Free Tour Organizations in Hanoi

There are several non-profit organizations in Hanoi providing tourists with private tour services. Let see how they are working. 
Free tour service is also top.1 things to do in Hanoi for many years

I. Hanoikids

1. Introduction

Hanoikids, established in 2006, is known as a student-run organization based in Hanoi, Vietnam. Hanoikids would be the first club to be established to do free tour services with the purpose of helping tourists and "Kids". 
Because of the high number of tour bookings, you need to book hanoikids as soon as possible to make sure your tours will be arranged.

- Volunteers: >300 members

- Founded:  2006
- Website: Hanoikids.org

2. Tripadvisor Review
3. Booking
- 2 Weeks in Advance
Respond within a day

II.  Hanoi Free Tours

1. Introduction

Hanoi Free Local Tours is an organization which was established and managed by a group of students and working people. We are young people who are passionate about English, love the culture and history of Vietnam. Therefore, we use English to help foreign people and to introduce Vietnamese culture to international tourists. Besides, this is a good environment for us to improve skills and language that are necessary for the international working environment of our future. Our organization has been managed in a professional model by the founders and members. Every month, members have a general meeting to summarize all activities of the club.

- Volunteers: 65 members

- Founded: April 4, 2016

2. Their Free Tours in Hanoi

• Hanoi Motorbike Tour
• Hanoi Street Food Tours
• Hanoi Free Walking Tours

2. Tripadvisor reviews

Hanoi free tour with Thao and Huyen

It is special trip in vietnam! We went to the museleum and ma may old house in the last we drank egg coffee (very delicious). Thao and Huyen are very nice tour guide. They gave the information about history of vietnam that we didnt know before! We exchange not only knowledge but also the culture between thailand and vietnam.

3. Booking 

Book 12 hours in advance, they will respond you in 30 minutes. 

Email: Booking@hanoifreelocaltours.com

Website: http://hanoifreelocaltours.com

III. Hanoi Free Tour Guides

1. Introduction

The founders of HFTGs express their great desire about introducing an increasingly developing Vietnam on the basis of an age-old culture and unique traditions and customs to the world. HFTGs strongly believe that in their best efforts along with numerous assistance by the entire community we can fulfill our mission, greatly contributing to the process of national industrialization and modernization.
In addition, HFTGs and its members are desirous to become deserved representatives as Little Ambassadors of Hanoi and Vietnam and a great bridge to make contribution to the world’s nation building.

- Volunteers : >300

- Founded: 2010

2. Tripadvisor review

“Wonderful experience”

A really wonderful morning with Tour Guide Quynh. My friend who made the arrangement with HFTG was unable to make it to Hanoi due to last-minute urgent matter. So when Quynh arrived to meet at my hotel, we made quick decision to visit the Vietnamese Women's Museum. She is most friendly and accommodating, very informative and gave me a good introduction to the minorities group that I find most interesting before my trip to Sapa the next day. Quynh also made a great recommendation of a local restaurant for Vietnamese food. She maybe a volunteering student, but sure handle her tasks professionally. Thank you, HFTG!

3. Booking 

Book 12 hours in advance, they will respond you in 30 minutes. 

Book : hanoifreetourguides.com

Hanoikids Tour Packages

We provide some tour packages as follow, based on that you may have suitable choice with your schedule. Please feel free to draw your own itinerary or ask us for suggestions.

1. FULL DAY (normally start at 9 am and finish at around 3pm)

• Option F1: Ho Chi Minh Complex, Temple of Literature, Sword Lake area and Old Quarter• Option F2: Temple of Literature, West lake area, Hoa Lo prison and Museum of Ethnology

• Option F3: Museum of Ethnology and Old Quarter (including Long Bien bridge)• Option F4: Old Quarter or Museum of Ethnology and Bat Trang pottery village

2. HALF DAY (normally start at 9 am for the morning, 2 pm for the afternoon and 6 pm for the evening)

• Option H1: Old Quarter and French Quarter
• Option H2: Museum of Ethnology
• Option H3: Bat Trang pottery village
• Option H4: Ho Chi Minh complex, Temple of Literature and West lake area•
• Option H5: Food tour (only available for the evening tour)

Notes:

– The places can be flexible depending on your time and preference.– Almost all site attractions are closed in the evening, therefore the evening tours are often taken place in the Old Quarter. 

About Hanoikids

Hanoikids, established in 2006, is known as a student-run organization based in Hanoi, Vietnam. By voluntarily taking city tours for English speaking travellers in Hanoi, we hope to bring travellers from all over the world an insight into our culture, tradition and beautiful sight-seeings. Each member of the club can explore their full potential through cross-cultural experiences and extracurricular activities.

Besides, Hanoikids also organizes other activities to provide members a chance to enhance English and learn necessary communication skills. For example: Kidnei Project; learning English with Teach International of Australia, connecting with Friends of Vietnam Heritage Organization, participating in sightseeing tours, etc.

Core Activities

Hanoikids, over the course of more than 10 years, through many ups and downs, has lived up to its expectation to become one of the leading non-profit volunteer organizations in Vietnam. With a breezy spirit and unfading enthusiasm as those of the ambassadors of Hanoi, it has long been entrusted with the primary task of providing international friends with an intriguingly original insight into Hanoi from a holistic viewpoint, including culture, history and unique rituals, thanks to which the image of Hanoi has been effectively spread worldwide by the name of “a precious pearl at the heart of South-East Asia”.

In view of this widely known fact, it is often misconceived that touring is the only activity of Hanoikids. Hanoikids is, by the means of a simile, like a tree, with touring as only one of its branches. Just as the tree comprises of many branches, Hanoikids delivers far more than a single goal. In fact, we afford a broad range of culture-related activities for both members and non-members that, in order to function smoothly, necessitate an input of financial assistance. Here is the elaboration of some typical activities offered by us on an annual basis:

1, Tours

Tour operation is one of the most important activities of Hanoikids from the very first day. Tours are within a day, mainly inside Hanoi, to some of the city’s most famous attractions such as Temple of Literature, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Old Quarter, Sword Lake, etc.

Acted as a travel-mate, our volunteers will help tourists discover the history, culture and beauty of Hanoi. To differentiate ourselves from other tour operators, we want the Hanoikids experience to be shaped in the friendliest, most welcomed and natural way. By offering tourists the chance to meet and talk to native people and experience the local’s lifestyle, we hope to bring out the truest of Hanoi to foreign visitors.

2, Training

Given the objective of improving the quality of our service as well as extending the knowledge of members, Hanoikids places a strong focus on culture training and experience sharing among members.

Basic training: After becoming an official member of Hanoikids, eachstudent will go through a two-month training course in popular attractions such as: Temple of Literature, Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, Sword lake, Old Quarters, etc. This provides new member with the basic skill set of tour operation.

Advanced training: Every year, Hanoikids holds a major outdoorevent at many different cultural and historic spots, such as: Hanoi citadel, Bat Trang pottery village, Vietnam Military History Museum, etc.

Cultural competitions: Hanoikids organizes many types of competitions,such as: Culture discovery, Kid’s got talent for newbie, Pro-Travel Mate. The aim of these competitions is to exchange experiences among members, sharpen the skills and knowledge of participating students and stimulate social bonds.

3, Other activities

We also have a closer relationship with many English clubs in Hanoi, such as FEMEC (Hanoi University of science and technology – HUST), EEC (National Economics University- NEU), EC (Foreign Trade University – FTU).

In 2011, Hanoikids set the first brick to be internationally connected by collaborating with two American universities: Washington University and Delaware University in a culture-exchange project, leader and teamwork workshop.
On October 31st 2010, Hanoikids had chance to visit the Temple of Literature with the Australian Minister of Foreign Affairs. Recently, we were honored to serve wife of Australian Minister of Defense Stephen Smith on August 29th 2012. Soon after, Hanoikids were excited to dmeet the United States Trade Representative, Mr. Ron Kirk on the Independence Day 2/9/2012.

In 2013, Hanoikids has been engaging in various touring activities with international privileged groups, i.e. British Vietnam International School faculty board, group of Thailand students of tourism, 70 high school students from Ignite Youths’ Idea Camp, and other organizations of students around the world.

In the beginning of 2014, Hanoikids had tour with the biggest number of guests – 60 secondary students from Anglo-Chinese School in Singapore and expects to have more special tours with friends all over the world.

In Fall 2014, Hanoikids held “How I met my Hanoi” – a program for freshmen in Hanoi, which helped them to explore this city and made new friends before entering university life.

In March 2015, we were glad to hold our biggest cultural project called “The journey 1750” with a view to sparking the young people’s thirst for more knowledge of Vietnamese traditions in general and Hanoi culture in particular.

Hanoikids Tour FAQs

1. How can I book a tour?

• Send an email to our Tour Organization Department at Hanoikids.org
• Use online booking function on the page Book a tour on our Homepage
• Please note that all booking on our homepage or email to any other mail box will be forwarded to our Tour Operation Department so it will be more convenient if you send your request directly to hanoikidsvn@gmail.com

2. How do I know if my booking is accepted?

• You will receive an email clearly confirming the time and place for us to pick you up and we will expect a reply of confirmation from you. Please stay in touch until we reach a final agreement.
• For those bookings by the online booking form: Please note that you will receive an automatic replying e-mail immediately. This does not mean that your tour has been successfully booked. It just confirms that we have received your booking and we will contact you as soon as possible for all acceptance and arrangements of your tour.

3. How do I know my booking details are secure?

You can rest assured that your personal data is used only for the purpose of the tour. Beside encrypting each booking via SSL protocol, we take all measures required to keep all your personal data secured.

4. Is there anything I am expected to do during the tour?

Please open yourself to travel-mates.. Our members join Hanoikids with the view to improve their English and have memorable experiences, so it will be wonderful if you can talk to us like we are friends.

5. Do we have to pay for anything?

Only for taxis, entrance tickets into the sites you visit and meals, should any of them be included in the tour.

6. Can we pay for the tour guides?

No. All the money you give the travel-mates will be taken as a contribution for the club. Your contribution will be used for our annual activities to train the members and organize events to bring the club’s members closer.

7. Does Hanoikids offer tours in languages other than English?

No. For now, we have only English-speaking members. We are working to increase the variety of languages in our tours and should provide tours in other languages in the near future.

8. Does Hanoikids offer tours in places other than Hanoi?

Yes. We offer tours to some of the famous craft villages on the outskirts of Hanoi. If you want our companion to further places, please send in your request 2-4 weeks in advance so that we can arrange the tour. Please understand, howerver, to special requests like that, our information is limited and we can help you mostly in term of language.