Late morning | Arrival at Noi Bai International Airport. Your guide meets you and transfers you to the Old Quarter, 45km and 40 to 50 minutes
13:00 | Check-in and time to settle
14:30 | The jeep - An open-air vintage jeep collects you from the hotel and works through the Old Quarter's 36 guild streets, each still named for the trade once worked on it
15:15 | Ba Dinh Square and the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum, seen from outside. The mausoleum closes Mondays and Fridays, opens mornings only, and shuts for annual maintenance in autumn, so it is not built into a fixed schedule. Meetup Travel arranges the interior visit separately when dates allow
16:15 | Tran Quoc Pagoda - On a promontory in West Lake, founded in the sixth century and the oldest pagoda in Hanoi
17:15 | A stop for a cold drink and local snacks to close the route
18:00 | Return to the hotel. Evening free in the Old Quarter