Vietnam Tours with Flights from €650

The classic Vietnam tour runs top to bottom: two nights in Hanoi, an overnight Halong Bay cruise, an internal flight to Hue or Danang, two or three nights based in Hoi An, then a flight to Saigon with a day trip to the Mekong Delta. Most 10-day itineraries hit exactly this spine and cost €600-€1,200 on the land side before your flight from Europe.

The strongest-selling trips in our catalog are Vietnam Tour Fun's "Astonishing Vietnam in 11 Days" at around €640, Legend Travel Group's 10-day Hanoi-departure package at roughly €810, and Hoi An Express's 10-day South-to-North Cultural Odyssey at €1,100. These all include domestic flights, which matters — buying Hanoi-Danang and Danang-Saigon separately on VietJet or Vietnam Airlines adds €80-€150 per person.

You will walk 6-10 km on busy days in the old quarters, eat breakfast in the hotel and lunch and dinner on your own (€5-€15 at mid-range street-food restaurants). The overnight Halong junk is almost always included with full board. Vietnam is cheap on the ground: €30-€50 a day covers meals, drinks and incidentals if you are not chasing rooftop bars.

Seven or eight days is tight. You can do Hanoi plus Halong plus Hoi An and skip Saigon, or Saigon plus Mekong plus Hoi An and skip Hanoi, and either works as a first taste. Land cost €450-€750. The trade-off is you miss half the country, and you spend a lot of the trip on short internal flights.

Ten days is where most travellers land and where the operator catalog concentrates. Realistic Asia's "Amazing Vietnam Super Save" at €655 and Wonderscape Travel's 10-day daily-departure package at €605 are the entry point; mid-market 10-day trips run €800-€1,200. This length lets you do the full Hanoi-Halong-Hue-Hoi An-Saigon-Mekong arc without feeling rushed.

Fourteen days is the sweet spot if budget allows. Realistic Asia's "Best Of Vietnam In 14 Days" at around €900 land is the benchmark. You add Sapa's rice terraces and a hill-tribe homestay in the north, or Phu Quoc beach time in the south, or Ninh Binh's karst landscapes on the way out of Hanoi. If you only have one shot at Southeast Asia, stretch to 14.

North-only (Hanoi, Halong, Sapa, Ninh Binh) suits mountain and landscape travellers and works year-round with layers. South-only (Saigon, Mekong, Dalat, Phu Quoc) suits beach-and-food travellers and is brighter and hotter. Pick by weather window, not by preference — see the seasons section below.

Small-group tours of 10-16 people are the default and the best value. International operators like G Adventures and Intrepid run polished 10-15 day Vietnam itineraries at €1,200-€2,000 land, with Western-style trip leaders and upgraded hotels. Local specialists do the same ground for considerably less: Realistic Asia, Legend Travel Group, Vietnam Tour Fun, PrestiGo Asia and Indochina Today Travel all sit in the €600-€1,300 band for 10-14 days and use the same guides, boats and restaurants — you just get a less branded experience and a local rep rather than a Western tour leader.

Private tours are unusually good value in Vietnam. Two people sharing a private guide and driver through Hoi An Express or PrestiGo Asia typically pay €1,200-€1,800 per person for 10 days — not much more than a group trip, and you set the pace, skip the 7am bus calls, and can linger over lunch.

For active travellers, SpiceRoads and Exodus run supported cycling trips on the Ho Chi Minh Highway and the coastal route from Hue to Hoi An, typically €1,800-€2,800 for 8-12 days with bikes, support van and mechanic. Motorbike tours on the Hai Van Pass and northern loops out of Ha Giang run €900-€1,600 for 7-10 days with Easy Riders or Onyabike. Much Better Adventures runs shorter active trips that suit working professionals with limited annual leave.

Vietnam is 1,650 km long and the weather splits into three zones that do not line up. This is the single most important thing to get right when planning.

The north (Hanoi, Halong, Sapa) has a proper winter. October to December is the sweet spot: dry, 20-25°C, clear skies on Halong Bay. January and February get cold and misty — Halong loses its postcard look, Sapa can drop to 5°C. March to May is warm and pleasant. June to September is hot (35°C+) and wet, with real risk of typhoons closing Halong Bay for two or three days at a time.

The centre (Hue, Hoi An, Danang) has the opposite pattern. February to August is dry and hot. September to December is the wet season, with serious flooding risk in Hoi An in October and November — the old town has been under water more than once in recent years.

The south (Saigon, Mekong, Phu Quoc) splits into dry (November to April) and wet (May to October). Wet-season rain is usually a heavy late-afternoon shower, not all-day grey, so it is more livable than it sounds.

The compromise window that works everywhere is mid-February to early April. Prices are shoulder-season, weather is broadly dry across the country, and Tet (Vietnamese New Year, 17 February in 2026) is worth either catching or deliberately avoiding — some businesses close for up to a week.

Vietnam Airlines flies direct to Hanoi (HAN) and Ho Chi Minh City (SGN) from London, Paris and Frankfurt, with flight times of 11-12 hours. It is often not the cheapest option. One-stop routings via the Gulf (Qatar Airways, Emirates, Etihad) or East Asia (Singapore Airlines, Cathay Pacific, Korean Air) usually price similarly or cheaper and offer better cabins.

Shoulder-season return fares from Western European capitals run €550-€850 in economy (February-April, October-November). Peak Christmas and Tet fares push €900-€1,300. Summer sits in between at €650-€1,000. Budget travellers can often find €500-ish returns on Scoot or AirAsia routings via Singapore or Kuala Lumpur, but the long connections eat a day each way.

Hanoi versus Saigon for arrival comes down to your itinerary direction. Tours overwhelmingly start in Hanoi and end in Saigon, because the north-to-south flow matches the country's history and most operators build their logistics that way. Fly in to HAN and out of SGN on an open-jaw ticket — it is usually priced within €50-€100 of a round-trip and saves a full day of backtracking. Kiwi.com handles open-jaw routing on our bundles and the total price shows live alongside the tour price so you can decide on the full trip cost before you commit.