Ha Giang
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This is the most argued-about thing on the island. People come back saying it was the best day of their trip, and other people come back upset about the animals, and they were there on the same afternoon.
I went once and spent about five hours. Both sides are describing something real, and which camp you end up in depends mostly on what you’re comparing it against.
The other thing worth knowing before any of the rest is that it’s 30 kilometres north of Dương Đông and it shuts at four. That costs you a whole day, and on a short trip that matters more than the ticket does.
- Quick Answer: Vinpearl Safari Phu Quoc is worth a day if you’ve got five or more on the island and you’re travelling with children. Entry is 650,000 VND for adults, 490,000 for children between 100cm and 140cm and for anyone over 60, free under 100cm. The combo with VinWonders is 925,000 for adults and only makes sense spread across two days. The safari bus and the giraffe restaurant are the good parts. The shows and the food are not, and if zoos are something you feel strongly about, read that section before booking.
- What It Costs in 2026:
- Adult: 650,000 VND.
- Child 100cm to 140cm: 490,000 VND. Under 100cm free.
- Over 60 with ID: 490,000 VND.
- Combo with VinWonders: 925,000 adult, 695,000 child and senior.
- Getting there: free shuttle, or 400,000 to 600,000 each way by taxi, or 150,000 to 200,000 for a scooter for the day.
- Included and Not:
- Included: the walking zoo, the 5km safari bus, the animal shows.
- Not included: food, animal feed at most stops, the buggy if you’d rather not walk.
- Booking online gets you through the gate on a QR code instead of queuing to swap a paper ticket.
- Worth Your Time: the safari bus, the giraffe restaurant, and the elephant and giraffe feeding.
- Not Worth It: the animal shows, and lunch anywhere in the park if you can avoid it.
- Hours: 08:30 to 16:00, and the park says its own busiest stretch is 10:30 to 12:30.
What Vinpearl Safari Phu Quoc Costs in 2026
| Ticket | Price |
|---|---|
| Adult | 650,000 VND |
| Child, 100cm to 140cm | 490,000 VND |
| Child under 100cm | Free |
| Over 60, with ID | 490,000 VND |
| Combo with VinWonders, adult | 925,000 VND |
| Combo with VinWonders, child or senior | 695,000 VND |
Two adults and one child comes to about 1,790,000 VND before you’ve eaten or got yourself there. Call it 2 million for a family day out, which is a lot of money in Vietnam and roughly what a decent zoo costs anywhere else.
That number also catches people out because they’ve priced Vietnam elsewhere and this doesn’t follow Vietnamese prices at all. It’s a Vingroup park and it’s priced like one, the same as the cable car and VinWonders.
Entry covers the walking zoo, the safari bus and the shows. It doesn’t cover food, and it doesn’t cover the animal feed at most of the feeding points, which comes in small paper cones and which children want at every single stop.
Book online instead of at the gate. It’s not usually cheaper but you walk straight in on a QR code, and the queue to have a paper ticket issued at eleven in the morning is real.
Prices move around with promotions and there’s often a food voucher attached in the quiet months, worth 150,000 to 250,000 for an adult. Check before paying full price.
Is the VinWonders Combo Worth It?
The combo saves 10-15%, so it looks like an easy yes. I don’t think it is.
The problem is the clock. Safari shuts at 4pm. VinWonders runs until 7:30 and has a theme park, a water park and an aquarium in it. Doing both in one day means rushing the safari in the morning and arriving at the expensive half already tired.
It works if you’re staying up north near the parks, or if you’re on the island long enough to give each one a day of its own.
Check whether the ticket has to be used on the same date before you assume you can split it, because that varies with where you buy.
With children under about 6 I’d drop VinWonders altogether and just do the safari. The rides they’d be tall enough for are a small slice of what you’re paying for.
The Safari Bus
This is the part people mean when they say the safari was good.
A bus takes you about 5 kilometres through the open enclosures, past zebras and giraffes and antelope, then through the section with the lions and tigers.
Caged bus, uncaged animals, which the marketing makes a lot of. 25 minutes or so.
It works. The animals are close, there’s no glass, and when a lion walks along the side of the bus the whole thing goes quiet. Children lose their minds.
Two things. The signposting to the bus stop is bad and it’s easy to walk straight past, which I did. Ask at the entrance. And sit on the left side going out, because more of the enclosures fall that way.
Do it first thing. By midday the queue is long and most of the animals have gone to lie in shade, which means a lot of empty grass and a few shapes under trees.
The Walking Zoo, and What You’ll Actually See
The rest of it is a big walking zoo. Four thousand-odd animals, a couple of hundred species, wide paths with a lot of planting between them.
It’s clean, and that’s the first thing anyone says about it. The enclosures are mostly large by Vietnamese standards and there’s shade in places, though not everywhere.
You can walk it or take a buggy. The buggy costs extra and the queue for it is the least organised thing in the park, with nobody managing the line and people getting on out of turn. If you can walk, walk. It’s three or four kilometres across a few hours and you see more of it.
What’s in it: tigers, lions, giraffes, a big primate section, bears, and a bird area that most people walk past. The primate enclosures are the best in the park and the ones I spent longest at. The bird section is where I’d cut if you’re short on time.
Morning for this and the bus, then lunch around one.
The Giraffe Restaurant
The one thing here I’d tell anyone to do.
You eat on a terrace and the giraffes come up to a raised platform at the edge of it, close enough to feed.
That costs a fortune at wildlife parks in Europe and here it’s attached to an ordinary lunch. With kids it’s the bit they’ll still be talking about at the airport.
The food is bad. Dry, lukewarm, not much choice, and vegetarians will struggle. Everyone says the same thing about it and then says it didn’t matter because of the giraffes, which is fair enough.
Eat something before you come, get a table on the terrace, and treat the meal as the price of the view.
The Animal Shows
Skip them. They run through the day and they’re the thinnest thing in the park, short and a bit sad, and they sit badly against everything the place says about conservation.
The feeding sessions are a better use of the same hour. Elephants and giraffes both, at set times, and you’ll want to check those at the gate because they aren’t posted anywhere obvious once you’re inside.
The Animal Welfare Question in Vinpearl Safari Phu Quoc Reviews
This is what people actually want answered and it’s why the reviews split so hard.
It’s a zoo. A large, clean, well-funded zoo with a safari section attached, and the marketing leans on the word conservation harder than the day earns.
If you arrive expecting a wildlife reserve you’ll know within an hour that it isn’t one, and plenty of people arrive expecting exactly that.
The enclosures are mostly a decent size with things in them for the animals to do. The place is properly maintained and nothing looked neglected to me. Against zoos on the mainland it’s well ahead, and against what was on this island a decade ago there’s no comparison.
Against a European safari park it loses, and people who’ve been to those say so plainly. Some of the smaller enclosures are small.
The shows are the part I’d criticise hardest, because a performing animal doesn’t fit the story the rest of the park is telling.
Where I land is this. If zoos are something you object to on principle, nothing here will change your mind and you should spend the money elsewhere on the island. If you’re alright with a good zoo, this is a good zoo. What I wouldn’t do is book it expecting to feel like you’re out in the wild, because that gap is where nearly all the upset comes from.
Getting There, and the Day It Eats
It’s at Bãi Dài in Gành Dầu, roughly 30 kilometres north of Dương Đông. An hour or so from the airport, less from the northern resorts, a proper drive from anywhere on Long Beach.
The free shuttle
Vinpearl runs buses from Dương Đông, An Thới and a lot of the bigger resorts and it costs nothing. The catch is the return timetable. It’s limited, and people get stranded when the next one back isn’t for hours.
Check the return times when you board, not when you want to leave.
A scooter
150,000 to 200,000 for the day. The ride north through the forest is one of the better hours on this island anyway, so this is what I’d do if you’re licensed to ride.
Taxi or private car
400,000 to 600,000 each way. For a family that’s still fine and it removes the timing problem entirely.
One more thing about the shuttle. It picks up from a list of hotels and resorts, and if yours isn’t on it you’re walking to whichever one is. Worth checking the pickup list against your address before you plan around it, because it isn’t island-wide.
Then the real cost. Open at 8:30am, shut at 4pm, plus the drive both ways. That’s a day, and it’s a day spent in the far north, so you’re not pairing it with anything in the south.
On a 3-day trip I’d skip it, which is the same thing I said in the 3 vs 5 days piece. On 5 days it fits, and you can put Rạch Vẹm or the north coast into the same run up there.
How Long to Spend
5 hours does it properly, 4 if you skip the shows.
Safari bus first thing while the animals are still up and moving. Walking zoo through the morning. Giraffe restaurant around one. Whatever feeding sessions are running in the afternoon. Out by 3.
Get there at opening. The park’s own busiest stretch is 10:30 to 12:30 and everything on that list is better before it.
Water and a hat. There’s shade in patches and none at all in others, and any queue at midday is in full sun.
Bring small notes too. The feeding cones are cash at most of the stops and they’re cheap individually, but with a child in tow you’ll be buying them all afternoon.
The app is worth downloading before you go for the map, because the paper one at the gate runs out and the park is big enough that people get turned around in it.
Who Vinpearl Safari Is Worth It For
Families with children roughly three to twelve
The clearest yes on the island for that age group. Safari bus, feeding, giraffes at lunch. Nothing else here comes close for them.
Anyone who’s lost a day to the weather
It runs whatever the sea is doing, and when the boat trips get cancelled the list of alternatives is this, the national park trek, and not a great deal else.
People staying up north
At Bãi Dài or Gành Dầu it’s on your doorstep and the whole calculation changes.
If that’s you, the day costs you a morning instead of a day, and at that point I’d say yes to almost anyone.
Anyone travelling with grandparents
The over-60 ticket is the same as a child’s, the safari section is done sitting on a bus, and the walking parts are flat and paved.
It’s one of very few things on this island that works across three generations at once, which is not something I expected to be writing about a theme park.
Who I’d tell to skip it:
- Couples without children, unless you both like zoos, because two million dong and a full day buys a lot on this island.
- Anyone on three days.
- Anyone uneasy about zoos, for the reasons above.
- And anyone hoping for a real safari, because it isn’t one and no amount of good intentions turns it into one.
If you’ve been recently, tell me whether the shows have changed. I’d also like to know if anyone’s used the combo across two separate days and how that went, because that’s how I’d buy it and I ended up doing the two parks separately instead.
For what else is worth doing at that end of the island, things to do in Phu Quoc below has the fuller list.
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