Received the 2026 preview brochure
Looks like Tauck wants to give its toughest competitor a run for their money.
Look at this trip plus South Korea and Japan and the updated Vietnam trip. Very interesting itinerary. The highlights and changes are very similar.
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Who is Tauck's toughest competitor? A&K?
Which trip are you referring to? There's no link on "this trip".
The 2026 Vietnam trip description on the website looks the same as when we did the tour in 2024.
I am referring to the 16 days The Mekong, Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Highlights #2 and #3 are the competitor's supposedly "exclusives". I wonder if Tauck is finally going to Ha Long Day.
The new ones are Arctic Days and Northern Lights( 12 days long with reindeer ride, these must be very tamed ones suitable for the mobility challenged), Spotlights on Australia( ten days long, a very short trip with five days in the cities and three days at Port Douglas), Sakura Seas with Ponant,Spotlights on South Africa( Another short 9 days trip) and A Week in Mexico City and Oaxaca.
Some are very long and some are really short.
How was the night market at Saigon and the Mekong waterway cruise?
Who is their competitor!
I don’t understand what you are getting at Henry.
Anyway, we went on a Mekong River cruise this year and it was really good. It did cover some places we had been before, mainly places like Angkor Wat, but otherwise all new and places off the beaten track where it felt more real than on our previous tour with Tauck to Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. Our tour was a one off with a specialist company and we went with a group of friends. It was extremely reasonably priced, great food and excellent luxury hotels beginning and end of the boat trip. The tour guides were as good as any we have had with Tauck. It’s a shame that Laos has just received such bad publicity about spiked alcohol deaths, that will surely put people off traveling there. Laos was dropped from Tauck’s itineraries previously they told me because flights were limited for customers to get home.
There are other companies out there, you just have to find one that is a fit for your budget, fitness and itinerary and comfort level.If you don’t find Tauck satisfactory Henry, don’t travel with them.
I must say, you can’t beat Tauck when it comes to things like their cancellation policies and not messing about with discount prices like say, Viking do.
I mainly travel with Tauck, but like other well traveled people who post here, it’s not now the only company I travel with, you learn this from traveling and talking with others.
To help w confusion. Tauck has added back tractor they use to do that included Laos but didn’t go to Thailand. It was marketed in a brochure they just mailed out without much detail on the itinerary. So it’s unclear if Halong Bay is included (but guessing it might be if it was in the original tour). Hope this helps. Website may not be updated as of yet.
What is a tractor!
Probably autocorrect.
The vehicle Oliver Wendell Douglas rode in the opening to Green Acres.
Sorry about that. Yes that was an auto correct. Ugh. Meant it to say added back a tour they use to do.