INSIGHT HALONG - GRAY LINE CRUISE

To be franchised by Grayline Worldwide, Grayline Halong, a cruise of luxury was officially operated in 2013 on the world’s natural heritage - Halong Bay, which offers tip-top service together with various competitive advantages.

To improve is to change. For this reason, Gray Line Halong is pleased to introduce the latest update for our product in 2015 with the desire to bring more benefits to those who travel with us.

With the priorities in 2015, we are proud not only to introduce more about the world natural heritage’s breathtaking beauty, but Gray Line also gives travelers the opportunity to explore the culture which has vitally taken thousands of years on both Halong Bay and Lan Ha Bay.

WHAT’S NEW?

1. New itineraries: Since 2014 November, we have successfully put new routes into customer service with various cultural and natural activities such as:

• Interacting fishermen of a remote fishing village on the Bay; learning how to use fishing gears and their ordinary life on the Bay.
• Visiting ancient houses in Viet Hai village on Cat Ba national park
• Dark & Light Cave - the most beautiful and farthest area for kayaking on Halong Bay
• Me Cung Cave - an ideal place for taking amazing photos of Halong Bay from on high

The latest unique itinerary certainly makes Gray Line Cruise and our guests outstanding among the Ha Long Bay natural beauty.

2. Offering free one bottle of wine for Suite Cabins

3. A new chef is rich in experience and recipes

4. 24h free rescue by speedboat service - Gray Line customers only

5. A new bus is equipped with all mod cons and painted like Gray Line logo’s color

1. NEW ITINERARIES, NEW EXPERIENCE

1.1. Visiting Me Cung (Maze) Cave

Vietnam and particularly Ha Long Bay have popularly been more and more well-known with travelers, and the number of tourists has significantly grown in the recent years. What struck us was that, most of itineraries of hundreds of cruises were similar which leading to the overcrowding at the sights of the Bay. One of those sights strongly complained about the crowded and jostling situation is the Surprising Cave. Listening to the wishes of customers, Gray Line Cruise decided to replace it by Maze Cave which is rare with cave-lake seascape in Ha Long Bay from 2014, November on.

Maze Cave has a very complex structure, including many compartments under the stone roof with a 100 meter long corridor and then gradually to the west overlooking a small lake as the name of Maze. The lake is surrounded by the natural stone walls, seemingly isolated on the bay. According to scientists, the Maze cave is a geological-ecological zone with values for scientific research. To nature, this is also a very vivid seascape of this area. Definitely, Gray Line’s guest will have tranquil moments for taking beautiful pictures from high above.

1.2. Halong Floating Cultural Conservation Project – Gray Line only

As a matter of fact, 300 families living on the Halong Bay for thousands of years were officially moved to mainland by Quang Ninh People's Committee in June 2014 in order to improve the quality of living and developing of women and children. To be confronted with disappearing of floating houses, Halong Floating Cultural Conservation Project has been done by Gray Line together with supporting of several locals to introduce the rest of this culture on Halong Bay to foreign tourists.

About an hour for exploring the life of fishermen whose faces are sunburned because of their hard living and naïve children, Gray Line’s customers could understand more about the culture, fish farm and aquaculture of locals. Tasting rice vodka, Vietnamese tea, roasted peanuts and… listening real loving stories are truly unique experience for those traveling with Gray Line Halong Cruise ONLY.

1.3. Kayak in the Dark & Light Cave area

Dark & Light Cave belongs to the poetic Lan Ha Bay which is located in Cat Ba national park. This beautiful site is indeed ideal for tourists to explore some underground caves by kayaking and melt their souls into nature. What highlights? None of cruises has taken tourists to Dark & Light Cave yet in the itinerary of Halong 2 days, 1 night as it geographically takes much more effort to there. Since 2014 November, Gray Line, a pioneer has started adding this destination into the 2-day 1-night tour program in order to enrich tourist’s experience with kayaking activity. This is honestly another Gray Line Cruise’s highlight.

1.4. Visiting Viet Hai village - a mountainous cultural activity

In the itinerary of Halong 3 days 2 nights, Gray Line sightseeing boat will be anchored at Viet Hai pier in the second day. Tourists take a chance to discover Viet Hai village by biking. It is about 4km stretch of road, the small village is deep in a valley, surrounded by evergreen forests, beautiful scenery with rice paddies, buffalo ... comes into view!

We will take tourists to an ancient house built with bamboo and straw - one of the cultural structures of Vietnam remaining until nowadays. Cooking Vietnamese rice wine, breeding poultry and cattle... are typical activities that tourists will take part in to know more about the daily life of locals. This is one of the most outstanding programs of Gray Line in Ha Long Bay officially started from 1st November 2014.

2. OFFERING FREE ONE BOTTLE OF WINE FOR SUITE

Gray Line suite cabins are the most characteristic highlight of our accommodation service. They are smartly designed with sea-view windows for a panoramic view of the Bay with two sides facing the sea, a spacious bathroom together with a window and a comfortable private terrace which harmoniously bring nature into the cabin. In particular, Gray Line Suite cabins are equipped a Jacuzzi tub for relaxing moments full of pleasure.

From November 1st, 2014, Gray Line Cruise offers free one bottle of wine for customers who book a suite cabin. You can fully enjoy the magnificent beauty of Halong Bay in the separated sunbathing terrace covered up artificial grass while tasting a glass of fine wine.

3. HIGH SPEED BOAT SERVICE

In order to bring the peace of mind, since 2014 November, we have professionally provided the rescue service at sea by speedboat all around the clock, especially free for customers of Gray Line Cruise ONLY.

In addition, we are aiming at bringing a new experience to enjoy Halong Bay to customers by speedboat service. Besides, we are reasonably providing this service for other travel companies and cruises in special cases. Please contact us for more detail.

4. NEW GRAY LINE BUS MODEL

Gray Line clearly understands that our services need to be perfect from picking up customers to the end. For this reason, we have operated a new bus model - Hyundai County Limousine 2014 with 29 seats equipped with modern amenities: 

• The outside is painted with the color of company logo
• Jar storage for cold water and cool tissues.
• 2 two-way air conditioners
• Larger seats, wider footrest, each seat row extends more 10cm than the old model
• Professional escort tour guides
  

“For Customer” has been always set as a tone for development of Gray Line Halong Cruise. We are passionate about constantly intensifying our product to bring the best for customers. From our point of view, we believe that the priorities in 2015 promises to bring a second-to-none experience for every traveler in the upcoming time, even the most critical tourists.

For preferential prices, please contact:

The Gray Line Halong Cruise head office

125 Hong Ha St, Ba Binh, Hanoi

Phone: +84 (4) 37 17 33 66

Fax: +84 (4) 37 17 22 66

Email: contact@graylinehalong.com

Website: graylinehalong.com