Excellent day tour in Hoi An

My husband planned a surprised birthday trip for us to Da Nang. We spent several days in Da Nang and on my birthday, he organized a private day tour with Xuan Tu tour company to explore the culture and food scenes in Hoi An.

Our tour guide, Tommy, was very knowledgeable and funny. He and his driver picked us up from our hotel at Lang co Banyan Tree at 9:30am, and began our drive to Hoi An. Given he is a local of Hoi An, he shared with us a lot of history and culture information about Hoi An and Vietnam. Most importantly since we love to eat, he was able to bring us to the local food spots, some hole in the wall places with excellent pho places. We wouldn’t have known to go to these places as they had no English signs in the store front and they looked as if we were eating at someone’s home kitchen.

We also did a private boat ride, went to observe the fishing village, had more street food (skewers, tofu pudding, rice paper rolls, more pho, cute local coffee spot) and toured around the Hoi An area. We ended the evening with him taking us and helping us order at the Banh Mi place that Anthony Bourdain went to. He and the driver waited for us and then drove us back to the hotel. They were so accommodating and flexible. By the time they dropped us off, it was 10pm and they had to drive back another 1.5 hours home back to Hoi An.

We had also asked them for recommendations for our subsequent days and he suggested where to go and eat after our golf round.

Both Tommy and Xuan followed up with us and make sure we had a great time. I promised i would write a review. Even though this has been a year overdue, I still have vivid and wonderful memories of my experience with them and that was certainly one of the highlights of my trip to Da Nang. I wish we had more time so that we could have taken tours with them to visit Hue and other nearby cities.