My Thai wife and our kids will be vacationing in Viet Nam next summer. We plan on landing in Ha Noi and take our time to explore the rich and historical country from the north to the south and everything in between.  We will spend about a month or more because accommodations are so affordable along with cheap delicious food throughout the land.  The wife loves Viet food and eats it more than Thai these days. All the short comings mentioned by various posters are the reasons why she doesn't intend to visit Thailand anytime soon.  

2 hours ago, lordgrinz said:

 

The Vietnamese will get the quality Chinese tourists, Thailand will get the Chinese scammers and criminals, as Thailand is openly corrupt and easy pickings for the international criminals to exploit. The lack of enforcement of laws/rules/regulations here in Thailand makes it a goldmine for criminals from all over the World. 

100%!!!

12 hours ago, Travi said:

Taxi scams? It looks you have never been in Vietnam? Worse then Thailand.

 

You'll get hawkers all over SEA, but in VN they will follow you around.  When walking you may at some point turn around and find you are leading a parade.  The only other places where I had that happen to me were India and Pakistan.

I visited the country around 20 years ago, came away with more negatives than positives.  I saw an ugly incident in a provincial city between police and an old woman running a street eatery, and that was the last straw, was off to HCMC the next day to book my flight out.

Maybe Thailand shouldn't have cut back on the all-the-prawns-you-can-eat buffets.  Or did the ocean call and tell LOS that it was running out of shrimp? 

 

1) Vietnam is safer at the moment . Thailand's policy of importing cheap mass tourism and legal marijuana laws has attracted some of the worst dross on this planet. You see the international headlines for horrific behaviour. 

 

2) These despicable cheap tourists feel embolded to break laws and act terribly because they do not fear consequences. You dare not mess in Vietnam, China, Dubai, Singapore etc

 

3) Vietnam does not allow visa free for Indian tourists. Whilst there are indian visitors to Vietnam, they need to get a visa. This ensures quality visitors from that country, and most importantly ensures each visitor has a hotel booking in their name. There are no cases of 10 indians in one room here. 

 

 

Great, only trashy farang tourists left in Thailand.

Its not surprising when  the number of Chinese  that go missing,  killed in road accidents, and  / or other situations  in Thailand

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