Halong Bay Hotels

... or so, we will be backpacking (well as much backpacking as Charlie will allow - if she has her way it will be 5-star hotels and insect-free rooms) our way through Asia. The plan is to visit: India, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, Hong Kong and China as ...

Another early start today as we set off for the beautiful and much anticipated Halong Bay. It is another hot morning, and after a quick breaky at the hotel we jump aboard our tour bus that will take us the 170km to Halong City, where we will board our ...

... is so overcrowded with people and traffic that it can become quite smothering. We had booked ourselves onto an overnight stay on Halong Bay through our hostel, staying on the Halong dragon junk boat. We were up early to get breakfast and get our packs ...

We were collected from our hotel at 8am.  The bus to Halong Bay took 3 hours and was very crowded which didn't matter to me because I was struggling with jet lag and slept almost all of the way. The junk took us to caves and then we swam and ...

... and expensive and it is recommended that you go on a tour. However, there are so many tour Companies, hotels and cafe's that all sell tours to Halong bay for various prices ranging from $40 to hundreds of dollars and so you could easily be completely ...

... were excited that the boat was only three quarters full.  Since China, we have had a fear of overcrowding.   Halong Bay is breathtaking.  A perfect blue ocean supports enormous limestone karsts which protrude from deep beneath it.  We ...

... for this morning, so that we could head downstairs and take advantage of the hotel breakfast ahead of our 8am departure around Halong Bay. Though in hindsight another hour in bed would have been better spent. As for breakfast Amy received a few slices of ...

... ROCK?" and FLOORED THEM WITH THE FLOORSHOW I had decided prior to coming to Vietnam that I wanted to go to Cat Ba Island in Halong Bay, east of Hanoi. Apparently it isn't easy to get there on your own but getting back is easier, so I decided to join ...

... jsme vsichni jenom zakroutili hlavou a byli radsi ticho. Po skoro hodinovem cekani na nasi lod jsme konecne nasedli a vyrazili smer Halong Bay. I kdyz pocasi nam moc nepralo a prvni den byla viditelnost miziva i tak jsme meli moznost videt, proc je ...

... conversation theme amongst all tourists visiting this country. One bonus was that we HAD all paid the same price for this Halong Bay trip!! Unbelievable here, but true. We slept very well without any rats running round our cabin thankfully. Some other ...

... just enough time. After checking in for our tour, it was straight onto the bus headed for the UNESCO World Natural Heritage listed Halong Bay – this was one part of our trip that I was really looking forward to. The traffic leaving Hanoi was insane ...

... he was very fluent and had taught in one of their better schools! We sailed for a bit more then moored in the middle of Halong bay surrounded by wondrous islands and went for a swim......it's very salty and you could float with no effort. That evening ...

... with about 15 other folks from France, Australia, and other places with white people and we set off into the bay. Halong Bay, according to Vietnamese lore, was created by dragons that carved out the fantastic bay around these amazing islands, which were ...

... Bay which is 3 hours from Hanoi. We then boarded our junk boat to head to Cat Ba island, the only inhabited island in Halong Bay. The junk boats are not like the traditional sail boats with the wing like sails anymore, they are engine driven and have ...

... years ago, only then it didn't say "Handicapped Craft Store" over the door. It was just a regular curio store.   Halong Bay a planning monstrosity, as is every major tourist draw in the world. Thin hotels with grey, concrete walls standing alone ...

... and the travel companies but its all stitched up neatly and inexpensively. So it was that we decided to take a one day tour of Halong Bay, some 3 hours from Hanoi out into the South China Sea. Personally I spent the whole day feeling crap. A repeat ...

... Vietnamese house turned into an eatery. Many cocktails and some Hanoi Vodka later we called it a night, as Sheri & I had a 3 day Halong Bay cruise booked. It was 1am and too late for Matty & Noosha to get a booking in to join us but I passed ...

We flew out of Hue the next days into Ha Noi, from where we had to catch a ride to Halong Bay somehow. After checking with the airport they offered a shuttle to go there for a few hundred US dollars, a price that seemed horrendous. And so started our next ...

... ' is becoming very strange, but it’s always good to see familiar faces. --Cruising the Bay-- We arrived in Halong bay around midday (translates as the “declining dragon bay”). Tam split us up into our boats and gave us our tickets. Our ...

... . Oh, and as we were leaving, there was a monkey spotting. Apparently, he was drinking a beer. Anyway, that just about concludes Halong Bay. A nice part of the trip was getting to know the other people on our boat and developing a sort of transient ...