Customer reviews and what they say

The Bassac Boat was excellent. We should have had a third night. The food and service was superb. In fact we couldn't eat all the food offered.. Our guide was excellent as was our waiter.

I was disappointed with the tour when I realised that there were tribes to visit, more animals to study and parts of the country I could have got special permission to travel in

I used Inside Vietnam because of a very good experience with Inside Japan but was a little disappointed. In particular the standard of English of the guides was very low although I appreciate that a party of two will not get the best guides. I also found we were overburdened with guides with not enough free time. The guide for the first half of the trip seemed more interested in having an easy time than trying to give us a good experience. Several places on the itinerary he omitted and when challenged said they were not interesting with just local people and markets. He suggested we might miss the early morning monks alms collecting in Luang Prabang and he tried to persuade us to employ him during our free time, exactly what we wanted to avoid. but the itinerary was good and the hotels better thsn we had expected.