Helping travellers to Vietnam since 2006

About us

A travel guide that started in 2006, and a family transfer service that started in 2026.

The guide

vietnamtravel.org went online in 2006. It began as a guide written while living in Vietnam, because there was very little useful information online about the places away from the main tourist trail, and the guides that did exist rarely showed how beautiful the country is. Over the years it grew to cover destinations from Hanoi to Con Dao, hundreds of hotels, a Vietnamese phrasebook and a lot of practical advice about taxis, money and getting around.

Then life got busy and the site went quiet for a long time.

Sunset on the beach at Mui Ne

What it is now

We’ve brought it back with a narrower focus: South Vietnam, within a day’s drive of Saigon. The old guides are being rewritten one by one, keeping what was useful and updating everything that has changed since the expressways opened.

The new part is the private transfers. They’re run by our family in Saigon and Phan Thiet, who know these roads well and pick the drivers we work with. The transfer service is new, so we won’t pretend to a long track record. What we can promise is a fixed price before you book, a reply from real people on WhatsApp, and a car that meets our driver standard.

Get in touch

Email hello@vietnamtravel.org. We read everything, including the questions about places we don’t drive to.

Our driver standard

The car you'd want after a long flight

Car quality in Vietnam varies wildly: a driver smoking between jobs, seatbelts tucked away or missing, a car that's done half a million kilometres. This is the standard we hold every driver to, and what we ask you about after every trip.

  • Calm hands on the wheel. Smooth, unhurried driving. Safety comes before speed, every time.
  • The horn is for emergencies. Not a musical instrument. Anyone who has sat in Saigon traffic knows why we say this.
  • No smoke, no perfume bomb. Nobody smokes in our cars, and there's no air freshener strong enough to make your eyes water.
  • Air you'd want to breathe. Cabin filters changed on schedule, so the air-con blows clean, not twenty years of exhaust.
  • Newer cars, kind suspension. Cars in good condition, with seats and suspension made for a four-hour drive.
  • Seatbelts that work. In every seat. Child seats are free on request.