4 Cyclo Tours in Ho Chi Minh City: Where to Put Your Money

1.Chef Vu Cooking Class Plus Market Trip in Saigon Center (Pick up by Cyclo)

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 477 reviews · from $46Our pick

Ride a cyclo through central Ho Chi Minh City, shop for Vietnamese ingredients at Ben Thanh Market, then cook lunch with Chef Vu’s team. You will practice knife work, seasoning, plating, and traditional dishes such as spring rolls, clay-pot fish, pork ribs, morning glory, and egg coffee. The class lasts about four hours and accepts up to 12 guests.

“Really well thought out and organized cooking class. Everything prepared for maximum time use and opportunity to do all the “fun” cooking parts. Chef was interactive and easy to follow.”

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2.Small-group Saigon City Tour: 3-Hour Cyclo Ride to Hidden Stories

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 203 reviews · from $30Best value

Spend three hours seeing Ho Chi Minh City from a low, open cyclo seat. An English-speaking guide leads you through Ho Thi Ky Flower Market, District 5, Ba Thien Hau Temple, and Binh Tay Market. Hotel pickup is offered in Districts 1, 3, and 5. Guides such as Nam, Queenie, Barney, and NKay are known for adding local stories and flexible photo stops.

“Fun experience in the middle of the chaotic Saigon traffic. Amazingly, we never felt unsafe. The riders are very agile.”

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3.Small-group Saigon City Tour: 1-day Must-See Icons & Cyclo Ride

★★★★★★★★★★5.0 · 103 reviews · from $109

Spend about eight hours seeing Ho Chi Minh City by minivan, foot, and cyclo. An English-speaking guide leads you from Ho Thi Ky Flower Market and Chinatown to the Reunification Palace, War Remnants Museum, Central Post Office, Jade Emperor Pagoda, and Ben Thanh Market. Hotel pickup, lunch, water, and transport are included.

“The city is beautiful, the tour was short , lunch that was included in the tour was very non impressive, no real taste of delicious Vietnamese food. Cycling was nice but somehow the tour guide should have explained about the places we were passing, maybe invest in the microphone. So we felt that this tour wasn’t as good as in other’s cities we visited.”

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4.Ho Chi Minh City Shore Excursion: Private City Tour Including Cyclo Ride

★★★★★★★★★★4.5 · 44 reviews · from $163

Travel from Phu My or Lotus port to Ho Chi Minh City in an air-conditioned vehicle, with a guide, Vietnamese lunch, museum and pagoda visits, a cyclo ride through old Saigon, and time at Ben Thanh Market. The eight-hour tour is capped at 15 people, though some departures may combine small groups.

“This was a very pleasant and wonderful tour. The driver was very kind and courteous and the guy was as well. If you want to see Vietnam I highly recommend this tour as it was customized to whatever we wanted to do. Thanks again for a great experience!”

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