Dear friends,
I am needing to get your advice and suggestion about the travel web site in Vietnam: www.vietnamtours.com.vn
Any advice or suggestion is appreciated
Thanks and best regards
Vietnam Smiles
Reply to this u can visit some website about VietNam Travel here
1. http://www.sinhcafe.com.vn/ -> this website is very famous to foreigners ^^ hope u like it.
2. http://saigontourist.com/ -> the biggest travel agency in VN.
3. http://www.fiditour.com/index.php?l=1&cid=1&f=1&tplid=3 -> another travel agency.
Reply to this Thanks Dainyd8y for the travel web provided. Please advise me your suggestion or comments for www.vietnamtours.com.vn with the other ones.
Best regards,
Smiles_Vietnam
Reply to this Hi,
From my experience, all travel agencies that I've tried in Vietnam was quite disappointing unless that you had chosen a customized tour.
I would suggest to gather information by yourself and do it yourself. It is much cheaper and you'll have more freedom.
visit a very good website about Vietnam: www.travelfish.org
Have fun
Reply to this i already use GP Travel in Hanoi and it was great. http://www.bestvietnamtravel.com
Cheer!
Reply to this Hi everyone,
I was surfing for information about Vietnam when I found this forum. I probably should start a new thread for my question, but anyway...
I checked with 2 tour operators in HCMC and they both quoted me very differnt prices for the same 1 day trip to Mekong River. Let's just say that one quoted me 50USD/person and another at 10USD/person.
Can anyone advise me on what is the usual tour package prices?
Best regards!
Reply to this really helpful tips! vietnam seems like a very nice place to visit.
Reply to this i will go on this july, 5 days trip. from 5 -July to 9 July
Reply to this Hi Greypolarbear,
You should not break you trip by accepting an offer of 10US$. It sounds cheap but you are not sure about the quality. The package price for your trip is around $50, it is acceptable. Good luck.
Reply to this Dear friends,
You can visit: www.viethometravel.com.vn for itinerary or quatation or asking for help. Enjoy your trip.
Reply to this All of the tour companies ultimatley link back to the same few operators. The majority are merley just agents selling tickets and making a small comission. This includes the "sharks" who keep clogging these forums with adverts!! Most of them will try to imply that they offer a "brilliant guide" or a "better" bus. In reality, the Guides and buses are all organised at the last minute and all the people herded off to the tour. 1 bus will contain people with tickets from anything upto 10 different travel companies.
The up-side of this is that you can easily wander around and do some price comparisons within the city yourself. Don't be fooled into thinking that a company charging $2 more offers 2$
worth of extra service. This type of system is ok(ish) for the smaller 1 day tours, but for anything more than 1 day you should take "Traveladdicted" advice and think about customised tours.
The Mekong question: 50 USD is insanely high for a 1 day tour (even if i was in New York!!). I Would assume that the $50 includes private transport (i.e not with group). For that price, I would also want to see some exceptional extras; way in excess of those offered by the normal tours. Ask them to Specify the "Quality" they talk about, and compare this to the regular tours.
8-10 USD is just about right for the regular 1 day tour.
Cheers
Dan and Lucy
Reply to this Dan and Lucy,
You may have experiences on travel but you know nothing in this case.
Reply to this Not going to argue about it. I'm sure they will realise that I am an independant traveller offfering my advice, while you are a SALESMAN trying to make a few dollars. I've put forward ideas and opinions; it's up to people to make up their own minds.
Reply to this Independant traveler can do business, saleman can be an independant traveler, there is no business here but advice and goodwill.
Reply to this I offered my advice and you said QUOTE:"ÿou know nothing in this case". Thats is NOT goodwill; its just plain rude. I stand by every word in my post and offered my opinions in a bid to help other people. The choices they make are up to them, but im totally free to share my advice and experiences. There is no reason why I would lie about the issue; I have nothing to gain or loose!
Reply to this Hi everyone,
Ok, let's just stop here before the flamewar gets more serious, shall we?
I thank abcvietnam and Dan and Lucy for their advice to my query. Anyway, I was in Ho Chi Minh City a few days after I posted my question in the forum here. Well, and it's a really nice place. Though the traffic is still bustling like any other city, I find the pace very much more relaxed and slowed compared to where I come from.
I managed to book my tour through the hotel at which I was staying, and they arranged for the tour bus to pick us up at the hotel in the morning. And yes, it's still cheaper than USD50 even when the hotel charged us a little more for commission. We were all packed into a larger bus with tourists staying in other hotels. But it's okay. It's much like a one-day Contiki group. Was a pretty good experience to meet people from other countries at the same time visiting Vietnam!
And yeah, USD8-10 is just right for a regular one-day tour package. In fact, if one manages to walk along that street where the tour offices are, you'll find that the prices do not really differ much around that range.
Reply to this Glad to hear you enjoyed the tour mate (Greypolarbear).
How long have you got in Vietnam and which way are you thinking of heading?
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Visit on http://www.vietnamimpression.com
This web site will help you to get out from your problem.
John
www.travelplans.tv
Reply to this hi !i have a website that i can be sure that you 'll interested in . www.saigonhotpot.com . this is a group of students . they are free tourguide. they'll help you .
Reply to this If you need a guide in Old Streets, I think I can help you and it is free. I'm a student and I just want to improve my listening & speaking skills, haha, it is very bad. i can't speak English well but I know the streets in Ha Noi so well (my house is at the center of Old Streets), and I canhelp you to buy and eat Viet Nam food cheaper ^^
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