Royal Holiday Hanoi Hotel sits in Hoan Kiem, within walking distance of Hoan Kiem Lake, St. Joseph's Cathedral, and the Hoan Kiem shopping streets. Breakfast is ordered from a menu and includes pho, with watermelon juice served as a welcome drink. Hoan Kiem Lake is about a minute away, the Hanoi train tracks are a 13-minute walk, and the hotel is close to the pickup points for Halong Bay and Ninh Binh tour buses. Superior and twin rooms are small, and the room interiors and furniture are old.