点评:To preface this review, during the actual tour, I had a blast. The staff are really wonderful and do a great job making sure everyone has a great time. The basket boat staff were really kind, friendly, and fun. And the chef was hilarious. Unfortunately though, I must give this operator a one star, because the people running the tour are unethical liars that, by chance, I discovered have been ripping off many tourists, and almost ripped me off as well:
The hostel I stayed at gives out the company’s brochure detailing the tour to the guests. On the front of the brochure, the listed price for the tour was 575,000 dong. Before I signed up via the hostel, some friends I made at the hostel asked me if I wanted to join them on a similar tour at the same time, which they booked through a vendor they saw advertised on the street— and for only 370,000 dong. Concerned of the quality of their tour, I decided to sign up with what I thought was the more reputable, safe option: through my hostel with Cam Thanh Family Tours. To my surprise, all of us were picked up by the same van, did the same boating activity together, and then did the cooking class together as well. When I returned to the hostel, I notified the hostel staff of the large price discrepancy between what I had to pay and what my friends had to pay, for the same exact tour. The staff then contacted the owner of this tour, with whom they had worked for many years and had taken for an honest man. He explained to the staff that really my friends had paid a much higher deposit and that they were in fact charged a similar price to me. This seemed strange, as my friends showed me a picture of the sign advertising the tour for 370,000 dong and insisted that that’s what they agreed to pay. When pressed by the hostel staff on the phone, the owner also tried to initially claim that there was a 40% sale for those that booked on the street. However, my suspicions were confirmed when the friend that paid for the others came down to the lobby, and showed us that she received many missed calls from the tour company, as well as a text asking her to lie to the hostel staff and claim that she really paid much more for the tour because another guest was upset that he was charged more. The hostel staff then called up the owner again, who now had nothing to say for himself. At least he had the dignity not to charge me at all for the tour.
It’s a shame, I had a lovely time, but the owner is dishonest, and has probably been running his scheme on other hotels/hostels for who knows how long.
TL;DR: the owner has been inflating the price he charges hostel/hotel guests compared to what he charges for the same tour on the street. And when suspicions were raised he doubled down with more lies before he was caught.
翻译:作为这篇评论的序言,在实际的旅行中,我玩得很开心。工作人员真的很棒,做得很好,确保每个人都度过了愉快的时光。篮子船的工作人员非常友善、友好且有趣。而且厨师很搞笑。但不幸的是,我必须给这个经营者一颗星,因为经营这个旅游的人都是不道德的骗子,我偶然发现他们欺骗了很多游客,也差点欺骗了我:
我住的旅馆向客人发放了公司的小册子,详细介绍了这次旅行。宣传册正面标明的旅游价格为 575,000 盾。在我通过旅舍报名之前,我在旅舍结识的一些朋友问我是否想同时参加他们的类似旅行,他们通过看到街上广告的供应商预订了这次旅行,而且价格仅为 370,000 越南盾。考虑到他们的旅行质量,我决定选择我认为更有信誉、更安全的选择:通过我的旅馆与 Cam Thanh Family Tours 签约。令我惊讶的是,我们所有人都被同一辆货车接走,一起做同样的划船活动,然后也一起上烹饪课。当我回到旅馆时,我通知旅馆工作人员,对于同一次旅行,我必须支付的费用和我的朋友必须支付的费用之间存在巨大的差异。工作人员随后联系了这次旅行的老板,他们已经合作多年,认为老板是一个诚实的人。他向工作人员解释说,我的朋友确实支付了更高的押金,而且他们实际上向我收取了类似的价格。这看起来很奇怪,因为我的朋友给我看了一张标有 370,000 越南盾的旅游广告牌的照片,并坚称这是他们同意支付的价格。当旅馆工作人员在电话中追问时,旅馆主人最初还试图声称,在街上预订的客人可以享受 40% 的折扣。然而,当为其他人付钱的朋友来到大厅,并向我们展示她收到了许多旅游公司的未接电话,以及一条短信要求她向旅舍工作人员撒谎并声称她确实为这次旅行支付了更多费用,因为另一位客人对他被收取更多费用感到不安。随后,旅舍工作人员再次给业主打电话,但业主现在已经无话可说了。至少他有尊严地不向我收取这次旅行的费用。
很遗憾,我度过了一段愉快的时光,但老板不诚实,而且可能已经在其他酒店/旅馆上实施了他的计划,谁知道多久了。
TL;DR:与他在街上进行同一旅游的价格相比,业主一直在夸大向旅馆/酒店客人收取的价格。当有人提出怀疑时,他在被捕之前又撒了更多谎。