We began our holiday in Cambodia with flights and a hotel to visit the temples near Angkor Wat. After a one-week stay in Siem Reap, Asia Pioneer’s tour guide and driver picked us up by to drive cross-country to Phnom Penh to begin a longer tour of Vietnam from Ho Chi Minh city to Hanoi with visits to many areas along the way. To assist us with our planning, Asia Pioneer proposed a detailed itinerary designed to meet our route, schedule and several requests.

The latter outstanding tour company organized all of our transport, accommodation, and tours to a wide variety of museums, artisans, artisan manufacturers, temples and pagodas, and of urban and rural life in the cities and towns. Daily each tour guide and driver met our group of four always on time with cold bottled water, a full schedule of the day’s tour and occasionally lunch on the way. During the tour, we had three air flights and guides changed when we flew to new cities. These guides easily spoke in English about the history, environment and many interesting features of their locales. At the end of our tour, we all agreed that we had learned a lot about these countries while being very conveniently transported from one site to the next.

We did think the tour could be improved by increasing the quality of our boutique hotels to four- or five-star hotels, even though this would increase the cost. They could, for example, offer three levels of accommodation possibly designated as “good, better, best” respectively. We believe a higher level of accommodation would have made our ‘full touring” schedule more relaxing and enjoyable.

Nevertheless, our superbly arranged tour of a large variety of interesting tour sites easily accessed by the assistance of able guides, and drivers always arriving on time, ready to discuss many aspects of their countries made this moderate cost visit extremely attractive to us. We felt fortunate that this company selected sites we would have selected ourselves had we knowledge of them, organized appropriate transport and accommodation near large city centers to travel conveniently from one site to the next while allowing some free time most evenings to interact with city life. We also had all the opportunities we wished to take many photographs during our trip.

Booked a 10-day tour of Thailand and Cambodia and have to say it’s a great tour. The tour guides are knowledgeable and friendly. Enjoyed the food tour in Bangkok (thanks to Meng) and the Elephant Rescue Park. Angkor Thom and Angkor Wat in Siem Reap are must-see! The one thing that brought down the rating was the hotel. Our hotel room in Chiangmai leaked when it rained, and the hotel in Siem Reap is just not well maintained. The bathtub is cracked and the doors are not aligned properly. You can still see outside when the room door is locked! Aside from this issue, everything else was great.

From initial contact, trip planning, booking, and over three months of communication, I emailed with Hien back and forth. She was so patient, kind, quick to respond, helpful, and an absolute joy to work with (even with my million emails!) I even got to meet her at Indochina’s office in Hanoi and felt like I was greeting an old friend 🙂

Once arriving at the first of four total airports for our 12-day trip, every single guide (Sunny in Hanoi and Ninh Binh, Tiger in Hoi An, Ms. Hoa in Saigon, and Sary in Siem Reap), not only met but absolutely exceeded our expectations! Professional, incredibly knowledgeable, friendly, and so comfortable to be around, my husband and I loved our tour guides and felt that they were the secret ingredient for our perfect vacation. On top of that, our drivers were also always courteous, kind, and absolutely incredible drivers. I can’t imagine being a driver in Vietnam, but ours were among the very best!

In a part of the world with developing infrastructure, tourist resources, and transportation options, having a private driver and guide saved us time and gave us peace of mind. From start to finish, Asia Pioneer was a joy to work with and I can’t recommend the company enough. Go on and book with them already!

We loved our 2-week tour to Vietnam with Asia Pioneer. We are family of 6 with 4 kids 8 and under and the convenience and professionalism with this company are worthwhile! These guides were great, the hotels were wonderful, and the tour itinerary fit the needs for our tastes. Nhung worked with us until everything was perfect and her responses were detailed and quick.

We have used Asia Pioneer 2x for our travels to Southeast Asia. We have been so happy with our decision to use them to help plan our trips.

We even lost the phone on the trip and the company has been more than helpful with the documentation we need for the insurance company. We have been grateful for their assistance.

We are looking forward to using them for future trips to the region. We highly recommend Asia Pioneer to book your next vacation.

Our honeymoon trip was organized by Kata Tran. After many emails, we planned our three weeks itinerary based on our preferences and Kata’s recommendations. We stayed at Hanoi, Halong Bay, Phong Nha, Hue, Hoi An, Ho Chi Minh, Mekong Delta, and Phu Quoc. Sometimes the itinerary we choose was tiresome but the professionalism of Asia Pioneer helped us to not have any anxiety during the trip. Because this trip was for our honeymoon we generally choose luxury hotels and private drivers and guides. We had the best trip of our lives. Kata thought for everything, all drivers were driving safely and all guides were experts and always before the time we agreed and most of them with understandable English pronounce. We could make changes during the trip and Kata answered some questions we had even very late hours. I have to mention especially our guide on Central Vietnam, Banh. He was very knowledgeable, very friendly, very informative and we could share conversations about everything. His pronounce was perfect and he took a photo of us all the time. With him, we had our best days in Vietnam. All the hotel rooms were what we agreed and all had some surprises for our honeymoon. Kata gives us a sim card with unlimited 4G worked on the whole trip and we had bottled water from our guides and drivers all the time. We had also the pleasure to meet Kata as well during the trip and we had a pleasant conversation. I would choose this company any time on our future trips. Thanks, Kata, for everything.

We traveled to Vietnam and Cambodia in January 2019 booking our holiday through Asia Pioneer. I can’t speak highly enough of our experience by booking a tour with this company. When we started looking at going to Vietnam and Cambodia we found the website for Asia Pioneer. We chatted with them online then requested a quote and itinerary for a 15-day tour. The travel representative was extremely professional and punctual in her responses. We had many opportunities to fine-tune the itinerary to our personal preferences including the grade and type of accommodations we wanted to stay in. We were nervous about booking everything online but all of our concerns were totally unfounded. Our biggest concern was whether or not someone would actually be at the airport to meet us when we arrived. Our guide and driver were there at each and every city we arrived at. The guides spoke good English, were extremely knowledgeable and punctual. We always had a driver and guide with us, except for the evenings when we were on our own. All in all the pacing of the tour was good. We opted to have a totally free day in Hoi An at the midway point of the holiday and it was lovely to be totally on our own for that day. I cannot speak highly enough of our experience with Asia Pioneer they delivered and more on what they promised. I would not hesitate to recommend this company to anyone planning a trip to Indochina.

It is not easy to decide on which aspects of our trip to highlight since there were so many. I will begin by saying that I highly recommend this company and Mr. Lam who went out of his way to accommodate our needs and provide us with a flawless experience from start to finish. Communicating with Lam thru emails over the course of a couple of months, we were able to fine-tune a custom itinerary that took us from the south of VN to the north with experiences we will never forget and accommodations that were of high quality. The four of us are well seasoned over 60 and fit travelers having lived in and visited more than 50 countries between us, and while we do appreciate the touristy stuff we are more interested in the cultural hands-on local experiences. Lam made sure that our itinerary provided us with all of this as well as the 4 and 5-star accommodations in the Sheratons when possible. We also were able to make some changes during our trip as needed thanks to Lam and the flexibility of the guide. Of note were the quality of our guides and drivers, the various Mekong delta boat trips and the interesting local stops, the historical sites in each city , the silkworm demonstration, the free evening in Hanoi when we booked a night Vespa tour (a must-do!), the street food evening , and of course, the magic of being on Halong Bay. But really there was so much more I can’t even begin to mention. There are many things that go into making for a memorable, successful holiday and Lam has the experience and genuine desire to ensure that his clients are satisfied and well cared for in his country.