Travelling to Vietnam April 2020

jake66

Myself and my wife are travelling to Hanoi on April 4th, to visit our daughter.
Everything paid for etc. Going for 12 days.
At this time we still intend to go but the Vietnamese are getting a bit twitchy. They are still allowing incoming flights but no travelling in on land.
If we go will we have to self- isolate when we return or are we mad to consider going at all??

irish_goat

I'm in the same boat. Due to fly to Hanoi on the 25th April from Chiang Mai.

Work have already told me I'll need to self isolate when I get home. They're looking at getting me a laptop to work from home.

There's an online form they're asking tourists to fill out too. https://tokhaiyte.vn/

Plan so far is to go ahead and travel but will see the craic in a few more weeks.

diceyreilly

Supposed to be going to Australia on Thursday to visit my sister/neices.

Stopping in Singapore for 17 hours. The flight changed after booking was supposed to be 1 hour stop over.

Not sure what to do. €1,000 down the can if I don’t go.

Singapore have a very good grasp on this.
They may be more worried about you, you may have to stay in the airport I would imagine.

abarkie

diceyreilly wrote: »

Supposed to be going to Australia on Thursday to visit my sister/neices.

Stopping in Singapore for 17 hours. The flight changed after booking was supposed to be 1 hour stop over.

Not sure what to do. €1,000 down the can if I don’t go.

Why dont you do the one hour change in Singapore

I have done it a couple of times to NZ and Australia

Gates are very close to each other

Last time our bags missed the flight but were out on the next flight on a different airline and we collected them next day at Auckland airport

diceyreilly

abarkie wrote: »

Why dont you do the one hour change in Singapore

I have done it a couple of times to NZ and Australia

Gates are very close to each other

Last time our bags missed the flight but were out on the next flight on a different airline and we collected them next day at Auckland airport

I’d love to. But got an email last week to say the that flights not going and you are now on this flight.
Hopefully they will sort me out with a hotel room for a few hours for a small bit of a kip and a shower.

I’ve decided to go unless things change dramatically between now and Thursday.

diceyreilly

Things changed. Now not going.

imokyrok

diceyreilly wrote: »

Things changed. Now not going.

That's wise. My daughter and her boyfriend moved to Vietnam a few weeks ago to teach English and rented an apartment. The timing couldnt have been worse. Now the most recent covid 19 patients have been European and Europeans are being treated with quiet hostility. To the extent that some restaurants have notices saying no foreigner allowed.

Its proving difficult to get work as everything as moved to online. I wish they would come home but having payed for 2 months rent upfront they are reluctant to give up yet to come home to no jobs.

jake66

Likewise imokyrok, our daughter went over in November 19.
All was going great but now with no teaching work and too much time on her hands its not so great.
There is a very good community of young, educated Irish people in Hanoi so she has no intention of coming home yet.
We've given up any hope of travelling out to see her though.
Hopefully insurance may soften the blow to the wallet. Time will tell.

imokyrok

jake66 wrote: »

Likewise imokyrok, our daughter went over in November 19.
All was going great but now with no teaching work and too much time on her hands its not so great.
There is a very good community of young, educated Irish people in Hanoi so she has no intention of coming home yet.
We've given up any hope of travelling out to see her though.
Hopefully insurance may soften the blow to the wallet. Time will tell.

Yes she has made a few friends over there of other temporary EU immigrants but is frustrated at not getting work. Especially after being offered $1.50 per class for online teaching while her British , less qualified peers were offered €8! She has another interview coming up on Wednesday. I'd say that will be make or break. She was so looking forward to this experience after years of working her way through to her Masters. But theres nothing to be done but suck it up given the times we're in.

imokyrok

jake66 wrote: »

Likewise imokyrok, our daughter went over in November 19.
All was going great but now with no teaching work and too much time on her hands its not so great.
There is a very good community of young, educated Irish people in Hanoi so she has no intention of coming home yet.
We've given up any hope of travelling out to see her though.
Hopefully insurance may soften the blow to the wallet. Time will tell.

I've sent you a PM btw.