The Guide
Living in
Da Nang.
Everything you need for your first month here, and the year after it. Fourteen chapters, free to read, checked in 2026 by someone who lives in the city.
Free to read
The whole guide. No payment, no email, no sign up.
We wrote this because the guides we found were written by people who have never lived here. Read it, use it, send it to whoever is coming next.
4,000 people who already live here. Ask anything, or just read along.
What it saves you
Four things in here, and what each one is worth.
The visa fee
The government charges 25 USD for a 90 day e-visa. Agencies and lookalike websites charge 70 to 100 for the same document.
Saves you 45 to 75 USD
The rent gap
The same apartment costs about 10 million dong a month if you walk in and ask, and about 15 million through an agent.
Saves you around 190 USD a month
The cash machine
One bank still charges foreign cards nothing. Another one, which every older guide still recommends, started charging 3.3 percent in June 2025.
Saves you on every withdrawal
The licence
Most foreigners riding a motorbike here are not legally licensed, and do not know this cancels their travel insurance.
Could save you tens of thousands
Every fact carries the date it was checked. If we could not verify something, we left it out.
What is inside
14 chapters, in the order you will actually live them.
Before you fly, the day you land, your first week, your first month. Read it front to back, or jump to the part you need right now.
Questions people ask
Is this for tourists?
No. It is for people coming to stay a while: a month, a season, or for good. If you are here for five days on a beach holiday, you do not need any of this.
How current is it really?
Every fact in the guide has the date it was checked printed next to it. Anything we could not verify is not in here at all.
Why is it free?
Because the point is that people find it. We build businesses and help them with their online presence, and we make sure it keeps growing, month after month.
Is it in Vietnamese?
The guide itself is in English for now, since it is written for people arriving from abroad. The rest of the site is in both languages.
Something here is wrong or out of date. What now?
Tell us and we will fix it. Prices move, rules change and places close. A guide nobody corrects is worse than no guide.
Your first month, without the expensive mistakes.
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