfast was very good. Several traditional dishes

Partner

8/10

Excellent

28 Jan 2017

Ky

Good clean room, good value for pice

Appears recently renovated. Nice large room compared to nearby hotel. Good attentive staff. Breakfast was in a nearby hotel of the same A&Em chain. Good selection of typical dishes for breakfast. Overall good value for price. Will stay again.

Partner

2/10

Poor

27 Nov 2016

BIJU

worst experience ever

Worst hotel i have ever stayed.... nothing like what it shows in the picture.... i stay more than 100 nights in a year in diff hotels, this is the worst one i have ever stayed

8/10

Excellent

25 Nov 2016

Ruby

Convenient location.

My family's first visit to Vietnam and it was really easily accessible to shopping area eg. Ben Thanh market, Saigon centre & Saigon square.

10/10

Exceptional

09 Nov 2016

Sua

Convenient.

Room was clean and service maintained.

Partner

6/10

Pleasant

19 Aug 2016

Soon Sing

Impolite staff

I was unhappy with the hotel staff so impolite.

8/10

Excellent

23 Jan 2016

Thu

No

Very convenience close to market restaurant and sightseeing

Family

10/10

Exceptional

01 Dec 2015

Dat P.

Awesome business trip

Hotel had great staff with great customer services. My clients did not speak any Vietnamese but the staff there were able to communicate with them in English which is a plus. The staff were 24/7 smiling and helpful. There were a staff that I had to compliment a whole lot. We have drank so much alcohol every single night. Hotel would offer free breakfast the staff would ask if we would like sunny side up eggs or soup noodles if the hotel were still serving. Those are plus service your staff had provide. I have to say it was an awesome stay at A& Em hotel I would highly recommend anybody I know to use this hotel for future stay.

6/10

Pleasant

27 Apr 2015

Andy

old condition with little maintenance

Old reno with flooding drainage whenever you bath. Pretty rundown state that requires a renovation done soon.

8/10

Excellent

01 Feb 2015

Verified traveler

Retreat

Same review as wrote last week

Family

8/10

Excellent

20 Jan 2015

Thu

Retreat

Already rate on my previous stay two weeks ago

Family

4/10

Poor

05 Jan 2015

Minh

Overpriced - search elsewhere

Overpriced - for the same amount you will get something else better around the area. This is the only 2-star hotel in the A&Em chain but priced as 3-star.
Room is very small and has really bad view even though we booked the deluxe one with CITY view. Turned out that the view is just literally a couple of neighbour's roofs and thats it.
I wouldn't recommend this hotel as you will not get what you pay for.

Partner