An HONEST 🤨 review of Vietnam’s FAMOUS Ha Long Bay cruise experience
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we were victims of fraud there was a fake website created and it mimicked it almost identically so we were fooled
the staff worked their butts off to give you a really good experience
the water bottles that they ask you to use so that you'd minimize the use of plastics pretty dirty so we didn't even want to touch those
my favorite part of the trip was watching the kids have fun going down the slides doing the cooking and all with this magnificent backdrop
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