SAIGON SHORE EXCURSION: Special Saigon City Tour Full Day
Description
This is a special shore excursion tour to Saigon for exploration local areas that perpetuate the daily lives of ordinary Vietnamese living in Saigon. You will find yourselves drowned in the charming beauty of countryside, with gigs, a blue canal, dinghies, a rough monkey bridge... - All private tours are approximately 9-10 hours or longer depending on your time. At the end of the private tour, we will ensure that you return on-time to board the cruise ship. - Customize your excursion to suit your interests and itinerary - Take an all-day private tour from Cruise port with a personal guide - Customize your excursion tour to suit your interests and itinerary
Tour Options
Itinerary
7:30-8:00Am Our tour guide will welcome you with a sign (your name) at Phu My port gate (2 to 5 minutes by shuttle bus from the ship to the gate) and depart to Saigon around 1. 5 hours by private mini-van.
Then we will do this tour by seeing with many special places in Saigon as follows: • Saigon Eco Village: This place is very famous with local people for picnic and fishing at weekend. I will introduce to you how they grow the rice, how they catch a fish but in Saigon city (This is an unseen part of Saigon). We will enjoy a cup of coffee or local beer with Vietnamese style here.
You will find this pagoda in District 1 one of the oldest pagoda in Saigon, which is roughly a ten minute drive from the city centre.
The palace is like a time capsule frozen in 1975. You can see two of the original tanks used in the capture of the palace parked in the grounds. Independence Palace was the home and workplace of the French Governor of Cochin-China. It has lush gardens, secret rooms, antique furniture, and a command bunker. It's still in use to host important occasions in Ho Chi Minh, including APEC summits.
Then we will do this tour by seeing with many special places in Saigon center with: • City Hall, Opera House • Central Post Office • Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral • XQ Hand Embroidery • Optional: 45 minutes trishaw ride around the city to see the real Saigon On the way back the ship we will stop for you enjoy Amazing View of this city from Saigon River + Our itinerary are flexible and changeable to make you have a great local experiences.
Highlights
What's included
Pickup Locations & Times
7:30-8:00Am Our tour guide will welcome you with a sign (your name) at Cruise port gate (2 to 5 minutes by shuttle bus from the ship to the gate) and depart to Saigon around 1. 5 hours by private mini-van.
Traveller Ratings
Important Information
- Wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Specialized infant seats are available
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
Reviews(10)
Linh was the most amazing tour guide. She is incredibly knowledgeable, spoke fluent English, navigated us through large crowds and was very witty. I highly recommend this tour if you have a day to tour and visit all the best spots in Saigon.
We took this private tour on 22 JAN, 2026 . It was our first port on our Vietnam cruise aboard the Diamond Princes. We were met at the gate by our tour guide. The tour was long but very informative . The tour delivered what was promised on the itinerary . The guide and driver were very friendly . We recommend using this company.
Our Guide was extremely knowledgeable and his English was perfect. He took us to many places, was courteous and had our day planned out.
We had an amazing day with Penny (Our guide) visiting the top sights in Saigon. Not only was she very knowledgeable about the places we visited, but she also shared with us information about Vietnam’s culture and history. By the time we finished our tour we felt we had a great friend in Vietnam! We highly recommend this tour but in particular we recommend Penny as a guide!! Thanks so much Penny!!
Dear Mr. Rodrigo and Family With many thanks for your choosing in our local Shore Excursion tour services in Saigon. We are appreciate for your nice feedback and share your own experience travel with our company. Please, introduce for some your friends who is going to Vietnam. Keep in this touch! See you in the next trip! Have a nice day! Penny @ Your tour guide!
If you want to be treated like a VIP all day then choose this company! It was a fantastic day and a knowledgeable guide 😀
Dear Mr. Andy and Mrs. Beverly, With many thanks for your choosing in our local shore tour services in Saigon. We are appreciate for your nice feedback and share your own experience travel with our company. Please, introduce for some your friends who is going to Vietnam. Keep in this touch! See you in the next trip! Have a nice day! Khang @ Your tour guide!
Had a great time with our Guide Layla. She listened to what the group wanted to do, made some great suggestions, and even helped us barter at the market.
I didn’t think we were really tour people but my cousin recommended it and it was fabulous! Our guide Khang was a young very educated tour guide and we loved him. He taught us so much about Viet Nam and was just a beautiful sole. His English was good and he got us right in to all the sites. He also had a great sense of humor. After the all day tour we got back for a quick clean up and went on the 5:30 motorbike tour of the city with his colleague Mia. We had the best time on the backs of their motorbikes and saw everything and tried food I never thought I would and it was all delicious. Mia was a kick and the two of them together were perfect and hilarious. A big thanks to Mia and Khang!
We really enjoyed this trip. The car and driver were excellent and the guide was very nice and knowledgeable. The tour was customized so we could see and do everything we wanted. The driver was amazing because he got to the ship in time, even though there was a lot of traffic.
Lee was an amazing tour guide. He spent two days with us. The first day he gave us a city tour and took us to some less visited locations as well. The second day he took us to the Cu Chi tunnels, and the Coa Dai temple. Lee made our time in Saigon fabulous. He is energetic, dynamic, well spoken, a great storyteller, and very knowledgeable. His English is excellent. He is funny and provided us with a lot of information about Saigon and Vietnam. I would highly recommend him as a guide for your time here.
We were a group of 8 (two families with teenagers) and we booked this Unique Saigon Shore Excursion tour. It was definitely the right choice. Our tour guide, Lee M. was fantastic. He is very passionate and knowledgeable about Vietnam and its history, but he's also funny and entertaining, and managed to cover everything we wanted to see adding so much more in terms of cultural information and local customs that left us wanting to spend more time with him visiting the rest of the country. We definitely need to come back and see the Mekong Delta! The van for our private tour was very comfortable and clean, and the driver was very good too. In all, we had a wonderful time in Saigon and we highly recommend this tour guide.
Dear Ms Mariana, Thank you very much for your very kind review. This is absolutely wonderful! Wish to welcome you to Vietnam in the near future. All the best to you! Lee @ Tour Guide Henry Ng (Mr.) @ Sales Dept Whatsapp: (+84) 973655154
