Testimonials

Kata Tran has organised many holidays for me – in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam. All excellent. She organised a 12 day trip to Myanmar in January 2016 with a few days each in Yangon, Bagan, Mandalay and Inle. Great guides and drivers. Lovely hotels. Terrific boat trip from Mandalay to Bagan. Day trip to old colonial Maymyo. Highly recommended. Kata always listens carefully to what you want and is very flexible.

After researching an upcoming trip to Vietnam and Cambodia, I decided it would make more sense to use a tour service. I liked Lam’s suggestions at Asia Pioneer. I told him what we wanted (my son, daughter-in-law, daughter, and myself) and he organized everything with my particular requests in mind. Four of us traveled for 1 month throughout all of Vietnam and Cambodia, with private guides and drivers, staying at boutique hotels and seeing all of the sights worth seeing. Out of 10 hotels, we had only one that was unacceptable, and the guide brought us to another, acceptable hotel right away. The whole trip really went like clock-work. We received great service and I will not hesitate to use Lam and Asia Pioneer in the future.

Found Asia Pioneer while I was using Trip Advisor to find out about Vietnam/Cambodia. Lam at Asia Pioneer organised a tour for 2 of us with private guides and drivers in each city. We had the most amazing trip. Everything was incredibly well organised and we had a fantastic and different experience in each city. Our guides were fantastic and made sure we had a fabulous experience in each place we went. The trip was great value and covered all internal flights, tours, hotels most meals and a private driver and guide in each city. We didnt have to worry about a thing! Cannot recommend Lam and Asia Pioneer highly enough. We had a fabulous holiday.

Due to pressure of work we had limited time to research for our trip to Vietnam Kata Tran put together a very personalised tour of all the things we wanted to do and this could not have been more perfect – this was our very first trip to Asia which we approached with a bit of trepidation – right from the beginning i.e. itinerary setup to being in the exceptionally capably hands of our three lovely tour guides Linh in Ho Chi Minh quy in Hoi An and Phillip in Han Oi we were treated with respect and great professionalism – the care shown to us particularly by lynh was superb and everything was organised impeccably – we felt that we were not on our own ever! – when a monsoon caused all junks in Halong bay to be brought back prematurely to harbor – most of our fellow travelers were stranded with no accommodation or alternate plans -Indo China pioneer however had arranged for our collection had changed our hotel bookings and arranged for our immediate transfers before we had even been alerted of the imminent problems – I therefore have no hesitation in recommending using them to arrange your holiday – they were exemplary!

This is the second time we’ve used IndoChina Pionneer to arrange our travels whilst in SE Asia. Last year Lam helped us to arrange a five-week bespoke tour around Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. This time, Lam was again incredible in communicating and arranging our bespoke two-week tour, this time through Myanmar (Burma). We started our tour in Mandalay and moved on to visit Bagan, Inle Lake, Ngapali Beach and Yangon.

From start to finish Lam was so helpful and informative, with the level of service being second to none. He arranged the hotels, tour guides, day trips, flights, including a beautiful balloon flight over the temples of Bagan. Throughout our stay making the experience both varied, educational and enjoyable.

I have no hesitation in recommending Indochina Pionneer to anyone traveling to Myanmar, or Laos, Vietnam and Cambodia. My heartfelt thanks go to everyone from Asia Pioneer who really helped make our stay so wonderful.

We decided to request Asia Pioneer to plan our travel since we looked up reviews that said getting around in Vietnam is not as easy as in other parts of the world, given the lack of fluent English speakers in the service industry and they were right! The two or three instances when we had to take cabs on our own, or order food, it never was what we expected and a few times, we were in for an unpleasant surprise.

Having said that, go with Indochina, they are simply fabulous! Why did we decide to go with them instead of all the others? Well, we found them to be the most efficient, cost effective and service oriented.

We were coordinating with Ruby for a few months before our travel and she was so efficient and professional, it was almost hard to believe! Her responses to emails were at lightening speed, and her attention to detail really gave us a sense of comfort. She customised the tour to Hanoi, Ninh Binh and Halong Bay according to our interests and food preferences and left absolutely nothing to chance.

We were travelling with infants, elderly parents and couples, so we really needed every comfort in a foreign country as possible and Ruby ensured that, even while we were on the tour , checking on us everyday to make sure we were well taken care of.

One suggestion is to ask the company to assure you a tour guide who will volunteer information on the history, food, places you are passing and living in, else you may get one who just accompanies you around.