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anonymous
Q: What's the cheapest and best indochina tour?
Looking to tour Vietnam, Thailand, Cambodia, and possibly Laos next Chinese New Year. Any recommendations on how to get around cheap? Or any tours set up already that you've experienced? Thanks!
12 years 16 weeks ago in Transport & Travel - China
Walk it. It's more traditional.
light(s)TedDBayer:
Nobody ever gets flashlights. I have enough points for 46 now, good luck. 
I honestly don't recommend using Chinese tourism service, I accompanied friends and relatives as translator when they come here. I saw 3 different agencies, 2 from Guangzhou 1 from Wuhan and all of them suck so hard even though they're supposed to be the good ones in their city.
They can't coordinate meal time, room, flight, etc properly. Last time I almost missed the flight (along with 5 local chinese kid/teenagers that were on the same tour), fortunately I'm quite familiar with airports especially baiyun airport. One of those retarded tour guide don't even realize that we were missing and there are no annoucement or something like that when I was trying to catch up with that asshole.
Due to messed up schedule and other shit, at some point in the bus everyone was shouting and yelling at the tour guides, and one of them replied "well I know that you're tired and unsatisfied but this is what travelling feels like". When I said "really ? isn't travelling supposed to be fun, otherwise why should we pay you" and she gave me a death stare.
Indochina ? Does it mean India and China ?
DrMonkey:
Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam, Indochina as the former French colonies in Asia ?
Assuming you speak English, you can travel to Cambodia/Laos/Vietnam without a tour, you will save money and enjoy the trip much more. All those countries have extensive tourist industry, just reserve the hotels for the few first nights in advance. You can buy a guide book like the Lonely Planet, to know where the hotel are and have some ideas of things to do.
I went through Vietnam with a Canadian company G-Adventures. It was the perfect tour for me, they took care of hotels and transportation, I met a lot of people, but the Activites were not set, meaning we didn't have to follow the tour guide we could if we didn't want to. For example when the tour guide and most of my fellow travellers went to a Spa, I went with 3 other people to hike to a waterfall. But they're not super cheap thoug.
I would never go on a cattle-style tour where the guide rusheses you through everything and you have no time for yourself.
