Good Morning SarahS,
Customers choosing the Vietnam Add on (such as yourself) will be accompanied by a local guide. The UK tour manager will fly from home with people who are on the main tour.
Board basis for the Vietnam add on is bed and breakfast with lunch included on day 15.
The day by day itinerary for the Add-on is listed below:
Day 14 - Luang Prabang to Hanoi
Breakfast at hotel (as main group)
Your guide will meet you at your hotel and transfer you to the airport for your flight to Hanoi
Upon arrival in Hanoi your guide will be waiting to transfer you to your hotel for the next 3 nights.
Accommodation: Sunway Hotel
Day 15 - Hanoi
Breakfast at hotel
Begin your Story of Hanoi with a visit to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum. Here, you will hear about the man who led Vietnam’s campaign for independence from French colonial rule. Next, visit the imperial citadel, the apex of regional political power for more than a millennium where research and excavation is still underway. You will then visit the One Pillar Pagoda. After a Vietnamese lunch, head to another 11th century relic, the Temples of Literature, which was built as a homage to the Chinese scholar Confucius.
The tour continues with a 30-minute cyclo-tour through Hanoi’s bustling Old Quarter, a place where Hanoians buy everything from noodles to light fixtures to Buddha statues. The quarter’s 36 streets were named for the product that were sold from their shops. Today, vendors on Tin and Bamboo Streets still sell the same wares. After exploring the old quarter’s shady alleyways, sip a strong Vietnamese coffee in a café overlooking Hoan Kiem Lake – an important symbol in Vietnamese folklore. Snap a photograph of the downtown skyline before returning to your hotel at around 4.30pm.
*Please note the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum is closed every afternoon and on Monday and Friday*
Day 16 - Hanoi
Breakfast at hotel. Day at leisure
Day 17 - Hanoi
Breakfast at hotel . Morning at leisure . Late check out.
This evening your guide will meet you at your hotel and transfer you to the airport for your flight.
Day 18 - Hanoi to UK
Arrive UK
Kindest Regards,
Amy