Bãi Đá Sông Hồng

The experience

A privately run flower garden on the Red River flats at Nhật Tân, north of the West Lake district, reached down an alley off Âu Cơ. Rotating meadows of flowers are planted between deliberately staged junk — derelict cars, beached boats, painted tyres, cardboard castles strung with lanterns and huts half-buried in tall grass. There is a strawberry patch, wooden shelters with tables and roofs, and food and drink stalls at local prices. It is a set built for photographs rather than a botanical garden, and it is where Hanoians come to take them.

Hanoi's strangest garden: flower meadows staged around wrecked cars and stranded boats on the river flats.

What a membership adds.

Everything above is free: the name, the photo, the rating, the exact spot. What members get is the part you can't Google: the sourced insider tip for this place (what to order, when to go, what to skip), every day of your trips unlocked in full with the insider tip on every researched stop, and the concierge at full strength, answering with your own insider tips, no daily meter.