Honeymoon advised - Swallow travel Company

davo2001

hi all,

We are looking to book our honeymoon soon for Vietnam and were thinking of going with Swallow Travel.

http://swallowtravel.com/

Does anyone have any experience with them, good or bad?! Can't really fine anything on them.

CBFi

Haven't heard of them but just had a very positive experience with Trailfinders

salmocab

CBFi wrote: »

Haven't heard of them but just had a very positive experience with Trailfinders

Exact same here.

annoyedgal

Hi, We just booked our vietnam honeymoon. booked our own flights with Emirates them used a south east asian based travel company called Indochina voyages to book internal flights, transfers, hotels and trips. We kept tweaking package till we got what we wanted. They have been great to deal with and have excellent tripadvisor reviews.
personally found trail finders expensive, with limited hotel options and they kept trying to put us on a group tour. They are definitely good for flights though.

davo2001

annoyedgal wrote: »

Hi, We just booked our vietnam honeymoon. booked our own flights with Emirates them used a south east asian based travel company called Indochina voyages to book internal flights, transfers, hotels and trips. We kept tweaking package till we got what we wanted. They have been great to deal with and have excellent tripadvisor reviews.
personally found trail finders expensive, with limited hotel options and they kept trying to put us on a group tour. They are definitely good for flights though.

Thanks for the info, I found trailfinders a bit expensive also. We will be looking to book the flights ourselves too. How much did you get them for in the end and what route do you plan taking? ( if you don't mind me asking that is!)

solerina

davo2001 wrote: »

Thanks for the info, I found trailfinders a bit expensive also. We will be looking to book the flights ourselves too. How much did you get them for in the end and what route do you plan taking? ( if you don't mind me asking that is!)

You really should just DIY it. Vietnam is an amazing country and its very easy to get about, there is no need at all to have someone else do any of it for you. I would recommend starting in the North (Hanoi is much more interesting than HCMC, in my opinion). Include a visit to Sapa (we booked in Hanoi), Halong Bay (we booked Indochina Junk in advance via their website-amazing), Hoi An (loved it). These were the high lights of our 3.5 week in VN

Only part we didn't book ourselves was the flights - we booked through trailfinders.

fits

what sort of budget would you be looking at in Vietnam?

we spent a fortune on a not particularly luxurious but absolutely fantastic holiday in new Zealand last year. So we are wary of costs for honeymoon.

solerina

fits wrote: »

what sort of budget would you be looking at in Vietnam?

we spent a fortune on a not particularly luxurious but absolutely fantastic holiday in new Zealand last year. So we are wary of costs for honeymoon.

We booked our flights fairly late so didn't get them cheap but they cost 2200 for two. After that its up to you, we mainly booked as we went along (a day or two in advance for hotels, trains, flights) and generally stayed in 4 star hotels with pools and breakfast for 15 euro per night (for 2 people). Its very cheap so I wouldn't really worry about costs.....and it is certainly worth visiting VN !!

annoyedgal

We spent just over 800 each for flights and are flying via dubai. We are flying in and out of HCMC but in retrospect we should have flown in there and out of Hanoi.
Our route is HCMC and a two night tour on the mekong delta. then hanoi and halong bay, Han oi and then internal flight back to HCMC for home.