Year-end traveling choices for tourists
Update: Dec 20, 2009
On the occasion of Christmas and New Year, travel agencies are offering foreign and domestic tours to meet the holiday travel demand.

Saigontourist Travel Service Co. has launched 30 tours to Europe, America, China, Singapore, Brunei, Taiwan, South Korea and Indonesia from the end of December until the end of February. Tours to Italy, Switzerland and France depart from HCMC. Thirteen-day tours to Italy, Spain, France, Germany, Holland and Belgium at 3,200 euro depart from Hanoi. An eight-day tour to America at US$2,499 departs from Hanoi.

Fiditour is offering a series of tours called “Happy New Year around 5 continents”. There is a four-day/three-night tour to Brunei and Kotakinabalu, Malaysia at around VND12.4 million on December 30, a six-day/seven-night tour to Japan at around VND41.9 million on December 20, a seven-day/eight-night tour to Australia at VND46.4 million on December 25 and a nine-day/eight-night tour to Germany, Holland, Belgium and France at VND59. 9 million on December 21.

Vietravel is offering a four-day tour to Korea at VND13.4 million on December 31.

These travel agencies are also celebrating the 1,000th anniversary of Thang Long-Hanoi with many domestic tours. Vietravel is offering a series of tours called Hanoi Welcomes New Year 2010, emphasizing cultural events and landscapes of the North with a six-day tour to Hanoi, Yen Tu, Halong and Sapa and a four-day tour to Hanoi, Halong, Ninh Binh and Trang An. There is a tour called Dalat Flower Festival 2010. Prices are between some VND1.9 million and VND3.95 million per person.

The most attractive tour of Saigontourist is a four-day tour called Dalat Welcomes New Year and Flower Festival. Prices are between VND1.8 million and VND3.5 million.

Fiditour has introduced a series of tours called Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2010 with a three-day/two-night tour to Phu Quoc at VND4 million and a four-day/three-night tour to Nha Trang-Vinpearl Land at VND2.4 million. From December 18, tourists who book domestic tours at Fiditour have received discounted prices depending on the booking date.

Vinpearl Land Travel Co. is offering a vacation package.

Twenty hotels of the program called Dalat-Lam Dong Impression will offer 10-30% discounts on rooms on the occasion of Dalat Flower Festival.
SGT