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Top Hotels in Halong Bay
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Victoria Sapa Resort and Spa
238 reviews -
La Veranda Resort Phu Quoc, member of the MGallery Collection Phu Quoc Island
311 reviews -
Heritage Halong Hotel Halong Bay
11 reviews -
Hanoi Elegance Emerald hotel
713 reviews
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Southern Hotel & Villa Hoi An
383 reviews
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Gia Thinh Hotel Hanoi
42 reviews
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Empress Hotel IMS Ho Chi Minh Ho Chi Minh City
149 reviews
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Hai Yen Hotel Nha Trang
24 reviews -
Vien Dong Hotel Nha Trang
21 reviews
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Hoa Binh Hotel Hanoi
53 reviews
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Hanoi Astoria Hotel
65 reviews
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Hotel Hai Yen Hoi An
17 reviews -
Jysk Hotel Hanoi
8 reviews
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Bongsen Annex Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
112 reviews
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Saigon Domaine Luxury Residences Ho Chi Minh City
24 reviews
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Festival Hotel Hue
59 reviews
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Bamboo Sapa Hotel
135 reviews
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Sai Gon Mui Ne Resort Phan Thiet
52 reviews
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Bao Son International Hotel Hanoi
6 reviews
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Boss Hanoi Hotel
164 reviews
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The Beach Resort Phan Thiet
16 reviews
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Saigon Cantho Hotel Can Tho
40 reviews
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DIC Star Hotel Vung Tau
19 reviews
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Hanoi Palace Hotel
69 reviews
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Pacific Prince Hotel Hanoi
8 reviews
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Hanoi Lucky II Hotel
72 reviews
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Hanoi Paradise Hotel
208 reviews
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Holiday Gold Hotel Hanoi
558 reviews
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Vien Dong Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
214 reviews
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Hoian Trade Union Hotel Hoi An
7 reviews
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Camela Hotel Resort Haiphong
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Bonjour Vietnam Hotel Hanoi
12 reviews
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Ngocthao Guesthouse Ho Chi Minh City
73 reviews
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Hanoi Boutique Hotel 2
19 reviews
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Hoang Lien Hotel Ho Chi Minh City
52 reviews
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Bao Dai's Villas Nha Trang
7 reviews
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Nam Cuong Hotel Haiphong
6 reviews
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Hotel Que Huong Liberty 2 Ho Chi Minh City
60 reviews
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Golf 1 Hotel Dalat
23 reviews
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Tan Hai Long Hotel 3 Ho Chi Minh City
148 reviews
Halong Bay
Travel Blogs from Halong Bay, Vietnam
Halong Bay: Rain, Rain go away
... the 2 of us. It still rained most of the day but we braved it and even jumped in the water which was surprisingly warm. Halong Bay is some of the most beautiful scenery we have seen yet. The huge rocky islands jut out of the water and with the ...
Perfume Pagoda and Halong Bay
... Car Park and head back to Hanoi. It was a busy day and we are all shattered but well worth it bring on the next tour. Halong Bay. I was always going to visit Halong Bay but decided to do a two day tour. I am collected from the hotel at 8 sharp and ...
Plavanje v Halong Bayu + stroški 2. meseca
Tridnevno križarjenje po zalivu Halong (Halong Bay) se je izkazalo za odlično naložbo. Sicer precej drago (125 $ na osebo, polni penzion), ampak vredno svojega denarja. Lahko bi se do zaliva odpravila sama, ampak sva se odločila, da ...
Side trip from Hanoi
Took a 3 day trip and cruised around Halong Bay in Northn Vietnam. Jonathan entry: what an amazing place: halong bay. we absolutely enjoyed the bay. in a true miracle we met up with the canandian brother/sister duo in hanoi and all signed up for a 3 ...
I'm On A Boat
... Long Bay in the South China Sea. For reference, watch Tomorrow Never Dies, where you can watch Elliot Carver cruising through the bay on his stealth destroyer boat, much like our Junk that we stayed on. We went with a tour of 25 mostly ...
Ha Long Bay
I decided to opt for a 3 day, 2 night tour of Ha Long Bay and was soooo excited about it. Sadly it was absolutely chucking it down when I got up to catch the bus to the port and I knew that I would be extremely lucky to see any sun. :( The scenery was ...
Ha Long Bay
Halong bay is amazing :) In a rush, so will add photos and blog at my next stop. Arm wrestling with Vietnamese seamen and a 100kg Aussie rugby player, I did us Poms ...
The Magic Islands of Halong Bay
... bays before heading back to hotel on the island. That night we hit a nightclub (at last) but we were kicked out at 12am when they closed down for the night. The Halong Bay trip is highly recommended we had a great few days and the Bay is truly ...
Hanoi
... a fair bit of hesitation) whilst i opted to take photos (it scared the hell outta me)! That afternoon, we sailed through Halong Bay looking at the wonderful limestone cliffs that are often described as the 8th wonder of the world!! It was amazing. We ...
Cruising the Bay of Two Thousand Islands
... Vietnamese driving, but we were all in one piece when we arrived at the docks. There are many, many boat operators on Halong Bay, operating as fairly well oiled machines of tourism, churning through an endless stream of tourists. We were brought into a ...
Tour from HELLong Bay
... at least 30 people into these row boats at $4 a head.... doesn't sound too shabby to me. After this stop we headed through halong bay (which is gorgeous) straight to Catba Island. Once those of us that they did not have room for have been kicked off the ...
Junk Boating
Halong Bay comprises around 2000 huge karst rock formations rising out of the China Sea off the coast of Vietnam. Together with our German friends Adrian and Nicole we took a 2-day cruise around the bay on a Chinese Junk Boat looking a lot like ...
Beautiful but Rainy Halong Bay
1. Arriving in torrential downpour 2. Amazing cave tour 3. View of the thousands of islands from the top of island promontory 4. Kayaking amidst the jagged teeth of rock 5. Playing dice games with fellow ...
Karsts, karsts and more karsts
... outside our measly backpacker budget which will probably see us home by February, we booked on a luxury cruiser to take us round Halong Bay for the night (which was still pretty cheap by UK standards). Halong is three and a half hours' drive from Hanoi, ...
Halong Bay
We've been out on a 'junk' touring thru Halong Bay (Gulf of Tonkin), we are spending the day on the island of Vuon Qouc Gia, in the town Cat Ba. Internet is very sparse, and sloooooow ... This is MUST MUST MUST MUST place to come ...
Hanoi and Halong Bay, Vietnam
... they were expensive, but reasonable to foreigners, not so in Vietnam. Not everybody, but our first experiences in Hanoi and Halong Bay for sure. After a few days, I became convinced that there was some device connecting the horn to the taxi meter ...
Surcando los mares en juncos bajo la niebla...
... wena...calamares, jaiva, harto pescado...y obvio...arroz... A eso de las 12:00 ya estábamos embarcado y listos para enfrentarnos a Halong Bay, una de las nuevas siete maravillas naturales del mundo lo cual ocurrió alrededor de las 15.00 horas y aunque ...
Bays, Beers & Junk...
... nbsp; We piled into the dining room and they filled our table with loads of interesting local dishes and we began sailing into the bay. After lunch everyone gathered on the top deck to get a better look at the passing scenery and gradually the mist ...
Junking It In
In Hanoi, we weighed up the options for visiting the fabled Halong Bay and decided to do an overnight all inclusive trip rather than get out there ourselves as it seemed like a bit less hassle for not much more money. We picked a company ...
Hanoi to Halong Bay
... what a lunch - seafood, salad, rice, noodles and more. Then we went to sunbathe and watch the scenery. Halong Bay is absolutely gorgeous - still blue water studded with islets which are mostly stone hills or mountains which rise up directly ...
Motorbikes and mountains
Today we had the whole day to enjoy Cat Ba island. We opted to do a half-day motorbike tour of the island. We each had a motorbike and driver allocated to us, and travelled en masse across the island. I really enjoyed the ride, the roads were relatively ...
Un mundo de turistas
... la cabeza. Siendo esta una de las maravillas del mundo hace que la aflunecia de turistas sea enorme i al mismo tiempo molesta. Halong Bay es una bahia con un monton de islotes de roca calcaria con formas i tamnyos diferentes que jhace de la ...
Island Hopping Paradise
January 16th, 2007 - Pirates of the Ha Long Ha Long Bay is a collection of some 2,000 islands off the east coast of mainland Viet Nam, just 200km from China. We decided to take a day trip to see just a couple of these islands by boat. Up and out by ...
Halong Bay
We spent the last two days on a tour of Halong Bay and Cat Ba Island. The first day was spent on the boat. We visited Thien Cung Cave which was lit up with lots of colored lights, sort of like Disneyland! We cruised around the bay ...
Ha Long Bay Cruise
... more incredible islands in this World Heritage Site. Unbelievably specatular. Words can not describe the natural wonder that is Halong Bay. To be sure we enjoyed this visit to the fullest, we splurged for one of the better tour ...
Dragons Bay
After a four hour bus ride and a stop at a local humanities workshop we arrived at the largest resort on Vietnam,Halong Bay. The workshop was special because all of the work done there was by handicapped people (due ongoing effects of the chemical ...
Crusin' Time
... to a new spot. Chris and I had some time to go kayaking around some of the little rock islands that are everywhere in Halong Bay. We had a cooking demonstration later on as well. Dinner was amazing! Luckily I had asked for the veggie option…Chris ...
Limestone Rock Formations
... to go! We got on the bus and the first things the local tour guide told us was, "If you haven't been to Ha Long Bay, you haven't been to Vietnam!" Well good thing I was going! It was a four hour bus ride with a 30 minute stop in the middle at a pottery ...
I'm on a boat
... Laos. I should have figured that there would be a lot of people doing this tour, I mean who comes to Vietnam and does not visit Halong Bay, but I still couldn't imagine so many foreigners in one place. Anyway, after the initial shock, we here herded off ...
Halong bay by Junk
... the afternoon we visited a floating fishing village by a small tender boat. The families in this fishing village had lived in Halong for hundreds of years. In the village they had a hospital, school and small floating shops in canoes.In the late ...