"We've now been back from our holiday for a couple of weeks and just had to write to thank you again for the tour you organized for us in Vietnam. Everything went smoothly - the 3 guides who took care of us along the way were excellent (friendly, knowledgeable and helpful).
"I have been booking Hotel rooms through www.indochinaguides.com for the past year - reason being it is able to give very good rates and fast service. I have tried other websites before but none of them can match that of indochinaguides.com for geting value-for money Hotel rooms in Vietnam"
More tourists return every year to stock wardrobes with their own creations made cheaply in Hoi An. Prices are rising but this is still one of the cheapest places to shop on earth!
The tailor shops in Hoi An carry many different fabrics. You will find an array of different colours, patterns, textures & quality of fabric.
We've now been back from our holiday for a couple of weeks and just had to write to thank you again for the tour you organized for us in Vietnam. Everything went smoothly - the 3 guides who took care of us along the way were excellent (friendly, knowledgeable and helpful). We had some wet weather (but we knew that was likely) and it didn't stop us from doing anything or going anywhere we wanted to go. We are now getting all our photographs together to show friends and encourage them to visit your beautiful country. Of course we will recommend that IndochinaGuides is the only company to book through!! We will certainly be keen to do more travelling through your company. Can you confirm the areas that you cover. Is it only Vietnam and surrounding Asian countries or are there other non-Asian countries?? What areas can you book airline tickets to and from?? Would love to continue our relationship and look forward to hearing from you when you have time.
Kind Regards,
Dianne & Doug"
Dear Indochina Guides Team,
We were in Vietnam from 29th of October onwards for three weeks. We booked the tour via Germany but at least you were responsible for the organization. To make it very short: IT WAS GREAT !!! Therefore thank you very much for all your efforts, it was very good organized and we always had the feeling, that there is someone who is looking for us/take care of us. At the end it was hard for us to say, what was the highlight, because it was so good as a package and we've learnt a lot about Vietnam and their nice and polite people. But one of the highlights (or the ..) was the tour on the Mekong. We were so surprised and the team was fantastic. Again, thank you very much and our decision at the end was: we're coming back.
Pink"
"Dear Ms Kieu Nhung,
I just want to say Many Many thanks for all your help, all your staff, from guides to drivers were wonderful and everything went really really well. I can't speak highly enough of your company and staff, both Jane and I would not hesitate in recommending your services. We had such a great time we have started to save for our next trip back to Vietnam in 2009, and hope to use you again. If you email me your bosses address I would like to write to him and reiterate how awesome everyone was and how smooth it went for us.
I can't thank you enough.
Chris Holliday and Jane Waddel"
"Dear Sun chu
Thank you for all your assistance with our tour arrangements !
SAPA TOUR
Tour guide was very informative and helpful. We were extremely happy with his service and activity suggestions. He was also good with the locals
We enjoyed one day when he helped us hire motorbikes and visited another village also Royal View hotel was great location and staff were friendly room and breakfast was also a great standard !
ELIOS HOTEL HCMC
Hotel was great location staff we extremely helpful ! Room was great also. For your information the hotel's restaurant did not have the best western food however the local foods were excellent !
Thank you again if you would like any further comments please feel free to ask
We had an amazing trip and look forward to coming back to Vietnam ! Regards
Rebecca"
"Dear Miss Hong,
Yes my wife and myself are back home after having spent such a wonderful time in your lovely country. We took a lot of pictures and have already shown same to our friends and relatives. They all say that one day they will visit Vietnam and of course we have told them to use the services offered by your company. I have a brother who lives in Singapore with his family and he wants to visit Vietnam, espacially Halong Bay. May be he will soon contact you for your services.
Any way back to work now. Thank you again for having organised such a lovely vacation for us. We like the services offered to us by your company.
Take care. Bye
ANGOH Gerard"
"Dear Mr Chu,
Just wanted to drop you a line to say how we thoroughly enjoyed our stay in your country. Our whole family was absolutely blown away when we arrived in Saigon. An amazing place, quite spectacular at night as well. Victor was terrific on our tour and we often refer to him and his expressions. Thank you. We loved every spot we went to and we loved going to Mui Ne to relax and wind down before our return. Would highly recommend your advice on our hotels. Probably should have stayed at Sunrise at Nha Trang as you had advised however still enjoyed our stay. Loved the Life Resort and Sailing Club. Have already told a few people about your organising our trip and I'm sure there will be business coming your way soon. All our drivers drove very well and were punctual and reliable. Loved the fact that we were picked up at airport as then there are no worries re getting to your destination.
Thank you once again and we will definitely return to Vietnam one day and maybe explore the north more.
Cath, Rich, Emma, Sophie and Kate Hughes"
"Dear Mr. Sun Chu
I take great pleasure in providing some feed back on our recent visit to your beautiful country.
As you may be aware compared to other S.E Asian destinations, Vietnam is still not an extremely popular tourist destination to the Australians. How ever I am confident this will change very soon and there will be a great influx of tourists from Australia & other western countries, since Vietnam has so much to offer.
Firstly on behalf of my wife and our friends Percy & Kanthi I wish to thank you for arranging such a varied & enjoyable tour for the short duration. We all thought another additional 3 to 4 days would have been good. You organised all aspects of our tour in a very professional manner and I thank you for that.
Without going into too much detail some of the highlights of our tour would be as follows: Visit to the war museum was a great eye opener. A great sense of sadness was felt by all of us for the torment your people have gone through. I hope every visitor to Vietnam spends some time at this venue to get an understanding on affects of War. The cruise on the Saigon River, overnight cruise on Jasmine at Ha Long Bay visiting the floating village & other natural lime stone Islands was magical. Preservation of this bay in a pristine condition is commendable. The boat crise along Mekong Delta exploring the natural water ways and lush greenery was a pleasurable experience. In a world where all countries including Australia is experiencing a severe shortages of water; to see such vast amounts of water every where in Vietnam is a blessing.
Nha Trang beach is magical; we all enjoyed a dip in the Sea in the morning hours. The hotel we stayed at 'Nha Trang Lodge' is located in such a beautiful spot, how ever compared to the other hotels we stayed at, the service & facilities at this particular venue was poor. Grand Hotel in Saigon & Hoi An Beach resort were excellent. All Domestic flights through Air Vietnam were very good, on schedule and cheap ! The coaches, drivers & your Tour Guides were excellent. Special mention to your Tour guide at Danang ; he was very knowledgeable, and extremely courteous. All of them were on time and very patient. May I suggest that if you can provide cheap polystyrene boxes (we call an Esky) to keep the water bottles & face wipes cold it will be very refreshing. The tour guide at Danang had one in the coach.
As a general comment I would like to say Vietnam overall is a beautiful country with friendly people ; a vast variety of food to cater for all tastes. Having travelled to many countries all over the world including Americas, Europe, S.E Asia etc I am happy to note every place we visited in Vietnam is clean, people are clean & above all we felt safe walking along the streets. Un fortunately this is not the case with so many other countries.
We have no hesitation in recommending Indochina Guides as a great Tour agency to any prospective tourists. In closing let me say we hope to re visit Vietnam in the near future.
If you need any additional details of a particular aspect of the tour pl. do not hesitate to let me know.
Regards, Eric Perera"
"Dear Ms Kieu Nhung,
We are now back in the Philippines, and it is with nostalgia whenever we look back to our short trip to Saigon. It was a very relaxing and informative tour for us. Honestly, we were quite surprised by the smoothness of the trip, we never imagined that, seeing that it was all arranged through series of emails only. We're truly glad that we were directed to your website when I was browsing the net.
The tour was very informative, from the Cu Chi Tunnel, War Museum, Reunification Palace down to the Mekong Delta. Our stay in the Grand Hotel was also satisfying, as the staff were all courteous and friendly. But the one person who made the trip all the more worthwhile is Mr Binh. He is just like a fountain of information on Vietnam's history, it was quite amazing! Although we couldn't keep track of every morsel of information he hands out, it was enjoyable just listening to him spew forth all those data . It gave us a somewhat deeper understanding of what happened in Vietnam during its tumultuous past.
He also taught us one life-saving skill needed to survive in Saigon: how to cross the streets! Hahaha (the motorcycles seemed to appear out of nowhere!)
We would also want to thank our courteous drivers, Mr Vin and Mr Tien (I hope I got their names right).
When we saw the pictures in the War Museum, I, for one, was deeply affected. I never imagined the hardships that your people went through. It was deeply moving, to the point that I have to take a break in between to collect myself, lest I embarass myself there by crying.
Anyway, needless to say, it was quite a memorable trip. We hope to be back soon to explore the other places in Vietnam. I have recommended your services to some of my friends, hopefully, some of them might just make it there.
Again, thank you!
Be well always! Roliza Parenia"
"Dear Indochina Guides Team,
Many thanks for all your help with booking our wonderful holiday to Vietnam. We have the most fantastic time and loved every minute of our holiday. We would love to come back soon, as we all think Vietnam is such an interesting country and there is so much more to see and do that we did not even cover.
Everyone we met was just lovely and so helpful. All the arrangements you booked from the hotels, tours and guides etc was just perfect. It is hard to say which was the best part of the holiday, we enjoyed Hanoi & Halong Bay very much as well as Hue which was fascinating and Mr Binh was a terrific guide so knowledgeable about all the Vietnamese history we found his tour very enlightening. We also loved Hoi an and the beach was terrific for swimming which we love to do. Ho Chi Minh is a bustling city and we got the hang of crossing the roads eventually ! what an experience.
If we do visit Vietnam again we will certainly use your services and am happy to recommend you company to anyone.
All the best and many thanks again, Melissa Smith & family"
"Dear Ms Kieu Nhung,
My husband and I booked a tour of Vietnam with you in March and I wanted to let you know how wonderful it was! Everything about the tour surpassed our expectations! Our tour guides and drivers were fantastic. We especially enjoyed being with Bach in Hanoi, who met us at the airport on our return from HoChiMinh City even though he had another tour group at the time..it meant alot to us to see his familiar face.Than, in Hue, was also a wonderful guide...When he sang to us about his city Hue, we knew he loved it there...and so did we! Our guides all knew the history of Vietnam so well, and were able to answer all our questions (and we had alot of questions!) Thank you for modifying our tour to include the extras i.e. going to Mui Ne and also the Perfume Pagoda...both excursions we enjoyed SO much! We loved Vietnam and are being ambassators for your country telling everyone we know about it and encouraging our friends to go and to use Indochina Guides when they do! The hotels were just great..we enjoyed all our accomodations..Bill left his eyepod in the computer room of the Anise Hotel and when he called to see if it was there the hotel employee said a cleaning person had found it and turned it in and Bill received it this week! That sure said alot about the honest people who work there. Thank you for planning such a wonderful trip for us! We will DEFINITELY book with Indochina Guides again. Sincerely, William(Bill) and Carroll Castle"
