Customer Travel Tips for Ho Chi Minh
Customer Travel Tips for Ho Chi Minh
Read a selection of great customer tips provided by HostelBookers customers like you
30 Nov 2018
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Using bus is better than taxi
Liked: Good city for party and living life is not high.
Disliked: Traffic is a nature of this city at rush hour
27 Nov 2018
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Partying / nightlife
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Bring your map belong with you
Liked: Friendly people, things not too expensive when compare to Thailand and other countries.
Disliked: Some place cannot speak english and you need to use body language
25 Nov 2018
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Partying / nightlife
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Better travel on Jan and Jun, that is the good time to travel
Liked: This city is good for travelling and discover the history from Vietnam war
Disliked: Nope
27 Nov 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Enjoy yourself
Liked: The vibe and accessibility.
Disliked: No.
31 Jul 2017
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
City break
Partying / nightlife
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Visiting friends or family
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Negotiate to and don’t listen to any Vietnamese approaching to you
Liked: Great match between Asia & Europe. So historic as well
Disliked: Annoying cyclos, bike and taxi asking for service
29 Mar 2017
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Would recommend the War Remnants Museum
Liked: Great museums and pretty parks.
Disliked: Very hard to cross the road!
06 Feb 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
Business / conference
Events / festivals
Partying / nightlife
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Visiting friends or family
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Eat all the foods!
Liked: Love the complete chaos of HCMC, which, at first glance looks like madness but somehow it all still works very well.
Disliked: Pollution
02 Feb 2017
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
City break
Partying / nightlife
Relaxation / spa
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: Make sure you have plenty to drink and eat while around.
Liked: The people and weather
Disliked: The city was very busy around new year. Although busy and incredible experience x
10 Jan 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Beach / sunbathing
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: Mind your properties. Be smart about the reasonable price during shopping. Bring masks for the trip.
Liked: Cheap. Local tour to Mekong River is fun.
Disliked: Too many motorbikes, the air quality is poor. A bit difficult to cross the roads. Have to be very careful towards my properties. Local shops always try to rise the price for tourists
04 Jan 2017
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Travel in dry season!
Liked: Learning history of the vietnamese war and the development after the war.
Disliked: Air polluted with dust, loud noise in transportation
30 Oct 2016
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Romantic getaway
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Don't be scared to cross the roads. Just go.
Liked: Many vietnamese food and coffee places to choose from.
Disliked: Too much pollution from the motorbikes.
19 Sep 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: Be ready to walk
Liked: Rather structured in its transportation system. Easy to get around
Disliked: Nil.
18 Sep 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
41+
Customer Travel Tip: Get AC
Liked: I liked the food, the war stuff and people.
Disliked: HOT and no mass transit yet.The place is a bit boring unlike Thailand, if you are not into nature/beaches/Mts
12 Aug 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: It's worth spending a couple of days to do everything.
Liked: The war remnants museum and Ben Thanh market were real highlights for me.
Disliked: Very busy constantly hassled by motorbike riders
03 Jul 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
City break
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
18-24
Customer Travel Tip: Go out of the center and do a mekong tour or something
Liked: The Restaurants
Disliked: Very busy city
20 Jun 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip:
Liked:
Disliked:
25 Apr 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Sightseeing & culture
Age Range:
31-40
Customer Travel Tip: If you want to interact with local students just hang out in one of the parks. In the early morning traffic is not as busy.
Liked: Culture, very friendly people: many students who want to practise their English and tell about Vietnam and its culture. People offering help in crossing the street due to crazy traffic.
Disliked: Bad air due to very heavy traffic.
22 Apr 2016
Travel Type:
With friends / other travellers
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Cu chi tunnels was amazing
Liked: Friendly people Very clean for a big big city Good food
Disliked: The noise and the air, not longer as two days
23 Mar 2016
Travel Type:
Alone
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Age Range:
25-30
Customer Travel Tip: Book a transfer to and from the airport as the taxis from the airport are extortionate!
Liked: Good local amenities
Disliked: The traffic
16 Sep 2015
Travel Type:
With my spouse / partner
Trip Type:
Backpacking / gap year
Shopping
Sightseeing & culture
Sports, adventure or outdoor activities
Customer Travel Tip: Do not be fooled by the people of Ho Chi Minh. They see tourists as a very good opportunity to do business. Keep in mind that nothing is worth what they want and they expect that tourists do business. Attention scams!
Liked: Night life city, culture, and sightseeing.
Disliked: Rats, cockroaches and dirt in some areas.