BRIEF ITINERARY:
Day 1: Hanoi arrival & street food in Hanoi Old Quarter (meals: D on street food tour) – Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Day 2: Hanoi – Sapa by Limousine minibus – visit Cat Cat village (meals: B,L) – Overnight at hotel in Sapa town.
Day 3: Sapa – Fansipan mountain by cable car – Sapa – Hanoi by Limousine minibus (meals: B, buffet L) - Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Day 4: Hanoi – Halong bay bay full day GROUP tour (meals: B, buffet L) - Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Day 5: Hanoi departure (meals: B).
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DETAILED ITINERARY:
Day 1: Hanoi arrival & street food (meals: D on street food).
Arrival in Hanoi airport, our driver will pick you up and take you to your hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter and free time.
Note: Check in time: 14:00. Check out time: 12:00.
About 4:00 PM, our tour guide will meet you at your hotel and take you visiting and Hanoi Old Quarter with many shops along streets, besides you can visit Hoan Kiem lake, St. Joseph's Cathedral…
Along the Hanoi Old Quarter streets, you will enjoy the typical & famous food of Hanoi such as Bun Cha (Bun Cha: Pork patties and slices of pork belly are grilled over hot coals and served with fish sauce + rice noodle), Nem Hanoi, Banh Mi Hanoi, Phở Hanoi… and Famous Egg Coffee. You come back to hotel around 8:00 PM.
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Hotel 3*: Nostalgia Hotel or similar.
Room: double/twin room with window.
Day 2: Hanoi – Sapa by Limousine minibus – Cat Cat village (meals: B,L).
Have early breakfast at hotel (You can ask for takeaway breakfast)
Around 6:45 – 7:00 Am, Limousine minibus driver will pick you up from your hotel and take you to Sapa (spend around 5-6 hours from Hanoi to Sapa).
Arrival in Sapa around 13:30, you will be picked up to hotel. Have lunch before enjoying tour.
With a local tour guide, you make a trek to gate of Cat Cat village which is home of Black H’mong ethnic people and is located near the bottom of a deep valley at the foot of Fansipan Peak. Our local guide will show you the daily life activities of local people. Trek down to the valley bottom to the waterfall where the French built the hydroelectric power station. Stop for photo with bridge and waterfall then driver and tour guide will take you back to hotel in Sapa town. Free time to discover Sapa by night.
Overnight at hotel in Sapa.
Hotel 3*: Sapa Relax Hotel OR similar.
Room: deluxe double/twin room.
Day 3: Sapa – Fansipan mountain by cable car – Sapa – Hanoi by Limousine minibus (meals: B, buffet L) - Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
After breakfast at hotel, around 8:20 AM (our tour guide will meet you and give you the Fansipan tickets and show you the information for visiting Fansipan by yourself), you will walk to Sun Plaza Building (near your hotel) to take a Muong Hoa climbing train, then take a cable car to Fansipan mountain, you continue to climb around 600 steps to summit (in case, you cannot climb you can buy the mountain climbing train to summit by yourself), while climbing, you have chance to enjoy the amazing landscapes around. You enjoy Fansipan mountain around 2 hours-3 hours, then go down to restaurant in Fansipan area for buffet lunch (open from 11h to 15:00).
After buffet lunch, you go back your hotel so that our Limousine minibus picks you up around 14:00 back to Hanoi, arrive in Hanoi around 20:00-20:30. Have dinner by yourself at Hanoi Old Quarter.
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Hotel 3*: Nostalgia hotel or similar hotel.
Room: double/twin rooms with window.
Day 4: Hanoi – Halong bay full day GROUP tour (meals: B, buffet L) – Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
After breakfast at hotel.
Around 8:00 Am : Picking up from hotel and depart for Tuan Chau Island, Halong City, stop over for a rest on the way.
Arrive Tuan Chau Harbor, welcome aboard, and safety briefing
- We will take you on 5-6 hour journey via 2 day-sleeper boat cruise route which renowned for its striking, passages uninhabited islets and outcrops have been given imaginative names by the locals, due to their perceived shapes, including Cock Fighting and Thumb, while enjoy Vietnamese mouth-watering lunch on boat.
Arrive Bo Hon archipelago, you will visit Surprising Cave to see a lot of stalagmites and stalagtiles with different shapes of sea lives, then go kayaking or bamboo boat in Luon Cave to discover the beautiful lagoon.
- Visit Titov Island with sandy beach adjacent to the towering limestone mountain with excellent backdrop of the Bay, and climb up Titov Peak for a panoramic view of the bay like paradise.
16h30 : Return Cruises for Afternoon Tea and cruising back toward Tuan Chau harbor. There are a lot of time for sunbathing on upper deck with music, enjoy great fun of group touring fellows among world iconic natural scenery.
17h45 : Disembark for a bus ride back Hanoi, short break on the way
21h30 : Drop off at your hotel/stay, trip ends.
Have dinner by yourself.
Overnight at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter.
Hotel 3*: Nostalgia hotel or similar hotel.
Room: double/twin rooms with window.
Day 5: Hanoi departure (meals: B).
After breakfast at hotel, free time until our driver picks you up and takes you to airport for your next flight.
PRICE: USD 369/person included Combo Muong Hoa climbing train + Cable car to Fansipan mountain + buffet lunch without tour guide.
If you need hotels 4* & 5*, please let us know so that we resend the prices.
Note:
+. Check in time at hotel: 14:00. Check out time at hotel: 12:00.
+. Join Limousine bus from Hanoi to Sapa and from Sapa to Hanoi without tour guide (one limousine bus covers 9 seats so you will join with other passengers, if your group is from 7 pax, we will arrange one private limousine van).
+. You will join Halong cruise & its limousine bus with other passengers.
Children policy:
From 1 to 4 years old: Free of Charge and share services with parents
From 5 – 7 years old: 50% and share services with parents
From 8 –9 years old: 75% and share services with parents
From 10 years old: Charged as adult.
The rate includes:
- All accommodations 3* as mentioned in program (2-3 people/room).
- Join Limousine minibus: Hanoi – Sapa – Hanoi without tour guide.
- Join bus & boat for Halong bay cruise day trip.
- Meals as mentioned in the program (04 breakfasts, 03 lunches and 01 dinner).
- Transportation along the trip.
- All airport transfers by private car with only driver (NOT tour guide).
- All entrance fees and permission in tours as mentioned in the itinerary.
- Kayaking in Halong bay
- Combo Muong Hoa climbing train + Cable car to Fansipan mountain + buffet lunch without tour guide.
- English speaking tour guides as mentioned in the itinerary.
Exclusion:
- All international flights.
- Visa services if any.
- Medical or Travel insurance that covers COVID-19 treatment with a minimum liability of USD10,000.
- Drinks on meals and personal expenses (laundry, phone calls etc.).
- Early check-in and/or late check-out at hotel (if any)
- Tips and gratuities for driver and tour guide (this is voluntary).
- Services not clearly mentioned above.
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