How to maximize your budget on Ho Chi Minh City food tour? It is great to weave different districts of Saigon and enjoy various specialty dishes. Not all travelers have a bag full of money so I would like to share some tips for saving money on Ho Chi Minh City food tour.
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How to maximize your budget on Ho Chi Minh City food tour?
Book a food tour for breakfast/lunch/dinner
Most hotels and homestays in Ho Chi Minh City serve free breakfasts from 6:00 AM to 10:00 AM, some do not serve free breakfasts and guests must find something to eat around the hotels. If you book a morning food tour starting at 7:30 – 8:30 AM, you do not need to have breakfast before the tour. Food tours last 3.5 – 5 hours, so you should choose a morning food tour to book and have lunch on the tour.
Similarly, an afternoon food tour should start at 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM so lunch can be served on the tour. An evening food tour starts at 5:00 – 6:30 PM, so you do not need to have dinner before the tour.
Do not eat too much before Ho Chi Minh City food tour
On most Saigon food tours, more than 5 locals dishes are served and more than 3 eating places are visited. If you eat too much before your food tour, you can not enjoy all the amazing foods and that’s a waste.
How to maximize your budget on Ho Chi Minh City food tour
Book a local student food tour in Ho Chi Minh City
Food tours led by local students usually have lower prices thanks to low salaries of drivers, short durations, less eating and visiting places, and cheap local dishes.
Choose a Saigon food tour without BBQ, seafood, and snail dishes
A Ho Chi Minh food tour with BBQ, seafood, and snail dishes is $10 – $15 USD more expensive than a food tour with other local dishes. In fact, eating BBQ, seafood, and snail dishes too much is not good for your health. So you can skip the part of enjoying “drinking culture” and eating more.
Do not choose a Vespa tour or a jeep tour
Vespa tours and jeep tours are more expensive than motorbike tours and walking tours. Vespa tours and jeep tours cost not less than $70 USD. The average price of Ho Chi Minh City food tour is $40 USD. The cheapest one costs $17 USD, the most expensive food tour by motorbike costs $80 USD.
How to maximize your budget on Ho Chi Minh City food tour?
Do not choose an Ao Dai food tour
Ao Dai food tours cost from $45 USD and more expensive than many other food tours.
How to maximize your budget on Ho Chi Minh City food tour?
Ask for discount
If you don’t ask, the answer is always no. You should ask them for a discount in a polite and genuine way. If there are more than 3 people in your group, it is easier to make a successful deal.
How to maximize your budget on Ho Chi Minh City food tour
Some popular food tours in Saigon
At first, it needs to know that there is a number of choices for travelers who would like to do a Ho Chi Minh City food tour. Morning, afternoon, and evening food tours are differences because some street food vendors serve breakfasts and only open in the morning, or serve dinner and supper after dark. There are some means of transportation: jeep, motorbike, Vespa, private car, taxi and walking. Some tour agents offer tours with both male and female tour guides or only female riders. Nice Ao Dai riders are favorite choices of many travelers. Some people prefer joining Saigon food tours with professional chefs. So there are different in price.
- Saigon Night Food Tour: classic and popular choice, great street foods
- Saigon Sightseeing & Food Tour: a great mix of tourist attractions and street foods
- Saigon Unseen & Food Tour: a great mix of tourist attractions and street foods
- The AoDai Foodie: traveling with nice female riders in Ao Dai traditional dress
- Street Food Tour with local students: budget choice, going with talented local student, more simple but impressive menu
- Walking Ho Chi Minh City food tour: the most popular choice for travelers that wouldn’t like to sit on motorbikes
- Ho Chi Minh City food tour by vintage vespa: more expensive and unique experience
- Ho Chi Minh City food tour by jeep: more expensive and unique experience on open-air jeep
- Morning Saigon Street Food Tour: exploring the city and trying amazing foods that locals eat for breakfast and lunch
- Saigon Food Tour with Chef: going around and eating with a professional Vietnamese chef
Scooter Saigon Tour is one of the oldest and best food tour company in Ho Chi Minh City. Please contact Tracy Do & Bill Bui at +84938314386 (Whatsapp/iMessage/Viber/SMS) for detailed information about food tours in Ho Chi Minh City and best prices for your group.
