*POST UPDATED OCTOBER 2026.
Hello friends! Happy weekend! Welcome to my sixth and final Vietnamese travel guide for the foreseeable future: A Complete Guide to Hội An! This post is absolutely and positively WELL overdue, but oh well! In case you missed it, back in September of last year, Husband and I spent two weeks slowly travelling between Hanoi, Hội An, and Huế, and it was so lovely! Each of the cities were so different from each other, and we found this to be especially true of Hội An! The pace of life felt delightfully slower here, with a much more laid-back and carefree attitude, and the place had an almost island vibe about it - if you get me? It was so relaxing! Shall we get into it?
But first! If you’re new around here or you somehow missed the first five posts, I gotchu: Two Weeks in Vietnam | Our Itinerary & Top Tips / Four Days in Hanoi / A Food & Drink Guide to Hanoi / 5 Things to See in Huế / A Food & Drink Guide to Huế.
Everything we know and love about Hội An is detailed below, divided into the usual breakdown; getting there / where we stayed / where we had coffee / where we ate / where we drank alcohol / where we tourist-ed. Yep, she’s a biggie!
Enjoy, friends!
getting there
Hội An was the second city we visited during our two week stint in Vietnam; we made our way there from Hanoi, and then we moved on towards Huế. Here’s how we tackled the journeys!
for ease, we decided to fly from Hanoi’s Nội Bài airport to Đà Nẵng. Our flight, which was operated by Vietnam Airlines, lasted about 1-hour and 20-minutes and was very comfortable! You can take a bus or a train between the two cities, but I believe they take between 15-18 hours, so it’s not great. If you’re interested, more info on that here.
from Đà Nẵng airport, we took a private car transfer all the way to our hotel in Hội An. This journey took about 40-minutes door to door, and the entire thing was organized by our hotel in Hội An before we arrived. There are, of course, buses that run between Đà Nẵng airport and Hội An, but we’ll take a cheap air-conditioned car journey over a sweaty bus any day! If you are so inclined, here’s some info about the bus journey!
for our journey onwards to Huế, we opted for another private car transfer organized by our hotel. The drive between the cities took 3-ish hours all in, and brought us along some exceptionally scenic roads — namely, the Hải Vân Pass! You can read more about that part of our journey here.