ニャチャン島巡り：現実と期待（2025年完全レビュー）

ニャチャン島巡り：現実と期待（2025年完全レビュー）

for There’s real value in doing what everyone else 
does, if only to understand why you prefer doing something different. Nha Trang’s Island Hopping 
Tour offered the full package. Packed speedboats, communal dining with strangers at floating 
villages, snorkeling that honestly couldn’t compete with experiences we’ve had elsewhere. Each 
stop revealed tourism’s different approaches. The first stop prioritized diving sales over actual 
exploration. The second combined beautiful crystal clear water with some puzzling government 
restrictions on snorkel gear. The third absolutely nailed the aesthetic. Perfectly placed Instagram 
spots and scenic seating everywhere you looked. Warm, overpriced beer was the cherry on top. 
We enjoyed the day for what it was, but mostly it reminded us that group tours, no matter how 
well executed, are not how we like to explore. So we are playing tourist today for you 
guys here in Nha Trang and we are going to be doing a snorkeling. It’s like a boat 
tour with snorkeling different islands and stuff like that as you guys saw in the intro. But 
yeah, we thought this would be cool to show you guys what’s available here. Something you should 
probably do. Yeah, really excited. I can’t wait to check out these islands. Uh from what we’ve seen 
online, they look beautiful and it’s going to be fun to snorkel. We haven’t done snorkeling for 
a while. So, yeah. And I hope the water’s like it seems like it’s super calm and clear here. So, 
we’ll get some good shots of all the fish for you. We brought the GoPro for that. So, yeah, we’re 
just about to get on the boat with all the other uh minions here. And uh yeah, we’re excited 
to get on a boat, just get on the water. So, the tour we booked is on a speedboat. I 
thought we were going on one of the bigger ones. Again, you never know what you’re 
getting. The pictures are never the same, but whatever. We’re still 
getting to go out and maybe this takes us to another boat. I’m 
not sure cause it’s pretty crammed. Well, that was quite the ride. If you get seasick, 
make sure to take an anti-nausea pill beforehand because that’s pretty fast and the water is a 
little bit choppy. So, just recommend uh yeah, if you have a problem with being on the ocean 
when it’s like that or movement from a boat, especially fast like that, uh yeah, you’re going 
to want to take some medication probably. So, yeah. Or make sure you book the slower boat. 
They definitely look like or that. Yeah, it is still like choppy. You can see they’re moving 
around quite a bit, but it’s not as fast. So, that’d be a better option. Again, that’s what 
we thought we were getting, but we didn’t. So, we’re okay with it. It’s uh it is like pretty 
smooth, but it is choppy. Yeah. At least it got us out here quickly. Yeah. Yeah. We’re beating 
everyone. Uh, but we’re at the first stop here for some snorkeling. So, we’re going to jump in 
the water. I’m going to switch to the GoPro now. All right. So, that first spot for snorkeling was 
a bust. It seems like they kind of push their like diving helmet thing so you go to the bottom 
and see all the fish cause they charge extra for that. So, that could be why. Yeah. Yeah. So, 
we just come over with actually another group. We jumped on another boat to an island. It’s pretty 
packed. It would be good snorkeling here if there wasn’t a billion people in the water already. So, 
we’ll see. We’ll probably just hang out here and I’ll show you some B-roll of the island. Let’s go 
hang out. And this is more like an island day for us. The snorkeling’s kind of a bonus if we can get 
it. But, it’s more just hanging out on island next to a a beach on an island. We’re good. Yeah. All 
right. So, we just talked to the lady again that’s on this boat and she said you can get the goggles 
for snorkeling here. The other guy said you can. So, it’s a little bit of a a mix up there, I 
guess. And then, uh you can rent the sunbeds. It’s 50,000 right here. Yeah. for the the full 
beds and then 30,000 for one of the chairs. Oh, for the chairs. Okay. Yeah, I wasn’t wasn’t sure. 
So, yeah, we’re going to find somewhere to hang out if we can. There’s a lot of people here that 
are already clear water, though. It’s beautiful. Lots of rocks and stuff, but but very very 
crystal clear. I can see all the way out there, all the way to the bottom. So, we’ll get some 
snorkel gear and I’ll go out and show you guys if I see anything here. But, we got to find a 
place to kind of just chill, get our stuff down. All right, so we ended up finding a couple 
chairs right under this palm tree close to the front. And yeah, it’s uh surprising there’s 
actually any chairs left cuz of how many people are here. And I got a beer. Yeah, she’s already 
gone. It’s almost lunchtime. It’s okay. Yeah, I’m going to go shoot some B-roll for 
you guys of the island and then I’m going to get one afterwards. But 
yeah, check out the island. Heat. So, we’re sitting here having a couple beverages 
and asked one of the guys, super nice guy, why you can’t use the snorkel tube at this beach. 
And it’s because they’ve had a lot of issues with other tourists from Asia and uh having accidents 
because they’ve not used to using it. They end up like going down and sucking in water and 
some of them have actually passed away. So it’s like a government thing on this island 
where you cannot use a snorkel tube and if they see like some people have brought their own, 
they’ll actually like make them put it back. Um this is Moon Island. Moon is black and the 
reason for that is because the trees here are a black tree and they’re super endangered. So, 
it’s actually a protected reserve on the island we’re at right now. So, that’s why there’s not a 
lot of like development where we sit. It’s just enough for people to come to chill and hang out. 
And uh yeah, so that’s one of the reasons. And he was saying across the water there’s actually 
another island and that’s where they get the the bird’s nest for bird’s nest soup. He said 
that’s the real ones. They will sell fake ones around these countries where it’s made out of 
aloe vera. It’s not actually bird’s nest. So, you got to make sure you get the one in a box 
that’s more expensive and it’s actually from this area. So again, that’s all protected as well. 
So yeah, he gave us a little history lesson here, which is nice. I like when, you know, the tour 
guides come up and they explain some stuff like in the area about their their landscape and, 
you know, just different cultures and different things that are protected here. It’s always nice 
to learn that stuff in the countries we’re in. right, so saw a few fish down there. Again, I 
don’t know exactly what all was captured on the GoPro. You guys just saw if there was anything. If 
not, you just saw water. But the water’s nice and refreshing here. It’s uh it’s really warm. When 
the boat’s coming, you get a bit of a like current pushing you in, but it’s pretty easy to swim in. 
A lot of people are in there. So, yeah. Again, it’s cool to see some fish this time. Not like 
the last spot. And uh we got about 15 minutes, then we head off for lunch. So, we’ll show you 
what we end up getting for lunch. Uh they have like a variety of stuff that’s included in your 
price. And we paid 700,000 dong each for this trip. And that includes picking you up at your 
hotel. So, actually pretty reasonable considering they rip you out on the boats and give you lunch. 
And it said something about drinks, too. But so far, we’ve just had to buy our own, which is 
again a dollar, just over a dollar a beer. All right, so we just stopped for 
lunch here at Fisherman’s Village, and it’s like a seafood spread. A lot of 
you know we don’t eat a lot of seafood. So, there’s some pork. I am going to try some of 
the uh you know what those are. Clams. They look like clams. There is shrimp. There’s some 
fish I’ll try. And then um there’s a bit of a a crab soup. I’ll give it that a try as well and 
see how it is. But definitely having some pork. Yeah. So, we just finished having our lunch here. Again, 
a lot of seafood. So, if you are a seafood lover, you’re going to like it. But bringing garlic 
butter, it uh there wasn’t a lot of flavor on the uh clams or the shrimp. They did have the hot pot, 
so you could stick it in there, I guess, and have it as like soup or whatever. But but yeah, it’s 
a very healthy meal and you’re eating with the locals. Like there’s very few foreigners on this 
tour as far as like Westerners like Europeans, North Americans like us. Uh there might be 
some Chinese, Koreans on the on here as well. Haven’t heard any talking, but uh they’ve been 
speaking mostly in Vietnamese to everyone. So, it seems like mostly Vietnamese tourists here that 
are from other parts of the country. But yeah, you just come out here to fisherman’s village. Again, 
these are all floating homes and restaurants, and they keep the fish in nets around the restaurant, 
around the homes. You can see over there, that’s all places where they keep the fish, keep 
it fresh. That’s the thing. You’re having fresh, wholesome food when you’re coming on a trip 
like this, which is really good. So yeah, we’re just going to hang out here. We had like 
total of 45 minutes to have lunch here. And then we’re heading to another island. I think 
it was called Mini Beach or something like that to hang out. I don’t know if it’s like 
maybe right here or something, but probably close by. We’ve already headed back towards 
where we started from Moon Island. But yeah, uh can’t wait to just kind of chill, hang out. Uh 
maybe there’s some more snorkeling. I’m not 100% sure. Again, this is all new to us. And again, do 
the big boat. It’s just a lot more comfortable. Hello. Oh my god. So, we just got to Mini Beach, which is just 
around the corner from the fisherman’s village on this island here. And yeah, a mini beach. It’s 
exactly the name. But there are a lot of lounger chairs. They are free to use with the tours. You 
just got to wait cuz there’s tours that are kind of going off setting. like he was just saying 
that a group of like Korean tourists were just about to leave and that’s how we ended up getting 
our chair. So, these are all Korean tourists here on a certain tour. It looks really uh high-end 
here. The restaurant and stuff look like uh good food. There’s comfortable seating. If there are no 
chairs available, you can just get a drink instead of the table till one’s available and then get 
your chair. So, that’s what we did. We just kind of sat there on a little rock, waited till people 
were leaving, and then we got our chair. So, Shane is sitting there right now. But yeah, it’s a nice 
little beach. Lots of activities to do. You can do the parasailing. There’s jet skiing. There’s 
the banana boats. There’s all sorts of stuff that you can do here. You do have to pay extra for 
that, but it is an option if you haven’t done any of that stuff. Gives you a chance to do that. But 
yeah, enough rambling and show you what it’s like. Dancing on my skin. Golden light is calling 
me in. Waves are washing all my fears away. Crystal waters endless blue. Every moment 
feels brand new. This is where I want to stay. Feel the rhythm in the breeze. 
Palm trees sway like they’re calling me. Close my eyes and breathe 
it in. Let the iron life begin. We’re alive. We’re alive on this silent 
paradise. Where the sun leads the sea. We are wild. We are free in the gold. 
And now our life. Everything’s going to be all right. We’re alive. We’re 
alive on this island paradise. Footprints fading in the sand. Take my heart, 
take my hand. Let the ocean be our guide tonight. Stars reflecting on the shore. I don’t need 
any more than this feeling burning bright. Feel the rhythm in the breeze. Palm 
trees swaying like they’re calling me. Close my eyes and breath it 
in. Let the island light begin. We’re alive. We’re alive on this island 
paradise where the sun is the sea. We are We are free in the moment in our life. Everything’s going to be all right. We’re 
alive. We’re alive on this island paradise. So yeah, this island is super 
nice. Just having these chairs, all the palm trees. Again, you can get food 
here and just like yeah, there’s the Paris, there’s the you can play in the ocean if you 
want. The waves are a little bit bigger here, but it’s not too bad. If you are planning on 
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YouTube. Must have an old sim. But yeah, it’s uh it’s nice because our boys are at home right 
now. They didn’t come on this tour with us. So, we can stay connected with them. We it’s a safety 
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have to worry about going over. But yeah, this is such a beautiful island. This is like a 
place that you could just come for the day, like just get dropped off here, hang out. All these 
little nooks and crannies you can hang out that are even quieter than this. So yeah, we’re loving 
it here. Uh beer’s a little bit more expensive. It was 55 here, he said. Um, which is crazy cause 
the Moon Island it was 25,000. So, a little bit more here. Again, you get the free chair. It is 
comfortable. They got the cushions and stuff. So, I understand. They got to pay for like washing it 
and stuff like that. So, yeah, we’re just going to hang out for a bit longer here. We have until 
about 3:15 and then we jump on the boat again. And I think that’s it. I think after this we 
actually head back to the mainland and uh yeah, get head home, shower off, relax, and uh but yeah, 
overall it’s been a really good experience here. and uh people walking by and uh yeah, just 
overall I like how they end at this beach because it’s like the wow factor. So yeah, we’ll 
uh we’ll see you when we get back to the mainland. Heat. All right, so we just got back to where our Airbnb 
is from the tour. We ended up taking a grab back cause the shuttle was going to be a while. They 
were super busy and yeah, we’re just like, why would we wait 20 minutes? We just get a grab and 
get here sooner. Well, not just 20 minutes. They were going to have to make stops on the way back, 
of course, so we didn’t know exactly when they would get to our place. So, we thought, oh, let’s 
just take a grab. Yeah, it’s$. Yeah, why not just do it? So, um overall, we we’re blessed. We’ve 
gotten to do a lot of different tours in the past, especially with uh islands and stuff like that. 
So, our depiction on this is a little skewed. If you’ve never been on one, you’re going to love 
this tour for sure cause you get to go to the islands. We wanted to go out obviously to show 
you guys what to do here in Nha Trang as well as see what the islands are like. There are a lot of 
islands we didn’t go to. We really went to three. So, there’s a bunch more out there. Maybe they got 
more on them and stuff like that, but this tour we did only went to those three islands. And yeah, 
again, for the price point, it was it was good. It was a nice way to spend the day and get out 
and, you know, get on the boat, be on the water, and chill on a beach. Yeah. And we’re always going 
to be as honest as possible in our videos. That’s just who we are. That’s how we make our videos. 
That’s the type of information that we want to provide for you guys. And there were some things 
missing from this tour. We were told the two different pricing options. And we chose a tour 
based on what the owner or whoever was emailing us told us it was going to include. And that’s 
why we chose that specific one. But we didn’t get everything that was included in that. And some 
things were actually completely different than as described. So that was a little bit disappointing. 
So there were a lot of good things about the tour, but there were some bad negative things as well. 
Maybe they were just having an off day. Maybe they were being unorganized. I’m not sure. But 
I don’t want to tell you guys that it was 100% the best tour in the world to do. It’s fun. We’re 
we’re we don’t have super high standards. We have done a lot of tours, but like we understand 
we’re in a different country. They’re going to do things differently. Maybe this is just the 
way they operate. They give you information. It’s not always accurate. I don’t know. But um I don’t 
know. For us personally, it’s it’s not something we would do again. Um, but you need to try it, I 
guess, kind of at your own risk. Communicate lots with the company and just make sure that you’re 
getting exactly what they’re telling you and that everything’s as accurate as possible. Maybe 
it’s our fault for not asking enough questions. I don’t know. We just kind of assume that if 
there’s something on a website or we’re emailed something that gives information about what we’re 
actually getting for the price that we’re paying, we expect to get that. So, Exactly. Or maybe go 
on more of like the more popular booking sites and book it that way. We just found one randomly. 
So maybe that’s that’s the fault of us as well. But again, there’s like a whole island we didn’t 
get to go to that was supposed to be a stop as well. Regardless, it’s just right and proper 
to give customers what they’re paying for, what they’ve asked for, and give them accurate 
information that you’ve provided them. So yeah, but again, other than that, it was it was 
a nice day for us to go out and, you know, hang out and get some sun and see the 
beaches and stuff like that. So again, uh if you want to do it, definitely do it. do 
your research, look at a few different companies, read the reviews. That’s the biggest thing. And I 
mean, we again, we booked outside of those booking sites, and that’s what we got. So, ask lots of 
questions. Ask lots of questions for sure. Um, but yeah, so we’ll leave the video off there. 
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journey make you home. New horizons calling out. This is what life’s all about. Chase the sunset. 
Chase the dawn. Keep on moving. Keep moving on.

Island hopping in Nha Trang didn’t match our expectations – here’s our honest review of the reality vs what we were promised on this Vietnam boat tour in 2025.
We booked a speedboat island hopping tour in Nha Trang for 700,000 VND each, visiting Moon Island, Fisherman’s Village, and Mini Beach. From snorkeling restrictions to overpriced drinks and missing tour stops, we’re sharing everything you need to know before booking your Nha Trang island tour.

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Island Hopping Nha Trang: REALITY vs EXPECTATIONS (Full Review 2025)
CHAPTERS:
0:00 Introduction & Tour Booking
2:39 Speedboat Ride & First Snorkel Stop
5:28 Moon Island – Snorkel Restrictions Explained
9:01 Local History & Protected Wildlife
14:29 Fisherman’s Village Seafood Lunch
17:18 Mini Beach – Best Stop of the Day
25:47 Final Review & Honest Recommendations

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