Halong on Dragon Pearl Junk 2days 1night

The Dragon’s Pearl is the largest and latest to emerge from the Indochina Junk family. Modelled after the traditional junk boats that have been sailing the area since the 14th Century, the Dragon’s Pearl combines the beauty of traditional Vietnamese design with the best of modern conveniences, amounting to an unforgettable experience in a landscape unique in all the world for its serene splendor.

Fine dining, two spacious sundecks to laze and soak up Halong’s uninterrupted sunlight, richly adorned dining room, kitchen of professional standard, entertainment areas and deluxe cabins; onboard the Dragon’s Pearl the mastery of design and the quality of material are omnipresent, with hand-crafted teak and elements of stone and bronze evident wherever you set your eye. The junk may host up to 20 people and is ideal for parties for larger groups as well as families or friends travelling in Vietnam.

First Day : Hanoi – Halong bay – Dragon Pearl Junk ( L, D )

After you are collected from your hotel in Hanoi's city centre begins the 3-4 hour drive through the lush rice fields, agricultural lands and small country towns of the Red River Delta. Keep a look out for some of the quirks of Vietnamese traffic! There will be a rest break about halfway through the journey to stretch your legs and enjoy refreshments. At 12:00 you will embark at Hon Gai international harbour. Check in, quench your thirst with the complimentary welcome drink and after the cruise briefing the anchor is weighed and your trip begins. Lunch, a buffet offering a variety of Vietnamese and International dishes, is a feast for the senses. Meanwhile the cruise continues its leisurely pace across the glittering jewelled belt of Bai Tu Long bay, weaving through limestone islets half shrouded in endemic greenery. Spend the rest of the afternoon soaking up the sunlight on the pristine white sands of Hon Co Island or try kayaking for an up close experience of the karsts, or enjoy a refreshing swim in the surrounding area. At 18:00 return to the boat and at 19:00 enjoy a culinary tapestry of international and Vietnamese flavors at the buffet dinner served in the dining room. The rest of the evening is spent at your leisure.

Second day : Halong bay – Hanoi ( B, L )

Appreciate the gentle splendor of a Halong Bay sunrise before a light breakfast is served in the dining area. Visit the fishing village of Vung Vieng in a traditional bamboo boat, marvel at the simple ingenuity of the floating constructs as you are rowed through the Venice of Halong bay. The next hour before lunch is to be spent at your leisure, whether you prefer to swim in the emerald waters or lounge on the sundeck. At 10:00 savour an a la carte brunch before disembarking and a scenic drive through Dong Trieu province to Yen Duc village where a traditional water puppet show will be performed for your pleasure.

Notes:   This itinerary is subject to change without prior notice. Please get final confirmation from the sales staff before your departure. Promotions may apply, inclusions and exclusions might change – you will be informed of changes upon booking.

Inclusions :

+    Welcome drink

+    Free tea and coffee

+    Waters in each cabin

+    All meals on board

+    Service charge

+    Halong bay entrance fee and sightseeing fee

+    Insurance on board (terms and conditions apply),

+    English speaking guide

+    Kayak & Fishing

+   Value Added Tax

Exclusions:

+    Two -way shuttle bus (Hanoi- Halong & Halong - Hanoi)

+    Beverages

+    Tips and Personal Expenses

+    All other services not clearly mentioned

Children Policy

+   Only one (01) child under 4 years of age sharing bed with two (02) adults is allowed for FOC per cabin.

+   One child 2-6 years old sharing bed with two (02) adults and booking meals onborad is charged 20 USD for 2 day 1 night program or 35 USD for 3 day 2 night program

+   From 7- 12 years old, 50% of adult's charge will be applied.

+   Childen above 12 years old are charged as adults

Cancellation policy

+    More than 15 days prior to check-in: 10% of total rates.

+    From 14 to 2 days prior to check-in: 50% of total rates.

+    Less than 48 hours prior to check-in: 100% of total rates.

+    No-Show: 100% of total rates.

Shuttle bus: Daily departure from Hanoi centre at around 07.45 AM - 08.30 AM

+   Adults: US$ 14.5 per person

+   Children 04 -12 years old: US$ 7.5 per child

+   Children under 4 years old: Free of charge

Check-in : 12.00 - 12.30 PM

Check-out : 11.30 AM

Guide: English Speaking Guide

THINGS TO BRING : Sun Glasses, Sun Block, Wide Brim Hat, Insect Repellents, Swimming Suits, Comfortable clothes & shoes, Original Passport  

Last Minute Promotion from Hanoi Victory HOtel - The best hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter near Hoan Kiem lake from 23th May to 30th July, 2014

 Dear Valued Guests,

First of all, Warmest greeting from HANOI VICTORY HOTEL and send the best wish to you!

Welcome to HanoiVictory Hotel

Today we are very happy to update you the Last minutes deal that offering very special price from 22th May, 2014 to 30th July, 2014 as below:

Standard Double/Twin room: 25 USD

Superior Double/Twin room : 30 USD

Deluxe Double/Twin City View room : 38 USD

Deluxe Family City view room : 43 USD

The room rate is included daily breakfast, 02 small water, tea & coffee, wifi internet, service charge and all tax.

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Please feel free to contact me if you need further information.

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Hotline: + 84 914 258 053 OR + 84 988 751 003

Tel: + 84 4 3938 2666

Email: info@hanoivictoryhotel.com

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Newly opened from 2011, Hanoi Victory Hotel is brand new boutique hotel in Hanoi, situated of the heart of Hanoi Old Quarter. The Hanoi Victory Hotel is a boutique 3 star hotel that offers elegant rooms including some with  views of the city and large balconies. We pride ourselves on offering the best service to our customers.

Conveniently located in the heart of Hanoi’s ancient street, just 1 minute walk to the famous Hoan Kiem lake ( Restored Sword lake ). This strategic position makes this small hotel the ideal solution for those travelling to City of Peace for pleasure or business. Many of the main spots of architectural and cultural interest as well as the most important business and political centres can easily be reached on foot or with a short ride on taxi. Around this corner there are a great number of small Vietnamese restaurants, shops and boutiques to discover the real lifestyle of Hanoi’s people.

Simple but elegant, Hanoi Victory Hotel is characterized by a roof bar where breakfast is served in the morning and during the day a bar lounge is at disposal of the guests. Upon entering Hanoi Victory Hotel for the first time, the guests will be surprised by the comfortable and the refined atmosphere, which will immediately give the feeling to be right at home. The furnishing is elegant with an array of light colours and extreme care has been taken with the details

Our hotel is serviced by an elevator and all rooms have wooden floors, windows and are equipped with wood furniture in modern and luxurious style. Also all our rooms have IDD telephones, flat screen television, modern air-conditioning, mini-bar, luxurious transparent bathroom, hair dryers, free high speed internet access and Wifi. In addition all rooms have coffee and tea making facilities. Service is efficient and attentive to all needs of the guests, assuring maximum tranquillity for their stay.

Hanoi Victory Hotel is great choice for all discerning tourists & business travelers staying at hotel in Hanoi Old Quarter. Come to our hotel you will be very satisfied with our outstanding services and the hospitality provided by a team of professional staff and management.

We are is not first hotel in Hanoi but we are number one hotel of great value and great service hotel in Hanoi. Happy Travels.

TONY BUI ( Mr Bùi Văn Hướng ) - Sales Manager

Cellphone: 84 914258053     or   84 988751003

Tel: 84 4 39382666            Fax : 84 4 39381917

Add: No 3, Hang Quat street, Hoan Kiem district, Hanoi, Vietnam

Email:   info@hanoivictoryhotel.com          

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Dong Xuan Market, a busy trade center in Hanoi - Hotels in Hanoi

The renowned Dong Xuan Market in downtown Hanoi has long been a favorite, a busy trade center that attracted buyers from many other places ...

Dong Xuan Market, or Cho Dong Xuan, is the oldest and largest market in Hanoi. It is located at Dong Xuan Street, at the end of Hang Dao Street, on the northern part of the Old Quarters. The original building was constructed in 1889, on the site of one of Hanoi's lakes. It is a street market spreading over a surface of 600 square meters, occupying half of the street. Approximately fifty businesses are operating the forty stands selling food, artifacts, souvenirs and tour packages among others.

If you want to shop and at the same time peeping into the corridors of history, then Dong Xuan Market in Hanoi is the place for you. This large multi- storied market sells anything and everything. From fresh foods to home appliances, you will have it all here. But, what is more fascinating about this market is its historical significance which you still can experience if you visit this place. It witnessed fierce battle between the Vietnamese resistance units and the French. Dong Xuan Market is also a historical place where there was a combat of soldiers of “Quyết tử quân” (“Deciding to die”) against the French attack to the heroic zone I, in February 1947. Being the biggest market and locating in the downtown, Dong Xuan Market is a crowded and bustling exchanging, tracsaction, business place of the capital.

It was built in 1889, in the basis of combination and removal of two markets, Cau Dong and Bach Ma on the shore of To River. It was positioned in area of Dong Xuan Ward with 5 vault-like roofs, steel frames; each frame is 52m long, 19m high supplying area for hundreds of goods.

Typical characteristics

Unlike other Hanoi night markets selling agricultural products in Long Bien and Quang Ba, Dong Xuan Market has been mainly created for tourists. With its eleven stalls, the brightly-lit food zone is the most animated, serving late night guests until early morning. There are numerous kinds of goods and products selling in the market. The crowded and dense situation of Dong Xuan Market was highly praised in many old folk song of Hanoi. This large three-story market to the north of Hanoi's Old Quarter offers a varied cornucopia of goods of all sorts. Hundreds of stalls, with thousands of workers, trade extremely fresh produce, dried foods, household goods, appliances and more. The market has an interesting history. It saw fierce fighting between Vietnamese resistance units and the French. Later, in 1994, the market was destroyed in a fire that resulted in the death of five people and the loss of an estimated USD4.5 million in stock.

River networks formed the economic hub of Hanoi by providing a system of waterways which fed the city and markets. Located at the confluence of the To Lich and Red Rivers, the Dong Xuan Market was once one of the busiest urban areas in Southeast Asia.

You might have your curiosity and appetite titillated as you try to choose from a wide selection of exotic Hanoi dishes: fried frog or fish meat pastes, rice and duck meat soup, fried rice, tiet canh (duck blood uncooked, only if you have a brave heart and strong stomach!), rice vermicelli and beef cooked in the south Vietnamese style and even just beefsteak and bread. Here you can find real Hanoi food, as favored by true-blue Hanoians. The dishes might cost a little more than elsewhere but, you have to taste it to believe it, they are truly delicious, such as a steamy hot dish of pho cuon  (beef wrapped in long wispy strips of rice vermicelli, served with aromatic herbs and spicy sweet-sour fish sauce).

In artifact shops on Dong Xuan Street you will find traditional Dong Ho drawings, Bat Trang ceramics. Binh Da embroideries and laces, and sand paintings, the new craze of Hanoi’s young people. For a modest sum, you can choose one of those ‘raw’ pictures with different designs and patterns.

The trend...

Like other markets such as Sapa’s Cho Tinh, Nam Dinh’s Cho Vieng, Lang Son’s Cho Ky Lua and Can Tho’s Cho Tay Do, Dong Xuan Market has been set up to meet the needs of locals and tourists. With the advantage of having long history of culture, traditions and being located in the community of ancient quarter of Hanoi, Dong Xuan Market is one of attractive tourist destinations of the capital and is the only one of Hanoi’ s many efforts to develop tourism and attract international visitors.

To advertise the image of Dong Xuan Market, creating favorable conditions for citizens to sell and buy products (consumer products and handicrafts), Dong Xuan JSC is now organizing to exploit tours at the market. Currently, Dong Xuan travel is now establishing tours to exploit potentials of tourism of the market to develop the tourism of culture, research for development of tourist products. From 2010 on wards, the company will build up Dong Xuan Market to archive the standards of tourist destination of the city; research development of services and accommodations of visitors.

How to get to Dong Xuan Market
From the north bank of the Ho Hoan Kiem, take Hang Dao Street. Along the way, it changes name to Hang Ngang Steet and then Hang Duong Street. Eventually it becomes Dong Xuan Street. You will see Dong Xuan Market on the right side of the road. The distance is about 400 meters.

Where to stay

Hanoi Victory hotel is your best choice. Hanoi Victory Hotel is one of the greatest three stars hotels in Hanoi which is hightly  appreciated for the comfort and luxury. If you are going to Hanoi Vietnam in order to find out about Hanoi beauty, culture values,  or simply want to have a happy and useful Hanoi tour – Welcome to Hanoi Victory hotel, the best hotel in hanoi, where you can rest most comfortably with perfect services.
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