DH and I can't decide!!! Help us to decide please!!!
We visit Thailand every year the last 2 years and are doing so again this year at the end of the year. We also want to combine Thailand with another country during this holiday. We know Hong Kong is awesome for food & it has Disneyland.... we know it's not as family friendly as Singapore & Thailand (we are seasoned travellers to those parts of the world!) and we don't know a lot about Vietnam but we think we would love it too with the culture, food etc.....we think maybe Vietnam might be more enjoyed when the kids are older with the history of the place etc so maybe we should leave it for now and go to HK instead?
So help us to decide!!! Our girls are only 3yrs and 9mths. We have 5-6 nights to spend somewhere......
DH and I went to Vietnam in 2008. As beautiful as it is and as keen as we are to go back someday, we'd wait until the kids are older (our girls are 2 years and 2 months). I don't know much about Hong Kong, but my impression is that it would be more family friendly than Vietnam.
Having said that, we were on a tour aimed at young people/couples so maybe what we saw was aimed at that.
I love Vietnam but I think that Hong Kong would be easier. What kind of traveler are you? If you tend to laze about in resorts Vietnam has some lovely resorts. If you're more into mixing with the locals, catching public transport, eating the street food and so on then Vietnam might be better left for a few years because it can be pretty rugged.
We took the kids to Hong Kong just before Christmas - they were 4.5 and 3.5. It was incredibly easy to get around with a brilliant transport system. Trains were generally busy to horrendously packed, but people always made room so the girls weren't getting squashed, fell over themselves to get up so I could sit down (about 17 weeks pregnant at the time). Food was extremely varied and nobody minded our weird requests to cater for our extremely fussy eaters.
We went to Singapore the year before and TBH I wouldn't classify either as more child friendly/easier to get around than the other except that Singapore is about a bazillion times cleaner in terms of air pollution!!
vietnam! i'm not sure how child-friendly it is, to be honest, but it's nicer to visit, I reckon.
like chloe says, it probably depends what you p;lan to do. HK is cool for a city visit and easy to get around, but the air is choking.
I went to Vietnam a long time ago (ten years) and HK about 4 years ago. I'd definitely go to hong kong with kids over Vietnam. HK is so clean and organized and really fun! If it's just for a stop over, what about Kuala Lumpur? We loved it with our two, and we stayed near a massive park with wading pool. Also the Malaysian people would have to be the nicest people on earth! Equal to Thai people I think !
Vietnam is exciting, but it's busy and dirty and is so similar to Thailand in many ways.
Should we visit VIETNAM or Hong Kong??
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