Two cafes in HCMC with spectacular plane-landing view
Lying just in the vicinity of Tan Son Nhat airport, Phen's cafe and Landing cafes are two interesting places where patrons can both sip on their favorite drinks and watching planes landing at a short distance, right in front of their eyes every 5 mins.
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Phen's Cafe
Lying in Nguyen Van Cong street, Go Vap district, Phen's Coffee overlooks the runway of Tan Son Nhat International airport. From the balconies on the second and third floor, coffee goers can catch sight of planes landing on the runway, every 5 minutes.
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Close to the runway as it might seem, Phen's Coffee's balconies are still lying at a safe distance from the plane, thus, people of different ages can all watch the spectacular scene.
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The interior is filled with nostalgic decorative style. Visitors will likely be given a returned ticket to the good old days.
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Along with a long list of drinks, Phen's coffee also offer some savory dishes. Price ranges from VND 30,000 - 70,000 (US $1.30 - 3.03).
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Sundown is the perfect time to admire the plane-landing view.
Phen's cafe opens at 7 am - 10 pm every day.
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Landing - Milk tea and Coffee
Landing cafe (for short) is just next to Phen's Coffee. Like its neighbor cafe, Landing cafe boasts open, spacious balconies where coffee goers can an undisturbed view for plane-landing seeing.
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The cafe is mordenly designed with a lot of green trees and instagrammable check-in background.
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Stepping inside the cafe, customers will surely be attracted to the collection of old cameras, video recorders, phones, etc.
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Main drinks in Landing cafe is coffee, milk tea, yogurt, smoothies, etc. Price ranges from VND 28,000 - 46,000 (US $1.21 - 1.99).
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