The 1 and only REAL Kangaroo Cafe in Ha Noi for tours and travel in Vietnam

As well as our signature Ha Long Bay (click to see) & our Sa Pa tours (click to see), we've got plenty of other great short tours available to places like: Mai Chau, the Perfume Pagoda, Ha Noi Day tours, Handi Craft Villages, Kenh Ga Springs etc. We also handle train & airline tickets too & can offer some good advice on booking decent, reasonably priced, clean, local hotels too.

The thumb-nails below are taken from a local Vietnamese tour magazine "The Guide" in 2006 & feature a number of our competitors tours for you to consider. As you may have guessed, their prices have gone up considerably since then !

Please note carefully not just the price but more importantly the group sizes and we find it curious to note the incredible support some of these mobs get for their so called "small group" tours from some of the guide books & internet forums. Makes you wonder what's going on behind the scenes !!! We seem to come in for some very personal criticism on one of the travel forums in particular. Some of these would be, cyber travellers (you can check the daily average number of their posts) hiding behind their anonymous accounts & browsers, seem all too ready to tip a bucket on us. Poor them !

What's even stranger is that the pretend tourists always seem to be touting for the same tour mob.

Please feel free to e-mail us if you require any further info & we'll send you some itineraries & other info as well. Don't forget to have a gander at our Ha Long Bay (click to see)& Sa Pa tours (click to see) pics too.

Unlike 99% of our competitors with us tipping is always appreciated but it's NEVER, EVER, Compulsory and we NEVER, EVER, tell you how much to give.

We find it quite unbelievable that our competitors would try something as stupid as this forced tipping scam on in the 1st place. Not just do they order their customers to pay extra at the end of a trip but they even tell them how much they have to pay. What must that look like ... Yes sir, thanks for the trip sir, how much do I have to give you now sir ......... YUK, YUK & YUK !!!

The honest thing would be for the boss of the tour company to tell the customers at the time of booking just how many extra payments they'd have to make, why they'd have to make them & exactly how much they'd have to pay.

BUT, the greedy tour company boss would have to be honest and.... well ...... let's face it ..... it's just not going to happen. And why don't the tourists have a go at the grub running the tour company & tell them to pay their workers a decent wage !!!

Well ...... let's face it ..... that's just not going to happen either.

The whole compulsory tipping thing stinks, it's expensive (usually $15 - 20 USD per day) & is just a cheap & nasty scam to raise the price of the tour you bought without telling you, no more no less !!!

And lastly, do Vietnamese people tip as a rule ? Rarely tip & they'd NEVER tip if told to.

Lastly, if you're using your work computer please be aware that most work places don't approve of their staff surfing the net, visiting funny web sites or arranging their holidays etc during work hours. We've had a number of people complain they didn't hear from us when in fact it was their company system deleting our e-mails because we'd sent the people tour itineraries as attachments. The various work places are understandably concerned that the attachments may be a virus or some other kind of nightmare that goes with the internet these days & delete them immediately. When you contact us, please include an e-mail address that accepts any & all attachments such as your home or private e-mail address.

At this time, we can't reply/send email to any Hotmail accounts, the emails just keep bouncing back to us. We know that the Hotmail outfit gets millions of spam emails each day to the millions of "free" email accounts they have & so the filtering they use has to be very strong to try & protect them & their customers. We don't have any problems with any of the other "free" email services like Gmail, Yahoo, Lycos etc but can see that there may come a time when we will. Our best advice is that there's nothing better than a real email account. At about $2 a week, it's not a bad idea. We know it's old fashioned, but the most effective form of communication is, was & always will be the spoken word it's still really worth a try.

For a dollar or 2, why not just 'phone us here at the café if there's anything you feel is urgent.