Private Tour: Ho Chi Minh City Full-Day Tour

Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

See the best of Ho Chi Minh City on this private full-day tour. In the morning, visit the historic Reunification Palace and War Remnants Museum, followed by the architectural treats of French colonial Notre Dame Cathedral and the Post Office. Enjoy the culinary delights of renowned Pho 2000, before visiting Giac Lam Pagoda, the bustling Chinese district of Cholon and Ben Thanh market - a shopping paradise!

Ho Chi Minh (formerly Saigon) is a fast paced city with a unique mix of French colonial architecture, Chinese influences, a modern entrepreneurial spirit and numerous temples. On this tour, you will take in the highlights of Ho Chi Minh starting with an exploration of Saigon's turbulent past with visits to the Reunification Palace and the War Remnants Museum.

The tour continues to Ho Chi Minh's finest examples of French colonial architecture with a visit to the Notre Dame cathedral and Post Office. Enjoy Vietnamese lunch at the renowned Pho 2000. Your Ho Chi Minh tour continues with a visit to Giac Lam Pagoda, the Cholon Chinese district. Tour concludes at the Ben Thanh market, practice your bargaining skills.

This tour operator is the 2007 Conde Naste winner of the Best Operator category in the World Saver Awards

Important note for cruise passengers disembarking at Phu My Port - Phu My Port is located in Vung Tau City, a two-hour drive from Ho Chi Minh City. This tour will revert to a half-day tour of Ho Chi Minh City, with pick-up and drop-off from Phu My Port. Please select this option at time of booking. Your half-day tour will include visits to the Reunification Palace, War Remnants Museum, Notre Dame Cathedral and Old Post office. Lunch will not be included.

USD $50.66

Review by: Stephen J M	January 2012
A great way to become familiar with the city. Wonderful guide. Good basic orientation. Thoroughly recommended.

Review by: Sekoman	November 2011
This is a must see tour on your first day! Not just for the highlights taken to but the opportunity to ask lots of questions of your guide to plan the rest of your visit. Our guide, Ming, was absolutely fantastic and gauging by the photos uploaded he is a common guide used - you will really enjoy this tour if lucky enough to have him too. HCM can be quite claustrophobic for children and spouses on the first day, but have a great tour guide really made for a settling in and really enjoyable day. Great food too! Thanks Ming

Review by: Gra	September 2011
Great and Duong the guide was so informative. The day was fantastic. Duong took us to a factory that sold beautiful art work. The makers were victims of agent orange and wow their works were out of this world. By supporting this factory brought us closer to the people. They were just wonderful. Really enjoyed the day!!!

Review by: Ralf R	September 2011
This was a great way to see the main highlights of Ho Chi Minh City in a day. A few points to bear in mind:

Review by: Robert P	August 2011
Superb guide. Good coverage of the city, well worth it. Highly recommend for first time visitor.

Review by: Jason H	August 2011
Brilliant guide, with excellent English and knowledge. A great way to see the sights free from stress!

Review by: David C	May 2011
Not bad but you could do this by walking around yourself. Not enough time at the war museum. Guide was good and tried to include local experience into the tour as well.

Review by: KATHRYN H	May 2011
Our day tour of Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam was fantastic! Our tour guide, Wong, was very informative and spoke excellent English.

Review by: Philip L	April 2011
This tour and our guide were excellent. We were met on the pier as our ship docked and taken to all of the sites promised. We loved the fact that our guide answered all of our questions but didn't have a canned presentation to give. Her English was excellent and easy to understand.

Review by: Sandra B	January 2011
This was a wonderful tour that we enjoyed a lot. We would recommend this. Our advice would be to take charge a little more, we spent considerable time at the Pagodas and Chinese Temples, (all really interesting) and much less time at the markets. In hind sight, we should have asked the tour guide to lessen the time at the temples and increase time at the markets. The guide had many skills and asked if we were sure we wanted to go to such places as the war museum and he prepared us for the graphic nature of it ( though, really nothing can prepare you for what we saw) It was very professional of him to ask us though and we were impressed. We spent a whole day and it was great being on a private tour. Lunch was wonderful and included in the price which was great. The tour guide left us alone for lunch which was also nice to have some time to ourselves. We saw a lot and learned a lot, it was a great full day. Very happy :-)

Review by: Kasmah A	January 2011
Not much of sightseeing places.

Review by: Ingrid L	December 2010
Good value for the money; responsible driver; a tour guide who knew her data on area and was fun; Mekong Delta is well worth a visit if you are in the Ho Chi Minh area; lunch was delicious

Review by: Daniel V	December 2010
Very well organized, punctual, excellent guide: to be recommended !!!

Review by: Natividad P. N	October 2010
excellent

Review by: John W	August 2010
Our guide was excellent and it was so nice to see all the sights and be picked up out the front of each place. A very enjoyable day.

Review by: Michael S, Australia	July 2010
Buffalo tours were the suppliiersubcontractor for this tour and as a coincidence had provided numerous transfers for us during our travels round Vietnam providing a stand out service. Tour guide was absolutley charming and fluent and as it was a personal tour just 2 of us flexible with our itineray after 3 days In Hue how many more pagodas do you want to see!. Renification Palace was interesting, war remnants Museum was haunting very graphic displays and photos! Post office and Cathedral worth the visit . We skipped the rest and went to Ben Thanh Markets for 3 hours great shopping althougth persistence of the stall holders gets a bit overwhelming especially when its 38 degrees!

Review by: kevin d, United Kingdom	June 2010
Guide was very good. beware the American war museum is not for the faint hearted. Lunch was very good if you like Vietnamese food.

Review by: Kevin D	June 2010
Guide was very good. beware the American war museum is not for the faint hearted. Lunch was very good if you like Vietnamese food.

Review by: Anonymous, Australia	May 2010
very good

Review by: Mark D	February 2010
The Reunification Palace was the only part worth it in the tour. The War Remnants Museum and its propaganda drove my wife and me to the nearest cafe after 10 minutes in the place. I thought the tour guide could have provided us with more information about the city, its history and better views than the some of the places he took us . He also dumped us off about two hours early.

Review by: Anonymous, Thailand	January 2010
Our whole family enjoyed the tour, especially our tour guide, Pham Thuy Duong Young, he was very pleasant and knowledgable.

Review by: RAGHAVENDRAN M	September 2009
The itinerary was not very good and not value for money. The shopping trip is a waste!

Review by: Anonymous, Australia	June 2009
Fantastic guide. Very knowledgeable and passionate about her country!

Review by: Christopher M, Australia	May 2009
For a first time visitor with limited time, this was an easy way to get around and see the main sights. The guide was friendly and very informative.

Review by: Romulo G, Philippines	October 2008
This tour saved us the trouble of going to these places ourselves! Although local travel agencies which were virtually everywhere close to our hotel offered the same tour at a much lower price, we felt we got our money's worth. Our very own van, no need to line up for the entrance tickets. We went to the key places in HCMC and the pace was just right. The lunch which came with the tour was excellent! The drinks were not included. What would have made the tour absolutely perfect is if our tour guide was a little more assertive in terms of providing information about HCMC. He was a little on the shy side, but he was extremely nice and accommodating. We highly recommend this tour to those who'd just like to sit back and enjoy Saigon leisurely.

Review by: Martin N, Philippines	October 2008
City is easy to tour on your own, but this is still worth doing early in your trip so as to get your bearings.

Review by: Christine G	October 2008
This tour saved us the trouble of going to these places ourselves! Although local travel agencies which were virtually everywhere close to our hotel offered the same tour at a much lower price, we felt we got our money's worth. Our very own van, no need to line up for the entrance tickets. We went to the key places in HCMC and the pace was just right. The lunch which came with the tour was excellent! The drinks were not included. What would have made the tour absolutely perfect is if our tour guide was a little more assertive in terms of providing information about HCMC. He was a little on the shy side, but he was extremely nice and accommodating. We highly recommend this tour to those who'd just like to sit back and enjoy Saigon leisurely.

Review by: Janusz M, Australia	September 2008
A very good possibility to explore a lot of important places in one day. Tour guide was representing a huge knowledge and spoke in easy to understand English. War Remnants Museum, Reunification Palace, and the Ben Thanh market were worth the visit. I recommend this trip for everyone.

Review by: Claudia G, Singapore	September 2008
Lovely, interesting tour with an English speaking guide.

Review by: Arkadiusz P	September 2008
A very good possibility to explore a lot of important places in one day. Tour guide was representing a huge knowledge and spoke in easy to understand English. War Remnants Museum, Reunification Palace, and the Ben Thanh market were worth the visit. I recommend this trip for everyone.

Review by: David C, Australia	August 2008
Overall experience is very good.

Review by: Anonymous, Ireland	August 2008
Most interesting. Great guide.

Review by: Kevin B	July 2008
Our tour guide was very friendly but we were not given information on the sights and were certainly rushed through some of these. We were led to believe it was a 10 hour tour but we were back in our hotel in 5 hours. Very expensive for what we got and feel we could have done it on our own.

Review by: Stacey W, United Kingdom	January 2008
This tour is definitely worth doing if you are short of time in HCMC. We personally had 6 days there and felt we could have had longer and got more information if we had done some of the sights ourselves as they are all within easy reach of the city. The Reunification Palace has guided tours regularly which are free of charge. Having said that, we were taken to places on this tour which we would not have seen had we not been with a guide which is why it is worth doing.

Review by: William S, United Kingdom	November 2007
Excellent tour guide.

Review by: WILLIAM S	November 2007
Excellent tour guide.

Review by: Denise S, Australia	October 2007
It's tough to tour Saigon on your own, and this trip allowed us to see so much in a short space of time. Our guide was excellent, and the transport was good. I would definitely recommend this tour to others.

Review by: Lorraine B, United Kingdom	October 2007
We had a private guide who spoke very good English and was very friendly. Nothing was too much trouble.

Review by: LORRAINE B	October 2007
We had a private guide who spoke very good English and was very friendly. Nothing was too much trouble.

Review by: Ian W, United Kingdom	September 2007
This trip is well worth doing. It is far better having a private guide and driver, as you can choose how long you wish to stay in the various areas of the trip. Our guide was very knowledgeable about the areas that we went to.

Review by: Lasantha D, Australia	September 2007
This was an excellent tour; I saw some of the historical aspects of Saigon. I had a driver and a tour guide all to myself.

Review by: Reginald T, Australia	June 2007
This was a great day out. Our guide and driver were efficient, friendly and helpful.

Review by: Anonymous	November 2006
Well organised and informative. Good restaurant for lunch.