Halong Bay or LAN Ha Bay
Exploring a pre cruise to either Halong Bay or LAN Ha bay. Both look beautiful with Halong Bay being a bit more touristy. We are looking at either the heritage-line As the boats are small and upscale. 2 nights 3 days. Anyone have an opinion between the 2 bays?
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You may have already found this webs site, but I'll post a link. I found it searching for the difference between the two bays.
https://www.paradisevietnam.com/en/travel-guides/lan-ha-bay-vs-halong-bay
After reading it, I'd choose Ha Long Bay because I'm more interested in the caves than in kayaking, which seems to be big at Lan Ha Bay.
I'll be interested in what others have to say. I'm sure someone must have gone to Lan Ha Bay and can comment.
[Also, the two bays are close so you may be able to get the boat to take you to both of them if you're going to do two nights and three days.]
MikeHenderson thank you. This is an excellent article. I like your suggestion on seeing whether the boat will venture into the other bay if we do the Halong Bay.
If we are going on the Viet Nam, Thailand, Cambodia tour on 10/22/25 is it worth going a day earlier to Hanoi and doing a 1/2 day or full day tour of the bay?
You need at least a day.
If you have the time, I think it would be nice to have an overnight on a private boat on Ha Long Bay. When we went, I could not make flight arrangements that allowed us to have an overnight on the bay, so we did a day trip. You can see what we did at https://www.mikeandjudytravel.com/2024-1Vietnam-01.htm
Scroll down a little bit and you will be at the section describing our trip to Ha Long Bay.
In any case, if you're going to fly all the way to Hanoi I don't think you should miss Ha Long Bay. It's really unique - and interesting.
We ended up booking an overnight in The Violet and am very much looking forward to this experience later this year.