Vietnam Playbook

Pay $19.99. Save $500+ on your Vietnam trip.

A survival guide for first-time travelers to Ho Chi Minh City & Hanoi — every tip has a dollar amount attached, a source behind it, and a last-verified date. No filler, no listicles.

Get the free guide: The 10 Vietnam scams that cost tourists $500

The savings ledger

Where a tip saves real money, it carries a real number — never an inflated one. A preview:

Pre-book the airport ride — dodge the fake-app quote at arrivals saves ~$35
The 20,000 vs 500,000 dong note mix-up that fleeces newcomers saves ~$20
The two banks whose ATMs charge foreign cards nothing saves ~$15
A local SIM instead of roaming — the single biggest line item saves ~$100
The e-visa lookalike sites charging up to 4× the official $25 fee saves ~$50

…plus 95+ more verified tips across airport, transport, money, SIM, scams, visa, food, and health.

Why this beats free advice

Verified, not scraped. Reddit threads age. Blog posts rot. Every tip in the guide will ship with how it was verified and when it was last checked — on the ground in Saigon, refreshed monthly.

Built around money. Not "top 10 things to do" — the exact overcharges, fees, and traps that drain $500+ from a two-week trip, and the 60-second countermove for each.

Works offline. Pocket-book PDF + mobile site, readable in the taxi with no SIM.

Founding price

Launch price: $19.99 → founding readers pay $14.99.

No payment today. Locking the price just tells us you're serious — we email founding readers first at launch.