Hanoi Countryside Adventure Trade the Old Quarter For Forest Trails

No licence is required. Experience is a different question. The first 15–20 minutes are yours in an open practice yard — flat, clear ground where you ride around and get used to the machine on your own — but the rest of the hour is genuine forest track, with hills, ruts and curves, so we recommend this ride for people who are already confident at the wheel. Tell us when you book if it is your first time: your guide will stay with you, and you are welcome to stay on the gentler sections for the whole hour instead.

Yes — the standard tour gives you one quad per two guests, and you swap the driving between you so you both get a turn at the wheel and a turn enjoying the view. If you would rather not share, add a private quad for $35 in the booking form. A group of three is given two quads, so nobody is ever left standing, and a solo traveller has a quad entirely to themselves.

Children are welcome on the day out. For the ride itself, 16 and over is the safest age to drive, and that is the age we recommend for the full forest track. Ages 13–15 can drive if they are confident. They start in the practice yard, and a teenager who is handling the quad well carries on driving the route; if they are not comfortable, we arrange a guide to drive and your teenager sits behind. The guide also takes the wheel for anything on the trail they are not managing. Under 13 is decided on the day. A child who is confident and tall enough rides on their own in the practice yard, and if they are genuinely driving well the team may let them keep the wheel out on the route too. If they are not comfortable, we arrange a guide to drive with your child sitting behind. Nothing is fixed in advance — it is judged on what the child can actually handle once the team sees them. Put their ages in the notes when you book and we will confirm what works for your family.

Light rain is not a reason to cancel — the trails are made for mud and most guests enjoy it more. If the weather turns genuinely unsafe, we will contact you before your pickup and offer you a different date or a full refund. We would rather move your day than run a ride we are not happy with.

Closed shoes and clothes you do not mind getting dusty — forest trails do exactly what you would expect. Bring sunscreen, sunglasses and a swimsuit if you are travelling in summer, since the pool is free to use. Helmets and all the safety gear are provided. A plastic bag for the dusty layer on the drive home is a small thing that guests are always glad of.

Not in the base price. The tour is $80 per person without lunch and $92 per person with the Vietnamese hotpot, so you choose. Bottled water is included either way. If you have allergies or eat vegetarian, tell us in the form and the kitchen will work around it.

A professional drone operator follows your ride and films the route from above — the shots you simply cannot take from the driver’s seat. The service is $32 for the booking, not per person, so a couple or a group shares one drone. Your guide will arrange how the files reach you on the day; if you need them by a particular date, say so in the notes.

Solo travellers are very welcome, but because the route is long and the car, the guide and the day run privately for you, a solo booking is charged as two people. In return you get the whole vehicle, the guide’s full attention and a quad entirely to yourself for the full hour — no sharing and no swapping.

One: a $10 per person surcharge on Vietnamese public holidays — New Year, Tết, Liberation Day (30 April), International Workers’ Day (1 May) and National Day (2 September). The booking form flags it automatically as soon as you pick one of those dates, so you never find it at the end. Everything else on this page is the price you pay.

A comfortable, air-conditioned private car or van, sized to your group and included in the price — a 7-seater suits most bookings and is very well matched to this route. It is yours for the day, both ways, with the same driver, so you can leave bags in it while you ride.