Hotels in Vung Tau are dirt cheap.
A decent room with A/c (a must) run about 25$ including taxes and
probably breakfast.
I don't know if Vietnam demasnd the chess players to be housed in
their hotels at elevated price but it doesn't hurt to check.
Saigontourist.com can book hotel for you
Good Luck
On Apr 22, 8:00=A0am, samsloan <samhsl...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Vietnam to host World Youth Chess Champion****p Oct 20-30, 2008
>
> http://english.vietnamnet.vn/re****ts/2008/04/779550/
>
> I am very interested in this. I would like to visit Vietnam and I am
> considering giving chess lessons to my 6-year-old daughter just so
> that she can play.
>
> I have a few questions:
>
> I need to know the hotel rates the players and their parents will be
> charged. In recent years there have been scandals about this,
> especially in France, where chess organizers have raised the hotel
> rates and required players to stay in hotels selected by them at
> exorbitant rates to make back the money it costs to run the event
>
> So we need to know what rates are being charged and are they
> reasonable.
>
> Also, Beatriz Marinello, USCF Scholastic Council Member, informs me
> that my 6-year-old daughter will have to reach at least 1200 strength
> before she will be allowed to play. There is absolutely no chance,
> none whatever, that my daughter will make 1200 any time soon. Is there
> any way around this?
>
> Sam Sloan
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