APHRODITE SUPREME CRUISES, SERVICES – HALONG BAY CRUISE TOURS
APHRODITE SUPREME CRUISES, SERVICES – HALONG BAY CRUISE TOURS: Come with us and indulge in the professional services of our high-class rooms, restaurants, modern meeting rooms, sandy beaches provided by our professional staff. We believe we will give you full satisfaction during your stay in our resort facilities in Ha Long Bay. It is not only the ideal destination but also the connection point of heritage sites, integration between human and nature. It will certainly bring more values of life for domestic and international tourists.
Services - F & B
Aphrodite Restaurant and Bar are places of meeting and talking with others. The restaurant combines tradition and freshness of Asian cuisine with the culinary tastes of the West. Our menus are the result of a creative European and Vietnamese fusion that crosses traditional gastronomy boundaries.
In an atmosphere of elegant luxury, you can enjoy sumptuous buffets and delicious menus, fine dining at its best. A wide selection of the best vintages from around the world will complement and enhance the flavors of the selected dishes.
The restaurant and bar are located on the 3rd deck.
Schedule
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Breakfast: buffet 06.30 AM – 09.00 AM
Lunch: buffet 1.00 PM - 2.30 PM
Dinner: set menu 7.00 PM - 8.30 PM
Doing morning exercises
In the early morning, when the sun rise by the flickering glow in the east, a little sunshine that soon bores through the mountain rocks is fragile, frail and then disappeared, it is time for Tai chi exercises to start on the sundeck of the boat. The guidance of the teacher combines with the fresh air in early morning will be the great dose from the nature to give you more strength to welcome a beautiful day. And then, breakfast in the restaurant with a cup of coffee leaves you many emotions on Aphrodite Cruise, on Ha Long Bay Heritage beauty which makes the tourists remember perpetually even when the cruise ends and they must come back to the present.
Souvenirs
The visitors can buy souvenirs which are traditional handicrafts of local people made from coal, pottery and products from the sea (pearls, shells, arca, etc.), horn, wood, glass or nacre products, all kinds of embroider paintings, postcards, maps of Ha Long Bay, etc. right at the souvenir shop on the boat or other destinations of visiting caves, grottoes in the Bay or souvenir market in Bai Chay.
Seeing sunrise in Ha long Bay
On the contrary to the sunset, the sunrise over the bay is very slow. We just can see a flickering glow in the east; a little sunshine that soon bores through the mountain rocks is fragile, frail and then disappeared. The tourists wait for the sun rising over the rocky mountains, it is too late then.
The weather from the middle of the Falls to the end of the Spring, especially on thick fog day, the surface of the Bay is covered with a layer of vaporous white fog. We can hear what the others are saying but cannot see each other. When the boat is travelling sluggishly in floating white fog, and vaporous shadows of mountains around, the tourists seem to gently fly in mythical space…
In bright moon night, the water surface of the Bay is full of moonlights, the rock mountains seem to be more yellow; in the distance, few small fishing boats release mesh…. The lyrical scenery makes all the senses and emotions of everyone be awakened.
Sea bathing
In hot summer days, nothing is more wonderful than bathing in the sea. Apart from cruising in Ha Long Bay on Aphrodite Cruiser, you can sunbathe on more than 100 long sand beaches on the small islands in the Bay. These places are suitable for the tourists who like original beaches that are not crowded as other beaches along the coast. In addition, if you have time, you can visit Co To island to bath in the fresh sea and observe extremely beautiful coral reefs in the Bay. After bathing in pleasure, the tourists come back the Cruiser and enjoy cool glass of water on the boat Sundeck, welcome gentle gust of sea wind blowing on their faces. This is one of the most comfortable and unforgettable moments during the cruise.
Seeing Sunset in Ha long Bay
Travelling with Aphrodite Cruise, the tourists will have unforgettable memories of astounded seeing the falling sunset and the breaking dawn and surprisingly discovering lots of caves, capturing the daily life of fishing village and animatedly fishing squids in the mantle of darkness.
Sunset on Halong Bay often falls down very fast, faster than anywhere because the Bay is surrounded by quite a lot of high mountains; sunlight is obscured even when the sun is quite high in the sky. When the dark falls down elsewhere, in the Bay, gloominess and cold air from the mountains and cliffs are just felt.
In order to see the sunset, visitors often climb to the top of Titop island. With an elevation of about 200m above the water this mountain is high enough to stretch your eyesight across the Bay. But even when standing on the top of Titop mountain, you still feel that the twilight “is surfing" quickly. From mountain top, the vision is clearer and wider but it is still difficult to see the Sun slowly hidden behind the horizon line. This is the reason why residents living in the Bay often say "the sunset still cannot be seen yet, the night is let down".
Visiting fishing village
Tourists especially foreign tourists who travel to Ha Long in recent years often choose the type of travel to visit floating fishing village. From Bai Chay Jetty, travel toward Northeast about 30 km, Aphrodite Cruiser will take the tourists to some famous floating fishing villages where you have many opportunities to explore the daily life of the local fishermen living in the Bay such as Ba Hang, Cua Van, Vong Vieng, Cong Dong, etc. Floating houses are side by side, lean the backs against the cliffs and are connected by a small bridge or a boat. You can spend a night with fishermen, fish squids, catch fish, share weal with them and enjoy the floating life on the sea.
Kayaking in Halong Bay
So many tourists have been fascinated by marvelous beauty of Ha Long’s nature through the unique and strange images of thousands of limestone islands, grottoes and caves with many fanciful stalactites in Halong Bay. However, the best way to feel all the imposingness of Ha Long nature and to uncover every extremely beautiful cliff and fall affected by the waves, the winds and the sea in thousands of years or contemplate the flock of seabirds perching on the cliffs, or touch thousands year-old stalactites is rowing a kayak. With kayaking services provided by Aphrodite Cruises, the tourists will experience many special feelings that they have never had before when arriving at the foot of Limestone Mountains and enjoy the complete quietness of many deserted areas.
When the kayak goes through unnamed islands, you will have the chance to look at beautiful coral forests, schools of tiny fish coming and going free and lots of many other types of scenery which have never been in any touring book. Every time the oars go down into the sea, hundreds of sea water drops splash to the air showing sparkling beauty in the sunshine.
The islands such as Luon cave, Ba Trai Dao, Ba Ham, Dau Be…are suitable sites for kayak rowing.
In 2000, The National Geographic Adventure Journal nominated Ha Long Bay as one the 25 first-class kayak traveling tourism destinations in the world
Safety Equipment
Kayak designed for going out to sea is made of new materials and technology which help you have feel of safety when kayaking in the Bay even in big waves. With the tour for the kayak beginners, we limit areas of only quiet and being shielded water so that there will have no danger. Moreover, the tourists will be equipped their own oars, rescue jackets, luggage bag.
Cooking class
Food and travel are often associated. Many tourists want not only to enjoy regional specialties through their journey but also to discover the secrets of cuisine and cook by themselves during the tour. Attending cooking class to discover traditional Vietnamese food on romantic Aphrodite Cruise in Ha long Bay, the tourists will have unforgettable memories. Foreign visitors visiting Vietnam are interested in learning how to make rolls (fried spring rolls or rice paper spring rolls), Pho (Noodle Soup), Bun (Rice vermicelli) and salad roll. Vietnamese tourists are fascinated in learning how to cook Vietnamese typical dishes which varies greatly from region to region. Southerners like to use coconut milk, lemongrass, chili and the dishes are often sweet and sour. People in Centre of Vietnam like spicy, that extremely spicy will touch every foot of your hair and variety of special sauces. The North has many four season’s dishes many of which become Vietnamese national spirit and characteristic. Cooking class rises your love of discovering food and culture of each Vietnamese region and village whenever you join in a cruise in Ha long Bay with Aphrodite Cruise.
Services – Spa
The Aphrodite Spa and Sauna has been created as a temple dedicated to wellness. It incorporates the principles of Feng Shui using air and water elements which will delight you. Our aim is to offer our guests a new kind of Spa experience, one that is truly holistic, tailor-made and designed to rejuvenate and energize.
Offering an unrivalled range of treatments to choose from, our expert beauticians and therapists can advise and guide you through your body and beauty care.
Therapeutic quality essential oils are the basis of the aromatherapy skincare products used for the majority of the face and body treatments. We also place great importance on the relaxation element of the spa experience. Prior to or after their treatments, guests can stay in the Spa and enjoy the dry sauna and Jacuzzi whilst sipping on complimentary ginger or jasmine tea, the signature of Aphrodite Spa.
Aphrodite Spa Services include (list not exhaustive)
+ Aromatherapy Massage
+ Traditional Vietnamese massage
+ Traditional Thai Massage
+ Warm stone massage
+ Asian Style foot massage
+ Western reflexology
+ Back, head, shoulder relaxation
+ Facial Beauty Care
+ Traditional Body Scrub
+ Exhilarating Exfoliation With Ginger
+ Wake up Exfoliation
+ Body Wrap
+ Waxing (leg, underarm, bikini)
+ Manicures
+ Pedicures.
Squid fishing
Night squid fishing must be the most wonderful pleasure of the night journey on Ha Long Bay. Aphrodite Cruiser will shine bright lights into the seas to attract squid to the surface. Tourists are provided with fishing rods and racquets so that they can actively use them to catch squids. Tourists must be excited to clearly see light-drunken shoals of squids lazily hovering around; and, step by step each squid is enticed and picked up, remaining totally fresh and striving convulsively. Especially, during the squid season, it would be common to see large shoals of squids surrounding the cruiser and each tourist may catch an average of 30 squids for each squid fishing night. Without any delay, fresh squids are soon boiled to serve as sweet drinking food for fishers.
Foreign tourists are extremely fond of boiled whole squids because when eating, they can enjoy the interesting feeling of ink line breaking out pitch-black in the mouth, splashing all over the face and taking pictures. The tourists eat while singing Karaoke and dancing. In alcohol yeast, everyone becomes enthusiasm and excited singers and dancers.
Usually, few guests come back their rooms before 2 am because they have only one night on the boat on sea. In wonderful weather day, the sea at night becomes completely quiet, the water surface is flat as a big mirror. There are tens of scattered boats parked in the area of Bo Nau Cave; one leans against the cliff, the other drops anchor in the middle of the Bay ...; all of them are bright up and look like a luxury floating city on the sea.
Fishing
Apart from the perfect beauty presented from the nature, Ha long is also the home of hundreds of fishes. They are necessary and sufficient conditions to bring pleasure to you to go fishing. How wonderful it is when you are fishing in Ha long Bay at the same time you are totally able to enjoy the blue sky, clouds, mountains and fresh water. Fishing in Halong Bay always brings you a lot of excitement and interests. There are many fishes in Ha long bay. Fishes that are often caught by the tourists are Garrupa, grouper, etc. There are also plentiful of fishing baits in which are often used are: limuloid liver, shrimp, lean pork paste, rice-cake…
There are so many romantic places to fish in Ha Long Bay such as Ti top Island, Cong Do Pond, even when you come to visit some fishing villages, it is easy to catch some gluttonous fish if you sit right beside the fish cages. Differing from Hanoi and other places, when you go fishing in Ha Long Bay, you do not have to pay fee for services. In addition, you can also enjoy the poetic beauty of the natural wonder.
Once to try to discover Ha Long Bay by fishing on Aphrodite Cruiser, you will experience enough all kinds of fun, and then you will understand that why so many people are interested in fishing like that and how wonderful Ha Long Bay is.
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