For first-time visitors to Vietnam

Sort your first 24 hours in Vietnam before you board

Choose the airport you’re landing at. You’ll get a short checklist: data that works on arrival, the real price of a ride into town, and the airport tricks to skip.

A yellow colonial-era shophouse with balconies in Hanoi
A wing and blue sky seen through an airplane window
A bowl of noodle soup with fresh herbs and chopsticks on a street-food table
noodle soup

inside every guide

What’s in each airport guide

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An eSIM matched to your trip

Enter your days and how you use your phone. We pick the cheapest plan that covers you.

Motorbikes moving through traffic on a Vietnamese street 02

Every way into town, with prices

Grab, taxi, bus and pre-booked cars, in dong and dollars, with where to catch each one.

Hands holding two passports with boarding passes tucked inside 03

Visa and scam warnings

The official e-visa portal and the three tricks people fall for in the arrivals hall.

see you in Hanoi

Land, connect and get to the Old Quarter without the guesswork

The Hanoi guide covers Noi Bai Terminal 2, five ways into town with prices, and the scams to skip.

Open the Hanoi guide
A train passing through Hanoi's Train Street between cafés and lanterns
Train Street
The red Huc Bridge on Hoan Kiem Lake in the morning mist
Hoan Kiem
People eating on low plastic stools at a Vietnamese street-food stall
plastic stools