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Private Ho Chi Minh City Shore Excursion: Discover City's Best via Cruise Port
4.9
207 Ratings
Ho Chi Minh City
Embark on an exclusive day-long journey in the vibrant Ho Chi Minh City, where your tour guide will introduce you to the top sights this shore trip boasts. This tour includes a traditional Vietnamese lunch and admission fees for attractions.
Embark on an exclusive day-long journey in the vibrant Ho Chi Minh City, where your tour guide will introduce you to the top sights this shore trip boasts. This tour includes a traditional Vietnamese lunch and admission fees for attractions.
Duration:
12 hours
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
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Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral - Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral, built in the late 1880s by French colonists, is one of the few remaining strongholds of Catholicism in the largely Buddhist Vietnam. Located in Paris Square, the name Notre Dame was given after the installation of the statue
Peaceful Notre Dame in 1959. In 1962, the Vatican conferred…
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Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral - Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral, built in the late 1880s by French colonists, is one of the few remaining strongholds of Catholicism in the largely Buddhist Vietnam. Located in Paris Square, the name Notre Dame was given after the installation of the statue
Peaceful Notre Dame in 1959. In 1962, the Vatican conferred the Cathedral status as a basilica and gave it the official name of Saigon Notre-Dame Cathedral Basilica. Measuring almost 60 metres in height, the cathedral’s distinctive neo-Romanesque features include the all-red brick façade (which were imported from Marseille), stained glass windows, two bell towers containing six bronze bells that still ring to this day, and a peaceful garden setting in the middle of downtown Ho Chi Minh City District 1.

What's Included
- Private Professional Tour Guide
- Bottled Water
- Private, Customized and Flexible Tour
- Vietnamese Traditional Lunch
- All fees and/or taxes
- Port pickup and drop-off
- Private transportation by new vehicle
- Private Professional Tour Guide
- Bottled Water
- Private, Customized and Flexible Tour
- Vietnamese Traditional Lunch
- All fees and/or taxes
- Port pickup and drop-off
- Private transportation by new vehicle
What's Not Included
- Personal expenses
- Personal expenses
Location
Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral
01 Cong xa Paris, Ben Nghe Ward, District 1
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
4.9
(207 Ratings)
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Ian_b
Mar 9, 2025
Great tour - superb guide - Shane our guide was fabulous - knowledgeable funny perfect English and very personable
We visited numerous sights, had a great ‘local’ lunch and thoroughly enjoyed the day
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Edwardsb2552il
Mar 8, 2025
Captain Bruno is your man at Maximus Travel in Saigon! - We had a wonderful day in Saigon with Captain Bruno as our tour guide. He is very knowledgeable, funny, interesting and helpful, showing us areas that we would have missed, such as the building where the last helicopter evacuation took place at the end of the Vietnam War in 1975, the oldest Post Office, where he explained the architecture and its meaning and the Mung Xuan Di Lac temple, which was amazing due to his detailed description of their practices and beliefs. We visited the War Remnants Museum and other historical sites. Bruno took us to a Vietnamese Coffee shop at our request for the best coffee on the planet. He also took us to a local pho restaurant that was delicious. Did I mention that he paid for all of these? This was the BEST excursion of our 2 week Asia vacation. We highly recommend Captain Bruno. You won't be disappointed.
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Jody_s
Mar 6, 2025
Great Private Tour in Ho Chi Minh City - We had a private tour. Our guide, Evelyn, was knowledgeable, able to provide tons of info about her country. Her presentation was vibrant, enthusiastic and complete with many iPhone videos that kept us fully engaged. She photographed and then air-dropped her photos to us. This made for a much better shared experience. Our tour began with a 90 minute drive into the city. This gave Evelyn plenty of time to acclimat us to the geo and political makeup of Vietnam. We explored the post office, Independence Palace and the War Remnants Museum which were all well worth the time. We took some time for a typical Vietnamese lunch before going to the Bunker. We completed our exploration with a visit to the market for some shopping and much needed smoothies. The rest of our time was spent driving by some other sights, like the opera house, and cooling off in the air-conditioning of our SUV. It was extremely hot and humid. Evelyn made this a wonderful day of learning and sharing. This young woman’s English is perfect, making communication very easy. It was a long but very fruitful day and we would definitely recommend Evelyn and this tour to anyone visiting Vietnam.
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Pauline_b
Mar 6, 2025
New experience - Very knowledgeable guide and safe driver. The information given was easy to understand and interesting part of history we as from the U.K. had not heard before.
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Ann_p
Mar 6, 2025
Highly recommend this tour - We really enjoyed our tour of the old and the new in Ho Chi Minh City. Trang was lovely and shared her knowledge wit us so we learnt lots but were not overloaded. Her English was excellent and would recommend her and this tour. She easily tailored this day for us.
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Kevin
Mar 6, 2025
So glad we booked this private tour in lieu of a ship excursion offered by the cruise line! - From the perspective of all of the previous positive reviews that led me to choose this tour for the day our cruise ship stopped in Ho Chi Minh City, everything went as or better than expected. Initially, I assumed our driver would also be our tour guide, so an unexpected plus was that we had both a driver *and* a tour guide. Our awesome tour guide, Justin (aka"Tippy"), who was both personable and knowledgeable, was able to easily interact with us while in the car, accompany us at each stop, and then summon the driver - who was always close by - to come pick us up whenever we were done at each stop. Both Justin and the driver were very accommodating to us two old men, so we both felt well taken care of. Over all it was a great day, so like so many other reviewers, I highly recommend this tour company!
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Rainersg9558oz
Mar 6, 2025
One day in Saigon - Anna was a great tour guide. She brought us closer to life in Saigon in a very warm way.
She had an answer to all our questions and was open to our wishes. Your driver also did a great job. He has had a very nice day.
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Fatkatz
Mar 6, 2025
Great Tour, Great Guide! - Mr Tap and his driver gave us a perfect introduction to HCM City. Knowledgeable with an easy talking style, Tap arranged our tour to meet all the group’s needs, including extra impromptu stops, and still found time to introduce us to Vietnamese coffee and local foods.
We really feel we have seen the best of Saigon due to Tap’s experience and attention to detail! Thank you.
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Jen_s
Mar 5, 2025
Great private tour and driver - a MUST! - Harry was FANTASTIC! There was also a driver so Harry was able to impart his vast knowledge about the history, and culture Vietnam and Ho Chi Minh City. He was able to customize the tour to our preferences. Lunch was included at a local restaurant, which included egg rolls, salad, 2 entrees/rice, and fruit for dessert. There was no way we could have navigated HCMC on our own. Having a private driver and tour is definitely the way to go.
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Grmharkins
Mar 5, 2025
Excellent tour experience with Hao in Ho Chi Minh - We had the best experience. Our guide, Hao was excellent. Really friendly and very knowledgeable. He tailored the tour to our requests. Took us to taste some fabulous local food that we’d never have found ourselves.
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