3 Super Useful Tips To Improve Hanoi Tourist

 It's where all the expats in Hanoi live, who mostly consist of English teachers. Another area of town that you may find yourself in is called Tay Ho (translated to ‘West Lake'). The city's tourism income hit VND86 trillion (US$4 billion) last year, accounting for 34 percent of the country's tourism earnings.

Tourism contributes 11 percent to the city government's total revenue. Tourists who are lost in Vietnam or frustrated with a poor service can now call a new travel hotline operated by state-owned telecom giant VNPT. As one of the biggest travel companies in Hanoi, Hanoi tourist Travel Company is now considered a core member of the Hanoi tourist Corporation, the pride of the city's tourism industry.

We've checked Hanoi off our list, and we are glad to have it behind us. While I'm sure many will beg to differ from our opinions and find critiques in our experiences, that is perfectly fine by us. As I noted, we can only speak for ourselves and we by no means think that our opinions are facts and the rules. More people, but more structure, more pollution, but less noise, and of course, many more smiles.

We left earlier than scheduled to return to the familiar and friendly surroundings of Thailand. We wanted to visit Vietnam, and we have now done that. So, to sum it all up for you.

After, we end with 5-7 days in Chiang Mai in northern Thailand where we plan to call home at some point in our lives. Then we do a side trip for 4-5 days to an unfamiliar destination (I will call this the Middle Trip). Having utterly fallen in love with Thailand and all things Thai, our formula these last 4 trips is to arrive from the US to Bangkok for 2-3 days to shake the jet lag.

We've done Europe (7 countries) over 15 times, and we expanded our repertoire to Southeast Asia beginning in 2013. As Texans, unlike so many of our brethren, we choose to broaden our horizons instead of living in a bubble of familiarity. We are travel junkies, and vacation time or PTO is what we live for.

So for everyone reading this, it's good to do your research but at the same time your experience is yours to make. All the service we got was a lot better than we get back here at home to be honest. We were never spoken to rudely or distrustful way.

I still need to get to HCMc, I heard it's incredible! That's what I heard about people from Hanoi from the lovely people I met in Sapa. TLDR: the name Saigon predates the French and the South isn't eager to adopt for their city the name of the leader that killed so many Southerners in a tragic civil war, whose triumph led to both the decline of Saigon as a world city and terrible famines for the country as a whole.