Arrivalkit
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.

Choose your airport Find your eSIM
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

choose your airport

Where are you landing?

The Turtle Tower on Hoan Kiem Lake in central Hanoi, reflected in the water HAN Hanoi Guide ready Ho Chi Minh City skyline across the Saigon River at dusk SGN Ho Chi Minh City Guide ready The Golden Bridge held up by giant stone hands in the hills near Da Nang DAD Da Nang Guide ready Aerial view of Nha Trang beach and the city coastline CXR Nha Trang Guide ready Leaning palm trees on a Phu Quoc beach at sunset PQC Phu Quoc Guide ready

inside every guide

What’s in each airport guide

A hand holding a phone with a map app open 01

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