Vietnam Family Tour - 8 days
Hanoi, Vietnam
Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam 
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Duration: 8 days
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Destinations: Vietnam
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Start: Hanoi, Vietnam
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Finish: Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam
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Tour type: Private tour
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Meals: 7 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 1 dinner
With the incredible diversity of its culture, landscape and friendly people, Vietnam is a great family destination. This tour features the best of Vietnam from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city. It is designed to satisfy everyone from children to grandparents.
Tour Highlights
- Enjoy a warm welcome in Hanoi with a water puppet show and cyclo ride
- Visit Bat Trang pottery village – hands-on clay fun for kids
- Explore Hanoi’s culture at the Temple of Literature and Ethnology Museum
- Cruise Halong Bay: limestone caves, kayaking, seafood lunch on board
- Discover Hoi An Ancient Town and visit Cham Museum, Marble Mountains
- Join a family eco tour: water buffalo ride, farming, basket boat, and net fishing
- Visit iconic Saigon landmarks: Reunification Palace, Notre Dame, War Museum
- Explore Cu Chi Tunnels and attend noon prayer at Cao Dai Temple
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Travel style:
Cultural & Classic
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Your guide:
English speaking
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Meals:
7 breakfasts, 2 lunches, 1 dinner
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Tour type:
Private tour
You will visit
Vietnam Family Tour 8 days - Route Map
Vietnam Family Tour 8 days Itinerary
B(breakfast), L(lunch), D(dinner)
Warmly welcome at Noi Bai airport - Hanoi. Pick up and transfer to your hotel. If time permits, enjoy a walking tour around Hoan Kiem lake and attend water puppet show.
In the evening, enjoy welcomed dinner at your local restaurant.
Start your day with a visit to Bat Trang village - the most famous and long-standing pottery village in Vietnam. You will walk through the village, visiting different homes and observing the ceramic production process. At some workshops, your children can join in one process of making pottery. The product can be taken home as a souvenir.
After lunch, explore Hanoi with the Temple of Literature, Vietnam’s first university for an overview about Hanoian culture and ancient Vietnamese architecture. Continue to the Ethnology Museum to learn more about the diversity in ethnic communities of Vietnam.
Enjoy cyclo tour around Hoan Kiem lake before coming back to your hotel.
Halong bay is located in the Gulf of Tonkin, with about 1, 500 square kilometers and more than 3,000 islands. It has been recognized by UNESCO as the World Natural Heritage for its universal values of landscape, geology and geomorphology, respectively in 1994 and 2000. The best way to admire its beauty is cursing between the karst cliffs, stop for visit to spectacular caves, swimming and kayaking.
Start your trip around 7.30 am at your hotel. You will enjoy a drive to Halong City, approximately 3.5 via Red River Delta. Once at Halong City you will board our boat for a four-hour cruise of this stunning area, stopping along the way to visit one of the limestone caves in the area. Enjoy a local seafood lunch on board.
After 4 hour crusing you are back to harbor for a drive back to your hotel in Hanoi.
This morning, you catch flight to Da Nang. Upon arrival, pick up and transfer to Hoi An. On the way, you will have a chance to visit the fascinating Cham Museum and Marble Mountain.
Upon arrival, you walk around this ancient town of 600-year old visiting the 200 year-old Tan Ky house, Phuc Kien Pagoda, the Assembly Hall, the former merchants’ houses, the 400 year-old Japanese Covered Bridge and the colorful riverside market.
The tour will provide your family a close-up and intimate exposure to both the local farming and fishing communities. Accompanied by your tour guide, you commence the day leisurely cycling along country roads witnessing local Vietnamese rural life first hand, discovering all manner of photo opportunities.
Stop at Tra Que village, which is famous for its sweet scented green vegetables that spice up Hoi An’s famous delicacies. Join them in the fields and learn about their planting and harvesting techniques. You and your family can try ride a water buffalo in a rice paddy field, see duck swimming along the rice farm… The photo opportunities are endless. As well you will experience the friendliness of the local people greeting you along the way.
Later you will board the Hoi An Eco-tour boat for a river cruise to meet and engage with local fishermen and enjoy a hands-on experience of traditional net fishing. You will also experience the unique Vietnamese bamboo basket boat through the waterways of coconut palm paradise. This tour provides you a unique cultural window into the Vietnamese way of life.
Leave Hoi An, you will catch morning flight to Ho Chi Minh city, Vietnam’s largest city has an exciting buzz as millions of people rush around on their daily business. The tour guide will pick you up at the airport and transfer to hotel.
After a short rest, you will have a half day tour Ho Chi Minh city including The Reunification Palace, Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post Office, Remnant War Museum and Ben Thanh market.
This morning, you will visit the famous Cu Chi tunnels, an incredible underground tunnel network constructed by Vietnamese resistance fighters during the long struggle for independence.
The network included innumerable trap doors, specially constructed living areas, storage facilities, weapons factories, field hospitals, command centers and kitchens.
After that, drive to Tay Ninh province to visit Cao Dai great temple - one of the most striking structures in Asia. This temple is the holy land of Cai Dai religion - a mixture of Buddhism, Confucius, Taoism, Hinduism, Christianity…). You will have chance to attend the daily noon prayer.
Come back Ho Chi Minh city in the late afternoon.
You have free time until be transferred to the airport for your departure flight. End of the tour. Cảm ơn và chào tạm biệt.
Your tour package includes
- Accommodation based on twin/double sharing with daily breakfast.
- Experienced English-speaking guides as indicated in the itinerary.
- Private transportation with AC.
- Flight tickets Hanoi - Da Nang, Da Nang - Ho Chi Minh city with Vietnam Airlines.
- All sightseeing tickets.
- Lunches and dinners as indicated in the itinerary.
- Taxes and services charges.
Exclusions
- International flight tickets and airport tax.
- Visa stamping fee.
- Early check in and late check out.
- Drinks, gratuities and personal expenses.
- Insurance.
Important travel information
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Tour Price
The tour rate is based on twin/double sharing rooms at 3* hotel category, quoted for a private group of 6 guests. The price will vary slightly depending on the number of people in your group. For an accurate tour price, please click the "INQUIRE NOW" button to discuss with our sales consultant.
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Deposit & Payment
After you have agreed on the tour itinerary and pricing, we will send you an email to confirm and provide information on our payment policy. You can choose your preferred payment method and make payment to us according to the following regulations:
- With tour bookings, you do not need to pay total in advance, we just need 30% for deposit. The balance will be settled before your trip or upon arrival.
- With flight, hotel or train ticket bookings, we require 100% total payment in advance.
The balance will be settled before or upon arrival by cash, credit card or bank transfer. We accept major credit cards such as Visa, Master, JCB and Amex. If you pay by credit card, please add 3% of bank commission.
After receiving your deposit, our team will process your booking and send you the confirmation by email within 1 - 2 working days.
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Food Requirement
If you have any specific food requirement (vegetarian, vegan, food allergies, etc.) please inform us in advance, we will provide notices to our restaurants, tour guides and partners so they would be able to serve you the best.
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Cancellation
We apply non refundable deposit of 10 USD for hotel, air ticket booking, 100 USD/per person for tour package upon service confirmation. Cancellations will be charged as following:
- 30 days before arrival: No cancellation charge.
- 29 - 14 days before arrival: 10% of the tour cost is forfeited.
- 13 - 7 days before arrival: 40% of the tour cost is forfeited.
- 6 days before arrival: 100 % of the tour cost is forfeited.
- No show: 100% of the tour cost is forfeited.
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Child Policy
- Infant under 2-years-old free of charge land tour and 25% of airfare.
- Child under 12-years-old sharing room with adult without extra bed charge 50% of adult land tour and 75% of airfare.
- Child under 12-years-old sharing room with adult with bed charge 80% of adult land tour and 75% of airfare.
- Upon 12-years-old - 100% charge of tour cost.
