Hello Mr Dac Danh,

Annikki and I hope you are very well and we wish you, according to our western calendar, a very Happy New Year for 2007 and a lot of success for TNK Travel.

We came well home thru Malaysia and have been very busy since. But we promissed you a short report and comments on our beautiful trip thru your country and the two neighboring ones. Here it is:

First we must thank you again for a well organized tour, showing many highlights. Also, we have to confirm that the tour guides you selected for us have been very punctual, very friendly and had sufficient knowledge of the place and customs to make us enjoy every day.

Nhi for the Mekong Delta, Heng for Phnom Penh, Phin Borey for Siem Reap, "Jack"for Houen Xai to Loang Prabang, Khamtam in Vientiane, Tranh in Hanoi, Thinh in Lao Cai, Huy in Hue and Tong in Ho Chi Minh City, all have been doing an excellent job.Some were very knowledgeable in history like Phin Borey and Huy, which is always very appreciated by us.

The hotels were confortable enough. Luxury is not what we wanted but being in a genuine local environment. But in Chau Doc, the Ben Da Nui Sam Resort was situated in front of the loudspeaker broadcasting political news at night and early in the morning, which made resting impossible. In the early morning, at breakfast, the staff was bringing a very frugal breakfast and refused to bring a second cup of coffee...That hotel we cannot recommend. In Vientiane, the Lane Xang hotel is old and we got a small, rundown room. We called the agent Max and he rectified for a Superior room. In Ha Noi, the Army Hotel was OK but a bit "cold"! All hotel were situated at convenient distance from points of interest, so that was a plus.
We can especially recommend the Asia Hotel in Hue for its friendly atmosphere, its situation on the Perfume river, its comfort and breakfast.
Pakbeng Lodge on the Mekong is also to be recommended for the same reasons.

Meals were mostly adequate, some excellent like the ones on the Huong Hai junk on the Ha Long Bay.

Otherwise, we have the following recommendations:

1. In the Mekong Delta, a visit on one of the Cai Rang Market boats would be very interesting to speak with the boat people and see how they organize their living onboard.

2. In Ankor, before entering the temple area, we had to wait on line 1 1/2 hour (taking a pass photo and making the day pass). If the visitor was told in advance to bring one pass photo, it would speed up the entry.
Also in Ankor, you may forget the sunset at Phnom Bakheng because the crowds are too big now and the lookout totally disorganized.

3. In Ha Long, the crowds are also big now and...nearly 200 junks departing at about the same time...!!!
Unless the captain of your junk is given instructions to avoid the crowd, your visitors will be soon on line or in a pack to visit anything. We interviewed several locals and captains. Alltogether, there are nearly 600 junks now!

In a summary, we really enjoyed both the way Mr Dzung Trinh, yourself and your staff organized and followed up our tour, how you friendly treated us as customers, we met many other friendly persons along the trip, we discovered the sceneries and features of cultures that made our tour a permanent emotion that we still enjoy.

We wish you much success for this year!

Kind regards to you, to Mr Dzung Trinh and your staff.

Pierre and Annikki

I would like to thank you for the excellent service we received from your company on our trip to Vietnam. I also wish to thank Mr Huy for his service, local knowledge, willingness to please and for going out of his way to show us the beauty of Vietnam. We have enjoyed our time in Vietnam so much we are already looking into coming back. We credit the wonderful experience in Vietnam to Mr Huy because without him we would not have seen, understood or enjoyed our time in Ho Chi minh any where near as much. Again Thank you and we will be using your company whenever we travel to Vietnam.

Regards Karen Vermey
 

I knew TNK since 3 years.Just one word for those who read this message :You can really trust them !!!!
Special thanks to Mrs Pham Nhu,Miss Thao,M.Duy !!!
Rendez-vous to the next year !

Ho Dac Nguyen

My best greetings to you. In May 2007 I came with my husband to visit your lovely country. We very much enjoyed staying at Sasco Blue Lagoon Resort/Phu Quoc and Windsor Plaza Hotel/HCM-City, where we met your nice Tour Operator, Miss Dinh Thi Ngoc Phung. Here we spent a very interesting time while visiting a part of the beautiful Vietnam and also Blue Lagoon was excellent for relaxing. Thank you very much for everything it was perfect.

Dear Dung Trinh,
Ruth, David, Hagit & myself (Yaacov), would like to thank you for arranging one of the most enjoyable trips for us in Vietnam and Cambodia.
The guides were good and your efforts and dedication were highly appreciated.
Promise you we will not forget Vietnam and Cambodia not only for the countries, but also due to the honest and fair treatment we got from you.
We will forward your contact details to our friends who wish to travel to Vietnam & Cambodia and also put recommendation in the Israeli WEB site for travelers with high references for well appreciated travel agent.

Thanks & Happy New Year,
Ruth & David Raz
Hagit & Yaacov Stottland

I am impressed. I was navigating and found this site. Beautiful pictures. I wil choose vietnam for vacations no doubt and recomend this page to my friends.

Kind Regards

Dear Hang!

Pat & I want to say thankyou for your excellent organisation of our trip. We enjoyed it enormously.

Very best regards

Linda & Pat Masters

Dear Ms. Luu Vo

It's a nice to meet you in Saigon and come to visit your country during the kid's holiday. Many natural place could be seen there and will be unforgettable memories for us.

I do hope one day can visit your country again. Thank you for kindly services as I have given some feedback in the questionaire that you gave to me. Hopefully TNK Travel could be more success in the future.

Pls kindly send my regard and thank you too to JJ and Mr. Thu for their service and accompanied us during the trips. Once again thank you so much and especially to your special gift or souvenir for me & my family. It's a wonderful dan nice gift.

Pls keep in touch, you could reach me in my handphone number +62811123811.

See you again, Sayonara, Cai Cien and HEN GAP LAI... Thank you, Arigato, Xie xie and CAM ENG, he.he...

Regards,
Heppy Moiras

Hi,

Although we didn't contact you directly (your services were booked by Orbita, a portuguese travel agency) we would like to thank you for the excellent 3 weeks holiday that you provided us last March.

The hotels were very good and the homestays exceeded our expectations. The food was just delicious. We had no problem at all in eating vegetarian. The guides and drivers were great, friendly and helpful, especially M. Manh in Sapa, who was incredibly professional and made sure that our needs were met at all times. Although we enjoyed the all trip very much, the tour in Sapa was the one that we liked most.

We were just a little disapointed with the program change made in Cat Ba island. We just stayed overnight there. For some reason (which we couldn't understand) we had to come back to Halong early in the morning instead of doing the long treck in the island. It was a pitty. Cat Ba is so beautiful.

Vietnam will stay in our hearts!

Thank you!

Natalia & Josefina Ramos
Portugal

Special Thanks to Mr Le Hung Kiet from your Dalat Office
Words cannot express our heartful THANKS to him
Mr Le was very responsible and helpful.

Thank you for your Excellence Service

I would certainly recommend our friends in Singapore
to use TNK Travel if they are going to Vietnam