Vietnam Airlines Ho Chi Minh-changi Round Trip Reviews

Vietnam has reopened its borders quarantine-complimentary to overseas visitors, with but a pre-departure Fine art or PCR examination required, making it some other simple two-way regional VTL for Singapore residents.

Adept news for those eager to make quarantine-gratis trips between Singapore and Vietnam, with the new Vaccinated Travel Lane (VTL) launched today now confirmed to be a 2-way arrangement since the government there (finally) confirmed that tourists will not have to serve any arrival isolation period.

The country will also become only the second in the Southward East asia region on Singapore's VTL list to take the cheaper and more user-friendly antigen (ART) method for pre-divergence testing, significantly reducing costs for travellers and peculiarly families making a trip.

Vietnam previously required entering travellers to take a more expensive PCR test before departing their origin country.

The reopening that wasn't

Vietnam technically opened its border to foreign visitors on 15th March 2022, but there was i trouble. No one had laid out the requirements for travellers to follow, including whether the prevailing three-day quarantine period for fully vaccinated tourists had been dropped or not, leading most no tourists to actually arrive on the starting time day.

Today the government has thankfully confirmed that there will be no quarantine requirements for visitors, who volition instead but be subject to a simplified pre-departure testing regime.

Ho Chi Minh

Vietnam has also resumed a visa exemption scheme for travellers arriving from 13 countries, including Frg, France, the UK, Japan and the Commonwealth of Korea, allowing 15 days of visa-free travel for these citizens.

Singaporean travellers and those from most ASEAN countries no longer require a visa to visit Vietnam for trips of up to xxx days, as was the instance pre-COVID, following a return to pre-pandemic entry measures implemented on 15th March 2022.

This expanded list for non-ASEAN countries, however, will allow many Singapore residents with other nationalities to make a hassle-free trip there.

Process to Vietnam

Interestingly Vietnam has chosen not to pursue its original plan to crave international visitors to exist fully vaccinated prior to entering the land, relying simply on pre-departure testing to vet entering travellers.

Like the Republic of the maldives and Kingdom of saudi arabia, ii of Singapore's other VTL partners, vaccination is non a prerequisite for travellers, though for near of our readers based in Singapore this is a moot point, since we are basically all fully vaccinated anyway.

Hoi An in Vietnam

All travellers, vaccinated or not, volition now exist eligible to visit Vietnam if they hold a passport from a visa-exempt country, or i of the 13 countries on the newly-reinstated visa exemption listing.

Travellers will have to:

• Complete a Health Announcement Course before inflow
• Download the PC-Covid app before inflow
• Have a negative COVID-19 PCR test conducted within 72 hours of arrival or a negative professionally-conducted Fine art test within 24 hours of inflow in Vietnam
• If yous cannot take a COVID-nineteen test before departure you can still travel to Vietnam, merely you must so take a COVID-19 test within 24 hours later arrival, and you must isolate in your accommodation until obtaining a negative result
• Monitor health for 10 days afterward arrival and seek medical attention if necessary
• Comply with mask-wearing and social distancing protocols while in Vietnam

Children under two years of age are exempt from pre-difference testing, a tightening of Vietnam's original proposal to only impose this test on those anile 12 or above.

Do note that your pre-departure exam before travelling to Vietnam is but valid for 72 hours (PCR) or 24 hours (Art) from the date and time it is taken.

You must arrive in Vietnam with a examination that is still valid, so recollect to count back from your arrival time, not your divergence time, when taking the test, allowing a buffer for flight delays and immigration clearance to be on the safe side.

Singapore – Vietnam flights

At that place is no designated flight concept for travellers to get in quarantine-complimentary in Vietnam, so y'all can have any non-stop flights from Singapore with the following airlines:

• Da Nang: Singapore Airlines (from 27th March)
• Hanoi: Scoot, SIA, Vietnam Airlines
• Ho Chi Minh: Jetstar, Scoot, SIA, VietJet, Vietnam Airlines

Scoot is flying its Airbus A321neo to and from Hanoi twice a week, increasing to daily afterward this month. (Photo: Dillon Chong)

Vaccinated Travel Lane

Today (16th March 2022) also marks Vietnam's addition to Singapore's VTL scheme, significant travellers can now get in at Changi Airport quarantine-gratuitous on a designated flight from the country, post-obit the VTL procedure with a pre-departure and post-arrival test.

Here'south a list of designated VTL flights from Vietnam to Singapore operated by Vietnam Airlines, Scoot and Singapore Airlines (click to expand):

27th March 2022 - 31st March 2022

			Days
			M	T	Westward	T	F	Due south	S
	SQ171 737-800
DAD 11:55		SIN 15:45
	SQ173 737-800
DAD 16:35		SIN 20:10

Important

From 1st April 2022, there will be no more designated VTL flights to Singapore.
All fully vaccinated travellers can enter quarantine-gratuitous on

whatever

flight operated past

any

airline on

whatsoever

route.

27th March 2022 - 31st March 2022

			Days
			M	T	West	T	F	Due south	South
	VN661 A321
HAN 07:35		SIN xi:55
	SQ191 A350 Regional
HAN 12:35		SIN 17:05
	TR301 A321neo
HAN xiii:10		SIN 17:45
	TR301 A321neo
HAN 16:20		SIN 20:50
	SQ193 737-800
HAN xviii:thirty		SIN 23:00
	SQ193 A350 Regional
HAN 18:30		SIN 23:00

Important

From 1st April 2022, there will be no more designated VTL flights to Singapore.
All fully vaccinated travellers can enter quarantine-free on

any

flying operated by

whatever

airline on

any

road.

27th March 2022 - 31st March 2022

			Days
			M	T	W	T	F	S	S
	3K556 A320
SGN 08:55		SIN xi:55
	TR305 A321neo
SGN 08:55		SIN 11:55
	VN651 A321
SGN 09:00		SIN 12:10
	SQ177 A350 Regional
SGN 12:xxx		SIN 15:30
	SQ183 A350 Long Booty
SGN 15:55		SIN 18:55
	TR303 A321neo
SGN 17:20		SIN 20:25
	SQ185 A350 Regional
SGN nineteen:forty		SIN 22:forty

Important

From 1st April 2022, there will be no more designated VTL flights to Singapore.
All fully vaccinated travellers can enter quarantine-costless on

any

flight operated past

whatsoever

airline on

any

route.

Here are the estimated testing costs for a round-trip from Singapore to Vietnam and back, for those taking a VTL trip.

VTL
Singapore Vietnam
COVID-19 Testing

Test	Cost
SG pre-difference (dispensary ART)*	From S$21
VN pre-departure (dispensary Art)*	~S$fifteen
SG inflow (self-Art)	~S$5
Total	From ~Southward$41

* Prices vary between providers and locations.

Travellers should face testing costs of less than S$50 each on a round-trip VTL Vietnam trip, provided they opt for a cheaper ART test before departure in both directions (since a PCR is besides valid, merely probably to be avoided if possible).

Here's a reminder of the full VTL inflow procedure when travelling to Singapore, hopefully gear up to be significantly simplified soon.

VTL Process
Vietnam Singapore

• Must exist fully vaccinated in with a WHO-canonical vaccine in Singapore, or any VTL country (east.m. Vietnam), or whatsoever EU member land, or whatever non-European union countries that have joined the Eu DCC system.
• Must accept an accepted digital proof of vaccination.
• Must accept stayed in a VTL country/region and/or an approved travel history country (EEA + 3) and/or Singapore for the last 7 consecutive days
• Use for a VTP in advance*
• Purchase COVID-nineteen travel insurance (min. coverage of S$30,000)*
• Take a pre-departure COVID-19 PCR or ART examination (upwardly to ii days before departure)
• Travel to Singapore on designated 'VTL flights'
• Take a cocky-swab COVID-19 Art test inside 24 hours of clearing clearing in Singapore, and report the result
• Cocky-isolate at identify of residence or suitable accommodation such as a hotel or serviced apartment until negative test result received

* Not applicative for Singapore Citizens, permanent residents or long-term laissez passer holders

Summary

Vietnam becomes another regional trip choice for Singapore residents, offering both city and embankment options for travellers, and with only a simple pre-divergence ART exam to clear within 24 hours of inflow it's one of the simplest however in the region, joining the Philippines which now has similar requirements.

Our last overseas holiday pre-COVID was to Hoi An in Vietnam, which was a fantastic trip and we're already thinking of going back under this straightforward process.

With Singapore's regional neighbours now starting to adopt simple entry requirements for international travellers, the VTL programme has never looked so outdated, so we hope information technology's confirmed eventual demise can now happen sooner rather than after, with a simple vaccinated traveller entry concept into Singapore from all countries.

(Cover Photo: Chansak Joe / Shutterstock)

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Source: https://mainlymiles.com/2022/03/16/vietnam-lifts-quarantine-for-international-visitors-becomes-two-way-vtl-with-singapore/

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