Delta trips led by people with a craft
Trips · Pricing
What you pay for, line by line
Every trip on this site says “On request”. This page explains why, what a quote is made of, the costs we can state from published sources, and the usual ways a cheaper quote for the same route is put together.
Why the trips say “On request”
Three things decide most of the price of a short private trip in the delta, and all three are yours to choose: how many of you are travelling, which hotel you sleep in at each stop, and how many paid sessions with specialists the trip contains. A figure printed on the page would be right for one combination and wrong for every other. So we quote after you send a month and a party size, and the quote shows every line.
A quote from us is a document you can check. It names the hotel and room category at each stop, the vehicle, the guide days, each specialist session with its own fee, each boat, and every entrance fee. If you want to remove a session or swap a hotel, you can see exactly what changes.
The quote
What a quote is made of
| Line | What it covers | How it is counted |
|---|---|---|
| Vehicle and driver | Private car or van for the whole trip, fuel, tolls, parking | Per day |
| Interpreter-guide | English-speaking guide for every day of the trip | Per day |
| Specialist sessions | The cook, maker, grower, boatwright or photographer-guide | Per session |
| Boats | Private boats for markets, flower canals, workshops | Per boat, per trip |
| Hotels | The named hotel and room category, with breakfast | Per room, per night |
| Meals | The meals listed on the trip page | Per person |
| Entrance fees | Old houses, flower-village fees, temples where charged | Per person |
Nothing is bundled into a single figure. If a line is missing from your quote, it is not included.
The levers, from largest to smallest
- Party size. A car, a guide, a boat and a session fee cost the same for two people as for four, so the price per person falls as the party grows, up to our limit of six (four on the photography trip).
- The hotels. In Can Tho the range is wide: a waterfront room, a garden resort, an island resort. In Sa Dec it is narrow. The hotel choice is usually the largest variable for two travellers.
- Number of sessions. Each session carries a fee to the person who runs it. Removing one saves that fee; adding one adds it.
- Season. The weeks before Tet are the busiest of the year in Sa Dec, and cars and rooms are in demand. We quote those dates separately.
- Boats. One small boat carries a couple; four people with cameras need two.
Costs we can state from published sources
These are third-party prices published by local media or the places themselves. They change, and some are a few years old; treat them as a guide and check before you travel. On our trips they are included.
| Item | Published price | Source date |
|---|---|---|
| Huynh Thuy Le house, Sa Dec — entry | About 20,000–30,000 VND | Nov 2023 – Oct 2025 |
| Huynh Thuy Le house — guest room with lunch and breakfast | About 550,000–1,000,000 VND a night | Oct 2025 |
| Kien An Cung temple, Sa Dec | Free | Jan 2026 |
| Sa Dec flower village — electric cart | 20,000–100,000 VND per person | Jan 2026 |
| Sa Dec flower village — 18 m viewing tower | 20,000 VND | Jan 2026 |
| Sa Dec town hotels | About 500,000–1,000,000 VND a night | Jan 2026 |
| Noodle soup in Sa Dec | About 30,000–50,000 VND a bowl | Jan 2026 |
| Binh Thuy ancient house, Can Tho — entry | 15,000 VND | Oct 2023 |
| Private guided boat to Cai Rang, 4–5 hours | About 500,000–800,000 VND per person (estimate) | May 2026 |
| Ninh Kieu, Can Tho — mid-range hotels | About 500,000–800,000 VND a night | Oct 2023 |
The Cai Rang figure is an estimate by a private travel publisher, not an official tariff; the rest come from national newspapers and travel guides. None of them are our prices, and none include a guide or interpreter.
Sources: Mia.vn — Huynh Thuy Le ancient house, 3 Oct 2025; VnExpress — 48 hours in Dong Thap, 10 Nov 2023; VnExpress — Sa Dec flower village guide, 17 Jan 2026; VnExpress — 48 hours in Can Tho, 27 Oct 2023; vietnamtourism.com (private publisher) — Cai Rang guide, 27 May 2026 · checked .
How a cheaper quote for the same route is usually made
If you compare our quote with another for a trip that looks the same on paper, the difference is almost always in one of these places:
- Workshops become stops. Twenty minutes at a candy workshop on the boat circuit instead of an hour with a family, and no fee paid for their time — the workshop earns from what you buy instead.
- The guide is also the photographer, the cook and the interpreter. One person reciting the same script at each stop costs less than a guide plus a specialist.
- Shared boats. Your group joins a larger boat at Cai Rang with other passengers.
- Hotels “or similar”. A star rating instead of a named hotel lets the cheapest available room be used.
- A day trip. Can Tho or Sa Dec done in one day from Ho Chi Minh City removes a hotel night and adds six hours in a car; the dawn sessions disappear.
None of these are dishonest in themselves. Some of them are the right choice for some travellers. They are simply different trips, and a quote should say which one it is.
What is never in our price
- International flights and any domestic flight not shown on your quote
- Visas: Vietnam issues e-visas to all nationalities, applied for on the official immigration portal
- Travel insurance — we ask you to hold it, but we do not sell it
- Drinks other than water, and personal shopping
- Tips for guides, drivers, boat crews and specialists — always your choice
We do not sell insurance because we are not an insurer and cannot advise on a policy. We do not include drinks because they vary more than anything else on a trip. How to book explains deposits and cancellations; the experience catalogue shows each session’s duration and group limit.
Sources: Vietnam National Authority of Tourism — visa requirements · checked .
Common questions
Questions travellers ask most
Why is your quote higher than another we received?
Usually because ours pays a specialist for each session and keeps the group private and small. The section on how cheaper quotes are made lists the usual differences; compare line by line and ask us about any you cannot match.
Do you add a commission to what we buy at workshops?
No. What you buy, you pay the maker directly, at their price.
Can you quote in a currency other than US dollars?
Quotes are in US dollars. Local costs on this page are shown in Vietnamese dong because that is how they are published.
Is a single traveller more expensive per person?
Yes. The car, guide, boat and session fees are the same for one person as for two, so a solo traveller carries all of them.
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A month, how many are travelling and the session or trip that interests you are enough to start. We reply by email with questions or a draft plan that names each session by role, each hotel and every price line.