Halong Bay was amazing!!! We are below budget for asia (as everything is so cheap!) and decided to splash out in Halong Bay and book ourselves on a posh boat. Because we booked the boat on day of departure we were able to talk them down on rate by about 50% so we were very pleased with that. The boat was called The Jasmine with the company Cruise Halong which we would strongly recommend. We each got our own bathrobes, slippers, swish bathrooms and a private balcony. There were about 12 other people on the boat but we were not very social which was good as we were pretty tired and not up for too much conversation. When we first got on the boat we were given a welcome cocktail and shown to our room. After
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