Royal Palace Cruise 2 days/ 1 night

We booked this trip from Melbourne online, we found many good reviews and feedback of this junk. Tour guide and driver picked us from hotel about 8:30, and then picked some tourists in other hotel. Bus started for this trip about 9:15. Sitting on the bus and went around the old quarter that was terrible feeling, crowded and polluted the air from full moto-bikes from streets. We spent near 3 hours on the high way and arrived the pier about 12:15. after quick checked in on board, we had cabin on the second floor, it was nice view and quiet cabin. We had served 3 main meals: lunch, dinner and lunch all the meal have different food, they made sure you have chance to enjoyed all food there. Excellent activities on board, on first day, we visited cave and swimming and on the second day, you visited floating villages, tai chi, cooking demonstration. We liked this triple very much and very impressive from tour guide, his name Huy, he was wonderful guide with fluently English, skillful and extensive knowledge. He helped me to understand about Viet Nam country and people. I would like to recommend this trip to all.

We chose Royal Palace Cruise from recommend of our friend who had returned from this trip. When we arrived in Ha Noi and we booked this trip from a travel agency, It was easy to book this trip with the help from seller at this office. Tour guide and driver picked us from my hotel as the schedule and then they picked in some hotels and tour started. Good bus with air-condition, bus rode on new high way, When we turned up, bus stopped near the pier. We had qick checked with the help from crew and tour guide for carrying our luggage. We were imppressive about the this tradiotional junk and facility. when we got the room ( cabin on cruise ), I was very supprised because it was very clean, quiet, and cozy boat, from this cabin we can see the view of the bay. With 2 days 1 night on board, we had all good time to visit and join all the activities from the boat has: cave, do kayaking, swimming, cooking demonstration, Tai Chi ( in very early morning ). All very good and professional arrangement. We liked the cave and do kayaking very much, we took many photos from the cave with panorama view of lagoon. Food was excellent with sea food and Vietnamese food, I liked vietnamese food because it was very nice decor and tasty food. We wished we could have stayed for longer. Highly recommend this cruise for all tourist.

I was totally impressed with the whole trip as it was so well organised all the way through from beginning to end. All stages were efficiently timed resulting in a lovely relaxing break with no worries. The activities organised were great fun in a spectacular surrounding, totally awesome scenery and a wonderful visit to a massive cave, unbelievable! Lots of well deserved superlatives here! The food served at all mealtimes surpassed my expectations, delicious and good quality ingredients cooked with skill. The boat was good, the room was nice enough and, of course, had a super view; the view of the sunset in Halong Bay from my bedroom window is something I will remember forever. Our guide, Du, was a charming young man and a practiced karaoke singer :-) managing to encourage everyone to participate in the evening fun and shepherding all of us safely throughout the trip. The kayaking was fun and gave us an opportunity to actually see the islands close up. The boat staff were very professional, all charming and welcoming. The whole trip was faultless, the only regrettable thing was having to leave....A trip par excellence!

Outstanding trip on a nice boat with cozy cabins, great food and an outstanding tour Guide, Quy! His knowledge about the area and the country as well as his personality made this trip an unique experience. Highly recommended to do this trip. He is very professional, he try to let everyone enjoy the trip especially when my dad need more rest and need more time to climb up and down the cave we went on second day, he never shows impatiently. I would definitely suggest Royal Palace Cruise. It was amazing trip.

We spend 2 days / 1 night on Royal Palace Cruise, the boat was old but well maintained, the cabin was incredible, comfortable, clean, spacious and a great view of Ha Long Bay. Meals on board were delicious and plentiful. Ha Long Bay is the most breathtaking places on earth, we were so excited to have this journey at the end of our 3 weeks away to relax and refresh in such a beautiful quiet area. There were a lot of other boats around but never felt crowded as, I’ve read in posts on TripAdvisor. Our first stop was a pearl farm were you which our the pearls are cleaned and turned into jewels or you can take out a canoe for 1/2 hour. We chose the canoe and paddled around the bay to explore a little more, the water was warm and would have liked to go for a swim but with limited time we just paddled our way through the water in piece and quiet and took in the scenery. 2nd stop Ti Top Island very small and congested, we had the option of climbing 400 stairs to the top or swim, we chose swimming but should have done the climb to see the view and not swim in pollution. We missed sunset but sunrise was magnificent before having breakfast and travelling to Sung Sot Cave which was amazing. We then returned to the boat to head back to the wharf and waited for our transfer to Hanoi. We would have liked to spend more time on Ha Long to explore more islands and caves but time was against us. We would like to recommend this trip to you.