Hoa Lu Tam Coc Full Day Tour: Small Group Tour & Buffet Lunch

Day trip out of Hanoi. Solo traveler looking to fill a day. Suggest you research the best time of the year before you go

Trip was great, the bike ride to the village , lunch and boat trip. Would have liked more village time. Cannot fault the buffet lunch. Boat ride enjoyable. Guide very informative and fun.

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Good value for money

Nice trip. Started at 7:30 AM when we where picked up at the hotel. The first activity was visiting a temple. The tourguide was funny and knowledgeable. The second trip was the riverboat trip. This was nice, but the man rowing was a bit rude and demanded a big tip. The cycling activity was short but nice. Afterwards we went back to the hotel where we arrived at 9:00 PM

Response from the operator: Dear Nick, Thank you so much for your feedback. We really appreciate it. Your feedback will help us improve our services. We will check with the tour guide about this. We are sorry for any inconvenience caused to you with the man rowing the boat. On behalf of Swallow Travel team, thank you once again for touring with us. We welcome your feedback. We hope you are highly satisfied with our service and that you recommend touring with Swallow Travel to your friends and family. We are looking forward to serving you again for other trips in Cambodia, Laos, Myanmar( Indochina countries). Best regards, Swallow Travel team,

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Day trip

Awesome guide and driver, lots of good information, lots of laughs, would definitely recommend this tour

Response from the operator: Dear Luke, On behalf of Swallow Travel, I would like to say thank you for your feedback. It will help us improve our services. We do hope to have a chance to organize tour for you in the soonest future. Best regards, Swallow Travel Team.

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Tam Coc, magnificent. Hoa lu expendable

Hoa Lu is a totally expendable excursion. It does not contribute anything and the setting is not even too spectacular. The food is reasonable and the best part of the day is the boat ride in Tam Coc with fantastic scenery. That alone is worth the trip. The bike ride is better, especially because bikes are bad

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Overall very good

Overall this trip was very good, the temples were a bit under whelming at the start of the trip, while picturesque they are some what smaller then I imagined and are just small out buildings with statues of previous kings and family in them, nether the less an informative part of the trip. Next was lunch in a local restaurant, we were the first to arrive there and when we were there many more groups arriving so we were lucky as I imagine it gets busy. That aside the food was an all you can eat buffet with fresh food served and a vast variety. Next we did the boat trip down the river, very busy with and popular with many tourist groups how ever it wasn’t too over crowded considering. The boat last around 90 minutes between large cliffs and through low caves. The only disappointing Thing is that it wasn’t rice season so the pictures you see advertising aren’t quite accurate depending on what time of year you visit! Lastly was the cycling for around 45 minutes. You could either stay with the group or explore the local town yourself, some bikes were very good quality but useable nether the less. You cycle along the road for around 15 minutes then you can either turn back and go back along the road of head off road on a rough cycle track which takes you a more scenic route, which I did and was worth it. The track runs along the river and between mountains and far enough away from the road so that’s it’s tranquil again, a good experience. Maybe the best part of the trip was the guide HUY. Very honest with scenarios, for instance with people taking your photo graph doing various activities and if you pose you are then agreeing to buy or on the boat trip there are people trying to sell you snacks and drinks on boats and even if you don’t want one they’ll tell you that you should buy your personal rower something which he advised all the do it keep it and sell it on later so it’s best just to tip them, along with how much is acceptable should you wish to tip etc. HUY was also very knowledgable and answered any questions that were directed at him along the trip. As well as being extremely helpful before and after the trip by phoning me ahead to inform me how long the bus would be before pick up etc and was happy to drop me in a different location when the tour had finished and to a street that he recommended for good food! Definitely worth the money and a worthwhile trip.

Response from the operator: Dear Sir/Madam, On behalf of Swallow Travel, I would like to say thank you for your feedback. It will help us improve our services. We do hope to have a chance to organize tour for you in the soonest future. Best regards, Swallow Travel Team.

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