Top Lan Ha Bay Cruises

Currently there are about 10 overnight cruises and 40 day cruises on Lan Ha Bay. Here, I just point out a few ships of good quality and quite good for everyone to refer.

Top Lan Ha Bay Cruises

Serenity Cruises

Serenity Cruises is a 5-star cruise that was newly built and launched in early 2019 and with a special schedule compared to other yachts on the bay, it runs on both Ha Long and Lan Ha bays with a long journey. and a variety of fun activities.
Serenity Cruises with 22 high-class rooms, cozy luxurious room design, all rooms have private balconies, separate relaxation space and 2 large rooftop for comfortable sightseeing.
In 22 rooms, there are 3 special high-class rooms reserved for couples with romantic style and many of the most advanced facilities today.
10 rooms can be expanded to carry into a family room with 1 connecting door between two small rooms.
Currently, Halong Serenity Cruises is providing 2 schedules: 2 days and 3 days, these two schedules are two intertwined schedules, making a difference and unique.
Facilities included

→ Outdoors	→ Reception service
Picnic area	Lockers
Outdoor furniture	Luggage storage
Sun terrace	24-hour reception
Private beach area	→ Active
2 large terrace	Cooking class
→ Vehicles	Tour / class about local culture
Free pick-up at Hanoi Old Quarter	Bathing at the private beach
Pick up or see off Noi Bai airport if booking directly with them	Evening entertainment
→ Entertainment and family services	Tour / Bicycling to visit fishing village (Free)
Indoor play area	Karaoke
Books, DVDs, music for children	Scuba diving
→ Services for entrepreneurs	Kayaking on Lan Ha Bay
Fax/photocopy	Practice tai chi in the morning
Meeting / banquet facilities (Additional charge)	Visit Cat Ba National Park (If you go 3 days)
→ Food & drinks	Visit middle page (If going 3 days)
Bar	Bathing at Cat Co beach 1,2,3 (If going 3 days)
Restaurant	Visit the Cannon Fortress (If traveling for 3 days)
2 bottles of mineral water (Free)	Night squid fishing
Wine / Beer (Charged)	→ Health care facilities
Buffet meal suitable for children	Spa / wellness package (Free when booking Moon Suite)
Special diet menu (On request)	Sun loungers / lounges
Delicious coffee (Free)	Hot tub / jacuzzi
→ Room amenities	Pool / beach towels
Smoking area & Air conditioning	Massage (Chargeable)

Era Cruises

Era Cruises is a new brand of steel yacht designed luxuriously, ensuring superior aesthetics and highest safety for customers.
Equipped with the best interiors in the world with professional staff, Era Cruise promises to give visitors incredible service quality and unforgettable experiences on Halong Bay.

Facilities included

Terrace	Tickets to visit
Gym	Massage (Chargeable)
Cooking class	Cycling tour (additional charge)
Water sports facilities	Fishing
Reception service	Food & beverage (Excluding drinks and alcohol)
Cleaning service (Additional charge)	Meeting / banquet facilities
Safe vault	Shuttle service (in Hanoi Old Quarter)
Air conditioner	Shuttle service (charges apply)

Era Cruises

Mon Cheri Cruises

Mon Chéri Cruise is one of the most luxurious 5-star yachts of Ha Long Bay - Lan Ha Bay - a symbol of natural beauty in Vietnam.
Mon Cheri Cruises is the perfect blend of sophistication between the classic European form and the quintessential quintessence of Vietnamese style.
Mon Chéri itself makes a difference with small striking features from elegant design, luxurious restaurants; The menu is well thought out, with 18 spacious cabins with private balconies associated with spectacular views of Lan Ha Bay and the emerald ocean.
Facilities included

Terrace	Tickets to visit
Gym	Massage (Chargeable)
Cooking class	Cycling tour (additional charge)
Water sports facilities	Fishing
Reception service	Food & beverage (Excluding drinks and alcohol)
Cleaning service (Additional charge)	Meeting / banquet facilities
Safe vault	Shuttle service (in Hanoi Old Quarter)
Air conditioner	Shuttle service (charges apply)

Mon Cheri Cruise

Orchid Cruises

Orchid Cruises are like charming orchid petals falling into the bay.
Like the bay described as an orchid, the common flower in the area, landed and landed in Hai Phong city.
With 18 rooms designed to be elegant and luxurious, Orchid Cruises impresses at first sight.
It has spacious cabins from 36 to 72 square meters with private balconies and king beds.
Facilities included

Terrace	Tickets to visit
Gym	Massage (Chargeable)
Cooking class	Cycling tour (additional charge)
Water sports facilities	Fishing
Reception service	Food & beverage (Excluding drinks and alcohol)
Cleaning service (Additional charge)	Meeting / banquet facilities
Safe vault	Shuttle service (in Hanoi Old Quarter)
Air conditioner	Shuttle service (charges apply)

Orchid Cruises

Unicharm Cruises

Unicharm Cruises is one of the 5-star yachts that was put into use in 2016 on Lan Ha Bay with good customer service and itinerary.
Unicharm Cruises consists of 20 luxurious rooms, the smallest room has an area of ​​15m2, the largest room of 35m2, with full modern amenities.
Facilities included

Terrace	Tickets to visit
Gym	Massage (Chargeable)
Cooking class	Cycling tour (additional charge)
Water sports facilities	Fishing
Reception service	Food & beverage (Excluding drinks and alcohol)
Cleaning service (Additional charge)	Meeting / banquet facilities
Safe vault	Shuttle service (in Hanoi Old Quarter)
Air conditioner	Shuttle service (charges apply)

Unicharm Cruises

La Regina Cruises

La Regina Cruises is the most perfect embodiment of the art of relaxation with luxurious charm, certainly in every small detail.
La Regina Cruises has 22 rooms, the largest room has an area of ​​45m2 with full of modern and luxurious amenities.
Facilities included

Terrace	Tickets to visit
Gym	Massage (Chargeable)
Cooking class	Cycling tour (additional charge)
Water sports facilities	Fishing
Reception service	Food & beverage (Excluding drinks and alcohol)
Cleaning service (Additional charge)	Meeting / banquet facilities
Safe vault	Shuttle service (in Hanoi Old Quarter)
Air conditioner	Shuttle service (charges apply)

La Regina Cruises

Lan Ha Bay one day tour

Lan Ha Bay day tour and Halong Bay day trip with a peaceful and unhurried cruise, relaxing on the sun lounger or on the white sand beach, exploring the lush green island on kayak is a unique way to indulge yourself in luxury and natural beauty.

Ha Long Bay - Lan Ha Bay day tour

Highlight in Lan Ha Bay day tour

1. Unique tour design with selective destinations to bring guests to lesser-known idyll spots but no less stunning than anywhere in the region.
2. Extended time stay on the cruise (considerably longer than typical cruise day-tour).
3. Explore the dreamy seascape on kayak.

Itinerary one day in Lan Ha Bay and Halong Bay

- Hotel pick-up at Cat Ba Express Office - No.224, 1/4 Street (1st floor of Sea View hotel). Transfer by bus to Bèo dock.

- Board on a cruise, travel through Cai Beo - the biggest ancient floating village in Vietnam, pass Monkey island (no stop at Monkey island since we want to maximize your travel time for less crowded spots and more gorgeous sceneries) to get to the heart of Ha Lan Bay with dramatic scenery.

- Visit Di san floating house and see the Giant lucky fish, then the cruise glides through the fjords to Dau Be island and drops anchor, allows guests to explore the region by kayak. In case the tide is too high, you will cruise through Cua Van floating village, pass Rang Dua island, Frog island, etc. and go kayak in Dark & Bright Cave.

- Have lunch with seafood cooked in Vietnamese traditional way while the cruise keeps traveling slowly.

- Jump from the ship to hit the water or go swimming in Ba Trai Dao beach or just simply enjoy the splendor of the island from a deck chair.

- Glide back to the mainland, which provides passengers a good view of the azure blue sea with craggy peaks dotted with foliage

- Drop-off at your hotel

Timetable Halong Bay - Lan Ha Bay one day

7:30	Pick-up
8:00	Board on cruise
9:30	Visit floating village - national heritage See giant lucky fish Go kayaking
12:30	Have lunch Go swimming and relax
14:30	Cruise to mainland
15:45	Drop-off

Ha Long Bay 1 day visit the tourist spots

Lan Ha Bay

Lan Ha Bay is located in the south of Ha Long Bay and east of Cat Ba Island, Lan Ha Bay has an area of ​​over 7,000 hectares with the spectacular beauty of about 400 large and small islands.

Carrying in many interesting shapes, unlike Ha Long Bay, all the islands in Lan Ha Bay are covered with greenery, even if they are only extremely small islands.

Halong Bay

Halong Bay is one of three famous bays in the Gulf of Tonkin, Ha Long Bay along with Cat Ba Island is a natural wonder recognized by Unesco as a world natural heritage.

With thousands of small islands scattered all over the bay, Ha Long Bay is truly majestic, lively and beautiful, creating a great tourist attraction attracting millions of visitors each year.

Blessed with nature and with a large investment of the state, Ha Long is now the place to attract the most foreign visitors in Vietnam.

Dau Be Island

In the journey of Dau Be Island is the second stop, where visitors will use kayaking to visit the beautiful and impressive Ho Ba Ham.

Dau Be Island is located in the southeast of Ha Long Bay, 500m from Hang Trai Island to the East, about 28km from Bai Chay Tourist Ship Port, in an island complex located on the route outside Ha Long Bay (Lan Ha Seaport), standing between the two islands is Tra Ngu island and Da Ooc island.

The island has an area of ​​22,863 m2 with the highest peak of 139m, the island wall is erected like a wall of big waves from the East into the Bay.

The island mountains are honed by nature to create very wonderful and strange shapes.

Inside Dau Be Island, there are 6 freshwater lakes, the most famous of which is Ho Ba Ham, along with Dau Be Island combined into a fascinating and interesting sightseeing route for visitors.

Kayaking Ba Ham

Ho Ba Ham still retains its mysterious and untouched beauty due to no human impact or existing construction works.

Compared to the sights on Ha Long Bay, visitors who want to discover the beauty of Ho Ba Ham can only use a bamboo boat or kayak and have to choose when the tide comes down to row through the cave to get into the lake.

The road to the first lake is a cave about 150m long, 10m wide, the ceiling of the highest place is about 1.5-2m.

The road to the second lake on the right follows the entrance direction, about 60m long. The second lake has the largest area of ​​three lakes, with an area of ​​about 1,000m2.

Also from the first lake, the left underground cave is about 60m long, the road to the third lake, an area of ​​about 600m2.

In Ho Ba Ham, four sides of the cliff surrounded, the space is completely still, only the sound of birds singing in harmony with the sky, the water of Ha Long; the sound of the rowing paddle gently patting the side of the boat.

Through the dimly lit caverns, each of the stalactites floats down with many strange shapes.

Along the way, sometimes it seems like the front is a stone wall blocking the way because the space is covered in dark black, but if you go on the paddle, the small light starts to appear again, a new scene appeared again.

There are very large places, there is a narrow place, there is a fence, there is a quiet section, a charming landscape.

Ba Trai Dao Beach

Three Fruit Peaches are three small mountains, about 20 meters tall, looking as far away as three first peaches. This place is associated with a legend of romantic love between the beautiful young fairy, the naive with the poor fishing guy.

Because he is naked, the youngest girl stole three of Hoang Hoang's first peach fruits for him to eat with the hope that the two will live together forever.

Ngoc Hoang knew the instant story of turning the three peaches into three rocky mountains and forced the female fairy to return to heaven ...

Beautiful Ba Trai Dao beach, fine white sand, clear blue sea, beautiful sunny days, visitors can look to the bottom of the water.

Compared to other beaches on Ha Long Bay, Ba Trai Dao beach is more shallow, with only one place to reach the knee. Because the surrounding island is rocky, the beach is quite airy and safe.

The cliffs above the beach create strange shapes that make visitors extremely excited when they come here to be photographed once with this impressive beauty ...

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The Best things to do in Lan Ha Bay

Lan Ha Bay features the magnificence of the small and large islands with many interesting shapes in Cat Ba Island. Not being well-known to tourists like Halong Bay, but Lan Ha Bay is also one of the most beautiful bays in Vietnam. This promised to be an attraction for tourists who want to discover beautiful Vietnam.

Lan Ha Bay

I. Some Attractions In Lan Ha Bay

1. Nam Cat Island

Nam Cat Island is an ideal destination for those who adventurous travelers. Nam Cat Island attracts tourists by four surfaces of nature, exotically charming forests and sea surroundings.

The beach’s length is about 500m with white sand and calm water, which is suitable for swimming, kayaking, fishing, and scuba diving safely. In addition, there are 3 large wooden stilt houses and 6 bamboo motels allowing you to immerse yourself with nature here.

You can have an opportunity to enjoy the seafood of Cat Ba and also explore the serene waters with small fishing villages here. Nowadays, tourism in Nam Cat Island is developing, which contribute to preserve and honor the hidden beauty of the island.

Nam Cat Island Resort

2. Monkey Island

Taking a boat from Ben Beo for 10 minutes, you can reach Monkey Island (also called Cat Dua Island in the past). At present, there are more than 30 monkeys here under the range of Cat Ba National Park. Tourists can play with them, feed them with bananas, apples, or candies. The monkeys are very funny to climb and play with those who visiting Monkey Island.

Monkey island

3. Van Boi Beach

Van Boi is one of the great places to relax with white sand and clear water you can see to the bottom. The waves are rather quiet, which is good to dive the coral and swimming. Also, you can relax by bathing on the beach and watching the beauty of the coral. You may feel impressed by this natural landscape and the surrounding cliffs. The beach seems to be escaped from the modern life with noise and bustle.

Van Boi Beach

4. Rua Island (Turtle Island)

Opposite to Van Boi Beach, there is a small island with the shape like the turtle swimming on the water surface. It is like a masterpiece in the “forgotten paradise”.

Rua Island – Cat Ba

5. Cannon Fort

Built from 1942 as a look-out point, Cannon Fort is at a 177-meter high hilltop overlooking Lan Ha Bay. It is an ideal place for trekking up to see the panorama view of Lan Ha Bay. From Cannon Fort, you will have a chance to see the scenic views of the bay in particular, and of Cat Ba Island in general with tiny houses and fishing boats.

Opening time: 8.00 am – 5.00 pm daily

Services in Cannon Fort:

+ Entrance fee: for adults: VND 40,000/person; for children: VND 20,000/person

+ Electric car fee: VND 40,000/person

+ Sightseeing fee by the observatory: VND 5,000/person

Canon Fort

II. Things to do in Lan Ha Bay

1. Kayaking

With hundreds of small sandy beaches and islets, Lan Ha Bay is one of the paradises for kayaking. Those who love kayak will be interested in clean and calm water and the wild nature of Cat Ba Island. Some popular places for kayaking in Lan Ha Bay are Cai Beo Floating Village, Van Boi Beach, or Monkey Island… Discover the wild nature here and have the best experiences in the bay.

Kayaking in Lan Ha Bay

2. Swimming in Lan Ha Bay

When visiting Lan Ha Bay, swimming is one of the best activities that you should not miss. There are a lot of small lovely beaches such as Van Boi Beach and Monkey Island for you to enjoy swimming. Clear and warm water will bring you comfortable feelings in the beautiful bay.

Swimming in Lan Ha Bay

3. Rock climbing in Lan Ha Bay

Touching the limestone by rocky climbing is an interesting experience when visiting Lan Ha Bay and Cat Ba Island. Even you are a beginner or intermediate and advanced climbers, the guides will set up the rope and all protective equipment, and follow you on the routes to ensure that it is safe. You will get the most adventurous experience during your wonderful trip in Vietnam.

Rock climbing in Lan Ha Bay

4. Visiting fishing village and floating market

Located on Cat Ba Island, Viet Hai Fishing Village has about 80 households, which is surrounded by mountains. The villagers mainly live on fishing, farming and breeding. It is developed to become an eco-tourism and cultural tourism for both Vietnamese and foreign tourists coming to visit. Visiting the village, you will have a chance to experience the fishing life in Lan Ha Bay.
Move to Cai Beo Floating Village, near Ben Beo Harbor, it is the oldest and the most remarkable floating village in Lan Ha Bay. The village consists of about 300 floating houses living mainly by fishing and seafood farming. You can get there by a small boat or kayaking. Taking a closer look and experiencing the local life here is very interesting and memorable in your trip to Lan Ha Bay.

Visiting fishing village

5. Playing and staying at a private beach

If you prefer relaxing to discovering the bay, you can choose for yourself one of a few private beaches including bungalows to stay overnight. You can book a tour package on a cruise or just book a room to have much more time for relaxing activities such as sunbathing, playing beach football, playing beach volleyball, swimming, or kayaking.

Van Boi Beach

Lan Ha Bay – Energetic Lifestyle

Located to the south of Halong Bay and east of Cat Ba Island, Lan Ha Bay has long been famed for its unspoiled and magnificent natural beauty and its intense concentration of pristine limestone mountains, which partition the open sea into smaller bays and gulfs.

Lan Ha Bay – the raw diamond

Lan Ha Bay is located in the south of Ha Long Bay and east of Cat Ba Island. It belongs to Cat Ba islands area, Hai Phong city. Many people think that it is Halong bay area because it also has hundreds of islands like Halong bay. However, Lan Ha bay is different with hundreds of small beaches, this is paradise for tourists to go swimming, go kayaking or staying overnight in a bungalow…

Lan Ha Bay

Lan Ha Bay has about 400 islets. Going by boat to cruise Lan Ha bay, you will see alot of islets with small beaches. The Bay is home to hundreds of mounts with different form depending on travelers’ imagination like Hòn Guốc (Wooden Shoe islet), Hòn Dơi ( Bat grotto), etc.

Lan Ha bay has about 139 beautiful, small sandy beaches, many island has sandy beach lie between two stone mountains. Many tourists come to these beaches for swimming, kayaking, having sunbath or have a picnic lunch on the beach. Especially, in some big beaches, local people has invested to build some bungalows where you can come to stay overnight such as Monkey Island Resort, Sandy Beach Resort, Castaway bungalow, Cove Beach bungalow…

We had chance to stay overnight at Monkey Island Resort in Lan Ha bay. Seeing the sunset here is so beautiful and especially we really enjoy the romantic evening walking on the beach or lying on a long chair to see the moon on the sea. Breath in cool air from the ocean also give us a good health.

Monkey island

Best time to visit Lan Ha Bay

Summer is best time to go to Lan Ha Bay because the weather is hot, suitable for swimming and kayaking on bay. If you want to combine the tour to visit Cat Ba, you can choose autumn to visit, however the weather may have storm and the weather is not good for swimming.

Means of transport to Lan Ha Bay

From the centre of Cat Ba, travelling to Ben Beo, you can buy the sightseeing ticket then hiring boat to the place you want. If you just want to visit the surrounding places of bay ( near the coastline), you can hire motorboat from the locals for convenience. With the large group, you can hire boat at pier.

Things to do in Lan Ha Bay

Adjacent to Halong Bay, Lan Ha Bay has unique different beauty. If you like, you can take both Lan Ha Bay Tours and Halong Bay tours.

Cua Van Fishing village: 12 km far from Ben Beo, this is stop place for boat to play kayaking because it has fascinating caves.

Hang Luon

Nam Cat Island ( Cat Ba National Park) attracts tourists because of pristine beauty surrounded by nature, forests and seas. The interaction of humans to this island is limited to keep its natural value. With 3 stilt houses made of wood and 6 hotels made of bamboo, relaxing here helps you to integrate with nature and atmosphere of sea.

Monkey island: Monkey Island is 1km far from Cat Ba Town. To Monkey Island, tourists goes by boat from Ben Beo for 10 minutes, passing by Cai Beo fishing village and some small islands. Now, the island has over 20 monkeys. They often go to beach to play with tourists, eating foods of tourists such as banana, apple, orange, cake or candy.