Hoi An to Ninh Binh: Best Ways to Travel

The distance from Hoi An to Ninh Binh city is about 699 kilometers. Also with the calculation of this tool, it takes about 14 hours to transfer by car. 

There are many highways linking Ninh Binh with Hoi An but they mainly pass this route along Highway 1A. Thanks to modern construction, this highway has high quality, making it a good condition for transportation.

Traveling from Hoi An to Ninh Binh by bus along Highway 1A gives you a chance to pass many provinces including Quang Tri, Quang Binh, Nghe An, Ha Tinh, Thanh Hoa. It’s also an interesting experience of your trip.

You now have many ways to transfer from Hoi An to Ninh Binh. In this article, BestPrice will give you information about bus, train, and airplane, 3 main types of means for this route.

1. Hoi An to Ninh Binh bus

Buses are the most common ways of traveling. They are outstanding mainly because of the low price and are available with continuous improvement in the quality. It now takes a shorter time to transfer than it used to, which makes this type of means more and more worth choosing to transfer when traveling. 

It’s easy to get a bus ticket to everywhere you want to in this country. The completion with high quality of the highways linking regions of Vietnam together is another factor making this type of transportation so convenient with shorter time to transfer. 

The participation of many providers helps enhance the quality of buses to serve customers better. Most of them also pick you at your desired places so you don’t need to come to the bus station. For such reasons, it’s obvious that buses are worth being chosen by many tourists and can be a good choice for your trip.

All you need to do is buy tickets, get on the bus, and enjoy your trips. You can choose the seat near the window to see marvelous landscapes along the way. Or you can take a nap till the bus stops at your desired destination. Hoi An to Ninh Binh bus takes about 15 hours. 

2. Hoi An to Ninh Binh train

While the disadvantage of a bus is that it takes much time, many people choose Hoi An to Ninh Binh train to travel because it’s not only faster but also very safe. Up to your needs and financial ability, you can choose among several types of seats in a train the most suitable one. At certain prices, you will get a seat with the corresponding quality. Nowadays, you are offered express trains with a higher speed to transfer faster.

Hoi An to Da Nang Train station

Hoi An doesn’t have any train station. Thus, you can’t transfer from Hoi An to Ninh Binh with a direct train. If you’d like to travel by train, you have to come to Da Nang train station. The distance from Hoi An to Da Nang Train station is about 30 kilometers with 50 minutes to transfer. To come there, you can choose a public bus or taxi.

In the case of the public buses, there is a daily Hoi An - Da Nang bus every 20 minutes, from 5h30’ to 17h30’ with just 20.000 VND per ticket. About taxi, it’s available and very convenient with about 200.000 VND for a trip to Da Nang train station from the center of Hoi An city. 

Da Nang to Ninh Binh train

From Da Nang, there are many choices of trains and seat types. You can choose the SE6 train, SE2 train, SE20 train, or SE8 train for your route. The railway line from Hoi An to Ninh Binh is 676 kilometers long. It takes about 14 hours to transfer.   

In a train, there are many types of seats including sleeper cars for 4 people or 6 people per car, hard seats, soft seats, and sub seats. They go with different prices with the highest price one is sleeper cars and the lowest one is sub seats. The average price for a train ticket with Da Nang - Ninh Binh route is 527.000 VND.

3. Hoi An to Ninh Binh flight

Traveling by airplane is always the fastest way. It helps shorten time to transfer, saves you from being tired. But it’s not for a budget trip. 

Hoi An to Da Nang airport

Rather similar to the case of transferring by train, Hoi An doesn’t have an airport. To travel to Ninh Binh by plane, you need to come to Da Nang airport. Public bus and taxi are common means which take you around 45 minutes to arrive at Da Nang airport from the center of Hoi An city. The distance between these two places is 30 kilometers.

Flight Da Nang to Hanoi/ Hai Phong airport

Unfortunately, Ninh Binh now still doesn’t have an airport. Thus, you can’t have a direct flight to this attractive destination. To travel by airplane, you have to choose Da Nang - Ha Noi route or Da Nang - Hai Phong route for your flight. The distance from Noi Bai International Airport (Hanoi) to Ninh Binh is 121 kilometers and the one from Cat Bi international airport (Hai Phong) is 161 kilometers. You can choose the more suitable one for your trip. The flight from Da Nang to Hanoi or Hai Phong is about 1 hour.

With online booking, you now have a chance to get cheaper tickets for your flights. Spend time chasing good deals and you will save more. 

Hai Phong/ Ha Noi to Ninh Binh

After getting off the plane, you need to catch a bus to Ninh Binh. It takes about 2 hours to transfer, making the whole Hoi An - Ninh Binh route (mainly) by airplane take about 4 hours. Although you have to transfer by bus twice at 4 places, it’s still the fastest way to Ninh Binh from Hoi An.

Hoi An Ninh Binh itinerary is useful information for those who still don’t know how their trip should be planned. It’s necessary to prepare enough stuff, time, money or get ready for everything happening to your trip.

Firstly, you should determine the time you spend on this trip. Because Ninh Binh is far from Hoi An with a distance of 698 kilometers, transferring takes much time and requires a bit of effort. 

To transfer by train or bus, you will spend at least 14 hours on the way. Most passenger transfer service providers in Hoi An (or Quang Nam province in general) offer buses to Ninh Binh with departure time around 1 p.m. In the case of trains, you have more options about departure time which can be in the morning, noon or afternoon, to help you find a more suitable time for travel. The most flexible way to transfer is an airplane because you can find many flights a day. Summarizing time for each way to transfer helps you find the most suitable one for your trip, concretely time you spend for this trip, and departure time. 

Secondly, determine how much you can spend for transferring. If you are comfortable, flights are the best way. Or you can chase deals to have more economical choices. 

Determining these two things is necessary for the itinerary. Because the ways to transfer impact your whole time for a trip, partly your health condition and your mood for travel. 

To recommend Hoi An Ninh Binh itinerary, we can rely on the number of tourist points you wish to visit at each place. Hoi An is a small city that you can explore in a day to capture its overall traditional beauty. But Ninh Binh is quite large with many attractions making it a tourism center of the South-North of Vietnam. Thus, you should spend more than a day here to explore and gain many interesting experiences. 

In short, with 1 day for transferring and recovering health conditions for travel, we recommend a four-day trip to visit both Hoi An and Ninh Binh.

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Booking soon to get good deals

With online booking, you now have more choices for both transportation and accommodation with various prices and corresponding quality. There are many promotions on specialized tourism websites. They are really beneficial for tourists, partly making traveling more and more popular. 

Prepare mobile luggage 

To visit both Hoi An and Ninh Binh on a trip, you have to be ready to transfer much, more than a trip for one place. Preparing mobile luggage is necessary to lessen troubles that can happen to your trips such as lost property or cumbersome properties damaged by collisions during transferring. To do it, you should reduce the number of items and replace cumbersome or big-size ones with smaller ones.

Thus, think about what you really need and can’t be replaced to bring along your trip because there are some things you can borrow from hotels such as hair dryers, iron, etc. 

About costumes and accessories, you should determine what you will wear at certain places and the exact number of clothes to avoid bringing too much. In the case of shoes, just bring 1 or 2 pairs, one for posing, one for traveling.

If you have skincare products, pour them into small cosmetic extractors to save room for other stuff. Similar to that, think about extracting everything you can to get your necessary items in a smaller size.

In fact, transportation plays an important role in creating a wonderful trip. Because it can impact your health condition, time and budget you spend on this trip. That’s why you should choose the way to travel carefully to find the most suitable one. 

In this article, the BestPrice team gives you much useful information about the best ways to travel from Hoi An to Ninh Binh with an analysis of both advantages and disadvantages of each one. They include bus, train, and airplane, the most common types of means chosen by thousands of tourists. Thereby, hopefully, you can choose your right type more easily and have a wonderful trip.

Thanks for your reading!

Nhat Anh

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