Honeymoon in Vietnam
| country: | Vietnam |
| location: | North Vietnam, South Vietnam |
| departures: | Honeymoons can be customized and adapted to meet your needs and preferences |
| price: | From US $1980 (15 days) excluding flights, based on twin share accommodation in mid-range hotels. |
| vouchers: | Gift vouchers can be used with this holiday |
introduction to Honeymoon in Vietnam
A fifteen-day honeymoon with with a touch of romance and plenty of time to relax, as well as visiting the two main cities in Vietnam and Ha Long Bay. As you’ll be travelling tailor-made, you can rearrange the itinerary as you wish. As the name of the tour suggests, there’ll be a few surprises on the way! Use our unique design service to customise this itinerary to create your dream holiday for us to turn it into reality. It’s free – you tell us what you want, and we’ll send you a modified programme within 24 hours!
We want your honeymoon to provide you with lifelong happy memories – we’re well aware that it’s the most significant holiday you’ll ever have!
Price includes: Breakfast and accommodation sharing a double room. Pick-ups and transfers by private air-conditioned vehicle as specified in the itinerary above (Please note: pick-ups will be by a guide and driver or, where a guide is not necessary, a driver only. All unaccompanied drivers will be briefed in advance, and will carry a mobile phone to ensure smooth transfer arrangements). Domestic flight tickets: Ho Chi Minh City – Nha Trang and Nha Trang – Hanoi, including domestic airport taxes. Boat cruises as specified in the programme. All Ha Long Bay boats will be fully licensed and comply with current safety regulations. Travel in an appropriate private air-conditioned vehicle with an experienced safe driver. The services of experienced English-speaking guides as indicated in the itinerary (please note: guides will be on hand from pick-up until guests’ return to their hotel or reaching their destination). Free days or part days will not include the services of a guide unless requested and included in the final itinerary. Where necessary, entry fees for all visits as mentioned in the programme. Lunches and dinners (as specified in the itinerary) in the best local restaurants, or picnics where no suitable restaurant is available, and full board on the boat in Ha Long Bay. VAT and other taxes
We want your honeymoon to provide you with lifelong happy memories – we’re well aware that it’s the most significant holiday you’ll ever have!
Price includes: Breakfast and accommodation sharing a double room. Pick-ups and transfers by private air-conditioned vehicle as specified in the itinerary above (Please note: pick-ups will be by a guide and driver or, where a guide is not necessary, a driver only. All unaccompanied drivers will be briefed in advance, and will carry a mobile phone to ensure smooth transfer arrangements). Domestic flight tickets: Ho Chi Minh City – Nha Trang and Nha Trang – Hanoi, including domestic airport taxes. Boat cruises as specified in the programme. All Ha Long Bay boats will be fully licensed and comply with current safety regulations. Travel in an appropriate private air-conditioned vehicle with an experienced safe driver. The services of experienced English-speaking guides as indicated in the itinerary (please note: guides will be on hand from pick-up until guests’ return to their hotel or reaching their destination). Free days or part days will not include the services of a guide unless requested and included in the final itinerary. Where necessary, entry fees for all visits as mentioned in the programme. Lunches and dinners (as specified in the itinerary) in the best local restaurants, or picnics where no suitable restaurant is available, and full board on the boat in Ha Long Bay. VAT and other taxes
day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Ho Chi Minh arrival (Dinner (D), Guide pick-up (GP)) Arriving at Tan Son Nhat airport in Ho Chi Minh City, you’ll be met and driven to your hotel. You’ll have time to relax after your journey before a Welcome dinner. You’ll spend the night in Ho Chi Minh City. . |
| Day 2: | Ho Chi Minh City orientation (After a leisurely champagne breakfast, your guide will arrive to show you around Ho Chi Minh City starting with a visit the Reunification Palace. From there, you’ll enter the huge Ben Thanh market, one of the liveliest areas of Ho Chi Minh City. It’s packed with every conceivable commodity. You’ll also call in at the Jade Emperor Temple, one of the best Taoist temples in Vietnam with superb effigies, remarkable carved panels of the descent to Hell and somewhat incongruous terrapin and tortoise sanctuaries. You’ll finish your day with a visit to a lacquer workshop to see the complex processes and meticulous workmanship involved in this traditional Vietnamese craft product. You’ll spend the night in Ho Chi Minh City. |
| Day 3: | Ho Chi Minh City/Nha Trang (Breakfast (B), Guide (G) in Ho Chi Minh City) After breakfast, your time is your own until your car arrives to take you to Tan Son Nhat airport for the afternoon flight to Nha Trang. On arrival, you’ll find a car and driver waiting to take you to your chosen resort where you’ll spend the night. |
| Day 4-10: | Nha Trang (B) Free days in your chosen resort – relaxing, snorkelling, beach sports, swimming pool games, etc. Nha Trang offers a variety of activities for a short break. You can take a boat trip up the River to visit some of the craft villages and communities along its banks. The beach is long, busy in front of the town but almost deserted further away. For diving, we usually direct visitors to the PADI 5-star Rainbow Diving Centre (because they’re good - we don’t ask for, or receive, commission). There are many restaurants along the beach offering a variety of cuisines: the Louisiana Café is good, and has a large swimming pool free of charge. There are many more restaurants and cafes, both international and Vietnamese, in the town itself, quite a few bars and a few ‘night clubs’ (i.e. disco’ in Vietnam), and some interesting shops. Other places to visit are the museum devoted to Dr. Yersin (a much-loved foreigner who created the Pasteur Institute in Nha Trang and founded the city of Dalat) and the Long Son Pagoda. Climbing the steps behind the pagoda takes you to a massive statue of Buddha and spectacular view of Nha Trang and the bay. The cathedral and the Oceanographic Institute are also worth a look. |
| Day 11: | Nha Trang/Hanoi (B, Driver pick-up (DP), G in the evening) A free morning until your driver arrives to take you to the airport for an afternoon flight to Hanoi. Upon arrival, you’ll be met and driven to your hotel with time to relax after the journey. In the evening, you’ll have tickets for a performance of traditional Water Puppetry, an art form unique to northern Vietnam and a light-hearted introduction to its rural culture. You’ll spend the night in Hanoi. |
| Day 12: | Hanoi (B, Lunch (L), G) You’ll have the whole day to explore Vietnam’s capital city. Your guide will take you to the Temple of Literature, the first university in Vietnam dating back to the 11th century, and a popular attraction, as is Ho Chi Minh’s Mausoleum, his simple stilt house where he lived and worked, and the museum dedicated to his memory. After lunch, you’ll call in at the serene Tran Quoc Pagoda, the oldest in Hanoi, on the banks of Hanoi’s Ho Tay (West) Lake. Then it’s off to explore Hanoi’s bustling Old Quarter. It’s a magnet for visitors – noisy and hectic, but definitely a ‘must-see’ attraction. The Old Quarter is a maze of shopping streets and restaurants with a hotchpotch of architecture - traditional tube houses, religious buildings, artisans’ workshops and cottages, colonial houses and modern concrete edifices. You’ll spend the night in Hanoi. We’ll arrange your programme to avoid the busy times at popular destinations, but if there’s anything you particularly want to see, let us know. |
| Day 13: | Hanoi/Ha Long (B, L, Dinner (D), G) After an early breakfast, you’ll leave for Ha Long Bay, one of the most spectacular UNESCO World Heritage Areas and the world’s largest marine limestone ‘karst’ landscape. There you’ll board your boat, a wooden junk built from the model of the old Vietnamese court vessels with sails, a wide transom and rectangular superstructure, that will take you first to the busy World Heritage area and then to some of the less well-known grottoes and caves. Weather permitting, you’ll be able to swim, fish, climb a hill (not a mountain!) for an overview of the Bay’s remarkable seascape, or venture into some of the sea level caves in a small sampan. All your meals will be provided on board, usually based on fresh seafood, and you’ll sleep in a twin cabin with an en suite toilet and shower. For your two-day Ha Long excursion, you'll board one of the best quality boats on the Bay, a wooden junk based on the model of the old Vietnamese court vessels with sails, a wide transom and rectangular superstructure. The boats vary in size, accommodating between ten and eighteen people, so you're likely to be joining other travellers for the cruise. Your cabin will be about six metres square, and furnished with twin bunks, two fans, an air-conditioner, pillows, white cotton sheets, and an en suite toilet and shower. All your meals, usually based on fresh seafood, will be provided on board. |
| Day 14: | Ha Long/Hanoi (Brunch, G) You’ll spend the morning cruising Ha Long Bay, followed by lunch just before docking around noon and leaving for Hanoi. You should arrive in the late afternoon and spend the night in Hanoi. |
| Day 15: | Hanoi departure (B, G) After breakfast, you’ll be free until your driver arrives to take you to Noi Bai airport for your departure flight. |
tailor made holiday
This trip can be tailormade to create a unique holiday for your individual requirements by travel experts with intimate knowledge of the destination. It is a more luxurious trip that will suit those who enjoy immersing themselves in new cultures and environments before relaxing in comfort in some of the best and most characterful local accommodation! Quality and value are the hallmark of these trips.how this holiday makes a difference
 We are a wholly Vietnamese company totally committed to the betterment of tourism in Vietnam. To achieve our objective, we work closely with clients, service providers and other organisations to improve standards, protect our country’s environment and culture, and wherever possible, direct the benefits of the income from tourism to individuals and local communities without the use of intermediaries. By booking this tour, you'll be helping the operator to support Vietnamese service providers, artists and performers, small businesses, boat owners and other poor people in communities throughout Vietnam. For example, by cruising on the Ha Long Bay, you’ll contribute to local welfare because the owner of the junk and all his staff are local people. We use freelance local guides with wide experience and knowledge of cultural traditions and an ability to interpret the cultural heritage of the people in the places visited. For this tour, you'll have two different guides, one from the north and the other from the south of Vietnam. .jpg) We have built strong links with local communities, craftspeople and artisans. We offer visitors an opportunity to meet them, thereby valuing their activities and thus helping towards their survival. Wherever possible, we contract local indigenous suppliers and assist them to improve the quality of their services. We also involve ourselves with other organisations to contribute wider issue. For example, we are working closely with a small project trying save a critically endangered species of large primate, now reduced to less than sixty individuals worldwide.We're seeking financial assistance to supplement the meagre resources currently available to the project director.We also help her to develop her own web site. We are also collaborating with an international non-governmental organisation in setting up an ecology based village homestay network in the same area to widen awareness of the urgency of the situation amongst visitors. We believe that tourism in a developing country should be a means of alleviating poverty and protecting the indigenous culture and natural environment for the benefit of the rest of the world and its future inhabitants. |
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