HALONG BAY TOUR | Day Trip Cruise from Hanoi 2019
Day 32- Took a Halong bay 1 day tour cruise from Hanoi, Vietnam. We booked a 1 day trip with Dragon King Cruises and it was an amazing experience. The cruise we booked was among one of the cheapest and highest rated for the experience.
We found it at a travel agency in Hanoi and it fit all of our needs and budget. We were able to go from Hanoi to Halong Bay and experience a lot of what Halong Bay had to offer for only 35$, in my opinion that is a steal because Ha Long Bay is on of the most beautiful places in the world.
We did many activities in the tour among some of my favorites which were kayaking an underwater cave, exploring sung sot cave, and hiking titop island for some amazing views atop a mountain. Overall really great experience and one of my favorite days in Vietnam.
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Halong Bay Cruise: Don't Book WRONG Overnight Tour (Choose Luxury!)
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There are tons of options out there. Some are simply day tours of the bay, and some are overnight. Our Halong Bay Cruise from Hanoi was pretty darn exciting.
After having done it our self, we can promise that the best way to do a Halong Bay tour is the overnight experience, whether it's a signature cruise or a budget cruise or a luxury boat, just make sure you spend at least one night on the bay!
Why, you ask, should you spend a night on the bay? Because you get to see the awesome sunset and then the sunrise the next day. You'll probably get to go sea kayaking in the bay without tons of other tourists around.
Your company will probably take you to an island to enjoy a beach and maybe even explore a cave. There's so much to do and see on the bay that a day trip just won't do it justice.
Now, for the sticky part - if you book a larger cruise boat, you're going to have a much different experience than a small boat. The small boats are intimate, calm and peaceful. The large boats are essentially parties, with people really not caring too much about the bay and focusing on I'm on a boat type of stuff.
But it's your choice, and maybe you want that?
Regardless, we definitely recommend this experience - it was one of our favorite landscapes to ever behold.
- Jimmy & Maggie
P.S. We used Indochina Junk, and recommend them. Ballpark price of Halong Bay Cruise with them is about $215, and that's for the luxury cruise (a fantastic deal in our opinion!), with a pick up from Hanoi (or somewhere similar) in a luxury van, I mean, really, awesome deal!
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Looking to do the best of Cat Ba island and something that is better than Ha Long Bay?! Then the Lan Ha Bay cruise from Cat Ba island is for you. As we traveled through Cat Ba Island looking for what to do on Cat Ba, everyone kept asking: Have you gone on a Lan Ha Bay cruise yet? We had never heard of a Lan Ha Bay cruise and we did our research when looking for the best things to do in Cat Ba island. Everyone kept telling us: It's so much better than Ha Long Bay! You have to do a Lan Ha Bay cruise! We weren't sold until our friend told us that he wished he would have done a Lan Ha Bay tour because Ha Long Bay was overpopulated and polluted. When you are looking for what to do in Cat Ba Island, a Lan Ha Bay cruise is a must! It is hands down one of the best things to do in Cat Ba Island.
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HALONG BAY CRUISE – MOST ATTRACTIVE PLACES IN ONE DAY
If you want to go from Hanoi to Halong Bay or if you want to cruise in Halong Bay this tour is perfect for you. We took a cruise to Halong Bay which lasted one day. We started our tour from our hostel in Hanoi Old Quarter and took the bus to Halong Bay at 8AM. Halong Bay is approximately at 140km from Hanoi. It took approximately 2 hours 30 minutes of bus to go to Halong Bay.
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We arrived at Tuan Chau Marina Pier at approximately 12:30. Once in Tuan Chau we followed our guide and the group of tourists to come onboard the boat. The boat was parked in the harbour and we got inside. The atmosphere inside the boat was very nice. We can relax ourselves after the bus thanks to relaxing music. Once everyone took the time to sit quietly and to feel comfortable we could enjoy lunch which was included in the tour. On the menu we can choose between seafood or vegetarian meals. Indeed, Halong Bay is the land of seafoods and if you are a big fan of seafoods you will probably chose them. It was also very cool to have a vegetarian alternative. During the lunch we could enjoy the wonderful view on Incense Burner and Stone Dog islets. You can also go on the boat roof if you want to enjoy the fresh air of Halong Bay and if you want to take pictures of course!
After this wonderful lunch on boat, at approximately 2PM, you will explore the largest and the most beautiful cave of Halong Bay which is called Surprising Cave or Sung Sot in Vietnamese. The limestones you will see in Surprising Cave took about 500 million years before being created. Surprising Cave is the most popular in Halong Bay because it’s the biggest one. You will feel amazed by its huge size and its wide variety of different landscapes. After spending around 1 hour exploring this cave you will be back to the cruise boat.
At 3 PM, you will start to go whether on bamboo or kayak boat exploring Luon Cave. This attraction is very famous among tourists. Actually, Luon Cave is situated in Bo Hon Island and you will find Turtle Island and Heaven Cave all around. If you are an athlete, we will advise you to take a kayak boat as you will row by yourself with your partner. Otherwise, if you opt for the bamboo boat you will be several onboard (approx. 12) and you won’t have to row.
Then at 4 PM, you will move to TiTop Island which is the heart of Halong Bay. You will have a steep climb of a few hundred steps to the observation desk on the summit of TiTop mountain that reveals a panoramic view of Halong Bay - it is still definitely worth the effort. The 360° view is nothing short of breathtaking, which you can enjoy the summit viewing and taking pictures of Halong Bay. The island is also home to a lovely little beach of the same name. It’s an ideal stop-off point to get stuck into some beach activities such as: swimming, sunbathing, playing beach volleyball, etc.
At 5 PM, you will be back to the boat where you can enjoy some welcoming drinks such as cold tea for example. Some snacks could also be provided. You will enjoy being back to the boat and you could rest after this running day. If you are lucky enough you could enjoy the sunset and taking exclusive picture of Halong Bay. The night will arrive quite quickly then.
At 6 PM, you will get in the bus and you will say goodbye to Halong Bay. You will be back to Hanoi around 9, 9:30 PM.
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I bought this tour in Le Pont Bungalow Hostel, you can easily find these kind of tour and other type of tour sold in the place you're staying or in many tour agents in Catba Town. I stayed in Catba for 3 nights. Stayed in Le Pont Bungalow Hostel for the first day, and then move to Catba Central Backpackers Hostel because I wanted to try different places.
Maybe it's something to consider: This tour started at 8:30 am and ended at about 4 pm, so it was closer to 6 hours and even a bit more instead of 4 hour which is what people usually seem to experienced if they started a full day Halong Bay tour from Hanoi and back in the same day.
I guess that's the advantage if you just go to Catba or Halong and do the tour while staying there for 2 nights (with the bus schedule I'm not sure if you can stay there just for 1 night, at least in Catba, I couldn't find any night bus going to and from Catba. Not sure about Halong)
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Halong Bay Best Cruise | Genesis Luxury Regal Cruises Tour | Must Visit Vietnam Travel Guide
Halong Bay is one of the most visited places in all Vietnam. It would be hard to find one travel guide that doesn't recommend making a visit to this natural wonder. It's not surprising considering it has been recognized twice as a UNESCO World Heritage site. The most popular way to take in the all of its beauty of Ha Long Bay is to take an overnight luxury cruise.
In this vlog, we partnered with Genesis Regal Cruise show you what it's like to take a luxury junk boat and to sail through the sparkling emerald water of Halong Bay while taking in karst limestone formations.
The experience was truly magical and we definitely would put Ha Long Bay on your bucket list if you're traveling to Vietnam.
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Halong Bay, VIETNAM (2019) | Day tour from Hanoi
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Halong Bay Estella Day Trip Cruise in Vietnam
Booked a $98/pp cruise in Vietnam through the JW Marriott concierge. Here’s how that was like.
Estella Cruise Halong Bay day tour marvels at the hidden splendors of idyllic Ha Long bay – Lan Ha bay and wilderness in style and comfort that only 2 days trippers can do.
1. 2 hour riding luxurious comfort limousine via new expressway
2. 8 hours-cruise from river to the sea aboard newest luxury vessel Estella
3. Cooking demonstration and sunset party
4. Kayak through an array of stalagmite caves leaded into hidden lagoons
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Hanoi to Ha Long Bay for one day tour
One day tour from Hanoi to Ha Long Bay 2018. Travel time from Hanoi to Ha Long Bay takes about 4 hours one way. The bus picked us up at our hotel. There was one washroom break along the way. The rest area sold snacks and drinks. Lunch was also served on the boat as part of the tour. Price was about $40 USD.
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HALONG 1 DAY TOUR FROM HANOI
08:00 we will pick you up from the lobby of your hotel to start Halong Bay 1 day tour .We will drive 3.30 hours to get to Harbour in Halong Bay.
You will enjoy the beauty of rice fields with busy farmer working using Vietnam tradditional methods of cultivation on the way (We have a break 30 mins in the middle)
Check in the boat at noon, while lunch has been prepared by Crews on Cruise. While having lunch, the Caption will drive the Boat Cruising aroung the most magnificient bay bay and among thousands islands that jut out of the sea with its spectacular natural environment. On the way our guide show you some special islands: Cho Da island, Dinh Huong island and Ga Choi island. After that you will also have the opportunity to stop at two of the many grottoes.
The stop of 4 hours cruise is Dong Thien Cung (Heavenly Palace Grotto), located on a remote island in the bay. As the name suggests, the cave adorned with fantastic stalactites and stalagmites. Colored lights transform the scene into a fairytale palace.
Cruising to Ba Hang Village for visiting caves by kayak or rowing boat.
We will come back Harbour around 4 PM and we will stop at a break in the middle of the way. You have chance to go to rest room or have a drink. Arriving at about 8.00 - 8.30 pm, we drop you off at your Hotel. Finish the unforgettable Halong Bay full day Trip.
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5* LUXURY HALONG BAY CRUISE (ATHENA CRUISE) | Vietnam | Vlog 047
We head from Hanoi to Halong Bay for a trip of a lifetime on an Athena Luxury Cruise (2 day, 1 night) in Bai Tu Long & Halong Bay. We well and truly splurged for this trip but to say it was worth it would be an understatement. Everything from the food to the activities to the room was perfect and we had an amazing time!
We take you with us for the whole journey, do a room tour, show all of the amazing foods and this is only part/day 1! Stay tuned for our next video on the second day of this amazing trip.
Also as it turns out, if you go out of peak season (we went in February) then the crowds that you so frequently hear of in Halong Bay are almost non-existent.
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Halong Bay is known for the iconic gorgeous floating islands making this area an extremely popular tourist destination! This UNESCO World Heritage Site is located in northeast Vietnam.
Halong Bay is an incredible to see!! HOWEVER, is Halong Bay really worth it??? The sister bay, Lan Ha Bay, is right aside of this world famous site and includes the large and natural island, Cat Ba Island.
In this video, we go over different pros and cons of Halong Bay vs. Lan Ha Bay and suggestions on how to plan your trip to these areas!
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Vietnam 4K Travelling - Halong Bay 2 day tour on a cruise ship - famous sightseeing trip from Hanoi
Here we want to show you how a 2 days cruise ship tour to the popular Halong Bay in Vietnam looks like. You are going to see all details of a 2 day long trip. We booked this journey with the Silversea cruise ship in a travel agency in Hanoi for 150$.
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Why You Should Go To Lan Ha Bay NOT Halong Bay
In today's Vietnam travel vlog, I discuss why a prefer Lan Ha Bay over Ha Long Bay (Halong Bay). Most people have heard of Ha Long Bay but there is a better, lesser-known neighbor - Lan Ha Bay!
Ha Long Bay is a Unesco World Heritage site. When most people visit the Halong Bay area, they usually go on a 2 day, 1-night cruise. I don’t really think that’s enough time to truly appreciate this place & the tour boat companies pack so much into those 48 hours that you barely get to stop and really enjoy how beautiful the place is. So, I’d recommend spending a few more days in the Ha Long Bay area. I traveled with 6 of my friends and we decided to stay 5 days and even that didn’t seem like enough time to explore the area.
Like most, we made our way to the Ha Long area from Hanoi. For about $15 roundtrip, we took a luxury van to Ha Long City. But instead of jumping on a cruise boat and going directly to Ha Long Bay, we decided to spend a couple days on Tuan Chau Island. Tuan Chau Island is just off the coast of Ha Long City. There is a bridge from Ha Long City to Tuan Chau - so it’s just a short cab ride to get there from Halong City. We stayed at an inexpensive resort called La Paz Resort. It was $80 a night per room and we stayed two to a room. So it only cost $40 a night for each individual. We actually got pretty lucky. A huge storm rolled into Ha Long Bay and everyone's Halong Bay cruise was canceled for 2 days. Luckily for us, our Ha Long Bay cruise (Lan Ha Bay cruise) wasn’t for a few days and the resort had a great pool that we had a little fun in! The resort was also right on the beach and you could see the islands of Ha Long off in a distance even though it was pretty cloudy most of the time.
After relaxing a couple of days on Tuan Chau Island, we headed to Lan Ha Bay.
We took a water taxi to Cat Ba Island and then jumped on our boat in Lan Ha Bay. Like I mentioned before, I went with 7 of my buddies and 3 of us shared one cabin. There are many different options for cruise ships from big Halong Bay luxury cruise ships to smaller, more rustic Ha Long Bay cruise boats like the one we stayed on. I personally prefer the smaller boat, there were no more than 15 of us on the boat - so it felt less like a group tour type of thing.
Ok — so why Lan Ha Bay over the more famous Ha Long Bay? Ha Long Bay is beautiful, no doubt but it’s saturated with tourist. And that’s just not what I like. You can get the exact same scenery and beauty with far fewer tourist by going a few kilometers to the southwest to Lan Ha Bay.
Lan Ha Bay is located south of Ha Long Bay, just off the coast of Cat Ba Island. Ha Long Bay covers an area of a little over 1500 square kilometers and has around 1900 small islands. Lan Ha Bay is only 76 square kilometers and has around 400 small islands. While Lan Ha Bay is much smaller but there are more islands per square kilometer. Lan Ha Bay also feels bigger because there are far fewer boats than Ha Long Bay. There were many times I felt like we were the only boat in the entire bay. We were able to explore secluded beaches and coves with just my group and some local fisherman were hanging out.
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⚓️ Cruising Halong Bay & Trang An with Kids - World School Travel Video
In this episode of our family travel vlog, we take the kids to Halong Bay Vietnam as well as Trang An Vietnam. Halong Bay is typically on most tourists lists when visiting Vietnam, and for good reason, the entire family really loved it and the kids loved all the activities available to them. We also spent a day in Trang An and between the caves, biking, and beautiful temple, it was a hit with the family.
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Our first stop was Trang An which was sold as a package to us with our Sa Pa tour, which if you haven’t seen yet, check it out here - . We weren’t sure if we really wanted to do it, or spend the money, but he mentioned how the latest King Kong had been filmed there, which we thought most the landscapes where just CGI so we were intrigued.
They picked us up from our hotel in the morning and after about an hour drive we got to the first temple, we’re totally not going to be helpful as we can’t even remember the name of it. We need to start doing these videos in a more timely manner, not a month and a half later...oops. Anyway, the temple was really pretty, built into a mountainside overlooking a lake filled with koi.
Afterward, we headed to lunch and then on to Trang An where we took a boat ride on a beautiful river that went through numerous caves while meandering through an amazing valley with steep limestone mountains.
We wrapped up the day with a bike ride to another few temples and then headed home to Hanoi.
We also went on a Halong Bay cruise. After leaving on the cheap for so long, we splurged a bit here and of course...it was really nice. We were picked up in this posh van that took us on about a two-hour drive to Halong Bay. From there we took a small transfer boat that took us out to our main boat.
The boat was awesome. The rooms were so nice, compared to what we’d been in, and the staff was amazing. After a quick lunch, we went on a caving excursion, which was a total blast, after which we headed back to the boat to watch the sunset. After the sunset, the girls took a cooking class which they kicked butt at. This wasn’t their first rodeo. See Bangkok Cooking Class Here - . We also went out to do a bit of stargazing before heading to bed.
The next morning, after enjoying a delicious breakfast, we headed out to do some kayaking in one of the coves. The bigger girls took their own kayak and had the best time. Once we wrapped up with kayaking, it was time to head back, take a quick bath(girls had to take a bath on a boat), and then head back to Hanoi.
Check back soon for the final video of Hanoi and then we are on to Chiang Mai!
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