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Our Services

We offer classic journeys over two days and one night, special trips, chartered trips and day trips, and activities and services for groups and companies.

The services on board of the classic journeys can also be made available on special trips. The typical menus may be modified to your liking.
 

Classic journeys

These are overnight trips between Cái Bè and Cân Tho (both ways), check our operational calendar for departure dates and availability.

You board at noon with a small local boat, and, after a greeting drink, a good Vietnamese meal, take a nap as the Bassac branches into the canals, you find yourself in the middle of the afternoon, at the heart of river Mang Thit.

There, we decide which village to visit, drop the anchor and board the longboat for an exploratory visit that will lead you to the village, and often through to the rice fields behind the tree line. The visit is unprepared, yet the villagers always are welcoming as is the tradition in here.

After the visit, we board back at sunset and, after a river bath and a swim if it temptes you, we get under way towards our anchoring point for the night. The dinner of Mekong Delta specialties, served while en route, is unforgettable.

At dawn, after the sun rose over a small creek with forested banks or over a small floating market, the Bassac lifts anchor and quietly sets sail as you enjoy a solid western breakfast with a good coffee and quite often bread baked on board during the night, enough to prepare for a good day.

Then, around 10 AM, you leave the board and embark on a small local boat for the visit of the floating market, wich will bring you about noon to your destination point.

• On any journey, we hold available for children on board some games, modelling material, and even a kite.

Special trips

The Bassac is also available for tailor made trips:

• Private trips on the classic route
  You have the Bassac all for yourself, and do not need to take care of anything: the journey is a well-oiled trip, the stops on the way are well-known, yet you may opt to stop wherever you want.
  This is a good way to make a feast without bothering with organization.
• Private journeys on a special route: charter trips:
  You may ask us to go somewhere else: The Bassac can take can take all main waterways in the Mekong Delta, and can even take you over long trips while you are asleep, without sacrificing your comfort. We could for instance pick you up at Châu Dôc to bring you to Saigon.
  for such trips: we would offer you tailor-made programs. Beware, though: planning such trips may take several weeks.
• Day events
  The Bassac is well fitted as a venue for receptions: it can accommodate by day up to 30 passengers, and its large galley can cater for 30 guests in a short time. For day events, sufficiently in advance too.

Activities and Services

Whenever you book the Bassac all for yourself, we may offer you taylor-made activities:

• Board meetings
  Why not get your whole board of directors and their spouses on board the Bassac, so your board meeting to be unforgettable? A meeting in the large common room, or even in the bow lounge, can be rythmed with the milestones of an on-shore visit or the dinner. And, how better to make decisions than after a good night's sleep on board and a solid breakfast, the next morning. .
• Kayaking on the Mekong
  With just a little preparation, we can bring along some kayaks to make of your trip a sporting event. Fancy a paddle stroke in the currents of the Mekong Delta?
• Trekking and cycling
  The Bassac can as well bring you to the little explored areas for a long trek or for some cycling. .

Services on board

In each cabin, a small flip folder provides useful indications about life on board: utilities, services, security, everything the passengers should know to wholly enjoy their journey.

Your cabin

Welcome to your cabin.

On the main deck, with its direct access to the bridge and Sur le pont principal, your cabin was built according to the best vietnamese traditions of shipbuilding practice, but also with a view to your comfort. All the decoration was made by Vietnamese craftsmen.

The partitions are all heat-insulated to maintain a cool temperature in your cabin, and also soundproofed against the noises on the river, which remains active by night, and fireproofed.

An independent air-con is available in your cabin. We advise you to set it for 27ºC, with a low fan, and to keep your door and window closed to make your sleep most restful.

After storing your luggage and hanging your clothes, you may be tempted by a shower or a nap before the meal. Your en-suite bathroom features all amenities and hot water all day round.

The Restaurant, the Galley, the Bar

The Restaurant, through which you accessed on board, is a large living room that may be completely opened to outside and overlooks the stern.

Should the weather tend to monsoon, the adjustable louvres will bring you just the protection you need, and give a whole-wood venue to your meals.

Is the weather shiny, we open the doors and pull the tables towards the handrail, and there you are a little apart from the crowd if you wish to be by yourselves.

All cooking is done on board by the Chef with carefully selected fresh produce, for a menu fit for the season, yet also respecting the culinary preferences you could have expressed.

you will find here the typical menus.

• Lunch is a vietnamese meal for you to discover or recall the delicate tastes of the best local cuisine.
• Dinner is a vietnamese meal too, more oriented towards Mekong Delta specialties.
• Breakfast is a solid Western breakfast, with everything you need to give the day a good start, with jams, maple syrup and pancakes, good coffee, and quite often bread baked on board during the night.

All meals are served with a soft drink of your choice.

Between meals, you may take a break in the living corner, by a drink, or getting a bite off delicious specialties or juicy fruit from the Delta.

At night, before going to sleep, once the tables have been set aside, the little bar is more animated, and with all doors open, the Bassac brings her passengers through the night on the meanders of the Mekong. Sitting on the side or in the living room, a cocktail in the hand, enjoy this unique instant: when waking up tomorrow morning, on this same deck, you will be right in the middle of a floating market, a quiet creek, another unforgettable scenery.

The bow lounge

Should the weather be really raining, or insomnia striking, or would you rather not join the passengers for a visit? The little bow lounge is meant for you.

With a small library for the readers, welcoming benches, the small lounge is the place for solitary readers, but also card players, or even just diners.

Set in the front of the hull of the Bassac, the lounge features two brass portholes overviewing the river that can bring fresh wind.

The services of the bar are available in the lounge. What is more refreshing than a cocktail and an aperitive in the lounge befoer dinner?

The Upper Deck

With an 80m² (700sqft) upper deck, the Bassac features an extensive rest area.

You may sunbathe in the front of the upper deck, lying on a sunbathing couch, or enjoy a drink on the back, near the small bar, in the fresh air of the evening, or should the sun burn too hot under the awning that shades part of the deck.

Later in the evening, the upper deck is the ideal place to have a whiff of the ambiance of a night on the river. And at dawn, the best photos would be taken from that same deck.

The Office

Last, if you needed a secluded place to do some work, the crew would open for you the small office of the board, which can host but few people around a table.