Our trip to Vietnam and Cambodia was awesome!...
Vietnam
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Jan 13 - Jan 26, 2025
Our trip to Vietnam and Cambodia was awesome! We used Realistic Asia (Hien). She helped us customize the tour around our needs. We typically travel on our own, but having Hien guide us saved a lot time that would be spent on research. A real plus was her knowledge of hotels, guides, and drivers to make our trip efficient. Guides: Jimmy (Hanoi), Loi (Halong Bay), Ben(Hue), Hi Hai (Hoi An), , Vincent and Thing (Ho Chi Minh), Serat (Siem Reap), Sopheak (Phnom Penh), All of our guides were very knowledgeable and kept us on schedule, even when we went later than planned, to see everything. The only glitch was two separate Vietjet Airline delays that prevented us from maximizing self guided time on two days of our 14 day trip. We would recommend Vietnam Airlines for better comfort and timeliness. We learned that two days per stop was not enough time for us. And would have helped with flight delays. Overall the trip was a success and we would highly recommend working with Hien at Realistic Asia.
Hotel Reviews
Breakfast was the best of our tour. Lots of options on the buffet.
The room was small, but comfortable. There was some noise from the street as Hanoi is bustling early and late
The rooftop bar and restaurant is a plus. Breakfast buffet was very good. Fairly close to Siem Reap and Tonle Sap lake.
Very helpful staff. They only have one coffee machine at the breakfast buffet that makes both regular coffee and espresso. There was always a long line in the morning. It was frustrating. They need to make coffee in the kitchen and have two pots out to pour from given the number of people at the hotel. The buffet space is small. We had massages at the spa which were good. Rooftop bar is a plus, not crowded. They didn’t have mint for a Mojito and the margarita was served up, not on ice, not a big deal, but a must for these popular drinks and hot weather.
Activity Reviews
Jimmy was great! Very good knowledge of the area and history.
This overnight trip was fun. Great cooking class and excursions to the caves and kayaking. Loi, the cruise director is fabulous.
This was fun and very photo worthy. Tipping the row boat guide at the caves, while not required, is expected if you have a fun and helpful guide. Ours took lots of photos on everyone’s camera and was fun.
This was a fun tour and our guide was very knowledgeable. The lunch at the garden restaurant was delicious and fun.
This was fun. Good mix of local food market shopping and tasting unusual vegetables and herbs.
It was interesting to understand the Mekong river culture and sample food. The lunch was good too, a lot of food. We wanted more time at the temple at the end of the tour.
Interesting historical perspective of how the Viet Cong survived to win, if you want to know more history of the American/Vietnam war. Somber for both sides. A lot of people come to see this.
This is a must see tour, phenomenal. We took over 100 pics.
This was interesting.