December 9th, 2024
After a short 40-minute drive from Hoi An to Danang, we checked into an interesting resort, the Mikazuki. Sound Japanese? Well, it sure is. Walking into the lobby, we almost felt that we’d been transported to Japan. The place is not only a 24-storey hotel but there’s a big indoor waterpark behind it and an outside one between the hotel and the ocean, complete with a mini-Mt. Fuji! It was obvious at a glance that most of the guests were Japanese, and we did not see another Caucasian person in the lobby.
This guy beside the road was working hard!
Our room was on the 22nd floor, and we lucked out and were
upgraded to a premium room…it was ridiculously big, complete with a walk-in
closet, couch and even a soaker tub on the deck which peered out over the
ocean! We were living large.
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It was mid-afternoon so our plan of attack was to head to the waterpark, the onsen (Japanese hot tub) and then the rooftop infinity pool on the 24th floor. Naomi actually wanted to finish with the waterpark, but I convinced her otherwise. Let’s get the energetic fun stuff out of the way first and then relax...
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Now I’m spoiled when it comes to indoor waterparks. I grew up near Edmonton which boasts one of
the largest indoor
waterparks in the world at West Edmonton Mall,
but I tried to keep an open mind. We had
a bit of technical trouble with our electronic bracelets to get in, but once we
were past the turnstiles, we walked into an almost completely empty
waterpark. I’ve never been in one so
devoid of people. Cool!
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Even though it’s not really her thing, Naomi was game to try
a few of the waterslides. There was one
that I’ve never seen before. Two or
three people sat on a sled which was catapulted up a chute and then ran around
the perimeter of one end of the building before returning back to where you
started. There were some good ups and
downs and occasionally the sled got a boost of speed. I couldn’t figure out what was propelling the
thing. My guess is perhaps the sled has metal
in the bottom of it and some electromagnetic force is used as the bottom of the
ascending slide sections was bigger than the others. Regardless of how it worked, it was fun. The shot out of the starting gate sure made
your head fling back!
Next, we hopped on a stereotypical waterslide, but we got to
choose between a single or double tube.
It was a decent slide with an enclosed bit with blue, red and green
lights dotting the sides which was cool.
Naomi liked it enough that we did it again, but this time we took our own
tubes.
However, other than those two slides, there was just a lazy
river (where you float on a tube) and the wave pool…there wasn’t much to the
place. Still fun though.
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Taking the elevator to the 4th floor at the far end
of the building, we found the onsen. It really wasn’t a true onsen as that should
be hot water supplied by a hot spring, but it was comprised of 3-4 pools, one
draining into the next, with a bit of a Japanese motif to the décor.
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It started to rain, and the onsen was roofless, so we decided
it was time to head up to the infinity pool on the top of the hotel. It might be raining up there, but we had briefly
checked it out earlier and we knew there were a few covered areas, and we
needed to order some late lunch.
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After a pizza lunch, we hopped in the infinity pool for a bit. It was spectacular to peer out over the edge
of the pool, on the 24th floor, looking out over the ocean, even if the
weather could have been better.
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That evening we dined at one of the restaurants in the
resort and yes, shockingly, at a Japanese themed place…we ate sushi! It was super yummy too.
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Tomorrow, we fly to Ho Chi Minh City, so that’s the end of our foray into central Vietnam. It was short but sweet.
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