My simple review of Vietnam in general as a tourist…

Real simple, Vietnam is good (not great, or amazing) to visit one time for most people.

They have some great things, food can still be found real cheap, hotels and taxi as well.

But the million of little terrible things (mostly with restaurants and attractions overcharging tourists and trying to scam you ever other step of the way) that are just too annoying would amount to me never wanting to come back to Vietnam in my lifetime.

Take this with a grain of salt, maybe I'm just too used to visiting countries where they don't try to scam or cheat you all the time 😂

Edit:

Forgot to add the airport experience. All airports are terrible, but man I've never had to wait in line for two hours to go through immigration. Also they managed to mess up my visa date, cutting it short by 1 day (no, I didn't make the error, I have a screenshot of my e-visa application and have selected the correct dates for start/end). This error ended up on me, and I had to pay another $65 to make a new visa, luckly we were going to Malaysia this trip ao it wasn't a problem, otherwise I would have had to do one of those border bus runs 😬🎅

Edit 2:

Like I mentioned, don't be too discouraged by my opinions, you might have a much better experience. We did loce it there overall, just not enough to plan our next Vietnam visit.

Although if you're planning to visit Voetnam for the first time in yiur life, it is a definite MUST VISIT country, 1000000%! And then you can make up your mind if you want ro come back.... 😄