Top Local Tips for Ho Chi Minh

How much time in Ho Chi Minh City? HCMC has a few worthwhile sights but a day to a day and a half is enough to see all the sights. It's a good jumping off place for an overnight trip to the Mekong Delta area or a day trip out to the Cu Chi tunnels. Arrange your excursions when you land in HCMC rather than doing it before hand. You'll save yourself money.

Massage services in HCMC Went for massage service in a 3 star hotel but their operation turn out to be sexual-oriented. I have a feeling most massage parlours will offer "extra" services so make sure you confirm that before heading into one.

Riquexos (Cycle cars) They start by wanting only to take you to one place but then start adding others, saying not to worry about the price. We negotiated for one at the beginning but in the end they claimed to have tajke us to more 2 places and showed us a "service table" per hour asking us 4 times more than we offered! So we ended up paying a lot more and still one of the "drivers" was making faces... An awful experience at the end, so make sure you negotiate all at the beginning in order not to be surprised at the end! They want to charge you 15USD per person for a hour... we paid 10 and still thought it was too much.