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Private tourNEW 2026Ho Chi Minh CitySmall group · Local experience
Ho Chi Minh City History and Culture Half Day Private Tour
Half a day in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) with your own guide and car, built around the places that explain how the city... Ava Travel price: from $18.
Questions before you book? Message us on WhatsApp or send an email. Phone +84 904 251 545. Ava Travel Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam.
Style
Private tour
Ho Chi Minh City
Duration
Half-day tour
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 onlyPriced for your group size, so each person pays less in a bigger group
✓ Local English-speaking guide✓ Entrance tickets included✓ Transport on the tour 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.
Price includes all taxes and service charges.
Ho Chi Minh City tour overview
Why this trip
- Half a day in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) with your own guide and car, built around the places that explain how the city got here.
- The War Remnants Museum, the Reunification Palace and the French buildings around the old Post Office.
- Your guide fills in the stories the signs leave out and keeps the pace to what suits you.
- A good first morning in the city before you head out to the tunnels or the delta.
An honest note: the War Remnants Museum is hard going, with photographs of the war and its victims, and some travellers choose to spend less time there. Tell your guide and the order changes.
At a glance
| Duration | About 4 hours, morning or afternoon |
| Start and finish | Hotel pickup in central Ho Chi Minh City, confirmed with your hotel address after booking |
| Group size | Private tour, just your group, up to 12 people |
| Walking | Short walks between sights, about 2 km in all, on pavements |
| Best for | First time visitors, history readers, families with older children |
| Guide | Local English-speaking guide, just for your group |
Price
Private departure. Your own guide and vehicle, your own pace. The total falls per person as your group grows.
| Group size | Total | Per person |
|---|---|---|
| 1 person | $80 | $80 |
| 2 people | $86 | $43 |
| 3 people | $93 | $31 |
| 4 people | $109 | $27 |
| 5 people | $116 | $23 |
| 6 people | $136 | $23 |
| 7 people | $159 | $23 |
| 8 people | $181 | $23 |
| 9 people | $204 | $23 |
| 10 people | $208 | $21 |
| 11 people | $219 | $20 |
| 12 people | $222 | $18 |
Children. Children under 6 travel free and children aged 6 to 10 pay half the adult price. The reduction applies to one child per adult, so 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
- Book and confirm. Pay at checkout or message us on WhatsApp first. We confirm your date, pickup time and guide within one hour.
- Pickup. Hotel pickup in central Ho Chi Minh City, confirmed with your hotel address after booking.
- On the day. About 4 hours, morning or afternoon. Your guide keeps the timings loose enough for photographs and questions.
What's included
Private air-conditioned vehicle with driverLocal English-speaking guideEntrance fees for the sights on the routeDrinking water
Your itinerary
Saigon history and culture
Meals: none.
- Pickup at your hotel in the city centre.
- The Reunification Palace, where the war ended in April 1975, with its rooms kept as they were.
- The War Remnants Museum and its three floors on the American War.
- A walk past the Saigon Notre Dame Cathedral and into the Central Post Office, built in the French period.
- Drop off at your hotel, or anywhere in the centre you would rather be left.
Frequently Asked Questions
Quick answers for planning this trip with Ava Travel.
Older children, yes. The War Remnants Museum shows graphic images, so with younger children we shorten that stop or leave it out.
Yes. The route works morning or afternoon, and we set the time with you when you book.
Light clothes and comfortable shoes. The palace and the cathedral area ask for covered shoulders and knees.
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
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★★★★★
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
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