Tour Desk
Our Tour Desk has arranged meaningful experiences for our guests not only here in Ben Tre but throughout Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia - we are a fully licensed DMC for S.E. Asia tourism and our director has 25 years creating memorable tours
Our Very Own Ben Tre Tours - Explore the Coconut Kingdom!
As part of Mango Cruises we are most noted for unique tours and experiences we offer beginning with our Ben Tre Day Tour, Our Agri-Cultural Experiences and our Ben Tre Foodie Tours!
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It has been our day 1 passion to display the natural beauty of Ben Tre, the Mekong river which flows through it, and the friendly local people who call Ben Tre their home. Our tour programming is authentic and a true natural excursion through Ben Tre province. Furthermore, it is a co-operative Mekong Delta tour because we showcase and work with numerous local families, versus "other operations" which simply exploit locals to operate and sell a tour. We have a limited number of boats that operate our tours 365 days per year which means that regardless of when you visit us, you will enjoy our authentic Ben Tre tour program with a small footprint not a mass impact on the communities we showcase. The "other operations" will use words like "less touristy, small group, skip the line" etc. but what they fail to mention is that 90% of those programs patronize the same tour area, the same lunch stops and the same visits in a circular conveyor belt of mass tourism.
Private Ben Tre Day Tour
Our Ben Tre day tour showcases the amazing local people, their daily work, the villages they call home and the peaceful rivers they use as a part of their daily lives. We offer a non-commercial, unfabricated excursion into the Ben Tre area guided by our warm and friendly local team. As a private tour, you and one of our top local guides will navigate the local waterways on our day cruiser, enjoy rowing through a lush quiet canal, cycling and real family run businesses.
Joining Coconut Island Day Tour
Connect with fellow travelers and guests of Mango Home Riverside as you join with others and immerse yourself in the local “riverine” culture. Our Joining Coconut Island Day Tour is unlike other tours as we explore only the real and natural side of Ben Tre. Activities include cycling, time on our day boat, rowing boat and walks to a local coconut plantation and visits to real local houses.
River Cruise (Sunset or Morning)
Enjoy a 1- or 2-hour Cruise on the Ben Tre waterways! Observe the local life on the riverside as you and one of our certified Captains navigate our local river system. A fresh fruit plate is provided on board.
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Private Overnight Sampans
Imagine the ability to go completely off-the-beaten-path with one of our top local guides and friendly 4-person crew! Our private sampan overnight cruises are truly a bucket-list check off! We were very grateful for our recent trip to Hollywood California to showcase our cruise options as part of the Vietnam Tourism Board and future collaboration with Hollywood directors to bring meaningful filming to Vietnam, and its heartland the Mekong Delta.
“New” Local Guided Experiences for overnight guests at Mango Home Riverside
As Mekong Delta Cruise Trail Blazers and Unique Experience Creators in Ben Tre we offer travel products that are completely our own and as one of the first operations in Ben Tre these are crafted to the satisfaction of our guests. Unfortunately, with recent upstarts from operators not local to the region and void of creativity, we respectfully protect these options to confirmed bookings only - please inquire with our local team and we will share our options for your review.
Onward Travel to Phu Quoc Island
The Mekong Delta blends naturally into onward travel plans to Phu Quoc Island via daily speedboats. Our Front Desk Team continues to arrange numerous bookings weekly for onward travel to the Island via Mango Home Riverside. Our packages include private car transfer, speedboat ferry tickets, flight tickets, exciting water sport activities, cable car bookings and incredible accommodation on Phu Quoc Island.
If you can imagine it, we can arrange it! We routinely save our guests up to $200.00 USD vs online hotel booking sites over a 4 night stay and we are able to ensure a seamless transition from Mango Home Riverside Eco - Resort to Phu Quoc Island. Please contact us and provide us with your intended dates of travel to see how our team can benefit you!
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Experience Cambodia via the Mekong Delta
From the Coconut Kingdom to the Kingdom of Cambodia! Many of our guests ask us to arrange onward travel to Cambodia which connects with daily speedboat in Chau Doc to Phnom Penh, Cambodia. A great way to connect the Mekong Delta to Cambodia is a stay with us here at Mango Home Riverside Eco-Resort and then take our private sampan cruise to enjoy other provinces in the region. We then connect you to Cambodia via speedboat and this provides a way to see much more of our region without needing flight. Please contact our front desk team for more information and how we can help with your travel to the Kingdom of Cambodia!
Mango Cruises provides full-time employment for all employees unless they state preference as otherwise. Beginning with our cruise programs, to our boutique hotel operations. All our staff are local and promoted from completely within. While words on a page can be replicated and “keywords” excessively used, we hope that you (our valued client) will recognize that budget tours are certainly “cutting corners”. In no way is this responsible, nor helpful to the region that we grew up in and continue to operate within, nor to the sustainability of the families who call it home. In our history there has never been the ability to buy souvenirs or visit supposed local vendors on our programs –
We do not support the creation of commercially driven, fabricated or "trend" Tourism.