Vietnam travel most common questions & answers
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About Viet Value Travel
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There are number of ways to reach us, phone, live chat, emails, skype... please  click here to get our details.
Yes, Viet Value Travel is fully lisenced tour operator. We are holding Vietnam National Admistration of Tourism lisence number: 0412 LHQT. Besides, we are fully members of  PATA, ASTA. Please Click here to read more about this.
Viet Value Travel is local tour operator based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Expert in offering hotels booking at top savings, innovative tours, and other travel services. Please Click here to read more about us.
Hotels questions
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We are local tour operator who has been building a good relationship with hoteliers nation-wide, with a great number of bookings yearly, we are at good position to have a good deals from hotels and we pass them to our customers. Thats reason why our price is always the best. 
Once you have selected your desire hotels in our website, please let us know by click on 'book this hotel' button then submit your information to us. Or you can email us, chat live with our sales or give us a call directly. We will process your booking upon reciving your request. See more on our booking guide
Maximum 10 hours ( normally much less than 10 hours ), you will receive our email to advise on hotel's availabilty, on that email, we will also advise you on payment mode or alternative hotels if your chosen hotels are fully booked. If you don't hear from us in time, it is very much like we are not receiving your request, please kindly let us know at once. See more on our booking guide
There are number of ways to pay us. Please see our booking guide.
Please see our booking guide for alternative payment modes
Late booking are very common, we recommend you phone us or chat live with us instead of email to make your booking faster. Fast payment mode like credit cards online or Paypal maybe a good solution for late booking. If you are in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh city, we can come to collect cash from your place. 
We highly recommend you make your booking as soon as possible because demandings from Vietnam hotels are very high especially on high season. Make bookings early helps you on having better price & also quality of your accommodation.
It is depending on each hotel's policy. But mostly, children under 12 years old is free of charge and sharing existing beds with parents ( breakfast not included ). More than 12 year old will be stated as an adult. Please contact our sales for further details of specific hotels.
Most of hotel's price included breakfast & all taxes otherwise stated at the time of booking. We always stated clearly what you must pay from the beginning. There are absolutely no hidden fees after your booking.
Cancellation must be sent to our offices by email, fax. Please see our term & conditions for cancellation fees.
After your booking completed, you are always given a accommadtion voucher or service voucher by our sales. Please print this voucher out and show to hotel receptionist ( optional ). Or just simply tell them your full name which was given to us at the time of booking.
It is also depending on hotel's policy. However, check in time is normally set at 2 in the afternoon & check out time is 12 in the morning. Please contact our sales for further details on specific hotels.
It is basicly no need to mentioned to anyone as your rooms are already booked, however, if you have chance to do it, you can contact us for your information or requests.
This is common case in Vietnam, hotels must take passport of visitors to make declaration to police at the first night. However, some 4, 5 star hotels just need it for a while and return it to you right away.
Please contact us immediatedly, we will contact to hotels and arrange the right catergory for you right away.
Please make sure that your name is match to the name you gave us at the time of booking. Also check with hotel that you have booked through Viet Value Travel. That will clear the confusion of your friend booked hotels and giving his/her name to us so hotel not recognized you on their system. Otherwise, please contact us on hotline for assistance.
We will issue fully refund if you don't get room you have booked with us. Please represent your service voucher to our staff to get your refund.
Contact hotel's management immediatedly, if needed, police must be involved. Please contact us when you can, we will try all the best to sort things out for you. However, we are not responsible for any issues at your hotels.
You can ask hotel's management or contact us for changing your room with a fair reason to do so.
There are 2 ways to do that, you can contact your hotel directly to check rates and availability, however, rates may not be the same to our discounted rates. Please contact us to get our best deals on your extention stay. 
No, our price is fixed on hotel's rates, however, you maybe can use your membership cards on room upgrade, hotels facility or other hotel's service discount.
Tours Questions
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Viet Value Travel's tours designed for all aged travelers, we also offer the funtion of tailor made holiday to suits you better. Please contact us for your personal requests, we will be back with the tours which are just for you.
We are focusing on culture tours, most of our tours drive customers to local activities or closer to local comunity that we think people mostly interested in. We also good at offering tours with small group, mostly for family and couple with high quality of accommodation, great meals & fablous travel leaders. We are not expected to show you everything but surely provide you what Vietnam has to offer.
From beginning & on, we have been intended to make a long term of business, the biggest difference between us and others is : service!. We live to serve and believe that provide a good service will bring success to us in the future. With that thinking in mind, we have not had any single complaint untill now. Please see why people choose us..
No, we don't arrange join-in group tours. We just operate private group at the moment.
We have some solutions for you, please contact our travel advisor for your requests
Absolutely NO. All inclusion & exclusion are stated clearly at the time of booking.
Please see our quality guidelines to see what we offer on your booked tours
There is always choice of  single supplement offer at extra charge for anyone who want to get single room. If no requests given, we will arrange 3 room for 5 people. Please see details on our proposal program at the time of booking.
No, otherwise stated. Visa normally not included on tour price, however, we can arrange visa for you at your own expense.
Please click on 'book this tour' button on your chosen tour page. We will be back to you within 24 hours with confirmation of availability or payment mode. Please see booking guide for more details.
You can use your credit cards in both ways of online or offline option, Paypal is also available, bank transfer...Please note that bank fees will be on customer's side. See more details at our  booking guide.
Yes, you can, we are fully flexible for your changes on last minute, please contact our sales as soon as you can for further assistance.
We are reachable in 24/7, once your tour booked, we will always provide list of contacts and office's addresses as well as person will be in charge on your tours. Please contact us anytime you wish to. Besides, our customer service will contact you sometimes during the tours to ensure you are having a good time and everthing is on the track.
Tours cancellation must be informed to our offices by fax or email. Please see our terms and conditions for cancellation fees involved.
Questions before going
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It is depending on what part in Vietnam you are going to travel to as weather is different in other part. South of Vietnam got 2 main seasons, dry & raining - raining season start from June to september but at the same time north of Vietnam having summer and fall with good condition of weather. Please contact us for details following your specific travel time and route.
It is very safe to travel in Vietnam. Vietnam still one of the safest country in the world with very low of crime.
Generally, single travelers having very safe environmental in Vietnam. At the time of writting, we have not heard any reports on harassment problem or anything like that in Vietnam.
Vietnam was reported by WHO as one of the best country on bird-flu defence. At the moment ( June 2007 ), Vietnam found some cases in serveral provinces in Mekong delta but not found any cases affected to human.
Most of travelers need visa to get in Vietnam except some of the asian countries as well as some north-europe nations. Please contact us for details and current updates.
Vietnam is good place for shopping, every city or province of Vietnam has specialties that you can hunt for. Famous products for travelers are : water puppet, traditional hats, Ao Dai long dress....contact to our travel advisors for further details guide.
On every booked tours, you will be given our pre - departure guide which is covered all necessary information about Vietnam including transport guide, shopping guide, country information...Please do let us know if you want to get a free one. We are happy to pass it to anyone need it.
Credit cards accept in most part of Vietnam, more widen in large cities like Hanoi, Saigon, Da Nang, Nha Trang...most of restaurants, coffee shops, travel agencies accept Visa, master cards, dinner club. Extra fees will be applied in most places. You also can cash by many ATMs in big cities mentioned above.
Vietnamese DONG ( VND ), current exchange to US dollar now is : 1 USD = 16.100 VND.
Please see our Dos & Donts section here
You can change VND back to your currency at main airports in Vietnam.
Yes, airport tax now costs 14 USD per person.

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