Testimonials

My husband and I organized a trip for 36 fellow travelers to Vietnam and Cambodia for spring break 2013. We are extremely HAPPY with the services provided by Asia Pioneer! Partners Quyen and Lam proved that they have the knowledge and experience to plan a trip that we can now truly call a trip of a lifetime. Our group enjoyed a customized tour with TOP NOTCH buses, drivers, guides, activities and dining. Oh the food was just delicious. You have to try it all. We were overly pleased with their suggested accommodations, Intercontinental West Lake in Hanoi, The Rex Hotel in Saigon and the Tara Angkor Hotel in Siem Reap. Thanks to Quyen for insisting that we spend 2 nights sailing Halong Bay with Bhaya Classic Cruises.

Here are just a few little things that made Asia Pioneer stand out. 1) We were treated to having Quyen as our national guide 24/7. He became one of the family and even arranged a birthday cake for a celebration during the trip 2) It was warm and humid but they always had plenty of free bottled water chilled for us on the bus. 3) Hotel check in was all pre-arranged. They just handed us our keys and we were on our way. Same with the domestic flights. Quyen checked in our luggage and handed us our boarding passes. Couldn’t be simpler.

We have organized 20+ group trips over the years and this company stands out as one of the best we’ve ever had! THANKS for an unforgettable adventure. I highly recommend a visit to the beautiful people of Vietnam and Cambodia.

This is my second trip with Asia Pioneer. After 2 weeks in Cambodia and Vietnam last June, I planned a group trip with 14 high school students to Siem Reap, Cambodia, Hoi An, Mai Chau, Hanoi and Halong Bay in Vietnam in late March. Once again, Lam did an amazing job panning our itinerary. Our guides were excellent: friendly, punctual and always willing to be flexible with our schedule based on our group’s needs. Many of our meals were selected by Asia Pioneer and included in our group tour price, and they were great restaurants with multiple course meals. Lam was able to make some last minute changes to our hotels to bring our price down when our group numbers were lower than originally planned. I was very impressed with all the hotels we stayed in. Staff was friendly and helpful, hotels were spacious and clean, and all had swimming pools.As always, Lam was prompt in replying to emails and helping us prepare for our trip. Our students are photography students, and our guide in Hanoi, Tan, area was also a photographer which as a great help. The itinerary included many special early morning trips to photographic locations which was a treat for the students. Asia Pioneer handled all aspects of our trip including flights from Cambodia to Vietnam, internal flights in Vietnam, transportation, guides, hotels and meals. All services were excellent!

It is with the highest regard that I recommend Asia Pioneer. I am planning another vacation to Myanmar in July and have already contacted Asia Pioneer to help with our itinerary.

I am a sixty year old woman traveling alone in north west Vietnam. i had such excellent and professional service from start to finish. They organized the tour just as I had wanted it. The owner Mr Lam was there to offer all kinds of help . Everything was organized like clockwork . The guide showed up on time, the car was impeccably clean at all times. My driver was excellent on all counts. He always had cold water and a package of wet face wipes, a welcome way to beat the heat. They thought of everything. My driver was courteous, safe, and neat and clean when he arrived. I have to applaud the experience and knowledge of the guide.
Often I had access to villages and people because of his professional relationship with them. Traveling alone I never felt unsafe or anxious. I stayed in many nice hotels on my tour. I was always escorted to my hotel, the guide took care of my checkin I literally had nothing to do except enjoy my room. Even at the airport and the train from Sapa everything was looked after exceptionally well.
I was very happy with the service I received but more happy that I had hired a Vietnamese company that supported local guides and the local economy when I booked my trip I thought I would try two different companies just in case one was poor I would not be stuck. iI was wrong. I should have stuck to Asia Pioneers. indochina Odessey presented as a Vietnamese company when indeed they are aChinese company. I did not receive as good or personable service from them. Next time, will again book with
Asia Pioneers this kind of professionalism is welcomed and greatly appreciated by everyone especially women traveling alone

We had an absolutely great tour with Pioneer. Quyen was our tour guide for Vietnam and Cambodia and was a delight. We covered a lot of territory, Hanoi, Saigon, Halong Bay for 3 days and Siem Reap. Great hotels, tours and just the right pace for this short time in these countries with sites to be seen but also time to relax and explore on our own. Would book with them again. Trust the reviews, this company is the one to take.

We have recently concluded a 23 day tour of Cambodia and Vietnam, arranged by the wonderful Kata @ Asia Pioneer, in Hanoi.
First I should say that i started the whole process a year ago, when we had finalized our flights and nothing else. I emailed a few companies, some in Vietnam and some in N. America. Right from the start i was impressed with Kata, who responded promptly, and got back to me when she said she would get back to me. Between the two of us, this trip was revised so many times by tweaking the category of hotels, or the route! Nothing was too much trouble. I never felt I was a pain in the butt!

Our tour actually started for us in Bangkok as that is where our stopover en route to Australia went. Kata arranged our pick up from the airport, a hotel, return to the airport the next day and flight to Cambodia for the ‘real’ start of our tour.
We did 5 nights in Cambodia and 18 in Vietnam. Once the details had been ironed out prior to departure, we were totally at the mercy of Kata’s scheduling, and she did not disappoint. We literally were guided along at every step of the way.
The tour operators were very nice people, who were so eager to share their knowledge of their respective countries.
On arrival in Vietnam we were handed a cell phone, with Kata’s number in it, and also on our first day Lam phoned (the boss) asking if everything was OK. Nice touch! As we were travelling without a cell phone (Just an ipad for emails) it was reassuring to know in an emergency we had a phone at our disposal.
Our tour ended in Hanoi, and Kata and her husband came to visit us at the hotel. It was so nice to meet the person i had sent (what felt like) hundreds of emails. She was just as charming in person too!
So, in short, I would recommend this company anytime, and I would also book with them in the future.

Where do we start!! Never being ones for doing “trips/tours”, as we always like doing our own thing, that is not being taken to places guides think we want to see or souvenier outlets, or hanging around waiting for the rest of the bus!! We took a leap of faith booking our tour to Cambodia, Vietnam and Laos with Indochina, but from the start of the planning last August to throughly enjoying our tour Jan/Feb this year the service we received was exeptional. Kata had to be very patient with us while we fine tuned our trip numerous times so we could vist all the places we wanted to see in the time scale we had. But she got it perfect in the end thanks Kata.

We had a private tour just my self and my husband. All the hotels were lovely, the guides were all so well mannered, polite and had a good knowledge of the English language, and a great knowledge of their individual countries and attractions. The transport was perfect, clean safe vehicles, the drivers were polite and very punctual, we were treated like Royalty nothing was too much trouble.

It really was a trip of a lifetime, seen and experienced so much, and I would not hesitate to recomend Asia Pioneer to anyone.

They are such a great team too, we were very fortunate to meet a lot of them in person as we happened to be in Hanoi ,Vientnam for Chinese New Year this year, and we were invited to Indochina’s staff party at a local restaurant, we had such a good evening great food, wine and company, it was a shame we had to leave quite early for our overnight train to Sapa,(now that was and experience!!!)