Failures Make You Vietnam Backpacking Tour Guides Better Only If You Understand These Seven Things

Though I usually travel independently, I soon found that organizing a tour is the cheapest and most hassle-free option to go trekking to Sapa. Though I had read that tips are sometimes demanded on other tours, our guides never gave the slightest indication they expected a tip and to my knowledge, no one tipped them. Get quick answers from Xin Chao Private Vietnam Tours staff and past visitors. This seems to work well, as many of our riders return again and again for more adventures across this beautiful Rider's Paradise!

These bikes are full sized motorcycles and are perfect for touring Vietnam, offering good comfort and smooth riding for both rider and pillion alike. Food is also one the many highlights whilst touring Vietnam, it's simply sensational… We will provide you with ample opportunity to discover and enjoy the diverse array of freshly cooked foods that Vietnam is world famous for, whilst also catering for any special dietary requirements, so please just let us know in advance if you have any allergies or needs. Ben, better known for his work as a TV host on long-running Australian lifestyle TV show ‘Blokesworld,' is a well-known rider throughout the motorcycling industry, with 40+ years riding experience.

If you haven't received an automated response within a few minutes, then there is a problem with your email or settings. Using an expansive portfolio of tours carefully crafted to show you the very best of Asia, our travel experts create tailor-made travel packages to match all your travel preferences and needs. In August I went to Vietnam.

Time was tight but I wanted to see as much as possible, without seeing too much and spending all my time worrying about my next sleep and how I was going to get there. I spoke to my colleagues at , I looked into what the top travel bloggers had done in vietnam travel information before me, and I consulted too many websites to list. The flight had cost £675 each about three months before.

Our hotel, the Saigon Mini Hotel 5 (now shut down, try nearby Bich Duyen Hotel as it was a great location), had already sent us an email detailing precisely how to get there, which was very helpful and reassuring. The other taxi drivers tried to pretend they were from these companies, or that these companies ‘didn't pick up here anymore': not true. It was about a 30-minute drive away from the airport and cost us 170,000 dong for the taxi (£5).

One night at Saigon Mini Hotel 5 in a private double for two was 532.800 VND (£15.75). The hotel let us leave our bags in their luggage room for free as we were leaving that night and we were picked up at 7:30am for the tour. We had dinner on De Tham Street at Five Oysters and just relaxed after a hard day of sightseeing.

The food was yum, and I would definitely recommend. Here we had an ice cream for dessert and got some water for the journey from the shop.