How To Travel To Hoi An

From the bus station in Da Nang to the bus station in Hoi An, there is a public bus number 1. From around 05:30 to 17:50, the bus operates approximately every 20 minutes, and the journey takes just under an hour. See the DanangBus website for the 18,000 ong fare. Although many of Vietnam’s bus ticket collectors and conductors are trustworthy, this route is typically devoid of them, and Westerners will be duped if they have the opportunity.

Don’t be duped; know the exact fare. The official fare is shown on signs above the driver and to the left of the front entrance door. Even if the collector offers you to enter through the back door, try to enter through the front door and examine the prices (take a photo or use the above posted photo to drive the point home). If your suitcase truly occupies an entire seat, the collector may try to convince you that baggage is additional. However, this is not the case. The collector can show you a 50,000-ong bill that was handed to them by an elderly woman on the bus; this is a scam, and the women later receive a large sum of money back to mislead tourists. When you hand over a larger bill than you thought you would receive in change, you will be charged 30,000 or 50,000 dong per person instead, and the collector will act as though they don’t understand when you complain. The collector’s claims should be disregarded, and each passenger should give him 18,000 hong (or 20,000 hong if you don’t have smaller change and are ready to suffer the loss) in exact change. He will criticize you and want more. Continue holding out the money while ignoring him. He will return and collect it once some time has passed.

The bus travels in circles across downtown Da Nang and the northern part of the city. Visit https://www.danangbus.vn/roadmap.html to view the route, and visit http://ecobus.danang.gov.vn/web/guest/homepublish to view real-time bus positions. Your lodging in Da Nang ought to be able to direct you to the closest station if you’re staying there.

When exiting the railway station, cross the plaza, go along Hoàng Hoa Thám road, and turn left at the next junction with Lê Dun to find the bus stop closest to the station, which is in front of 155 Lê Dun road (GPS 16.0704, 108.2147). The bus stop at 355 Lê Dun Road still advertises the 01 bus as stopping there as of January 2018, however it no longer does. You can reach the correct one at 155 Lê Dun road by continuing to walk for another 500 meters. The closest bus station from the Da Nang airport appears to be close to the Museum of Cham Sculpture (270 Trn Ph; GPS 16.0620, 108.2232; approximately a 35-minute walk or a 3-kilometer taxi ride).

The bus arrives in Hoi An at the bus terminal at 67 Nguyn Tt Thành, Hoi An.

This is roughly 15 minutes’ walk, or 1.5 kilometers, northwest of the ancient town center (though the first couple of minutes are not very pretty). From there, buses for the return trip also depart. From the Hoi An bus terminal to the old town, a xe om should cost between 15,000 and 30,000 dong.

The Da Nang train station is 700 meters away from the #01 bus as it travels back. Stops at 166 Lê Dun and 79 Ng Ch Khiêm are the closest.

The distance from the hotel to the airport in Danang is 120,000 dong (1 hour).