™Welcome to the REAL Kangaroo Café ™ website.
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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 clever & fun too. Please ask for any info you require about diving in Viet Nam at either of our shops. There really is daylight between Rainbow Divers & the others ! |
Our NEW A/con place (we were at 18 before) at 22 Bao Khanh St Ha Noi.
In true, real life is stranger than fiction style, we've moved (after 15 years) from our original address
to ...... 2 doors up the street !
0ur old land lord stole our trade marked name & opened the Ha Noi Kangaroo Restaurant.
That's not all ! The tour mob they're hooked up with stole their name from someone else too !!!
So now there's a shop with both mobs both pretending to be someone else !!!
Please come & see our new place at 22 Bao Khanh St. It's much bigger, quieter, more comfortable
& with new, separate, bigger & better bathrooms. We've even got hot & cold showers too !!!
Stay tuned, more pics coming soon or have a squiz at the new place on our YouTube Chanel.
Our other A/con in the Old Quarter at 17 Hang Bac St Ha Noi.
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We're still the most copied tour company in Viet Nam, Ever !!! |
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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 throughout 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 ...... |
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At the Real Kangaroo Cafés ™ you'll find out more about our tours & be able to enjoy our great local, western or veggie food & get the latest, local tour & travel info. Don't forget, the Real Kangaroo Cafés ™ are only at - 22 Bao Khanh St (just around the corner from the ANZ bank) & 17 Hang Bac St (in the old quarter), Ha Noi. |
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These days with all the self promotion & paid for, but so called independent reviews (?) on the various travel forums it's very difficult to work out just who's who in the zoo !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.You won't see all the usual suspects (hotels, tour companies, professional posters etc) trolling & spamming on their site & if they continue they'll be outed on the site as well.The tone on Travel Fish is more mature too & without the very personal attacks & often unbelievable 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.
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 And for some good news .... Check out our NEW boat in Ha Long Bay ! |
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Also, see us on the International Cow Site (Top 50 best burger joints in the world) ! |
Again, welcome to our web site.
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Both of the REAL Kangaroo Cafés ™ have Air/Con too, because the summers in Ha Noi, really do get hot ! |
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Click on the thumbnails above to get a printable version of our Ha Noi or HCM maps.
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T he Links below will take you some of the other pages on our web site. |
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| 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. |
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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 some scam warnings. We can't wait for the day when we can take this page down. |
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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 ! |
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Below you find some info about our tours, our competitors tours as well as some nice write ups about us from real live people who aren't hiding behind an anonymous email account on a failing travel forum ! |
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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 some 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 !
It's not necessary to
book your tour ahead & the best way
always was &
still is to just pop into the cafe a day or
so ahead & you'll be fine.
Unfortunately, the internet is full of scare
tactics about how you won't get on the tour,
Ha Long Bay is really busy at that time of
year, the sky's falling etc, etc.
BUT,
since we've had so many people wanting to we've decided to cave in & accept
bookings over the internet.
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.
Viet Nam is awash with
CC scams & as such, we only accept cash.
You can pay in USD or VND.
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. Predictably, their prices have gone
way up
since then !
Please
note carefully not just the price but
more 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 were understandably very pleased about !
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Please 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.
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 $1
or $2 call us here at the Café
(Phone Numbers are below) if
there's anything you feel is urgent.
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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. Just up the Street from our New Café at 17 Hang Bac St, it's a Gem for sure !!! You'll 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 dumps. Getting them to to the rest seems unlikely so please be careful.
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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 ™
Various shots of friends, customers, neighbours (?) etc !
Click on the thumbnails below to see some various pics taken over the last 17 years.
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For more information, or to arrange your vacation, Email: kangaroo@kangaroocafe.com Griswald's Vietnamese Vacations ™P.O. Box 501, Leichhardt N.S.W. 2040 Australia & Our REAL Kangaroo Café ™ 22 (we were at 18 before) Bao Khanh St Ha Noi Also in the Old Quarter at 17 Hang Bac St Ha Noi Phone from inside Aust: (02) 9430 6426 OR - from outside Aust: +612 9430 6426Phone 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 28/04/12
