How we count
Vietnam Trip Planning is not a blog and not an AI guess. Every number on this site is counted from what real travellers actually wrote. Here is exactly how it is made — and where we stop.
What the numbers mean
We read 234,433 traveller posts and comments about Vietnam and count how many separate travellers mentioned each place, dish or tip. The number on each card — “N travellers mentioned” — is that count, nothing more. It is not our opinion and not a paid ranking.
Checked by a local
Where you see “local-checked”, a person living in Vietnam has been to that place in person and confirmed it is still real and still worth it. So far 116 of the 288 tips across 17 destinations are local-checked; the rest are counted from travellers but not yet visited by us. We never label something local-checked unless it truly was.
When we do not know, we say so
If too few travellers mention something, we show nothing rather than invent a plausible answer. That is why some places or sections are missing — not an oversight, a rule. A thin page is worse than no page.
What we do not do
We do not write blog articles, we do not generate itineraries with AI and pass them off as real, and we do not show star ratings or reviews we did not earn. The only thing we claim is the count, and that we can show you.