Mar 24, Book Air Flight - Tauck manages
Bus class rate is in the $6,931.00 pp range.
Mar 25, Reserve HaLong Cruise
May 1, Complete Personal Documents - Tauck Portal
Oct 29, Final Payment Due
Jan 2, Apply for VISAs ONLINE (Tauck should clarify)
Jan 22, Depart Nashville & Arrive Seattle
Jan 23, Depart for Hanoi
- 11:55 AM: Seattle to Tokyo Narita - JL 67 Bus
Jan 24, Arrive Hanoi
- 3:05 PM: Arrive Tokyo Narita JL 67
- 6:05 PM: Depart to Hanoi JL 751
- 10:30 PM: Arrive Hanoi Noi Bai International Airport
Jan 25, HaLong Cruise
- 12:00 AM: Check in Sheraton Hotel West* or Apricot Hotel* ($150)
- 8:15 AM: Limousine to HaLong ($150 for 5 on private limousine)
- 12:00 PM: Board the Doris Cruise ($340/cabin)
Contact: Mr Lee - +84 97 480 57 97 (use text via WhatsApp)
Jan 26, Hanoi, Vietnam
- 11:30 AM - Limousine to Sofitel Legend Metropole ($150 for 5 on private limousine)
- 3:30 PM - Check in Sofitel Legend Metropole
Jan 27, Ninh Binh Tour
- 7:00 AM: Limousine to Ninh Binh
- 3:00 PM: Arrive to Sofitel Legend Metropole
- 6:00 PM: Tauck Tour Welcoming Dinner at Le Beaulieu (a Michelin restaurant)
Jan 28, Hanoi, Vietnam (Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi)
- Breakfast - Sofitel
- AM - a buggy ride through the back streets of Old Hanoi;
- Visit to the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum;
- The colonial Presidential Palace (Ho Chi Minh refused to live in),
- The famous One-Pillar Pagoda,
- Visit the Hoa Lo Prison (aka the "Hanoi Hilton")
- Lunch - Sample Vietnamese specialties
- PM/Dinner - on our own
Jan 29, Hue Vietnam (Azerai La Residence)
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
- AM - fly to Hué and visit the tomb of Emperor Tu Duc
- Lunch at Azerai La Residence
- PM - Ride aboard a private, pedal-powered cyclo on an exploration of Hué's Citadel and the Forbidden Purple City
- Dinner at Azerai La Residence
Jan 30, Danang, Vietnam (Furama Resort Danang)
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Jan 31, Danang, Vietnam (Furama Resort Danang )
- Breakfast, Dinner
Feb 1, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Park Hyatt Saigon)
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Feb 2, Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam (Park Hyatt Saigon)
- Breakfast, Lunch
Feb 3, Angkor Wat, Cambodia (Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor)
- Breakfast, Dinner
Feb 4, Angkor Wat, Cambodia (Raffles Grand Hotel d'Angkor)
- Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Feb 5, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Four Seasons Resort)
- Breakfast, Dinner
- AM/Lunch - Fly via Bangkok to Chiang Mai
- PM - Arrive at Rose Seasons Resort,
- Dinner - pick a restaurant of our choice in the resort
Feb 6, Chiang Mai, Thailand (Four Seasons)
- AM - learn about Elephants
- Lunch - picnic at the sanctuary precedes a visit to hill tribe villages of Chiang Mai
- PM - meet the village people. Afterwards, the remainder we are on our own
- Dinner - at the hotel.
Feb 7, Chiang Mai Thailand (Four Seasons)
- AM - Doi Suthep National Park and Wat Phra That Doi Suthep.
Guided tour of Chiang Mai's old walled city.
- PM - back at the resort with free time on our own
- Dinner - at the hotel.
Feb 8, Bangkok, Thailand, (Rosewood Hotel)
- Breakfast - Four Seasons
- AM - flight from Chiang Mia to Bangkok
- Lunch - Bangkok
- PM - Sky Train to Rosewood
- Dinner - Rosewood.
Feb 9, Bangkok, Thailand, (Rosewood Hotel)
- Breakfast - Rosewood
- AM - Cruise up the Chao Phraya River and stop at Wat Arun
- Lunch at a local Thai restaurant
- Afternoon & dinner - on our own
Feb 10, Bangkok, Thailand, (Rosewood Hotel)
- Breakfast - Rosewood
- AM - express boat from the hotel to the Maharaj Pier
Sightseeing on foot and by tuk-tuk: Wat Pho with the Reclining Buddha
- Lunch - on our own
- PM - travel to the Grand Palace with the Emerald Buddha.
- Farewell dinner - Rosewood
Feb 11, Bangkok, Thailand,
Tauck Tour ends: we book another day at Rosewood
- 8:00 AM: Ayutthaya Ancient Capital ($81 pp)++
- 5:00 PM: Back in Rosewood
Feb 12, Seattle
- 5:00 AM - Transfer Rosewood to Bangkok International Airport. Allow 3 hours for flight check-in.
- 8:05 AM - JL 7081 to Tokyo Narita, arrive at 4:00 PM
- 6:10 PM - JL 681 to Seattle arrive at 9:55 AM
Feb 14, Depart for Nashville
