Cat Ba Hotels - Reviews and Rates

I arrived in the mountain town of Sapa in Northern Vietnam near to the Chinese border in mid September. The cool clean air made a refreshing change to the tropical muginess elsewhere in Vietnam, and given the relaxed atmosphere of the place, I could easily have outstayed my welcome here.
Having not climbed any ridiculously big hills for at l...

After our visit to Hanoi our next stop was the symbol of Vietnam, Halong Bay.

We didn't have the most successful start to our journey to Halong Bay. We arrived at the port city of Haiphong to firstly be dropped by the bus 3km away from the bus station (in the monsoon rain) and we didn’t have a map to know where we were. After a comb...

Cat Ba Island ist ein Nationalpark und liegt mitten in der Halong Bucht.

Gestern haben wir uns ein Toeffli gemietet und sind quer durch die Insel gefahren. Die Landschaft ist traumhaft und macht Lust auf mehr...

Deshalb haben wir uns fuer heute ein Privatboot gechartert...wir mussten zwar ein bisschen tiefer in die Taschen greifen...

Hello everybody,
Well, it's been a while and I'm sure you've all been at home on tenterhooks just waiting for our next blog- and here it is!
We're in Cat Ba Town, Cat Ba Island, Vietnam- just east of Hanoi. It's great. Just spent the day lying on a beach and bathing in the sea. I say bathing because it's just like a nice, warm, if a tad sa...

This week we traveled down from Hanoi by bus and stayed in Ha Long Bay town for one night then got a boat through the islands to Cat Ba Island this is the biggest island of them which has its own town. On the way there we stop at a island and went into the biggest cave of all the islands, it was amazing to see. We then stayed on Cat Ba for 4 day...

If you come to Halong Bay, I would most certainly suggest doing it by yourself -- if you have the time. Of course there are advantages to taking a tour too, so by all means choose what's best for you, but independent travel has its advantages. For one, it's easier to just book a ticket in Hanoi and figure stuff out when you get here than to try ...

We woke early for breakfast... today those on the overnight trip will return by the boat to Halong Bay Harbour while we crossed into another province (our junk cannot go there) by another smaller junk. This junk took us in to a sheltered area close to the outcrops where we did some kayaking. We moor onto floating fishing houses - just a little t...

My trip in SEA ended pretty well. I found Vietnam relaxing, but also somewhat chaotic. Being in the country for Tet, the Chinese New Year, added some excitement. Unfortunately, it also added a little bit on the price as well. I started off in Saigon, which has 3.5 million motorbikes. In fact, the country should be renamed The Land of the Moto. E...

Woke up to the sound of techno thumping through the speakers. Definitely not the appropriate soundtrack to the peaceful scene in front of us. We swapped in somebody's iPod and pleasantly listened to Jack Johnson over breakfast. After breakfast it was time for the 1 day and 2 day tour peoples to depart. A smaller boat picked us up and took us to ...

We arrived on Cat Ba Island in the morning after our overnight cruise of Halong Bay. Despite it being winter the weather was good today, so we had a lazy day on the beach reading our books and having what was by far the best massage of my whole trip. On our second day we went on a rock-climbing trip. As somebody who used to be scared of heights ...