Lan Ha Bay Tour: Hidden Gems and Local Culture

Embark on a full day luxury boat tour of Lan Ha Bay. Experience the hidden gems of the bay with a small group and enjoy a delicious lunch with vegetarian and vegan options. Explore the less touristy areas and be guided by our English-speaking experts.

Duration: 8 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Old Quarter - 5:30 AM: Pick-up from Hanoi Old Quarter (if you have booked our bus or regular private car) to begin the transfer to Cat Ba Island. Travel by bus to Got Pier – Got Harbour (Bến Gót) with a short break of 10 – 15 minutes on the new 5B highway.
    At Got Pier – Bến phà Gót, board a speedboat for a 7 to 10-minute journey to Cai Vieng…
What's Included
  • 1 way bus Ha Noi - Cat Ba (only for option from Hanoi)
  • Lunch
  • Pick up & Drop off Cat Ba town
  • Entrance ticket
  • Kayaking, swimming and visit floating village
What's Not Included
  • Personal expenses
  • Holiday surcharge: 10$/person (Xmas, new year, lunar new year, 30 April, 1 May, 2nd September)
  • Drink
Additional Information

The tour will explore the less crowded areas of Lan Ha Bay and Ha Long Bay. Participants will kayak through rock arches to visit Bat Cave, Dark Cave, and Bright, and pass by Monkey Island. A delicious lunch featuring a variety of local dishes will be provided, with vegetarian and vegan options available. Guests will have the opportunity to learn about…

Location
Beka Travel
Đường 1/4
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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619arias
Aug 22, 2025
Cat Ba chill boat tour - Hana was beyond lovely and very informative about the bay, her presence made the experience much better. A highlight was the fish farm and getting to pet and feed the fish. We learned about a lot of different fish and what farming there looks like, which it was more of a research place than fish farming. Lunch was very tasty and the fish was delicious.
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634stefaanc
Aug 3, 2025
Enjoying Lan Ha bay from Cat Ba Island - Very nice trip to discover Cat Ba Island and Lan Ha bay. Well organised. Several activities. Good and clear communication about the trip with Dory. Good guidance by Hana. Thanks!
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Jackocanada
Jul 5, 2025
Perfect way to explore the beautiful bay - Start to finish .. fantastic! Our guide, Hana, from Beka travel was so good. She had everything organised easily .. and gave us just enough info .. with lots of lovely humour. We enjoyed every minute … lots of time to swim, kayak, explore and relax. The lunch was outstanding. Thank you for a very memorable day!
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Jakess1720ry
May 21, 2025
Great experience you can't miss when you're in Cat Ba. - Great experience you can't miss when you're in Cat Ba. The boat tour was great and the guide we had was the best we could wish for (Tyler). We have made memories for life. The swimming, the Kayak and the visit to the water research center were definitely the highlights. Thank you so much!
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Alexly4564sy
Mar 17, 2025
Great experience! - We had so much fun with our lovely guide, Tyler, and our boatmates! The kayaking was amazing and the views were spectacular. Loved learning about the local wildlife preservation along the way, and rolling our own fresh spring rolls! We even got to see the native monkeys! They made our pick up and drop off from our hotels super easy too. Would definitely recommend!
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Tourist47967094675
Mar 8, 2025
Amazing tour, well organized and tour guide speak great english - It was an amazing tour for that price. Got to see a lot of beautiful scenery and learned a lot about the area. Kayaking was so peaceful and fun. Also got to feed big fishes. The tour guide Tom was a great guy. Was wel educated about the place and spoke english quite well. A really kind and funny person. The Vietnamese food was also very tasty!
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Rosswb4549si
Mar 5, 2025
Great tour - We absolutely loved this tour, Tyler and Toni were great, always accommodating and very knowledgeable. The tour took us around the bay but never to over-crowded spots, and was a great mix and activity and relaxation. 10/10 would recommend.
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Mariehh3674rw
Feb 15, 2025
Best way to experience Lan Ha Bay - A must when visiting Cat Ba. The boat ride was so relaxing, the views were immaculate and lunch was fantastic with many vegetarian options. Our tour guide Tyler stood out because he was friendly, knowledgeable, funny, motivated for the job, and spoke English with a high proficiency. How much you can learn is highly dependent on how good the guide is, hence my recommendation to book with this company. Toni and the other staff members on the boat were also extremely friendly and service oriented. The cooking class isn't really worth the title. It's a quick demo of how to make fresh spring rolls with five basic ingredients of which two are pork. Paying an extra 8 $ isn't worth it.
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Dancekk
Jan 4, 2025
Go for Tyler as guide if you can! - We had Tyler as our guide, who was beyond amazing! Super funny, knowledgable and kind throughout the journey! And the trip was very well planned. First we had a little sightseeing around the mountains in the sea. Then we headed for a kayaking trip to check out the caves which was followed by lunch. After that we had a bit of free time when we could swim and chill a bit, and at the end of the day we headed to the marine research centre and got to learn about all the fish there. We ended the day with a bit of snack in the sunset.
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Alice_p
Jan 25, 2025
Pleasant day with some aspects to improve - Things we appreciated: Overall it was a really lovely experience. The boat was clean and well maintained, the pace good enough that it allowed us to enjoy the view and also do plentiful of activities. I loved the kayaking tour of the caves and the stop at the fishermen’s village, which allowed us to admire local species of fish studied by biologists. The area was much less touristy than Halong bay and the waters very clean, so I also enjoyed swimming there. The lunch was abundant in quantity and good enough in quality although we definitely had better food in Vietnam. Last but not least, our guide Tyler was really good and took good care of us. His English was really impressive and he explained everything in great detail, whilst also having humorous moments that made us smile. Thank you for that! Aspects to improve: First of all the pick up. If you are staying in Hanoi it is really far away. Since we didn’t know that (the tour is called Hanoi/Cat Ba activity) I discovered the night before that we had to wake up at 4:30 in order to get to a meeting point because if your hotel is not in the old quarter they don’t pick you up (nonsense imo since we were staying very close to the old quarter). Moreover we ended up paying basically 50 pounds more because transport costs 13$ per way per person. I wish this aspect was better clarified because it would have definitely influenced the way I organised the trip. Therefore the activity costs 25 pounds only if you are staying in Cat Ba which is a really small island with not much to do. Second: the drinks. Drinks were not included and we knew that. In fact, every drink was ordered and made from scratch. However at lunch time the waiter came in every table holding a tray of ready made juices asking us whether we wanted orange, pineapple etc. we took the drinks thinking they were included in the lunch, but at the end of the activity we had to pay for them. I feel like that aspect was unnecessarily deceiving -I would have been happy to order a drink without the need to hide it from me, it was deliberately misleading. Lastly, the cooking class is not a cooking class: don’t be fooled by the name. Actually we just spent the last 15 minutes of the activity making spring rolls on the boat which were not really great but I appreciated the thought. Overall a great experience that I am happy I did with some aspects to improve.
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From $35
up to 15 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).