TRAVELLERS BEWARE
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BE CAREFUL NOT TO GET RIPPED OFF, VIETNAM IS NOT ALL ITS CRACKED UP TO BE
STAY AWAY OR NOT!!!
We stayed at the hotel and they had lovely staff and everything seemed to be ok so we decided to book our tours with them.
We booked one to Sapa and one to Halong Bay. They pointed out the picture of the train and said that we would have the tourist wooden soft sleepers. (They’re specially for tourists cause the others aren’t clean). Apart from the fact that they booked the wrong train time for us we ended up with all the Vietnamese people, don’t get me wrong, I don’t have anything against Vietnamese people, we just paid for something and just expected to get what we paid for and the filthy soft sleeper cabins we had to stay in were dirty and the sheets that hadn’t been cleaned since the start of the week I’d say!!
On top of that, the tour they sold us was not what we got!! We were supposed to go to Bac Ha Market on the Sunday but they didn’t book it, so we had to wait in a hotel from 6.30am to 4.30pm for a bus back to a train!!
They did us out of about $40 each!!!
So when in Vietnam beware, everything is not what it seems.
Posted on: Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 12:19 am 
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My advise to anyone travelling to south east Asia or developing countries, not just Vietnam, is to be very cautious about any advise or tours offered by staff of the Hotels and Hostels because they usually receive commission from the tour operators so their advise is not always the best or even the truth.
It is hard to know if someone is being honest or not, when they are telling you someything, but always keep in mind, that if something sounds too good to be true it usually is.
Happy Travels
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Best regards….
June 12th, 2010 at 3:50 am