Ha Giang Express Ha Giang ke Ha Noi

Jangan berharap bisa tidur di bus tidur. Secara keseluruhan, ini bukanlah pengalaman bus terburuk yang pernah saya alami, namun juga bukan pengalaman yang ingin saya ulangi. Kekurangan: Lampu sangat terang di sebagian besar perjalanan, banyak teriakan di dalam bus, meskipun ventilasi tertutup, AC masih mati dan sangat dingin jadi pastikan untuk memiliki lapisan penghangat sebagai pilihan. Setiap kali saya berhenti, mereka akan membuka tirai saya dan menyodok saya untuk membangunkan saya. Kami berangkat satu jam setelah jadwal. Kelebihan: sangat menyenangkan memiliki van di titik pengantaran yang memakan waktu sekitar 5 menit berjalan kaki dari akomodasi saya daripada harus membayar taksi pada jam 4 pagi. Selain itu, ada port pengisian daya USB di pod Anda (itu membuat kabel dan ponsel saya sangat panas dan pengisian dayanya lambat, namun tetap membantu)

Don't expect to be able to sleep on the sleeper bus. Overall, it was not the worst bus experience I've had, but not one I'd love to repeat, either. Cons: Very bright lights on most of the ride, lots of yelling on the bus, even with the vent closed, the a/c still comes out and is very cold so make sure to have some warmer layers as an option. Every stop they would fling open my curtain and poke me to wake me up. We left an hour after scheduled. Pros: it was very nice to have a van at the dropoff point that took me about a 5 minute walk from my accommodation instead of needing to also pay for a taxi at 4 in the morning. Also, there is a USB charging port in your pod (it made my cord and phone very hot and was a slow charge, but helpful nonetheless)

Perjalanan dengan bus memakan waktu lebih lama dari yang diharapkan, tetapi pengemudi dan petugas layanannya baik dan mencoba menjemput kami dan menurunkan kami sedekat mungkin ke tempat yang kami tuju. Kabinnya luas.

Bus ride took longer than expected, but the driver and service person were nice and tried to pick us up and drop us off as closely as possible at where we needed to go. The cabins are spacious.

Menggunakan perusahaan ini dua kali dan kedua kali bus sangat bersih dan pengemudi benar-benar aman, tidak ngebut atau mengemudi tidak menentu tetapi juga tidak terlalu lambat. Sedikit klakson berbunyi - seperti norma di Vietnam. Pengemudi / pemandu juga berbicara sedikit bahasa Inggris dan dijadwalkan berhenti secara teratur. Perusahaan yang terorganisasi dengan baik, akan menggunakan lagi.

Used this company twice and both times the buses were spotlessly clean and the drivers were really safe, not speeding or driving erratically but not going so slow either. A bit of horn beeping - as is the norm in Vietnam. The drivers / guides also spoke some English and scheduled in regular stops. Well organised company, would use again.

Staf tidak ramah dan terburu-buru. Pemberhentian tidak dikomunikasikan dengan jelas. Berharap itu akan langsung sampai ke titik akhir yang dikomunikasikan di Hanoi. Sebaliknya, ketika kami sampai di dekat Hanoi, kami tiba-tiba harus turun dari bus, menuju bus yang lebih kecil yang akan menurunkan semua orang. Ini memakan waktu yang sangat lama, dengan beberapa urusan luar kota yang tidak dapat dijelaskan setelah tengah malam. Kami tiba lebih dari 2 jam kemudian (jam 3 pagi).

Staff was unfriendly and rushed. Stops weren't communicated clearly. Hoped it would have gone straight to the communicated endpoint in Hanoi. Instead, when we got near Hanoi we suddenly needed to get out of the bus, into a smaller one which would drop everyone off. This was taking extremely long, with some unexplainable out-of-city errands way after midnight. We arrived more than 2 hours later (at 3am).

Secara keseluruhan semuanya baik-baik saja, kami terlambat 1 setengah jam. Satu jam pertama kami hanya mampir ke sembarang tempat, untuk mengambil bensin, atau entah kenapa. Mereka tidak memasukkan saya dalam daftar mereka, pada dasarnya lupa bahwa mereka harus menjemput saya ???? Syukurlah, pasangan lain sedang menunggu bus di halte yang sama dan sopir datang menjemput mereka. Kalau tidak, aku pikir mereka akan melupakanku begitu saja. Sopir itu tidak mengerti sepatah kata pun dalam bahasa Inggris dan pada awalnya dia memberi isyarat kepada saya untuk tetap tinggal karena saya tidak ada dalam daftarnya. Pada akhirnya, saya masuk ke dalam bus dan ada satu orang lagi yang duduk di sebelah pengemudi saat mereka menghitung penumpangnya ???? Dukungan whatsapp mereka bagus. Mungkin lebih baik menghubungi mereka dan mengkonfirmasi pemesanan.

Overall everything was OK, we were late 1 and half hours. The first hour we were just stopping by random places, to take gasoline, or for unknown reason. They didn't have me on their list, basically forgot that they should pick me up 😃 Thankfully, another couple was waiting for the bus at the same stop and the driver came to pick them up. Otherwise, I think they would just forget about me. The driver didn't understand a word in English and at the beginning he was showing to me by gestures to stay because I wasn't on his list. At the end, I got into the bus and there was one more person sitting next to the driver as they over counted their passengers 😅 Their whatsapp support is good, though. Maybe it's better to contact them and confirm the booking.

Bus berangkat dengan penundaan satu jam. Bukan mobil van seperti di gambar, melainkan bus. sangat nyaman. Maka seseorang membawaku dari tempat yang dimaksudkan sebagai pemberangkatan dan membawaku ke bus yang menunggu satu km jauhnya. Mudah-mudahan saya menemukan seseorang untuk memfasilitasi dalam bahasa Vietnam.

The bus left with one hour delay. Was not a van like on the picture but a bus. Very confortable though. So someone took me from the place intended to be the departure and took me to the bus that was waiting one km away. Hopefully I found someone to facilitate in Vietnamese.

Risky driving. Two busses of the same company were kind of racing each other from hagiang to Hanoi. The young driver was on the phone very often. Two nearly crashes were avoided by the driver but they would have been less probable when the driver wouldn’t have been driving so pushy…

The only stop along the way was not a service station but a run-down restaurant right at the edge of a small town.

We were ca 90 minutes late. The driver who brought us to the hotel didn’t speak a word English and was extremely unfriendly. He yelled at me because he stopped somewhere and told us to hop off. We didn‘t as we didn‘t know where we were. In the end it was the right place but we didn‘t know and he didn‘t tell us. Maybe we could have had a look at google maps, but it is still not a reason to yell at me. Never again!

Bus was not as described. No TV, no toilet, slow WiFi. No transport to hotel in Hanoi.