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Ha Long Bay Day Cruise – Kayaking, Sung Sot Cave & Titop Island
5.0(1,119)12 hours
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From$39
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Ha Long Bay Cruise Day Tour - best selling: Kayaking, Swimming, hiking & Lunch
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Ha Long Bay Cruise Day Tour - best selling: Kayaking, Swimming, hiking & Lunch is a 13-hour boat trip in Ha Long Bay, booked through Viator. From $23. Starts 8:00 am and 11:30 am. Free cancellation up to 24 hours before. Viator’s Worry-Free guarantee: if the tour runs late and you miss your ship, Viator gets you to the next port.
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About this excursion
7.40-8.20AM: Pick up from hotel in Hanoi old quarter & transfer to the boat (on request)
11.30-12.15: Check-in onboard. Passing beautiful landscapes in Halong bay.
12.45: Enjoy a delicious Vietnamese cuisine of fresh seafood.
13.45: Visiting Surprise cave - the most beautiful cave in Halong bay.
14.45: Do kayaking to explore amazing place in Halong bay where is the best place for kayaker, this is the most beautiful lagoons in Ha Long bay as well.
15.30: Visiting Titop island: swimming or climbing up to the top & enjoy amazing Panorama views of Halong bay.
16:15: Cruising back to habour. Enjoy amazing sunset & landscapes on the way back.
17:30 -18.00: Disembark Halong bay habour. Transfer back to Hanoi (on request)
Around 21.00 - 21.30: Arrive in Hanoi old quarter. finish!
What’s included in this excursion
Included
- Swimming
- Note: With 12.00PM option, customers need to contact us before 9.00AM on departure day
- Note: With 11.30AM option, customer need to send passport information before 9.00AM on departure day
- English speaking guide
- If customer's international cruise ship habour is Halong international cruise port, we can pick up
- With option & price of 11.30AM: Just pick up & drop off at Tuan Chau Marina habour only
- Note: Please contact us in advance by hotline/whatsaap/zalo or email to confirm pick up information
- With option & price of 8.00AM: Pick up & drop off if customers stay at hotels in Hanoi old quarter
- Round trip shuttle bus from Hanoi is included If customers book & pay for 8.30AM option
- Restroom on board
- Lunch onboard
Not included
- Optional: Surcharge: 15USD more per person on the lunar New year holiday: from Feb 05 to 09th, 2027
- Ha Long Bay Entrance fees: around 13.50 USD (must be paid in advance before check-in)
- Optional: Bamboo boat – approx. 80,000 VND (~USD3.5) per person
- Optional: Kayaking – 80,000 VND per person (~US$3.5), 2 people per kayak
- Note: Guests can choose either kayaking or bamboo boat—both cannot be done (optional).
- Tips & Other Personal Expense
- Water and any Drinks onboard
Know before you go
Accessibility
- Service animals allowed
Health & fitness
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- Things to bring: Umbrellar/ Hat, shirts (protect skins in the hot summer & strong sun, shoes/ sandals/ flip flops, swimming suits, towels, small money, sunglasses, suncream, camera, small waters (glass water bottle/thermos water bottle), snacks, raincoats, insect spray...
What to bring
- Surcharge: 15USD per person on Lunar New year holiday: from Feb 05 to 09th, 2027 (Please pay cash directly on tour)
- But follow up the policy of Halong bay administration about environment, they don't allow to bring plastic bottle water to the boat & visit spots.
- But tourists can bring multi-use bottle/ glass bottle/ thermos bottle...Or you can leave your plastic water bottle in your bag to pass the gate!
Other
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
- Jackets (in the Winter).
- If customers don't stay in Hanoi old quarter, pls come to Hanoi Opera house, 01 Trang Tien street before 7.30AM or Hanoi Silk Path hotel, 195 Hang Bong street at 7.45AM or Embassy hotel, 166 Tran Quang Khai street at 8.20AM to get on the bus.
- Do not tip if asked by local people, we cannot stop them but warning to our tourist)
- Ha Long Bay is so beautiful and it's crowded every day, especially in summer and weekends -> it is often overcrowded by Vietnamese tourists in summer.
- But we’re the smallest group tour in Halong bay
- Sometimes, you will see garbages on Ha Long Bay due to changes in flowing water and tides, garbages from other places come to to Ha Long Bay.
- Government, local people, travel companies... are trying their best to clean up Ha Long Bay.
- For the best trip, we need your cooperation. Please tell us all the problems, questions if you have. Our tour guide is always there to help you.
- We also hope that customers will respect all other tourists in the group, respect the culture, timetable and common principles...
- Water is free on the bus.
- If customers stay in Hanoi old quarter but don't see their hotel/ address in the drop list to book -> No worries, please choose any hotel option that you can see in the list just to finish the booking, then we will come to pick up.
- Customers need to contact us via email/ phone/ zalo/ whatsaap to confirm the pick up information in this case as soon as possible
- Customers don't stay in Hanoi old quarter, please choose any hotel option that you can see/ or choose "hotel is not listed" just to finish the booking, then contact by emaill/ phone/ whatsaap/ zalo...-> we will recommend the best pickup point then.
- NOTE: From July 01, 2026, the Vietnamese government stopped all the tourist buses to come inside Hanoi Old Quarter.
Where this excursion starts
Meeting point & pickup
- 7.40-8.20AM: Pick up at hotels in Hanoi old quarter (time to pick up depending your hotel locations...).
- Customers stay on International cruise trip: If your cruise ship habour name is Halong international cruise port, we can arrange the cruise trip that is the same habour & customers just need to walk from your ship to our pick up point around 11.30AM (just 5 minutes).
- If your cruise ship habour is Cai Lan port, customers need to take a taxi to our Tuan Chau Marina habour at 11.30AM (20 minutes tranfer) or please contact us in advance to arrange pick up services with additional fees.
- So, we will confirm exactly pickup point and time before the departure date.
- Pickup and drop-off services will be provided along the following streets: Hai Bà Trưng, Tràng Thi, Phùng Hưng, Hàng Đậu, Trần Nhật Duật, Trần Quang Khải, Nhà Hát Lớn, Tràng Tiền, Lý Thường Kiệt...
When it runs
Runs Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Starts 8:00 am and 11:30 am.
Schedule checked Oct 29
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