Visit Ha Long

Halong Bay was a magic place but sadly very dirty and it doesn’t seem cruise companies care about preserving it. We got to witness housekeeping from a boat throwing all the rubbish into the water, which was heartbreaking to see. I hope the local environmental authorities take measures around litterers.

Laura Australia

Ha Long Bay is a wonderful and unique natural seascape. Unfortunately the sea is somewhat dirty due to the many excursion boats. The Lan Ha Bay route is much better: less crowded with boats, cleaner and just as wonderful as Ha Long.

ASPASIA Greece

Completely abandoned except for a few creepy men. Do not stay here! We went to two different beaches and didn’t see a single person. We walked 20 minutes from our hotel into “town” and also saw no one.

Charlotte United Kingdom

Spent 3 days in Halong, main purpose was to do a 2 day 1 night Halong Bay cruise, which we did. The weather is not the fault of Halong but hotel, where we stayed 3 nights, staff said that March, April, weather is overcast, a lot of wet fog, quite miserable, which is what we found. Explored quite a bit of HL, nothing of interest, wouldn’t recommend it and couldn’t wait to leave.

Mark New Zealand

Halong bay is wonderful, but Verdure cruise was overpriced for the service. The food was not all Vietnamese as advertised and water was very limited. We were only offered one small bottle each over the 2 days. In fact what they call their 2 day cruise was actually less than 24 hours on the boat. Take your own alcohol if you like a drink because te onboard prices were outrageous - for example 900000 Vietnamese dong for a bottle of wine that costs 1500 to 200000 on land.

Kali

We had looked at many options for sailing on Halong Bay and read descriptions from many sources. Based on what we read, we chose Essence Grand Halong Bay Cruise and we do not regret that choice at all because it met all our expectations and more. We felt like royalty the entire time.

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