Every question, in one place

Yes. Every day runs in English, and the guide interprets both ways. That is most of what a guide is for here: the pepper farmer and the bun quay cook speak no English, and without interpretation you are looking at a farm rather than talking to a farmer.

We can run days in French and in Russian with two weeks notice. Not in German, Korean or Mandarin - we would be hiring someone we do not know.

For December to February, three to four weeks. The homestay has four rooms and the cooking family takes one group a day, so those two sell out first.

Outside high season, three days is usually enough, and we can sometimes do next morning for the fishing village if the weather is settled.

From Duong Dong, Long Beach, Ong Lang and Cua Can at no extra cost. From An Thoi, Sunset Town, Ganh Dau or Bai Thom we add USD 8 per person, because it is a 40 to 70 minute detour each way and we would rather charge for it than start an hour earlier without telling you.

No, and we make that checkable rather than a claim. Ask any guide of ours what we pay a producer we visit and they will tell you the figure, because it is a flat fee per group and they hand it over in front of you.

If you buy pepper or fish sauce on one of our days you pay the same price a Vietnamese customer pays at the gate, and we receive nothing.

The cooking day and the street food walk, yes, and people do. The rest, no: the fishing village morning ends at 11:00 because the boats are in and the village goes quiet, and the farm day genuinely fills eight hours.

If you have one day and want a bit of everything, tell us your interests and we will build a private version rather than sell you two half days.

Every day on this list can be run privately for your party at a fixed group price. That normally makes sense from two people, because our shared groups are small enough that the difference is about timing rather than crowding.

A private day lets you set the start time, which matters most for the fishing village morning if you have children.

Two on the shared price. If you are one traveller we will still run it, at the single rate shown on each page, and we do not cancel on you afterwards because a second booking did not arrive.

On the cooking day and the street food walk, yes, with notice - both are flat and short. On the fishing village morning, partly: the pier itself is not accessible but the market and the crab kitchen are.

The farm day involves uneven ground and the motorbike day is out. We would rather say that clearly than have you find out at the gate.

We watch the marine forecast and the crews tell us the evening before. If the fleet is staying in, we call you by 20:00 and you take another date or a full refund. On average that happens about fifteen mornings a year, almost all of them between June and September.

We do not run the morning anyway and hope you will not notice, which is the reason this trip has a cancellation policy at all.

It is cooked to order in front of you and the crab were alive ten minutes earlier, which is a better hygiene position than most hotel buffets. The kitchen has been serving the crews for three generations and their customers are not tourists.

If you have a shellfish allergy, tell us when you book and the family cooks something else. Say it in the form rather than on the morning.

Of the work, yes, freely. Of people, ask first and your guide will ask for you - it takes four seconds and the answer is almost always yes, which is precisely why it is worth asking.

The exception is the money changing hands at the top of the ramp. Do not photograph that. It is the one thing that reliably annoys people here.

No. The standard island day tour reaches Ham Ninh between eleven and one, when the pier is empty and the dried seafood stalls are the only thing open, and it is normally a commission stop.

We are there five hours earlier for a completely different reason, and there is no shopping element to our morning at all.

This is dinner. Seven dishes with the harbour portions at the end defeats most people, and we have stopped adding an eighth because the plates were coming back full.

If you are a big eater, say so on the night and the guide will order extra at the squid stop, which you pay for directly and it is inexpensive.

It is cured in lime and vinegar rather than served truly raw, which is the same principle as ceviche, and the fish were landed that morning. It is the dish Phu Quoc is known for on the mainland.

If you are pregnant or would rather not, tell the guide and you get a grilled version instead. Nobody will make anything of it.

From about seven years old, yes, and it works well - there is grilled pork, rice paper rolls and dessert, and children like mixing the bun quay dip.

Under seven the 21:30 finish is the problem rather than the food. Ask us about a private early version that starts at 17:00 and finishes by 20:00.

Because it is priced for visitors and cooks for volume, and because the seafood tanks at the front are the most common source of the bill disputes we hear about.

We walk through it, we explain how it works, and then we go and eat somewhere the island eats. If you want to go back later on your own you will be better armed for it.

Yes, at the same price, and it is genuinely good rather than an apology: banh xeo with mushroom and beansprout, canh chua with tofu and pineapple, a green mango salad and morning glory with garlic.

Tell us when you book. The family shops the evening before and cannot switch on the morning.

Yes, with the cash and the list, and your guide interpreting. It is the difference between a market visit and a market walk-through, and it is where most of what you learn about ingredients actually happens.

If a stall tries the tourist price your guide will say so out loud, in Vietnamese, and the price will change. That is worth seeing once.

From about eight. There is hot oil and a caramel pot, so under-eights sit at the table with the grandmother and shell prawns, which they seem to enjoy more than the cooking.

Children under twelve are half price on the shared rate. Say their ages in the booking form.

Three of the four, yes. Canh chua, banh xeo and the clay pot fish work with supermarket ingredients if you can find tamarind and fish sauce.

The herring salad does not travel. It needs fish landed that morning and fresh coconut, and every version we have heard about made in Europe has been a disappointment. We would rather tell you now.

Yes, though it is a different day. February to April you see picking and the drying yard full, which is the photogenic version. Outside those months you see the vines, the sorting, the grading and the farm accounts, and you get considerably more of the owner attention because he is not working.

The fish sauce house is the reverse: the barrels are filled from July, so July to September is when the yard is busiest.

You can buy both at the gate price. Pepper travels without any problem. Fish sauce must go in checked baggage, sealed and bagged, and the producers sell it in the plastic bottles airlines accept rather than the glass ones that leak.

We take no commission on either, so the guide has no view on whether you buy.

No. The farms on the standard circuit are near the main road with parking for coaches, and most of them run on commission. Ours is twenty-five minutes further in on dirt and has no parking to speak of.

It is a working farm, so occasionally the family is dealing with something urgent and the visit shifts by an hour. We tell you rather than substituting a showroom.

About three kilometres across the day, in three separate stretches, none of them longer than about twenty-five minutes. The ground on the farm is uneven red earth with irrigation channels, so wear something closed.

There is a chair under the trellis at every point of the farm visit and nobody has to do the full walk.

We find out in the first hour, on purpose, on an easy loop near Cua Can where the guide can watch you. If you are not comfortable we move you to pillion there and the price difference is refunded on the spot.

This happens about one rider in fifteen and nobody has ever been embarrassed about it - the guides handle it as a routine swap.

It carries the risks of riding a small motorcycle on unsealed roads, which are real. What we control: full-face helmets, maintained bikes, a support vehicle, a maximum of six riders, no night riding and no wet season.

What we cannot control: other traffic on the sealed sections, and your own judgment. If you would not ride a bike at home on gravel, take the pillion seat.

No. Two visitors on one bike on this surface is how people get hurt, and our insurance does not cover it. One of you rides, the other goes pillion with a guide, and you can swap at lunch.

Long trousers, closed shoes with a bit of ankle, a long-sleeved shirt and sunglasses. Not shorts and sandals, however hot it is - the difference between a graze and a wound is a pair of jeans.

Bring a buff or a mask for the dust in the dry season. We carry spares.

Yes. The rooms are swept and the bedding washed between every guest, the bathrooms are tiled with hot water, and the kitchen is cleaner than most street kitchens you will eat at happily.

It is basic, which is a different thing from dirty, and the two get confused in reviews of homestays everywhere.

There are mosquitoes, most actively at dusk and near the river. Every bed has a net, the house burns a coil in the front room in the evening, and we carry repellent.

Dengue exists on Phu Quoc. Long sleeves at dusk and repellent are sensible here and in your hotel equally.

From about six, and it works better than people expect - there are children in the house and language stops mattering within an hour.

Under-twelves are half price sharing a room with parents. The 04:15 rooster is the real consideration rather than the comfort.

Yes, for USD 78 per person, and about one group in five does. The second day is unstructured on purpose: the river, the garden, a walk up the coast, and lunch.

We would not recommend a third night unless you want to do very little, which is a perfectly good reason.

We will tell you which areas work for this itinerary and what a fair price is, but we do not resell hotel rooms. You will get a better rate booking direct or on a platform than we could pass on, and adding a margin to a room we did not improve would be dishonest.

Duong Dong, Long Beach or Ong Lang all work. Anywhere south of An Thoi adds an hour of driving to days one and two.

Say so and we swap it for a second homestay night with a free afternoon on the river, at no change in price. About a third of groups do this, mostly families.

We can also substitute a private car version of the same northern route, which costs USD 25 more per person because the vehicle and driver cost more than bikes.

For the island as a whole, no - people happily spend a week here. For this style of trip, four is the honest maximum, which is why we do not sell a six-day version.

By day four you have seen the fishing shore twice, and a fifth day would repeat rather than add. If you have a week, take these four days and spend the rest at the beach.

Yes, apart from the motorbike day where a second riding guide joins for groups of five or more. It is the main practical difference between booking the four-day trip and booking four separate days.

If your guide falls ill we will tell you rather than quietly substituting.

Because we take no commission, cap groups at six or eight, pay guides a salary and pay every producer a flat fee. Those four decisions add roughly USD 25 to USD 30 per person per day compared with the standard model, and the breakdown above shows exactly where it goes.

We are not the most expensive option on the island either. Private guided days through the larger hotels run to USD 120 and up per person.

The price table already does that - eight people pay the lowest per-head rate we run. There is no further negotiation, and we would rather publish one honest number than start high and discount.

For two or more days booked together we take 5 per cent off the second and subsequent days, applied automatically.

Twenty-five per cent to confirm, and the balance fourteen days before your first service. Inside fourteen days it is payable in full at booking.

The balance can be paid in cash on the island against a numbered receipt if you prefer, which many people do.

Both columns are labelled on every table. The shared column is per person; the private column is the total for your whole party, however many of you there are up to the maximum.

Children under twelve are half the shared rate on the cooking day and the homestay, and full rate elsewhere because they occupy a seat and eat the same food.

Three to four weeks for December to February, especially for the cooking day and the homestay, which take one group and four rooms respectively.

Outside high season three days is normally enough, and we can sometimes take a booking for the next morning if the weather is settled and a vehicle is free.

Yes, and about a fifth of our bookings happen that way. Message us on WhatsApp when you land and we will tell you honestly what is free in the next few days.

The risk is only in high season, when the answer is sometimes nothing for four days.

No. There is no card form anywhere on this site and no card details are stored. Payment happens by bank transfer or through a payment link we send from our processor, after we have confirmed availability.

That is also why an enquiry commits you to nothing.

On a day trip the guide waits twenty minutes and calls. After that the vehicle has to move because the other guests have an appointment with a tide or a kitchen, and we will try to get you to the group by taxi at our cost if it is feasible.

On the dawn trips there is no catching up. That is the honest position and it is the reason we message the night before.

All five, yes. Ham Ninh, Rach Vem and Cua Can are on public roads and nobody will stop you. Hire a scooter or take a Grab and go.

What you will get is the look of the place rather than the working of it, because the difference is entirely in whether anyone talks to you. If you speak Vietnamese, go alone and have a better time than most of our guests.

Ham Ninh, before 07:00. It is the only one of the five where you can watch a whole working economy happen inside ninety minutes.

If you cannot face a 05:00 start, Cua Can in the late afternoon is the better answer, and it is closer.

Yes, including after dark. Phu Quoc has very little street crime and the villages have effectively none.

The genuine hazards are traffic on the sealed roads, dogs that guard specific houses, and wet concrete on the piers. None of them are a reason not to go.

Ham Ninh has several seafood places aimed at day tour groups from about eleven, and one very good kitchen behind the pier that is not aimed at anybody.

Cua Can and Rach Vem have a handful of small places. An Thoi and Duong Dong have proper food in quantity. Nowhere in the villages takes cards.

Before nine in the morning, yes, more than anywhere else on the island. After ten, honestly, no - not unless you want a seafood lunch, in which case it is pleasant and reasonably priced.

Almost every negative review of Ham Ninh you will read was written by someone who arrived at noon.

Yes, at any of the shore restaurants and at several of the small kitchens. You pick from the tank or the crate, it is weighed in front of you, and there is a cooking charge of about 50,000 dong.

Agree the weight and the price per kilo before it goes in the pot. This is normal practice and nobody is offended by it.

Scooter from Duong Dong is 35 minutes on a good sealed road with one junction. Grab cars work but are scarce before six in the morning and you should book the return.

There is no bus that is useful for this.

Parts of the Phu Quoc coast are affected by the APEC 2027 works and resettlement plots have been allocated across the island. We are not going to state a specific plan for Ham Ninh that we cannot verify.

What we can say is what we see weekly: the shore is still working, and where families have moved we know which ones. Ask us for the current picture.

No, and nobody can promise it. In the calm months, on a weekday morning at low tide, it is likely. In the southwest monsoon it is a coin toss.

They also move. Some days they are thick near the stilt houses and some days you have to wade further out.

Yes. It is warm, shallow, sandy and calm. Wear something on your feet - there are shells, occasional broken glass near the cafes, and sea urchins on the rocky patches at the northern end.

Jellyfish appear occasionally between May and July and the locals will tell you when they are around.

Yes and it is pleasant - grilled squid, sea snails, coconut, all cooked on the deck. Prices are roughly double Duong Dong and that is a fair price for the setting.

Confirm the price of seafood by weight before ordering, as you would anywhere.

Not yet, and the honest answer is that it depends entirely on when you stand there. The hamlet still fishes, the houses are still homes and on a weekday morning it is close to what it was.

The trend is not good. If you are choosing between this year and in three years, go this year.

Not as a base for a week - Long Beach has the restaurants, the transport and the sunsets, and it is far more convenient.

For one or two nights inside a longer trip, Cua Can gives you something Long Beach cannot give you at any price. Use both.

People do, upstream of the bridge where it is fresh. At the mouth it is brackish and the current on an outgoing tide is stronger than it looks.

The sea is the better swim from November to April.

There are plots for sale on the north bank and there have been for years. Two small resorts exist further up the coast towards Ong Lang and both are low rise.

We would not describe Cua Can as safe from development. We would describe it as slower than everywhere else, and worth seeing while that is true.

Yes, near the river at dusk, and dengue exists on Phu Quoc. Beds have nets, repellent works, and long sleeves at dusk are sensible.

It is not worse here than in a garden hotel on the west coast.

If you like ports, yes, very much - it is the best working harbour in this part of Vietnam and the wooden shipyards are unusual.

If you do not, no. It is a functional town with heavy traffic, and there is no second reason to be there.

No. The passenger fast boats to Ha Tien and Rach Gia run from Bai Vong on the east coast, about 25 minutes away, and the An Thoi terminal serves the islands.

Check your ticket carefully; this is the most common mistake people make on departure day.

Yes, with normal care. It is a working quay with mooring lines, ice chutes, forklifts and wet concrete, so watch your feet and stay clear of anything being loaded.

Nobody will stop you or ask for money. Ask before photographing individuals.

The stalls behind the fish market, between six and nine, for noodles and porridge. That is what the crews eat and it is very good.

Avoid the seafood restaurants along the main road, which are priced for the ferry trade and cook accordingly.

It is the most practical base on the island - everything is 15 to 40 minutes away, there is real food at real prices, and transport is easy at any hour.

It is not the prettiest or the quietest. Ong Lang is the usual compromise for people who want both.

Yes, between six and eight. It is the clearest picture of what the island produces and eats, and it costs nothing.

Go with cash in small notes, expect the wet section to be genuinely wet, and do not photograph a seller without asking.

Yes. Petty theft exists as in any tourist town, mostly bag snatching from scooters, so keep a bag on the inside shoulder. Violent crime is very rare.

The main hazard is traffic - the roads have no useful pavements in places and scooters use them.

Dinh Cau sits on the rocks at the river mouth and takes fifteen minutes. It is a small working shrine to the sea rather than a monument, and it is best at sunset when the fleet is leaving past it.

Free, no ticket, cover your shoulders.

If you want the villages, the food and the farms rather than the sea, yes - and it is the cheapest and emptiest month of the year.

If you want to swim, snorkel or ride the dirt roads, no. Come between November and April instead.

Usually excellent - it falls in the dry season. The problem with Tet is not the weather, it is that the island stops working for several days.

If your dates are fixed around it, tell us and we will be straight about which days can run.

Air temperature runs 24 to 35 C all year, so the season is about rain and wind rather than heat. April and May are the hottest, reaching 35 C on the pepper drying yard by early afternoon.

Humidity is high all year. Anyone who suffers in heat should take the early starts, which is most of what we run anyway.

Ours do not - we charge the same figure in August as in February. Hotels on Phu Quoc vary enormously, easily by a factor of two between September and Tet.

What changes for us is availability rather than price.

Technically yes - it is a one hour flight and there are early and late services. Practically it is a bad idea: you would land at nine and leave at seven, which buys you one of our days and a lot of airport.

Two nights is the minimum that makes the journey worth making.

Yes, if you want a beach holiday with two or three interesting days inside it. It is not worth a week of continuous activity, because there is not a week of activity here that does not repeat.

The people who enjoy a week most are the ones who booked four active days and three empty ones.

Two or three. Three is the maximum before the early starts catch up with people, and we would rather tell you that than sell a fourth.

If you want three, put a free day between the second and the third.

Phu Quoc combines well with the Mekong Delta by ferry through Rach Gia or Ha Tien, and it is a natural end to a southern Vietnam trip.

It does not combine well with Cambodia despite the map - the border crossing at Ha Tien is a long day and the sea route is not a scheduled service for foreigners.

The rules for Phu Quoc have historically differed from the rest of Vietnam and the national e-visa and exemption lists change regularly. Check with the Vietnamese embassy or consulate for your nationality before booking flights.

If you plan to travel on to the mainland afterwards, the answer may be different from an island-only trip, which is the specific point people get wrong.

Not by a scheduled passenger boat for foreign travellers. The practical route is a ferry to Ha Tien and then overland to the Prek Chak border crossing, which is a long day.

Sihanoukville is close on a map and awkward in practice.

In the dry season, usually flat to moderate. From June to September the Rach Gia crossing in particular can be unpleasant and sailings are cancelled outright in bad weather.

If you are prone to seasickness, take the Ha Tien route or fly.

The existing terminal is operating normally. What has changed is the road environment around the airport and towards An Thoi, where there is heavy construction traffic and occasional diversions.

Allow an extra twenty minutes for a departure transfer from the south of the island.

In Duong Dong, Long Beach and towards An Thoi, yes, at almost any hour of the day. It is cheaper than a taxi and there is no negotiation.

North of Ong Lang it thins out fast and after about ten at night in the north you may wait a long time or get nothing. Book a return with the driver.

Safer than in Ho Chi Minh City and less safe than at home. The main road carries trucks and buses and people overtake into oncoming traffic; the dirt roads are empty but loose.

Wear a proper helmet, do not ride at night on the dirt, and do not ride after drinking, which is the single largest cause of the accidents we hear about.

Self-drive car hire exists but requires a Vietnamese licence, and it is rarely worth the trouble. A car with a driver costs 1,200,000 to 1,900,000 dong a day and removes every problem.

For a family of four doing two northern days, the driver option is usually cheaper than four Grab return trips.

An Thoi to Ganh Dau, the two extreme ends, is about 95 minutes on sealed roads. Duong Dong sits in the middle and nothing is more than 70 minutes from it.

Add twenty per cent in the wet season and around the construction corridor.

Long Beach if the trip is mostly beach, Ong Lang if it is mixed, Duong Dong if it is short and food-focused.

Very few people regret Ong Lang. A number of people regret the far south once they have seen the driving times.

For five nights or more, yes, and it works well: three nights on the beach and two in the north, or the reverse.

For four nights or fewer, moving costs you half a day and is not worth it - except for a homestay night, which is a different kind of night rather than a different hotel.

If you want a resort holiday, some of them are genuinely good and the beaches at the southern end are the best on the island.

They are also self-contained by design, and you can spend a week inside one without meeting the island at all. That is a legitimate holiday; it is just not this one.

No. We will tell you which area fits your itinerary and what a fair rate looks like, and then you book direct or on a platform.

We could not get you a better price than you can get yourself, and adding a margin to a room we did not improve is not something we want to do.

Generally yes, and the busy stalls are safer than the quiet ones because the turnover is high and nothing sits. Eat where local people are eating, prefer things cooked to order in front of you, and be more careful with pre-cut fruit and ice at quiet stalls.

Most visitors who get ill on Phu Quoc do so from a large seafood buffet rather than from a street kitchen.

It is workable but requires effort, because fish sauce is in almost everything by default. Learn the phrase for no fish sauce, or carry it written down.

Banh xeo with mushroom, morning glory with garlic, green mango salad, tofu clay pot and com chay at the Buddhist places are all reliable.

Not particularly, in our view. It is a sweet berry wine made from rose myrtle, it is pleasant enough, and it is the single most heavily pushed souvenir on the island because the margins are large and the commissions bigger.

Taste it before you buy a bottle. Nobody needs six.

No. Bottled or filtered water only, which is what everyone on the island does. Ice in commercial kitchens is factory made and fine.

We carry water on every day we run and it is included.

Come now if you want the villages, because we do not know what they look like after the resettlement programme finishes. Wait if the construction disruption would spoil the trip for you, because it is real and it is loud.

Our own view, for what it is worth from an interested party: the north of the island is at its best right now.

On the west coast strip in high season, yes, in places. Long Beach on a December evening is busy. The An Thoi island boat trips are very busy.

Twenty minutes inland it is empty. The crowding on Phu Quoc is remarkably concentrated.

Ham Ninh has a visitor-facing strip of restaurants and dried seafood stalls that exists for tour groups, and a working shore that does not. Both are real; they operate at different hours.

Cua Can has essentially no visitor infrastructure at all. Rach Vem has some and it is growing.

It helps specific families in specific ways that we can point at: a visit fee, a homestay night, a kitchen paid for a morning. That is a modest and verifiable claim and it is the only one we will make.

It does not offset the flight, it does not stop the construction and it does not preserve a village. Anyone claiming otherwise is selling.

Yes. The fee is fixed for the calendar year regardless of how many groups we bring, which matters more to the partners than the headline number.

In September we lose money on some departures because of it. That is the trade for having a farm answer the phone in February.

We explain the model and if they would rather have commission we stop working with them. That has happened twice in the last three years.

We do not name them, because a farm choosing a common and legal business model is not a scandal and we are not in the business of punishing people for it.

Yes, and it is welcome, but it is genuinely not expected and nobody will look for it. The fee is designed so that a tip is a bonus rather than the actual payment, which is how tipping usually works in this industry and should not.

If you want to give something, cash to the person who cooked is better than a gift.

Salaried, with a monthly wage and social insurance, which is unusual on this island where per-trip freelancing is the norm.

It costs more and it is the reason a guide of ours has no financial interest in whether you buy anything. That is the whole point.

We would rather not print a number we cannot substantiate on a page about honesty. Ask us directly and we will tell you, and we will also tell you which of our guides has been doing this longest, which is the more useful figure.

We hold the Vietnamese international travel business licence required to sell tours to foreign visitors, and the number is in the footer of this page.

If that footer field is empty, this website has not been fully configured yet and you should ask us for the number before booking.

The guide handles it on the spot and has the authority to spend money without calling anyone. If a day fails through something we control, we refund it without an argument.

If it fails through weather, you get another date or a full refund, which is set out on the how to book page.

Within the island and within what we know, yes. A private harbour morning at An Thoi, a longer farm day, a photography-led early start - all reasonable.

Outside the island, or on the water, no. We will name someone who does it rather than subcontract something we cannot stand behind.

WhatsApp during island hours, which are GMT+7. Under two hours is typical.

Email and the enquiry form reach the same people and take up to a working day.

With a question, yes, within reason. We answer questions about ferry times, whether a beach is worth the drive and where to eat from people who never book anything.

It costs us very little and it has been worth more than the time.

Yes. We run trips seven days a week, so the difference between a Saturday and a Tuesday is small for us.

Tet is the exception, when we genuinely stop for several days.

Use the number issued with your booking, which is monitored outside office hours for guests currently travelling.

For a real emergency call the local emergency services first, then us.

Yes. Every day runs in English, and the guide interprets both ways. That is most of what a guide is for here: the pepper farmer and the bun quay cook speak no English, and without interpretation you are looking at a farm rather than talking to a farmer.

We can run days in French and in Russian with two weeks notice. Not in German, Korean or Mandarin - we would be hiring someone we do not know.

For December to February, three to four weeks. The homestay has four rooms and the cooking family takes one group a day, so those two sell out first.

Outside high season, three days is usually enough, and we can sometimes do next morning for the fishing village if the weather is settled.

From Duong Dong, Long Beach, Ong Lang and Cua Can at no extra cost. From An Thoi, Sunset Town, Ganh Dau or Bai Thom we add USD 8 per person, because it is a 40 to 70 minute detour each way and we would rather charge for it than start an hour earlier without telling you.

No, and we make that checkable rather than a claim. Ask any guide of ours what we pay a producer we visit and they will tell you the figure, because it is a flat fee per group and they hand it over in front of you.

If you buy pepper or fish sauce on one of our days you pay the same price a Vietnamese customer pays at the gate, and we receive nothing.

The cooking day and the street food walk, yes, and people do. The rest, no: the fishing village morning ends at 11:00 because the boats are in and the village goes quiet, and the farm day genuinely fills eight hours.

If you have one day and want a bit of everything, tell us your interests and we will build a private version rather than sell you two half days.

Every day on this list can be run privately for your party at a fixed group price. That normally makes sense from two people, because our shared groups are small enough that the difference is about timing rather than crowding.

A private day lets you set the start time, which matters most for the fishing village morning if you have children.

Two on the shared price. If you are one traveller we will still run it, at the single rate shown on each page, and we do not cancel on you afterwards because a second booking did not arrive.

On the cooking day and the street food walk, yes, with notice - both are flat and short. On the fishing village morning, partly: the pier itself is not accessible but the market and the crab kitchen are.

The farm day involves uneven ground and the motorbike day is out. We would rather say that clearly than have you find out at the gate.