Halong Christina Cruise

So, overnight in Halong Bay on the cruise is the must-do things when we purchased the flight tickets. I planned to stay on the Halong Dragon cruise(which was highly recommended in Cari Forum), while Emily from BB Hanoi Hostel, suggested to overnight on Fantasea cruise. After doing multiple surveys, I decided to take the Halong Christina Cruise because it will drop us at Titop Island(will tell you more on why I am so obsess with this island in next next post).

This is the itinerary of 2 days 1 night stay with Halong Christina Cruise:
Day 1: Ha Noi – Ha Long- Bai tu Long- Sung sot-TiTopEnglish tour guide pick up at hotel to Halong bay(HLB), it takes 3 hours and a half to reach HLB you have a short break on the half way.
Get on Cristina Suite Cruise,  then having lunch. Visit Sung Sot cave( surprising  Cave) which is one of the most  beautiful and largest caves of Ha Long bay. then kayaking around Floating Village.
After that the boat takes you to Titop Island. At night we learn to make Vietnamese spring roll. Overnight on the boat.
Day 2: Halong _ Me Cung Grotto -Pearl Farm
Visit Pearl store. C/out room then keep contemplating sightseeing of  the bay on the way back to Ha Long harbour, bus take you back to Ha Noi..
Tour finished.

You can visit Christina Cruise’s website at HERE.

The tour bus picked us up at hotel at 8am.

The distance between Hanoi and Halong Bay is about 150km, but it took about 4 hours plus for us to reach the harbour because of the poor road condition and we stopped by for a 30minutes break.

These are the 1 day trip cruises.
These are the overnight cruises.

Previously the boats in Halong Bay are painted with brown and black color, but new policy was made and started from May 2012, all boats are to paint with white color.Go!Mitty thinks that brown color boats are more attractive. LOL.

We hopped onto a small boat, which will then bring us to Christina Cruise. There are 2 types of Christina Cruise, the 9 and 11 cabin cruise, and we overnight on the 9 cabin Christina Cruise.

Hello and Welcome on-board to Christina Cruise.

My parents and I stayed in the only triple room on boat.
Clean and cosy room.
The hot air shower and air-cond are not available all the time.
Only available from 6pm onwards if not mistaken.Twin roomSundeck.
Is nice to sit here in the night, with a can of beer
and a bunch of friends to chat with.

Oh ya, would like to share about foods in Kalong Christina Cruise. We enjoyed our every single meals onboard, because we ate to the fullest with the 8 dishes served with every meals. nom nom nom.

These are some of the dishes being served. Simple dishes but the taste is omg-yummy!

Drinks from outside(except plain water) are not allowed to bring on board, if you are thirsty and craving for can drinks/beer, buy them from the staffs and pay for them at rate which is slightly higher than you bought in town.

At night, we had this Vietnamese spring roll learning class. The staff mixed the ingredients for us and we wrapped up the spring roll.

After taking the dinner, we spent our night at the sundeck and of course we had a nice sleep on the cruise.

Woke up early on the second day and snapped this.
Peaceful morning.

Next post:
Captain, lets sail into Halong Bay

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