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James TThis is NOT a safe way to travel. Starting with the worst, here is a list of what happened on our bus from Hanoi to Luang Prabang: 1. A young girl was sexually assaulted by a drunk man on the bus touching her legs and offering her money during the night, the drivers did nothing, 2. The bus broke down in the middle of nowhere in Laos, we were stranded for 10 hours with no updates on what was going on, nor would the drivers let us access our belongings or even board the bus, we have no food or water, imagine what that was like as it started to go darn 3. The drivers drank beer and smoked on the bus, 4. The drivers hit people on the legs for not taking off their shoes to board their filthy bus, 5. People’s bags were damaged during the ride due to being put on the roof in favour of cargo in the storage compartments - they laughed at the damage as they were taken off… need I say more? Don’t put yourself in danger to save a little bit of money, just book the flight instead. I never usually do reviews but this was the worst experience of my life, it took us 3 days to get to Luang Prabang under the dominion of a group of thugs who had total power over us whilst we had nothing to eat, drink nor even safety over our person nor possessions. Don’t incentivise this company so that they can do this to other people again please.
Bus VIP Sleeper 41, HTX Van Tai 277 (HTX Vận Tải 27-7), Apr 25, 2024
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Erik H6 hours late... Arrived at 1h in luang prabang
Bus VIP Sleeper 41, HTX Van Tai 277 (HTX Vận Tải 27-7), Mar 10, 2024
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Julia FGood
Bus VIP Sleeper 41, HTX Van Tai 277 (HTX Vận Tải 27-7), Jan 30, 2024
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Camille CThe bus left 2h late, this is acceptable in East Asia so no problem. We Were supposed to do the trip with a techbus, it was certainly not one. This could be acceptable as well. But the worst part was that the bus arrived not 1,2, 5 hours left but 16HOURS LATE ( took us 39h instead of 23h to arrive) we basically spent 2nights in a bus that was basically Doing deliveries, taking merchandise (we were sleeping between a TV and a some rice bags at some points) every 20min while taking people on its way to laos. Added to that one of the tire punctured on our way, making us loose several hours (as if it was not already enough) to get it repaired while the driver just let us at a random street restaurant during this time and leaving us without telling us. If you are searching for thrill and you are not in a hurry then no pb otherwise find another alternative
Bus Sleeper 40, Techbus VN JSC (Techbus Vietnam Joint stock company), Jun 19, 2023
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Emma BIt was better then we expected. The driver was really nice and helpful. The only thing that was not great was that we arrived 2 hours later then expected
Bus VIP Sleeper 41, HTX Van Tai 277 (HTX Vận Tải 27-7), May 22, 2023
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Carolina This was the second time we took this route since the first time we arrived to the border and had to go back to Hanoi since we didn't know that it wasn't possible to get on-arrival visas to Laos anymore. We left on time from Hanoi and arrive almost at 9 pm to Luang Prabang. More than a formal transport for people, the bus was a goods delivery service.The bus stopped more than a dozen times to collect and deliver multiple items on the way, including more people with no tickets. All felt more like of it was a side business from corrupted drivers than something organized from the company.
There were few stops to go to proper toilets (specially for women) and to eat. The drivers smoked constantly inside the bus and the air conditioning damaged a couple of times.
Bus VIP Sleeper 41, HTX Van Tai 277 (HTX Vận Tải 27-7), Mar 15, 2023
