goya

Dushi,

first of all they canceled our flight. After RCI changed the ports to some not very good once, because we have been there 1 year ago.

Shanghai

Hongkong

Hue

Dha Nang

Singapur

2 days on sea.

In HK they only stay half day, so poor tourists on the ship. They dont give them no credit on board.

Good job we changed our cruise to one starting in Dubai, going to Oman, and 3 ports in Southindia.

We are leaving next friday.

So next year we hope to be able to go to Japan.

thanks to everybody who helped me so much :)

owenfinn are you allright? Hope so.

I dont know if there will now any changes in the ports of Japan. Still 5 weeks to go, so I hope they dont canceled the cruise, because I will loose the money from the flights.

There is a bus aswell which takes you in to Tokyo:)

Great, this is the station for the shinkansen, so We just take it both ways, much easier.:)

hummm dont talk about muffins, I am on a diet to loose some weight before I go on the cruise:D

I was looking for the name of the station in Osaka, but I cant see it.

We arrive about 2pm and hopefully we are about 3pm in the station.

So I wanted to see how often the Nozomi shinkansen runs a day.

Thank you very much owenfinn and dushi. It is a great help, so I have written everything in my little book:)

Supose we are going to take the shinkansen, the quick one!:rolleyes:

Thanks for the advice for the creamy muffins, hopè to find them, because inJapan the sweatees are not very nice, but maybe better for my figure after the cruise jajajjajaa

owenfinn,

could you tell me in japonese how to write on a paper,

4 tickets to Kyoto by train,

If we dont need a reservation, I would go in the JRline, and

come back with the Shikansen, what do you think?

thank you again for your help

Suggest you check this out on Trip Advisor - Vietnam - as there is a lot of information about Halong Bay and advice on what junks to book with etc.

 

You will not get a junk for an overnight stay for 12$ as a previous posts mentioned, that must have been for a few hours sailing to a few islands only.

 

Best to book before you go to ensure that you have transfers from Hanoi included and be prepared to pay some extra to ensure you get a good junk that is highly recommended by others.

yes of course 12$ on a junk with more people for half day.

We went 4 persons on our own , and paid about 70$ EACH by en agency, afterwoods we found out it would be much cheaper to get the ticket directly on the port.

no, its nor far. And we have a busstation to the airport very near aswell, but our Hotel is in Niarita village.:)

I went on the Emerald and it was great.

Once you get to the port, you can buy the tickets there, its much cheaper.

My friend went 2 weeks ago and paid only 12$.

owenfinn, my guide is having a look for this place, I am going to copy her your ms.

I am going to do the same when we leave our Hotel, we send the suitcases to the other Hotel in Niarita, so we can go on the train.

I want to go from Shinjuku to the village in Niarita to our Hotel Mercure.

How do we get there please.

Thanks again for your help, I have a list where I write everything you tell me.:)

owenfinn, do you mean we cant take a train or whatever directly from Yokohama to Shibuya?

In SHibuya we have to change the train?

And the luggage services are right there in the port?

thanks again:)

owenfinn I dont know how can I thank you for all the information.

I have a guide in yokohama, so maybe we can arrange with her the luggage problems.

We still dont have a answer from our free guide in Tokyo and kyoto, so I have to do some more work to organize everything.

I cant see the mail direccion from this link, so I need some more help

http://www.jnto.go.jp/eng/arrange/essential/list_volunteerGuides_a-n.html#kyoto

owenfinn, thanks very much

How can I get from Yokohama to our Hotel in Shinjuku.

It is the WASHINGTON HOTEL :)

Because with the suitcase we cant walk to long, and the taxis

are very very expensive, this is what they told us:confused:

For Rahastan, the Golden Triangule you can contact:

http://www.mumalindiatravel.com/

great service, good prices and you can feel very safe:)

I think the biggest problem will be in Osaka-kyoto:(

The ship gets there very late, and we dont know how to get to kyoto. We have to go to the trainstation.

It takes about 35min to get there, but than it will be already dark. So I think we have to stay a night in Kyoto.

In the night we could go and see the geishas and maicas.

And next day very early in the morning it would be posible to se the golden temple, sanjusangendo, Kiyomizudera.

maybe it would be better to go with the ship excursions, this way we dont loose the ship.:eek:

Normaly its always a free shuttle in the most of the ships. But if not, it cant be very expensive.

Dont worry to much for the trips, once you are there you do the same what we do.

You get on the ship one of the information of the excursions, look what ever they do o what you like to do, and you can do the same taking taxis.

Most time I could see a lot of people in the port looking for other people to share the taxis. You shouldnt have a problem.

We dont want to book any trips with the ship, and even when we get to Osaka, we try to get to the trainstation to take a train to Kyoto.

Maybe we have to stay there for one night, because we will get very late there. This way we can get up in the morning to see a lot of temples and the lovely city. Maybe aswell the geishas in the night time.

How long are you staying in Tokyo? We leave early in the morning the 5.of May. so the last night we stay in a Hotel next to the airport.

For 4 nights we are in Shinjuku in the Washington Hotel.

Hi Goya, we will also be at the same cruise. Would you recommend DIY for the shore excursion? or book the excursion the ship offers?

 

We're all first timers and booking with the ship is very expensive.

 

Hope you can recommend us how to roam the cities on our own. Thanks! :D

Normaly what I do is when I get to the ship, I have a look at the excursion they offer.

Thats the way I know how long it takes, how much it will be, and than we do it ourself with renting a taxi o whatever. Depends the country and the prices.

We are staying in Shanghai for 3 nights in a Hotel on the Bund.

Hallo manilla cruisers,

I cant see any excursions they offer with the ship! Normaly they do.:(

We will do all our excursions by ourself, its more fun and cheaper.

I am still waiting for an answer from Tokyo free guide for 3 days in Tokyo. I had an answer for the port from yokohama, where they will wait for us when we arrive, to show us the town. After this we will take a train into Tokyo to Shinjuku to our Hotel.

we booked in the Washington Hotel there.

My big problem is, we arrive in Osaka 2pm, and we have to take a train to kyoto. I think we will arrive quiet late and it will get soon dark. So maybe we have to stay a night there.:confused:

Because we cant see kyoto in only a few hours.

The ship leaves next day at 4pm.

karen, first of all I booked a Hotel in Ginza, because I thougt thats right in the center and would be good.

But when I have seen how expensive everything was, I canceled it and I booked in Shinjuku, great place to shop, and many Restaurants.

The price was very good aswell, and the Hotel is next to the subwaystation and the bus to the airport.

The last night I booked a Hotel next to the airport with a free shuttle, because we have to be there at 6am, so no chance to move there from Shinjuku.

sorry sorry sorry and thanks to everybody for the messages.

I havent been in the forum for a few weeks, because we went to India

and this kept me very busy to preparate.

But now I need to start soon to organize my Japan-cruise.

I have booked one of the students for a city-guide, but I still dont

have any answer yet.

I have changed my hotel in Ginza for one in Shikuyo.

So this should be a cheaper place than the first one.

I have booked aswell a Hotel near the airport for the last night.

Thanks for your help to everybody

Hallo everybody,

finaly we have found a cruise RC with LOS

from Shanghai, Busan (corea), Beppu, Osaka, Osaka, Nagoya, Yokohama (Japan)

We will be staying for 3 days in Tokio and I would need a lot of help.

Any Hotel in the center (not too expensive),

what can we do in the 3 days?

Is it easy to go in the metro?

I supose it will be quiet expensive!

I would be very happy to get some information of any of our ports.

Thank you

We went to that Mountain as well. I remember when we got back to the tour bus that some woman on the tour paid 1,000.00 for some piece of jewelry. I was quite surprised because it was supposed to be gold but I would never have done something like that on the fly.

 

Keith

same cruise, same tour.

We told the taxidriver not to stop in any of those places, because they are on comision.:(

We hired the junkboat from a popular vietnamese agency with a guide. But he told us this was very silly, because for much less money you take a taxi from the ship to the port.

There is a sales-office to informe you. You can hire a great big junkboat, with the food incl. (not drinks) and the tripulacion, a guide for much less.

If you do the reservation with the shipexcursions, you pay the same, but you are on the same ship with 100 people.

The day we went (2º) there was no one, the day de shipexcursion went the water was packed full with 500 ships, a nightmear.:eek:

Our plan was to spend 6-8 hrs on day 2 cruising Ha Long Bay.

Does one really get to see that much more doing an overnight Junk cruise instead of "just" an 8 hr day cruise.

If you do go for the overnight.... what do you do between sun down and sun up when it's too dark to see anything?

What is the accommodation / experience / meals like on board the typical junk ?

Any insights will be appreciated.

Thanks

My opinion is, 6-8h is enough. Thats the time we spent on the junkboat. The night is verly lonely, nothing to see and to do.

We took a taxitrip out to the country and it was very interesting. 3-4h to see the countryside is enough aswell.

You can see how they work on the fields with the buffalo.