Da Nang Hotel Map
Beachfront My Khe, walkable An Thuong, the Han River, secluded Son Tra and the resorts of Non Nuoc. See exactly where to stay before you choose a hotel.
Da Nang runs north to south along one coastline with a river through the middle. Almost every hotel worth booking sits in one of five areas. Tap a colour to fly to it, tap a pin for the hotel.
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Same city, same beach, genuinely different days. Pick the one that matches how you want to spend your evenings.
Best for first-time visitors
My Khe Beach
Beach across the road · Hotels at every price · Easy restaurants
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Best for food, cafes and longer stays
An Thuong & My An
Walkable · Independent restaurants · Close to the beach
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Best for city views and nightlife
Han River & Hai Chau
Dragon Bridge · Rooftops · Bach Dang promenade
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Best for seclusion
Son Tra Peninsula
Jungle · Ocean views · Villas and low density
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Best for resorts and families
Non Nuoc Beach
Wide beach · Large resorts · Closest to Hoi An
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Five trips people actually take, and the area I book for each one when friends ask.
Sand across the road, taxis everywhere, nothing to figure out.
Dinner, coffee and a bar all inside a ten minute walk.
Rooftops, the bridge, and the promenade after dark.
Wide sand, kids clubs, Hoi An twenty minutes down the road.
A jungle hillside with the bay underneath it, and nobody around.
Area 01 · Beachfront
Best for first-time visitors
Stay here if you want to walk downstairs in flip-flops and be on the sand in two minutes. The strip runs along Vo Nguyen Giap, and almost every tower on it faces the water.
The trade-off is that the strip itself is hotels and tourist restaurants. Dinner worth walking to is a few streets back in An Thuong.
My Khe Beach
Editor's Pick · My Khe
The one I send people to when they want the beach and do not want to spend resort money. Rooms are apartment-style with kitchenettes, which matters more than it sounds on a week-long stay, and the rooftop infinity pool bar is the best cheap sunset in the city. Our review rates it the best overall value on My Khe at 8.3.
My Khe
Best value beachfront
Directly on the beachfront road with a rooftop pool, at a price that undercuts the international brands on the same stretch. Rooms are smaller than the photos suggest.
Beachfront · Rooftop pool · From $50
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My Khe
Quietest stretch
Northern My Khe, where the beach empties out and the crowds thin. Low-rise, large pool, and further from the restaurant streets than most people expect.
Quiet beach · Large pool · Low-rise
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My Khe
Best for long stays
Apartment-style rooms in a very tall tower, so the sea views from high floors are the real product. It reads more residential block than resort.
Sea views · Apartment rooms · Long stays
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Bac My An
The original
Da Nang's first luxury resort, on Bac My An Beach at the southern end of the strip. Mature gardens no new build can fake, and rooms that show their age in places.
Bac My An Beach · Mature grounds · $$$
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My Khe
Most underrated
A stylish five star from around $100 that almost nobody puts on their shortlist. Consistently the best value at this level on this beach.
Beachfront · Design-led · From $100
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My Khe
Breakfast anywhere, anytime
All-suite, on the southern end of My Khe, and the rate includes daily spa treatments. That inclusion is the whole argument for booking it over a bigger name at the same price.
All-suite · Spa included · From $95
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Best for food, cafes and longer stays
An Thuong makes more sense than the beachfront if cafes, restaurants and walking matter more to you than an uninterrupted sea view. It is the grid of streets 400 to 800 metres behind the sand, and it is where most of us who live here actually eat.
Hotels are smaller and cheaper. You give up the view and gain a neighbourhood.
An Thuong
Editor's Pick · An Thuong
M Hotel wins on location, and location is the whole An Thuong question. Close enough to walk to My Khe in flip-flops, close enough to An Thuong that dinner does not need a Grab. Sharp modern design without the boutique pretension, a pool, and WiFi strong enough to actually work on. Ask for a higher floor.
An Thuong
Best boutique
Heart of An Thuong, around 600 metres from My Khe, with a garden pool and rooms that have real character rather than tower-hotel uniformity. Genuinely quiet.
600 m to beach · Garden pool · Quiet
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An Thuong
Best rooftop
The rooftop bar is the main event here, so book it if evenings matter as much as mornings. Check the rooftop's current operating hours before you commit.
Rooftop bar · Near An Thuong · $$
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An Thuong
Rooftop pool and spa
Sits right on the My Khe and An Thuong boundary. The rooftop pool bar with sea views and the on-property spa are the two reasons to pick it over its neighbours.
Rooftop pool bar · Spa · Boundary location
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An Thuong
Best value boutique
Compact, comfortable, with a pool and considered design at well under the larger-hotel premium. The right call when boutique character matters but the budget is finite.
Pool · Compact · $
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An Thuong
Most distinctive design
Garden-forward tropical design and a pool ringed with greenery, which makes it the most visually distinctive of An Thuong's small hotels. Intimate scale, so book early.
Garden pool · Small scale · Cafes on foot
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Best city base
This is the working city. Bach Dang runs along the water, the Dragon Bridge sits at the end of it, and the promenade fills up every evening with locals rather than tourists.
Rooms cost less here than on the beach for the same standard. The beach is 8 to 12 minutes away by Grab, which is close enough that you are not cut off, and far enough that you will not go daily.
Dragon Bridge, Han River
Editor's Pick · Han River
The most central hotel in Da Nang and the one I book for anyone here on business. It sits directly on Bach Dang, so the Dragon Bridge is a short walk and the night markets are closer still. The rooftop pool at dusk, with the river running underneath, is the best view any city hotel here offers. Rooms are dated in places, which is why it costs what it does.
Han River
Best rooftop pool
Often mislabelled a beach hotel. It is a Han River property, and the rooftop infinity pool looking back over the city is the reason to book it. The beach is a drive, not a walk.
Riverfront · Rooftop infinity pool · $$$
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Han River
Best budget city hotel
Steps from the Dragon Bridge and Han Market with a rooftop pool and city panoramas, from around $40. The rooms are plain. At this price on this corner, that is a fair trade.
Walk to Dragon Bridge · Rooftop pool · From $40
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Han River
Biggest rooms
Spacious suites with river views, on the quieter west bank. Accor's best value property in the city, though it sits a little back from the evening action on Bach Dang.
Large suites · River views · From $90
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Han River
Most character
A contemporary boutique near the river with more personality than the chain towers around it, for less money. Small, so facilities are thin compared to the big names.
Boutique · Near the river · From $65
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Han River
Best for shopping
Attached to Vincom Mall on the city-centre side, with large rooms and a rooftop pool. Convenient in a functional way rather than a scenic one.
Next to Vincom Mall · Rooftop pool · From $80
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Han River
Best mid-range value
A Vietnamese-owned riverfront hotel that consistently prices below the internationals on the same water. Service is warm, the fit-out is a step behind the big brands.
Riverfront · Pool · $$
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Best luxury escape
A protected jungle headland north of the city with monkeys in the trees and two resorts on it. Nothing else. Staying here does not feel like staying in Da Nang at all.
Be honest with yourself about the isolation. It is 20 to 25 minutes back to town on a winding road, so you will eat where you sleep. Book it if that sounds good, not if it sounds tolerable.
Son Tra Peninsula
Da Nang Signature Pick
The best hotel in Da Nang and our highest-rated property anywhere on the site at 9.4. Bill Bensley stacked it down a private cliff in black and white tiers, with a funicular running between them and a bay at the bottom that only guests reach. If you splurge once in Vietnam, splurge here. The isolation is real, and so is the bill once you factor in eating every meal on site.
Son Tra
Best for family villas
Every unit is a villa with its own pool, which is the entire reason to pay the premium when you are travelling with kids. Beach and city are both further than the brochure implies.
All villas · Private pools · From $200
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Son Tra
Before you book
Son Tra has two resorts, not a neighbourhood. There are no restaurants to walk to, no shops, and no beach bars. Every trip off the property is a booked car.
No walkable dining · Car for everything
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Son Tra
The alternative
Non Nuoc gives you a quiet resort beach at roughly half the Son Tra rate, with actual road access to Hoi An. Less drama, considerably more practical.
Half the price · Better road access
See Non NuocArea 05 · Resort coast
Best resort area
South of the Marble Mountains the coast opens out and the towers stop. This is where the big resorts sit on wide, quiet sand with room for lazy rivers and kids clubs.
It is also the smart base for a Hoi An trip, roughly 20 minutes south. Do not book it expecting to walk anywhere for dinner, because you will not.
Non Nuoc Beach
Editor's Pick · Non Nuoc
Six pools and a lazy river on a beachfront big enough that none of it feels crowded, which is why this is the first name I give anyone travelling with children. Rooms and residences both work, so a family of five is not forced into connecting doubles. The grounds are large enough that the far rooms are a genuine walk from breakfast.
Non Nuoc
Best luxury villas
Our second-highest rated property in the city at 9.2, with villas and the Quan Spa doing the heavy lifting. Book it over the Sheraton if you want calm rather than a water park.
Villas · Quan Spa · From $175
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Non Nuoc
Best for families
The best water complex in Da Nang and 785 rooms to go with it. Kids love it. Anyone wanting a quiet adult holiday should book somewhere else entirely.
Direct beachfront · Water complex · Families
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Non Nuoc
Most reliable mid-tier
Spanish-brand consistency directly on the sand, with a strong pool. Nothing here will surprise you in either direction, which is the point.
Beachfront · Strong pool · Couples
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Non Nuoc
Best for couples
The best couples resort between My Khe and Hoi An, rated 9.1. Bamboo architecture, a serious spa, and a quiet beach. Families with small kids will find it too hushed.
Bamboo design · Spa · Quiet beach
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Resort coast
Most to do on site
A Japanese onsen, a waterpark and an infinity pool on one property, which makes it the most resort-complete place in Da Nang. It is also the least Vietnamese-feeling.
Onsen · Waterpark · From $130
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Non Nuoc
Best wellness stay
All-inclusive wellness with two spa treatments a day built into the rate, plus yoga. The concept only pays off if you actually use the treatments every day.
All-inclusive spa · Yoga · From $160
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Non Nuoc
Quietest resort
Japanese-managed, low-rise and set back on the southern end of the coast where almost nothing else is. Quiet to the point of sleepy in low season.
Low-rise · Very quiet · $$$
Check ratesFive areas, one row each. Read the middle column first.
| Area | Stay here for | Beach | City | Typical hotel |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| My Khe Beach | A first trip, with sand across the road | Across the road | 10 min drive | Beachfront tower, $ to $$$$ |
| An Thuong & My An | Eating, cafes, and staying more than a week | 5 min walk | 10 min drive | Small boutique, $ to $$$ |
| Han River & Hai Chau | Nightlife, rooftops and business | 10 min drive | You're in it | City tower, $ to $$$ |
| Son Tra Peninsula | A honeymoon, or one big splurge | Private bay | 20 to 25 min | Clifftop villa, $$$$ |
| Non Nuoc Beach | A resort holiday with kids, plus Hoi An | Direct, wide | 20 to 25 min | Large resort, $$$ to $$$$ |
Four landmarks people plan trips around, and the smartest hotel area for each.
Stay: Han River / Hai Chau
Dragon Bridge
Walkable from the western riverfront. The fire show runs weekend nights at 21:00.
Stay: My Khe or An Thuong
My Khe Beach
Beachfront towers put you on the sand. An Thuong puts you five minutes back for less.
Stay: Non Nuoc / Ngu Hanh Son
Marble Mountains
The Non Nuoc resorts sit at the base of them. Everywhere else is a 20 minute drive.
Stay: Son Tra, or anywhere
Lady Buddha & Son Tra
Worth a half day from any area. Only worth sleeping up here if isolation is the point.
For a first trip, stay on My Khe Beach. You walk downstairs and you are on the sand, and the hotel choice runs from budget to five star. If restaurants and cafes matter more than a sea view, stay in An Thuong instead, two or three streets back. For city access and nightlife pick the Han River in Hai Chau, for a resort holiday pick Non Nuoc, and for isolation pick Son Tra.
My Khe is the beachfront strip along Vo Nguyen Giap, mostly towers with sea views. An Thuong is the grid of streets behind it, roughly 400 to 800 metres from the sand, with the city's densest run of cafes, bars and independent restaurants and mostly smaller boutique hotels. An Thuong is cheaper, more walkable and better for long stays. My Khe wins if you want to see the water from bed. Our An Thuong hotel guide covers that area in full.
They split into two clusters. Son Tra Peninsula holds the InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort and Premier Village, both isolated and dramatic. Non Nuoc Beach, south towards the Marble Mountains, holds the Hyatt Regency, the Da Nang Marriott, Naman Retreat and TIA Wellness, which are larger, flatter and better for families. See the luxury hotels guide for the full ranking.
Around 3 to 4 km, which is 8 to 12 minutes in a Grab car outside rush hour. Nothing in central Da Nang is genuinely far from anything else, so the choice between beach and river is about what you want outside your door in the evening, not about travel time.
Non Nuoc sits about 20 to 25 minutes south of the Han River and roughly 20 minutes north of Hoi An, so it is a poor base for city evenings and a good base for a resort holiday with a Hoi An day trip. Book it if you plan to spend most of your time on the property.
An Thuong and the Han River both undercut the beachfront for the same standard of room, because you are paying for a location rather than a view. The budget guide has specific properties, and our cheap hotels list maps them by area.
Looking for a specific hotel? Search the Da Nang Hotel Directory by name, area, cost and Editor's Score.
The long version of this page, with the trade-offs of each area written out properly.
Every hotel we would send a friend to, ranked, with what each one does best.
The boutique stays in Da Nang's most walkable neighbourhood, ten properties deep.
Every beachfront property across My Khe, My An and Non Nuoc, compared on beach quality.
Son Tra clifftop villas against the Non Nuoc resorts, and which is worth the money.
Full reviews of the properties on this page, scored and written after staying or visiting.
See what is available across Da Nang for your dates, then come back and check the neighbourhood before you book.
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