Welcome to the REAL Kangaroo Café TM website

 

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We're still the most copied tour company in Viet Nam.

Since 1994, the 1 & only real Kangaroo Café has specialised in organising genuine small group travel and tours for singles, couples, small groups and families throughout Viet Nam. We hope you like our web site & invite you to visit us after you arrive in Ha Noi. 

At the REAL Kangaroo Café you'll find out more about our many interesting & varied itineraries or maybe just enjoy our great local, western or vegetarian food whilst being able to get the latest, local tour & travel info.  The 1 & only REAL Kangaroo Café is only at 18 Bao Khanh St Ha Noi, just around the corner from the ANZ bank & about 70 Metres up the street from Hoan Kiem lake.

Here we are (click) International cow 50 of the most amazing burger joints in the world.

It's no surprise that none of the filthy dumps that copy us got a mention - Who knows what's in their burgers .... scarey ! 

Remember with us, tipping is always appreciated but NEVER, EVER compulsory !!!

Holiday makers you'll be delighted to know that Maxie is in the throes of approaching Rick & Rob (a couple of his mates in the song writing caper) to sharpen their pencils & knock out a jingle for all the grubby bosses out there. 

It'll go something like this .... "The boss pays the wages, the customers never do ... la la la" (& repeat lots)  

The REAL Kangaroo Café has Air/Con on the ground & 1st floors because in summer in Ha Noi, it really does get hot.  BTW, the 1st floor is a non smoking area too !!!

You'll see above that we're working with Rainbow Divers now & very happily I might add.

Rainbow provides the best diving experience in all aspects. Safety, price & the crew that work there are fun too !


                               

Click on the thumbnail above to get a printable version of our Ha Noi (left) or HCM City (right) maps.

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

Again, welcome to our web site.

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. 

Please click on the various links below to see other pages on our web site.


This link (click to see) will take you to our Tours & Travel Info Page

Click the link above to see more about the tours & travel services that we operate from our Café.

From the Rough Guide to Sth East Asia 2008/9

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

         


This link (click to see) will take you to our General Travel Updates Page

Current, factual information for people travelling to, or already in, Viet Nam.


This link (click to see) will take you to the Fake Kangaroo Cafés, Fake Kangaroo Hotel/Hostels scam & various other idiots page !

The fake Kangaroo Cafés, tour offices, hotels & what's next hairdressers & tailor shops ?

   

 

Have a look at this lot !!!

It really is a joke & what's with numb nuts at the bottom & his "Wild Kangaroo" thing ?

Again, we have never had & will never have anything to do with any of these mobs. 

If they can't tell the truth about who they are...

do you really want to trust them with your money ?


This link (click to see) will take you to our various Vietnam Scams Page

We're sorry to have to put a page like this up & can't wait for the day when we get to take it down !!!  

From the Rough Guide to Sth East Asia 2008/9


This link (click to see) will take you to our other café information page

For those who want to know more about our food, drinks & stuff.


Please remember to use your back button to come back to this page or you can go down to the bottom of any page & click on the Home button. 

Now, please read on, but before you leave our site please have a look at our Testimonials (click to see) page.


Before travelling to Viet Nam we encourage everyone to buy a 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.


The Crew at the Kangaroo Café

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Various shots of friends, customers, neighbours ? etc

Click on the thumbnails below to see a bigger size of some various pics taken over the last 17 years.

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     For more information, e-mail (click) us at
Griswald's Vietnamese Vacations
or contact us at
P.O. Box 501, Leichhardt N.S.W. 2040 Australia

ACN: 107 709 384  Licence Number: 2TA5568

From within Australia, you can contact our office on;

02-9029-0060

For O/seas callers please call;

+61-2-9029-0060

To contact us directly at our Office/Cafe in Viet Nam, from within Viet Nam, please call;

04-3828-9931

For O/seas callers please call;

+844-3828-9931

+84-913-506-223

And, we're even on Yahoo messenger as well;

real_kangaroo_cafe

And for a laugh, don't forget to have a squiz at us on You Tube

www.youtube.com/profile?user=realkangaroocafe

This page was last updated on 12/08/10