Hanoi as a cruise excursion from Halong Bay
Why Hanoi Hanoi the capital of Vietnam and a place that was never off the news for all the wrong reasons in my childhood. So when we did a Cruise from Singapore to Hong Kong on the Celebrity Millennium that included 3 port stops in Vietnam it was one city I wanted to visit. Probably my enthusiasm to see the city was built on my desire to tick another city of the world off my list as much as from my childhood memories and subsequent curiosity. Research into our Vietnam port stops quickly identified we would be calling into Halong Bay and the ship would in fact be staying there over night and not sailing again till 7 pm on the second day. So as a result of that we signed up for the ships overnight excursion to Hanoi, now in normal circumstances we do try and arrange our own excursions but with this being such a long way from the ship and overnight it was a trip we were not prepared to do without the insurance that if we got delayed then the ship would wait for us. ...