18 Aug 2024
Tour guide Bang was great and the rest of the staff were very friendly, we got upgraded to a room with a balcony, and they sorted our onward travel.
The stop offs are superb, a large cave system and a trek up several hundred stairs to a mountain-top pagoda with some amazing views.
However, AC was only on between 5pm and 7am because of the size of the generator on the boat so putting on suncream during the day is virtually impossible due to the amount of sweating, and makes it very uncomfortable, difficult to those used to a colder climate. Evening activities of squid fishing and cooking were a bit pointless but we enjoyed learning about oysters and the pagoda hike.
Overall, so worth it to see how jaw dropping Ha Long bay is, could sit for hours just looking at the limestone structures.