Ok all,

We arrived at Saigon today, 21 December 2011.
We made our way to Ga Sai Gon, which as you guess, is the main train station in HCMC.

The cost for sending our 2 Honda bikes, back to Hanoi is $28.62 each.
We handed them over, where they remove the mirrors, then drain most of the petrol out the tank, so just arrive with it "on the red" and they wont bother.
The mirrors are put in the space under the seat, for safe keeping.
The front, the spedometer, headlight, the indicators, are all wrapped with loads of toilet roll for first protection.
Then the bike is covered in pieces of card board, to protect seat, and all the other side paint work.
It looks a good protection job.
You keep the keys, and they take your passport number, and phone number, so you are the only one who can collect it at destination, and they call you when to collect.
Like I said, we dropped it off about 4 pm, and the wrapping and paperwork took about an hour for the 2 bikes.
They told us the train will arrive in Ha Noi on Sunday, so not bad, just 4 days.

Quite cheap also I feel.
Our return to Ha Noi, will be by soft sleeper, and that costs $78 each, but thats the best beds, the cheaper beds are just $60 each, takes about 48 hours I believe.

Vette