Indochine Premium Cruise

Indochine Premium is the one Indochine boat based on Ha Long Bay, and it boards at No. 22, Port 2, Tuan Chau, the address the operator and one listing both give. The operator lists a lift, one cabin adapted for guests with disabilities and connecting rooms for families, spread with the rest of the 37 cabins across three decks. Every cabin has a balcony.

Which of the three Indochine boats is this?

This is the Ha Long one. Indochina Sails sells all three Indochine boats, plus a wooden boat under the company’s own name that also works Ha Long. It runs Indochine and Indochine Grand in Lan Ha Bay, while Premium works Ha Long Bay and the Sung Sot cave. The cheapest cabin price below comes from the same listing for all three, read on 6 August 2026.

Premium costs $30 more for the entry cabin. Put the full name on your booking.

What is on board?

The pool and Jacuzzi are on the third deck, the sundeck and sky bar on the fourth. The operator also lists a mini golf course, a terrace for sunrise tai chi and a rooftop dining area. Inside there is a restaurant the operator calls Tonkin, seating 110 with most tables at a window, a piano lounge, a private dining room for up to 16 and a spa. Two listings add a wine cellar, one of them with cigars, and two list a fitness room.

The cabins run in four classes. One listing gives the count for each: 20 Junior Suites on deck one, 14 Suites, two Executive Suites and a single President Suite. That listing sizes them at 34, 46, 54 and 80 m². Another gives 56 m² for the Executive and 115 m² for the President, and the operator’s own range is 32 to 115 m², so treat everything above the Junior as approximate until the invoice says otherwise.

The operator says the mini-bar holds soft drinks that are charged, and one listing’s amenity table shows a bathtub only in the Executive Suite. A first-person account on the operator’s blog found complimentary water, fruit and snacks in the suite but nothing to make tea or coffee with.

Why the three-day trip is the weaker buy

The middle day of the two-night programme is spent away from Indochine Premium. One listing’s schedule has you packing a bag after breakfast and boarding a day boat for Lan Ha: kayaking at the Dark and Bright Cave, lunch on the day boat, about an hour and a quarter at Ba Trai Dao beach, then 40 minutes at a pearl farm on the way back. You rejoin the ship around 15:30 as that day’s new guests arrive.

On the listing’s sheets read on 6 August 2026, the Junior Suite is $340 for one night and $670 for the three-day trip, so the second night costs $330. Across the four classes the two-night figure runs between 1.93 and 1.98 times the one-night figure. If you only wanted a second evening on this ship, one night is in our view the better use of the money, and two days or three lays out the wider case.

How does the one-night cruise run?

Pick-up from the Old Quarter is at about 8:00 to 8:30. One listing asks you to reach the pier at Tuan Chau by 11:30 to 11:45, and the boat usually leaves at noon, which is also the check-in time in that listing’s policy. A tender takes you out. Lunch is served as the boat moves in among the islets.

The afternoon depends on which version of the route your date runs. Since 1 June 2026 the operator says it has dropped Luon Cave from the Ha Long route because of crowding, and gives the time to Sung Sot, which it visits straight after lunch, and to Ti Top Island. One listing’s timetable still offers a Luon Cave kayak and puts Sung Sot on the second morning, so ask which you are getting. At 18:15 the operator runs a cooking demonstration on the top deck, which it calls the Skydeck here, and dinner is at 19:30 on the listing’s timetable. Squid fishing and board games follow, and massage can be booked.

Tai chi on the sundeck starts at 6:30. After a continental breakfast and the morning excursion, check-out is at 9:00 to 9:30 on the timetables, though one listing’s policy table says 11:00. Brunch is served as the boat heads back. You are ashore at 11:00 or soon after, and in Hanoi around 14:30 to 15:00.

What each cabin costs

A Junior Suite is $340 for one night and the President Suite $750, on one listing’s sheets read on 6 August 2026. They record the highest rate that listing published. The operator’s own from-price, $175 per person read on 10 August 2026, works out slightly higher at $350 for two.

Among the 51 boats we hold a one-night cabin sheet for, the cheapest cabin has a median of $310, and Premium’s $340 Junior ranks sixteenth from the top, inside the dearest third. Per-person prices vary by seller: one listing advertises $170, another $178, and the operator’s two-night fare starts at $349, all read between 6 and 10 August 2026.

What the fare leaves out

Two sources include the meals, the welcome drink, the entry fees at the sightseeing stops, and insurance with tax and service charge. Two sources also include an English-speaking guide, and tips for crew and guide are extra. Drinks are extra, and so is the Hanoi shuttle, which one listing prices at $35 a person for the round trip from an Old Quarter hotel or the Opera House. The same listing charges an extra $40 a head for adults and $15 for children on the nights of 24 and 31 December and over Lunar New Year. Spa treatments are charged. Sellers disagree on whether the kayak is in the fare, so ask for that in writing, and check what is not included for the rest.

Children under four sail free, one per cabin sharing with two adults, on that listing’s policy; children from four to eleven pay 75% of the adult rate.

Who is Indochine Premium for?

First-time visitors who want Sung Sot and Ti Top with a large ship to come back to, and couples who will use the pool and the sundeck, in our view. The luxury boats category lists the ships priced alongside it.

Travellers with limited mobility. The operator lists a lift and an accessible cabin here, and it describes lifts and accessible facilities on both Lan Ha sisters too, so for this group the choice between the three comes down to the bay. There is a single accessible cabin on Premium, so confirm it is the one on your booking before paying.

When to pick a different boat

Pick another if you want quiet: the operator gives a capacity of 110 guests, and how many people are on board explains what a capacity figure does and does not tell you. Choose one of the Lan Ha sisters if you want two nights in Lan Ha, since Premium’s three-day trip only visits it for the day.

Gaps in what is published

The launch year is disputed. The operator dates Premium to 2023 in three articles on its own blog, one listing says August 2023, and another listing says 2022. The capacity of 110, the length of 80.6 metres, the crew of 68 and the three cabin decks come from the operator alone; no listing we read repeats them.

The operator’s page gives the sundeck as 1,100 m² in one place and a double sundeck of 1,450 m² in another. It calls that sundeck the largest in Ha Long Bay, and we have no fleet-wide deck measurements to test it against. The operator’s package names still listed Luon Cave on 10 August 2026.

What guests make of the service and the food is the part we cannot give you. Our review file for this boat is empty so far, and the facilities above are as the operator and three listings describe them.