Ava Travel
Browse cruises
Home/Tours/Hanoi Night Tour and Water Puppet Show, Private
Private tourNEW 2026HanoiSmall group · Local experience

Hanoi Night Tour and Water Puppet Show, Private

An evening in Hanoi with a private guide, starting at your hotel. A water puppet show, the northern folk art of wooden puppets moving... Ava Travel price: from $49.

WhatsAppEmail us

Questions before you book? Message us on WhatsApp or send an email. Phone +84 904 251 545. Ava Travel Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam.

Hanoi Night Tour and Water Puppet Show, Private
Hanoi Night Tour and Water Puppet Show, Private onboard
Style
Private tour
Hanoi
Duration
Flexible itinerary
Pickup support available

Book this tour

Live prices for the date and group size you pick. Ava confirms your departure and pickup within 1 hour of booking.

Prices are the total for the travellers and the date you pick. Ava reconfirms the departure and the pickup point within 1 hour.
Tour optionWhat's includedPrice
Private tour
Your group only
1 dayYour own guide
Priced for your group size, so each person pays less in a bigger group
✓ Local English-speaking guide✓ Hotel pickup and drop-off✓ Entrance tickets included
—total · 2 travellers
Secure checkout
  • We confirm your departure and pickup within 1 hour
  • Cancel more than 30 days ahead at no cost
  • No booking fee. The price shown is the price you pay
Full refund if you cancel more than 30 days before check-in
  • More than 30 days before check-inFree
  • 30 to 11 days before check-in15% of total
  • 10 to 7 days before check-in30% of total
  • Less than 7 days, or no-show100% of total

A change of travel date counts as a cancellation and a new booking, and the same scale applies.

If the operator cancels the cruise, or in case of severe weather or force majeure, we move your date free of charge, or refund you in full if we cannot reschedule.

Read the full booking conditions

Price includes all taxes and service charges.

Hanoi tour overview

Why this trip

  • An evening in Hanoi with a private guide, starting at your hotel.
  • A water puppet show, the northern folk art of wooden puppets moving across a pool to live music.
  • A walk around Hoan Kiem Lake and the lit up streets of the Old Quarter.
  • Time to stop for street food or a drink along the way, on your own account.

An honest note: the puppet show is short, about 50 minutes, and the songs are in Vietnamese, so it is more about the music and the puppetry than the story.

At a glance

DurationAbout 4 hours
Start and finishYour hotel in Hanoi
Group sizePrivate, 1 to 12
WalkingEasy, on foot in the Old Quarter
Best forA first evening in Hanoi, families
GuideEnglish-speaking guide

Price

Private departure. Your own guide and vehicle, your own pace. The total falls per person as your group grows.

Group sizeTotalPer person
1 person$121$121
2 people$158$79
3 people$200$67
4 people$255$64
5 people$291$58
6 people$327$54
7 people$382$55
8 people$436$54
9 people$491$55
10 people$527$53
11 people$564$51
12 people$599$50

Children. Children 0 to 2 go free and children 3 to 10 pay half, with one child per adult at these rates. A second child with the same adult pays the adult price. Tell us the ages when you book and we apply it before you pay.

How it works

  1. Book and confirm. Pay at checkout or message us on WhatsApp first. We confirm your date, pickup time and guide within one hour.
  2. Pickup. Hotel pickup in central Hanoi, area confirmed at booking.
  3. On the day. Evening, about 4 hours. Your guide keeps the timings loose enough for photographs and questions.

What's included

Private transport for pickup and drop offEnglish-speaking guideWater puppet show ticket

Your itinerary

Hanoi after dark

Hanoi after dark

  • Meals: not included.

    • Early evening pickup at your hotel.
    • Walk around Hoan Kiem Lake and across to Ngoc Son Temple area.
    • Take your seats for the water puppet show.
    • Walk the Old Quarter streets at night with your guide, stopping where you like.
    • Back to your hotel.

Frequently Asked Questions

Quick answers for planning this trip with Ava Travel.

About 50 minutes.
Yes. Children usually love the puppets and the splashing, and young children travel at reduced rates.
No. Your guide can suggest places and you pay for what you eat.
The group price is per person. The private price is the total for your party and the table on this page shows it for every group size. Prices are in US dollars and include taxes and service charges, and there is no booking fee or card surcharge, so the total at checkout is the total you pay.
Within one hour. We come back to you with the pickup time, the meeting point and your guide, and tell you what to bring.
More than 30 days before departure costs nothing. From 30 to 11 days we keep 15 per cent, from 10 to 7 days 30 per cent, and inside 7 days or a no-show is charged in full. Changing your date counts as a cancellation and a new booking. If we cancel, or weather makes the tour unsafe, we move your date at no cost or refund you in full.

What guests say about Ava Travel

5.0Tripadvisor rating

These are real Tripadvisor reviews of Ava Travel as your booking agent, quoted word for word. They are not reviews of Hanoi Night Tour and Water Puppet Show, Private itself.

Rated 5.0 on TripadvisorFrom 10 reviewsRead all 10 reviews
★★★★★

Bigdog702

“I booked way in advance, and had a hotel change a week before the cruise, but all I did was whats app them the new hotel, and all was good.”

Tripadvisor, May 2026

★★★★★

Kehren Eade

“She made the process SO easy, SO manageable, we felt we were in great hands at all times, even though everything was done by remote!”

Tripadvisor, August 2026

★★★★★

Arshia Z

“Whenever we had questions or needed assistance, the response was prompt, helpful, and reassuring.”

Tripadvisor, June 2026

Read all 10 reviews on Tripadvisor

Photos

Images on this page are used under a Creative Commons licence. Author and licence for each: