Great 2 week Vietnam tour.
Vietnam
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Apr 12 - Apr 27, 2025
The planning was good and easy and accommodated my asks and adjustments.
Some hotels were not as good as others but all in all they were good. Our favourite was the Bespoke Trendy hotel in Hanoi and our least favourite was the DeLaSoi in Sapa for various reason.
I would also call out that the tour guides wanted to take us to factory tours even when we asked not to go to factory tours.
Hotel Reviews
Hotel was ok and in a good area with easy walking to sites and places. The staff were very helpful and always available.
Good hotel but if your room is street facing then it could be noisy. Only feedback was that they have a shuttle to the old town but last shuttle stops 5:30 but night market starts 7PM so not easy to go into the old town after 5:30.
Not a great location and not very modern
Cant say enough about this hotel. I have NEVER stayed in a hotel that went that far out of their way to accommodate us. They were the best
Breakfast was not good. Did not even offer breakfast tea and when we asked for tea nobody could speak English. No staff spoke English so hard to communicate. Food was left open and had fly's on it. very bad breakfast.
Very large boat and did not really sail into some of the areas because of the size. It was full to capacity and not very personalized. Felt like over commercialized and were we herded around like cattle. I would not recommend this tour option. They packed the guest into a smaller boat and then picked up other guests form other boats for any off-boat tours (group as large as 40 people on side tours) They were too commercial and were more interested in scale and taking large groups around. Nothing was personalized Meals were not very good, Buffet but very standard and plane and very set (had 45 min each meal to finish and move out)
Activity Reviews
Boat was very commercialized and full capacity (40 people). Teh boat was too large to go into the smaller areas and basicalyl jsut went up and down for 30min cruise. Any acticvyties were off boat at the boat was too large. They then put you into a smaller boat with people from other boats to go swimming or cylcing. Very impersonal and mass tourist with no real engaement.
Interesting but a little outdated. The video shown was from 1980 and quality was bad
It was a good experience and glad we added
Tour was good and we enjoyed the foot tasting part. Only part we have a issue with was that theatre show. It was rubbish and there was 100% agreement from the audience that it was a tourist trap. Not worth doing at all
Have to see it but very tourist trap. Teh old town cycle was ok but guy cycling us around just wanted more money for a tip
Very busy and full of tourists.