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If you only want a beach, no. If you want the prison, a pagoda, a market and a stretch of coast in one day without wasting time on closed doors and midday heat, a guide who plans the order saves more hours than the fee costs most parties.

Yes. Guide-only bookings work well in Duong Dong on foot, or with a taxi or Grab you pay as you go. The guide can book the rides for you.

We plan in English. For other languages, ask for availability when you send the form; we will tell you plainly whether we can cover your date before you pay anything.

No. Our bookings are private guided days on land. If you also want an island boat trip, book it with a boat operator directly.

Route A only works in the morning, because the market is busiest early. Routes B and C suit the afternoon: the prison's afternoon session starts at 13:30 and the east coast is pleasant late in the day.

Yes. Route A is flat and short. On route B, the stream is slippery after rain, so children stay in the shallows with an adult.

Yes, choose guide only. The guide rides with you and navigates; whoever drives needs a licence that is valid in Vietnam.

Short heavy showers are common from May to October. The guide moves covered stops first and waits out the worst; if the whole afternoon is lost to a storm, we offer another date for the unused hours.

Most teenagers handle it well with a guide who explains the context. The subject is wartime detention; the guide describes each room before you enter, so anyone can skip one.

The pagoda opens at 06:00 and is pleasant early; the prison's morning session runs until about 11:00 or 11:30. Doing them in this order keeps both inside their best hours.

It is calmest in the rainy-season months from May to October, when the southwest monsoon makes the west coast rough. In the dry season it is still calm most days but busier.

Figures vary by source. One official newspaper gives about 14,000 for the French period of 1953 to 1954; larger totals for the whole war are widely repeated but not from an official museum source. Your guide will explain what the exhibition itself states.

Usually because it includes a carded guide and a separate driver for the full block, the guide's and driver's lunch, and no commission stops. If another quote leaves one of those out, it will be cheaper, and that may be the right choice for you.

No. One price per booking, for up to seven people. The car size changes with the party; the guide fee does not.

We quote in US dollars; the quotation also explains how to pay.

Four hours. Shorter jobs, such as a one-hour airport briefing, are not worth a guide's morning and we do not sell them.

Duong Dong, because it explains the rest of the island: fishing, the shrine, the market and the night market are all within walking distance.

In eight hours, yes: Duong Dong in the morning and the east coast in the afternoon works well. The north and the south together is too much driving for one day.

Duong Dong, Ong Lang or Bai Truong are central, so pick-up is included and road time is short. Bai Dai and Bai Khem add road time to most routes.

Less so. The village is pleasant for an hour's walk, but most of what draws people is the crab and sea urchin. Pair it with a forest stream to make the trip worthwhile.

Not at present. The old wooden jetty is closed because of damage.

Suoi Tranh has more water from May to November. Suoi Da Ban runs clear in the dry months from November to April.

For the sea, yes. From May to October the southwest monsoon makes the west coast rough while the east-coast beaches are calmer.

Not legally as a tour guide. A guide card requires Vietnamese nationality and permanent residence, and the 2019 penalties decree sets a fine for foreigners guiding in Vietnam.

Not in the legal sense, unless he also holds a guide card. A driver can take you places; a carded guide can explain them and is accountable to a travel business.

The law draws no line by length. A guide working for a travel business wears the card whenever guiding.

Guides visitors inside one tourist area or site, after passing a provincial test. You may meet one at an attraction; they do not run island-wide days.

We arrange private guided days directly: we assign the guide, write the programme and, when booked, provide the car and driver. We do not resell other companies' tours.

Yes. Say so in the form and we will try to keep the same guide, subject to their schedule.

No. We work on Phu Quoc only.