Welcome to the REAL Kangaroo Café Website.

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Since 1994, the Real Kangaroo Café has specialised in genuine small group travel and tours for singles, couples, small groups and families in Viet Nam. We have tours to Ha Long Bay, Sa Pa, Mai Chau & beyond. We hope you like our web site & invite you to visit us after you arrive in Ha Noi & we're sure you'll agree,

We're not like everybody else !

At the Real Kangaroo Café you'll find out more about our tours & be able to enjoy our great Vietnamese Western or Veggie food & get the latest, local tour & travel info.  Please don't forget, the Real Kangaroo Café is only at - 22 Bao Khanh St (just around the corner from the ANZ bank) Ha Noi.


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Please have a squiz (Click) at our Café on our You Tube Chanel & we're on Face book too.

You'll see a very accurate account of who we are, what we do & the way we do it too.

No paid for postings, no over the top photo shopped pics, just us as we are & we hope you like it.


After 16 years we moved our shop from Number 18 to Number 22 Bao Khanh.

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We're still the most copied tour company in Viet Nam, Ever !!!

 

 

We're working with Rainbow Divers now & very happily too, I might add. Rainbow provides the best diving experience in all aspects.  Safety & prices are great & the crew that work there are fun too. 

Please ask for any info you require about diving in Viet Nam at our shop in Ha Noi or check out the Rainbow Divers website, they're just great !

 

Here's some food ideas & please look further down for our tour info  !

 

You can see us on the International Cow Site Top 50 best burger joints in the world too (click) !

         

 

These days with all the self promotion & paid for, but still  called independent reviews (?) on the various travel forums it's become more difficult then ever to work out just who's who in the zoo !!!

For years we had a very hard time with Trip Advisor & we tried so hard to get them to see that our complaints were in fact quite reasonable. So many of the fake/paid posters (AKA our competitors) were so obvious that Stevie Wonder could've seen through them.

Click HERE to see our side to these attacks by our competitors in Ha Noi or try our YouTube Chanel.

Travel Fish is an interesting web site & they have a mobile phone app too.  As a truly independent internet travel resource, they take their responsibilities more seriously than most & monitor their site for suspicious, malicious or clearly just promotional posts. Take a look at the companies they've already banned for continually trolling & spamming.  It's a very surprising list & says quite a bit about the validity & integrity of some of these other, so called, independent travel sites. 

So, what makes our tours so popular ?

For some real info about us written by real people please have a look at our Testimonials page & also a couple of really good You tube posts from former customers with real names & faces. 

Click on Amy & Ken's You tube clip of their trip with us ! (thanks so much you two)

 And (Click) - A Canadian family who are decent, kind & thoughtful (read their blog to see more about them)

Unlike the curious 1 time only posters &/or the Tourists without cameras - AKA our nasty competitors, the posts above are from normal people who wrote honestly about their time with us.

From the Rough Guide to Sth East Asia 2008/9

 

Again, welcome to our web site.

 

 

                               

Click on the thumbnails above to get a printable version of our Ha Noi or HCM maps.

The Links Below will take you some of the other pages on our web site.

 

We've had people (very few actually) tell us our web site was difficult to use (???) so if you're someone like that please look below for instructions on how to navigate to our Ha Long Bay & Sa Pa pages !!!

 

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For information about our Ha Long Bay & Cat Ba Island Tours.

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For information about our Sa Pa Hotel, home stay & trekking tours.

 
Click Here - For info about our the 2 REAL Kangaroo Cafés , Stuff about our food, hours of business etc. Click Here - For our KC Travel Info Page. What we do on our tours, how we do it etc.
 

Click Here - For info about the Fake Kangaroo Cafés , Hotels & other nuts page !  What's next hairdressers ???

Click Here - For the KC General Travel Updates with Current info for people travelling to Viet Nam.

 
Click Here - For info on scam warnings. We can't wait for the day when we can take this page down.
 

Better still, drop into the REAL Kangaroo Café when you get to Ha Noi for a free Ha Noi & HCM city map, a free stubby holder & some good, old fashioned, straight talk about who's who & what's what in Viet Nam ! 

 

 

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 & longer tours available to places like: Mai Chau, the Perfume Pagoda, Ha Noi Day tours, Handi Craft Villages, Kenh Ga Springs, Ba Be Lakes, etc, etc. 

We also handle train & airline tickets too & can offer good advice on booking reasonably priced, clean, local hotels not only here in Ha Noi but as you make your way down south too in Hue, Hoi An, Nha Trang & HCM City.

Booking your tour with us !

No matter what you've read & we know it all sounds so very urgent and the reasons for the urgency are mostly bodgie) BUT, it's not necessary to book any tour way ahead & the best way always was & still is to just pop into the cafe a day or so before you'd like to go & you'll be fine.  We know the internet's full of scare tactics about how you won't get a tour, Ha Long Bay's busy at that time of year, the sky's falling etc & since so many people get spooked by the closing down rave we've decided to cave in & accept bookings over the internet too.

To book your tour with us please contact us by email.  All we require is your arrival details, the hotel your staying in & approx what time you'll be able to come over & pay for your tour. We'll hold your spots until an agreed to time & that's that.

NOTE: If for any reason we're unable to get you away on the day of your choice we'll make arrangements for you to go with another Reputable tour company but we'll guarantee you'll pay the price we quoted.

We think that's fair & the few times that this has occurred our customers have been very happy about it too.

Don't send us or anyone else your Credit Card number & please, be very careful about that. 

Viet Nam is awash with CC scams & as such, we only accept cash. You can pay in USD or VND.

 

          

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

Please note carefully not just the price but very importantly the group sizes. It's curious to note the incredible support some of these mobs get from some of the guide books & internet forums. 

Here's some recent reviews that we're understandably very pleased about !

         

* Note: If you're using your work computer, 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.  Many 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.

 

For a long time now, we can't reply or 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 $1 or $2 call us here at the Café (Our Phone Numbers are below) if there's anything you feel is urgent.  

 

The Fake Kangaroo Café Drama/s


From the Rough Guide to Sth East Asia 2008/9

This dump was the 1st one to copy us & amazingly they're still open. It's a Gem & please note the very spacious phone box like size & it's finished off nicely with dust & cobwebs too.  Go past for a look & a good laugh as well. This outfit is soon to be featured in the Vietnamese version of Dumb & Dumber !!!

A very classy mob this one !!!

The Ha Noi Tourism Dept have forced SOME of the idiots with the fake KC's to take our trademark protected name down from their dumps. Getting them to do the rest seems unlikely so please be careful.


Use your back button to come back to this page or you can go down to the bottom & click on the Home button.  Now, please read on, but before you leave our site please have a look at our Testimonials page.

Before travelling to Viet Nam we encourage everyone to buy a real copy of their favourite guide book.  Years ago there seemed to only one choice but these days that's far from the case. 

We can't say enough good things about The Rough Guide, Footprint, Lets Go, Fodor's, Globetrotter, The Moon Guide & National Geographic guide books. These publications have really shown over the years that their hearts are in the right place & that they're not just in it for the money. They're well & often researched, they're objective with any criticisms & the authors are decent, honest & straight forward too.

A really wonderful online guide (with a phone app nowadays too) is Travel Fish.  They're straight up this mob & even go so far as to highlight which postings are coming from Viet Nam. They've already banned several companies for trolling & spamming.  Good on them.  All the old familiar posters from "that guide books" web site strangely enough don't appear on Travel Fish. I guess they really don't want to help other "travellers" they way they say they do.


The Crew at the Kangaroo Café

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Various shots of friends, customers, neighbours (?) etc !

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Email: kangaroo@kangaroocafe.com

Griswald's Vietnamese Vacations

P.O. Box 501, Leichhardt N.S.W. 2040 Australia

& Our REAL Kangaroo Café

22 Bao Khanh St Ha Noi

(Previously at 18 Bao Khanh St & still listed as such in some of the tourist guides)

Phone from inside Aust: (02) 9430 6426

OR - from outside Aust: +612 9430 6426

Phone from inside Viet Nam: (04) 3828 9931

Or - from outside Viet Nam: +844 3828 9931

Or -  call on Maxies Mobile: +84 913 506 223

Note:  When we're busy on another call or whatever, please feel free to leave your message with a real person, working in Australia, for an Australian Company (rare these days) & we'll get back to you ASAP.

Australian Company Registration Number: 107 709 384 

Aust Govt Travel Agents Licence Number (your international protection): 2TA5568

Doing business with companies over the internet still makes some people, understandably, nervous.  Only Licensed Australian Travel Agents, like us, are eligible to be members of the Travel Compensation Fund.  It's run by the Government Dept of Fair Trading & is something only real travel agents can offer.

This page was last updated on 18/05/13