Halong Bay Hotels - Reviews and Rates

October 19, 2009

Hanoi - Halong - Hanoi (B/L)

This morning, you will head to magnificent Halong Bay where you will enjoy a private boat cruise and seafood lunch. Cruise on a traditional wooden boat among the emerald waters and craggy limestone cliffs of Halong Bay, stopping at different islands to explore some of the many caves in ...

How many times on this trip can I use adjectives like amazing or incredible? Are you guys tiring of these? Maybe I need a thesaurus, because I'm running low on words which will adequately describe Halong Bay in northern Vietnam. Nonetheless, I will try.

It's the end of my trip and I'm over budget anyway, so I opted to spring for a pretty...

From Hanoi we bussed to Ha 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 British people who we got along with famously. Ha Long Bay has giant limestone rock ...

Today was our first day on a boat in Halong Bay. We went down to the agreed meeting place at 8am after a nice breakfast and were taken via xe om to our boat. It was the first time Kythera had seen it and once again, I was impressed with the safety for the kids (they had their lifejackets on - so cute!). We stormed out into Halong Bay, enjoying t...

We woke around seven and went for a pre-breakfast swim, superb. After brekky the boat headed onwards for about an hour, after which we swapped to a decidedly ropier boat. "Because of the shallow water" was the official line. Because you've paid your cash and we've lost interest, more like. But we stay in a hotel tonight, so the ropey boat's only...

This morning we got a bus to the docks so that we could board our boat for our trip around Halong Bay. The boat was pretty cool. There was only our group on there which was good, but there were absolutely loads of other boats which took away a little of the enigma of the bay really. We didn't get too close to any other boats, but it was still a ...

The next morning we left early from Singapore and arrived in Ho Chi Minh City where we then had to get a flight up to Hanoi. Once we got through customs... NIGHTMARE... and out of the international airport... NIGHTMARE... Our flight was then delayed... NIGHTMARE! However, that is lfe deal with it. We eventually arrived in Hanoi where we got a tr...

I arrived in Halong Bay completely and utterly exhausted after not sleeping a wink on the night train due to the rancid stench of durians which I have decided are the most wretched smelling fruit ever. Plus the ride was quite rough and I was certain I was going to be flung from my bunk at any second. With no time to rest I was soon on a boat to ...

James writes: So we got out of the madness of Hanoi and headed to Ha Long Bay. Although there were tons of people and probably 250 boats in the bay, it was nice to get away from the street traffic and give our ears a break from the constant blaring of horns. We booked a three day, two night trip around the bay and luckily we got some decent weat...

They mystical Halong Bay! What a wonderful experience! It is hard to describe what a wonderfully beautiful experience it is to cruise this mystical bay filled with endless limestone karst islands. Even the misty weather couldn't detract from the beauty, it actually made it more beautiful! The first day we set sail on our amazing Chinese junk ( n...