Hoi An Vietnam is amazingly beautiful at night, but you do need to be mindful of overpaying for activities as a tourist. Even if we paid a little too much, it was still a wonderful night to remember! ❤😊🇻🇳
The lesson learned was to buy your tickets for the boat separately. We now know the lady who seemed nice and helpful was just adding on an additional fee for herself, and she didn't really work for the ticket office....we still had a great experience anyway and understand scams happen in every country! It was still a reasonable price by USA price standards and was an enjoyableexperience! ❤😊🇻🇳
The regular price for the boat ride is 150 k each for adults and half price for children under 1m high ( the price list is posted at the boat station ) . The price she charged you ( 500k) was a fair price ( 300 k of 2 adults and 150 k for your 2 kids and 10 k for each floating candle ) . That price is set by the Hoi An authorities . Whoever overcharges the tourists would be heavily fined and could lose his permit in case someone made a complaint . FYI when all the boat rides are finished ( after 9h30 pm ) a cleaner team will pick-up all the lanterns on the river for recycling . Otherwise after all those years that tiny river would be full of paper trashes and no boat could ever navigate on it . The majority of the street vendors , Cyclo drivers or boat rowers in HA are coming from the countryside so their foreign language knowledge is very limited . So don't expect them to understand fully what you say . Before the tourism boom in HA they were farmers , fishermen , masons , local market vendors , etc...and never needed to learn foreign languages ( especially Western languages ) . It 's a good thing for the tourists to find so many vendors selling the same merchandises or food because with that competition they can negotiate for the best price ( like you did ). There is no monopoly like in the West where you have to pay the price they want to charge you ( take it or leave it ! no bargaining ! ) . Vietnam is actually the most affordable country with a very good quality/price ratio for foreigners .
Thank you for sharing this important information!❤️ It's really helpful to have the context for how things work in Hoi An. She collected 300k up front and then took us to the boat counter which we the paid $200k for 4 tickets. She actually said $800k at first and we negotiated down to $500k which was definitely too much considering we basically just got the paper lanterns from her. Regardless if we overpaid or not we had a great time there! ❤️☺️
We felt like it was an inflated price at the time but were too in a rush to ask other people what a fair price was. We should have paid for the tickets and the lanterns separately. The lady seemed nice, but she was pretending to work for the ticket stand which she obviously did not. Lesson learned...
@@WorldFamilyExplorerschúng tôi thật sự xin lỗi về việc đó . Một số người xấu không đại diện cho hình ảnh người việt nam . Chúc gia đình bạn có chuyến du lịch vui vẻ và hạnh phúc
Khi nào vào lại Sài Gòn mình mời bạn cafê o bình dương và những quán ăn ven sông sai gòn miễn phí. Nhớ giữ lien lạc.lời mời chân thật.chúc giá đình nhỏ của bạn có chuyến du lịch Việt nam thật hanh phúc.
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Hoi An Vietnam is amazingly beautiful at night, but you do need to be mindful of overpaying for activities as a tourist. Even if we paid a little too much, it was still a wonderful night to remember! ❤😊🇻🇳
Very nice there at night!
Hoi An is such a cute town. Thoroughly enjoyed riding bikes all around town.
It is a very charming town!
Love how the full moon-lit 🌝 night is alive with color!
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what a beautiful family!!!!love it!!!!
Thank you for the sweet comment ❤️
Beautiful place! Too bad for the tourist scam, but hey you live and learn 😅
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Love all the beautiful lanterns at night!🥰 Not many choices on the street food though...
@momlifefoodandtravel4376 Unfortunately, the street food was repetitive and not that exciting...
Bạn có đang giảm cân không 😂😂❤
I don't think so with trying all the food and drinks we can!🤣
The lesson learned was to buy your tickets for the boat separately. We now know the lady who seemed nice and helpful was just adding on an additional fee for herself, and she didn't really work for the ticket office....we still had a great experience anyway and understand scams happen in every country! It was still a reasonable price by USA price standards and was an enjoyableexperience! ❤😊🇻🇳
Thank you for taking us along on your boat ride 🚣🏼♂️...i hope your wishes come true! 💞
@DianaTuTu29 We hope so too! Thanks for watching! ❤️☺️
lovely family. Enjoy your stay in Vietnam.
Thanks, we had a great time!☺️
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Thanks for watching, we were in Hanoi earlier this year! We have some Hanoi videos on our channel if you would like to watch! ☺️❤️🇻🇳
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Hope you enjoyed the video ❤️
Tưởng còn ở đà nẵng mời gia đình anh chị cà phê 😊😊😊😊
We will definitely be returning to Da Nang next year! ❤️🇻🇳☕️☕️
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I actually love fried frog legs...but those "frogs on a stick"???!! 😮
Yes the whole frog! 🐸Didn't look the most appetizing to us personally 🤣
@@WorldFamilyExplorers The only Westerners who love to eat frogs are the French .
The regular price for the boat ride is 150 k each for adults and half price for children under 1m high ( the price list is posted at the boat station ) . The price she charged you ( 500k) was a fair price ( 300 k of 2 adults and 150 k for your 2 kids and 10 k for each floating candle ) . That price is set by the Hoi An authorities . Whoever overcharges the tourists would be heavily fined and could lose his permit in case someone made a complaint . FYI when all the boat rides are finished ( after 9h30 pm ) a cleaner team will pick-up all the lanterns on the river for recycling . Otherwise after all those years that tiny river would be full of paper trashes and no boat could ever navigate on it . The majority of the street vendors , Cyclo drivers or boat rowers in HA are coming from the countryside so their foreign language knowledge is very limited . So don't expect them to understand fully what you say . Before the tourism boom in HA they were farmers , fishermen , masons , local market vendors , etc...and never needed to learn foreign languages ( especially Western languages ) . It 's a good thing for the tourists to find so many vendors selling the same merchandises or food because with that competition they can negotiate for the best price ( like you did ). There is no monopoly like in the West where you have to pay the price they want to charge you ( take it or leave it ! no bargaining ! ) . Vietnam is actually the most affordable country with a very good quality/price ratio for foreigners .
Thank you for sharing this important information!❤️ It's really helpful to have the context for how things work in Hoi An. She collected 300k up front and then took us to the boat counter which we the paid $200k for 4 tickets. She actually said $800k at first and we negotiated down to $500k which was definitely too much considering we basically just got the paper lanterns from her. Regardless if we overpaid or not we had a great time there! ❤️☺️
Too bad about the scam, but still not that expensive for this cool experience...
Have to pay our tourist tax sometimes 🤣
Hãy báo chính quyền họ sẽ vào cuộc xử lý bảo vệ du khách ngay khi có phản ánh
We felt like it was an inflated price at the time but were too in a rush to ask other people what a fair price was. We should have paid for the tickets and the lanterns separately. The lady seemed nice, but she was pretending to work for the ticket stand which she obviously did not. Lesson learned...
@@WorldFamilyExplorerschúng tôi thật sự xin lỗi về việc đó . Một số người xấu không đại diện cho hình ảnh người việt nam . Chúc gia đình bạn có chuyến du lịch vui vẻ và hạnh phúc
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Khi nào vào lại Sài Gòn mình mời bạn cafê o bình dương và những quán ăn ven sông sai gòn miễn phí. Nhớ giữ lien lạc.lời mời chân thật.chúc giá đình nhỏ của bạn có chuyến du lịch Việt nam thật hanh phúc.
That sounds amazing! ❤️☕️ We are no longer in Vietnam but plan to come back next year to stay a few months!☺️
Ok bạn khi nào quay lại Việt nam alo mình
No thanks on the Frogs 🐸🐸 and 🐙🐙
Not our thing either 🤣
Full moon Jazz
Thanks for watching! ☺️❤️
Đâu cái đó ở Đà Nẵng mà
This is in Hoi An 45 minute drive from Da Nang 😊
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