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Vietnam ideas?

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  • PompeyPete
    PompeyPete Posts: 7,126 Forumite
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    Keep an eye on the visa situation. The current 15 day visa exemption for British Passport Holders is due to expire for any visits that start after 30 June 2016.

    The Trip Advisor Vietnam Forum has a few current threads on the subject, so might be worth dropping in there.
  • PompeyPete
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    richardw wrote: »
    If visiting again, I'd do a luxury bus from Hanoi to a hotel near the bay, stay the night, do a cruise, then get a transfer to Hai Phong airport and fly on to somewhere.

    Probably Saves 24 hours by not backtracking to Hanoi and wasting time.

    Some interesting destinations too...

    https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/hph#departures
  • Doshwaster
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    PompeyPete wrote: »
    Probably Saves 24 hours by not backtracking to Hanoi and wasting time.

    Some interesting destinations too...

    https://www.flightradar24.com/data/airports/hph#departures

    That's interesting. I wasn't aware that there was an airport near Halong. In which case flying down to Da Nang for Hoi An (about 45 mins by road) would make sense.
  • littlereddevil
    littlereddevil Posts: 4,752 Forumite
    Hoi An is lovely, nice and relaxing. And the food is excellent.
    travelover
  • Doshwaster
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    littlereddevil wrote: »
    Hoi An is lovely, nice and relaxing. And the food is excellent.

    And the beer is very, very cheap :beer:

    IMG_20141015_145236.jpg

    10,000 Dong for a large beer is about 30p. Cheapest I found for a glass of fresh beer was 12p.
  • richardw
    richardw Posts: 19,470 Forumite
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    Doshwaster wrote: »
    ... I wasn't aware that there was an airport near Halong....

    Hai Phong airport is nearer than Hanoi airport, as a comparison, if you stayed at the Novotel Ha Long Bay, the road journey is approximately 1.5 hours less to Hai Phong airport than HAN.
    Posts are not advice and must not be relied upon.
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