Excellent experience of Ha long Bay tour with Sonata Cruise - Thank you Song. Excellent experience of Ha long Bay tour. Great food, awesome cruise ambience. You are an amazing guide. You explained the details of every activity and History of Ha noi beautifully. Your smile & sense of humor is amazing too. Sonata is the best day cruise of Ha long bay Highly recommend.

100% recommended for a truly awesome experience - We had an amazing time doing the Ha Long Bay cruise with Sonata Cruise. Our guide Thao was awesome, he was very attentive to our needs from our hotel pickup until we were dropped off after the tour. Highly recommended for everyone looking for a wonderful experience in Vietnam. It is perfect for all ages and all kinds of groups; we will definitely be back and would a hundred times choose them again.

Amazing day trip to Halong Bay - It was wonderful experience, all activities as per itinerary shared… our tour guide Kenny was very jolly and explained history about all the places we visited… took us to some nice shops as well…. Lots of fun at cruise deck… totally enjoyed…

5 star halong bay day cruise ! - We had a amazing trip. The tour guides and the bus drivers (we had two, due to a bus change) are so funny and friendly. The nature and views are just stunning. The boat is very nice and the food was really good. The cruise, the cave and the hike and specialy the Live music performed are memories we never forget :) thanks!

Overpriced and Overrated is an understatement - Save your money! Mass commercial tourism at its best with no care given. To say Ha Long Bay is overrated is such an understatement. The images available on the internet do the area way more justice than actually seeing it. We booked and paid for an English speaking tour, not being completely ignorant to the fact that English is a second language to all in Vietnam. We expected some disjointed conversation, however boarded the luxury bus but were told that a large Vietnamese tour had also been booked for this trip (1st red flag). Of the 18 passengers - 14 were Vietnamese. The bus ride from the Old Quarter was a 3.5hr trip with the tour guide launching into a 53 minute commentary of Hà Nội completely in Vietnamese. During the entire trip to Ha Long Bay we had a grand total of 11 minutes spoken in English, and during that time the guide excused himself to answer a phone call and wait while a Vietnamese tourist decided to walk the length of the travelling bus taking a selfie video. It seems our tour guide had no intention of accommodating those that didn’t understand Vietnamese. Don’t advertise as English speaking if you don’t intend on trying to even speak it. We were given a bottle of water on the bus but then told that because it’s plastic we couldn’t take it/drink it on the boat due to possible contamination of the waterway. News flash, have you looked at the water in Ha Long Bay, I’ve never seen so much rubbish floating on a world heritage listed area! Prior to boarding the boat we were told we would have to pay for everything in cash. Again happy to buy what we required, but of note, read the fine print. You get stung with taxes on your bill and you don’t find this out until you have to settle your account, at the end of the tour. Once we got to Ha Long Bay and boarded the boat, we were referred to as foreigners. ‘The foreigners can sit at the table at the back so they are together’ I believe was the statement. Completely insulting in a tourism business!! Again acknowledge we are foreigners but perhaps better language could have been used - considering we are guests in Vietnam. We were taken to the kayak, bamboo boat area, what a cluster. Lined up, directed onto a kayak that had a crack in it, which then proceeded to sink!! We had a few other kayak boats try to stop and assist but the bamboo boat paddlers just mowed over the top of them. Just a disaster of a tour and location. Wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. And to top it all off, the sunset party consisted of Vietnamese karaoke