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The Duck Stop Hoi An costs about four dollars and takes an hour. You feed several hundred ducks, walk them down a track, and then sit still while they climb over your legs and eat food off you.
I would do it with children. Without them I would probably skip it, and the reason has more to do with the shape of a Hoi An day than with anything wrong at the farm.
- Quick Answer: The Duck Stop Hoi An is a paid duck farm experience at An Mỹ in Hội An Đông, fifteen minutes from the Ancient Town, open 8am to 5:30pm and costing about $4 to $6 per person for roughly an hour. The hour is duck feeding, a duck leader walk, and the duck massage, where the birds nibble your feet and legs. Nothing is included beyond that, so no food, no drink and no transport, and a Grab is about $2 each way. It is excellent with children and thin without them.
- Before you book:
- It is one hour, not a morning. Plan the rest of the day around that.
- It is a different business from The Duck Stop in Phong Nha, which is the farm in most of the videos.
- The duck massage is the point of the visit. If dozens of ducks on your legs sounds unpleasant, there is no other reason to go.
- Staff film and photograph you throughout, and for a lot of people that is the actual product.
- Practical details:
- Address: An Mỹ, Hội An Đông, about fifteen minutes north-east of the Ancient Town.
- Hours: 8am to 5:30pm daily. Price about $4 to $6. Rated 4.9 from around 450 verified bookings.
- Long trousers if you would rather not be scratched. Flip-flops, lockers and a foot tap are provided.
- Real cost for two people, tickets and cars: around $16.
The Duck Massage Is the Whole Visit
Everything else at the Duck Stop Hoi An is warm-up. The feeding is pleasant and takes a few minutes, and it is the part that works for a nervous child, because the birds come to your hand and you can stop whenever you like.
The duck leader walk, where several hundred ducks are herded along a track with you at the front holding a stick, is the part that photographs well and lasts about as long as it takes to walk the track twice.
Then you sit down, food gets scattered over your feet and shins, and the ducks come and eat it off you. That is the duck massage, it goes on for several minutes, and it is the reason the farm exists.
The sensation is not pecking. It is closer to being pinched repeatedly by something with no interest in you beyond the food, which is a strange thing to sit through the first time and funny about thirty seconds later. The birds are quick and there are a lot of them, and there is a moment near the start where most people flinch.
The farm’s own guidance is that the ducks may cause light scratches and that long trousers help. That is accurate and worth taking seriously, particularly if you sunburn easily or your legs are already bitten up from a week in Vietnam.
It works as a ladder, which is the part the listings do not explain well. Feet only is the default. From there you can have food put on your shins, then your arms, then your back and shoulders if you actually want several hundred ducks on you.
Staff follow your lead on this and nobody pushes. That matters if you are travelling as a pair or a family where one person is enthusiastic and the other is tolerating it, because the tolerating one can stop at feet and still be part of it.
I do not think reading more changes how you will feel about this. Either dozens of ducks climbing on you is funny or it is not, and you already know which one you are. What I would say is that people who are unsure tend to enjoy it and people who are actively uneasy tend not to, and the ticket is cheap enough that guessing wrong costs you four dollars and an hour.
Children are the exception to all of it. They arrive without the hesitation adults bring, they go straight to the full-body version, and the staff are practised at easing in the ones who hang back.
For anyone travelling with kids roughly between four and fifteen, this is one of the better hours in Hoi An and I would book it without much thought. Teenagers like it too, which is less predictable and worth knowing if you have one who has been unimpressed by tailors and temples all week.
The Photos Are Half of What You Are Paying For
Staff film and photograph you the whole way through, usually on your own phone, and hand it back at the end with the lot on it.
This sounds like a detail and it is not. Read the reviews and a large share of them talk about the video more than the ducks.
The staff know the angles, they know when the flock is about to do something worth filming, and they are noticeably better at it than whoever you are travelling with. For four dollars you come away with the one piece of footage from your Vietnam trip that people at home will actually watch.
Two practical things follow from that. Turn up with a charged phone and space on it. And if you were planning to hand your camera to a partner and take turns, don’t bother, because the whole point is that both of you are in it.
Where the Hour Fits
This is the part I care about more than the farm itself.
Hoi An has quietly filled up with paid one-hour countryside experiences. The duck farm, the basket boat in the coconut forest, buffalo riding, a lantern making workshop, a cooking class, a bike tour. Each one is cheap, each one is fine, and each one is an hour plus two car rides.
Run the arithmetic once and it changes how you plan. A one-hour activity fifteen minutes out is really about two hours by the time you have waited for a Grab, ridden out, done the thing, washed your feet and got a car back.
Stack four of those into a two-day trip and you have spent your entire daylight allowance being driven between small paid experiences, which is how people end up leaving Hoi An having never walked the Ancient Town without a schedule.
On a two-day trip I would give that hour to the town instead. The Ancient Town before nine in the morning is free, it is the best it gets all day, and it is the reason the place is on your itinerary at all. So is the ride out through the paddies. Both are in things to do in Hoi An, and how much any of it fits is in Hoi An itinerary.
On four days or more the trade-off disappears and this becomes a good hour on a morning with nothing booked. That is the version I would choose. Go early, because the birds are livelier before the heat and there is almost no shade out there, and because it leaves the rest of the day intact.
If you are staying in Da Nang and coming down for the day, I would leave it off entirely, since it is awkward to reach without your own transport and the day is short enough already.
Two Things That Catch People Out
It is not the Duck Stop from the videos
That one is in Phong Nha, in Bố Trạch, four hundred kilometres north, and it is an older family-run farm where 100,000 VND gets you the ducks plus a bánh xèo and a cold drink, with their retired water buffalo costing another 50,000 VND.
The Hoi An farm is a separate company running a shorter version. No pancake, no buffalo. People turn up expecting both, and the reviews for one do not describe the other.
Nothing is included
No food, no drink, nothing for sale on site, and no transport. Eat before you go, which given the location means eating in town first, and five restaurants in Hoi An covers where I would do that. Arrange the car home before you set off as well, because signal on the farm track is patchy and this is the part that reliably goes wrong.
There is also a second duck farm in Cẩm Thanh, Funny Duck Stop, which runs the same format and adds a basket boat. I have not been to it, so treat that as a note that “Duck Stop Hoi An” now means more than one address, and check which one you are booking.
Duck Stop Hoi An Price, Address and Opening Hours
| Address | An Mỹ, Hội An Đông, Đà Nẵng |
| From the Ancient Town | About 15 minutes, Grab roughly $2 each way |
| Opening hours | 8am to 5:30pm daily |
| Price | About $4 to $6 per person |
| Duration | About one hour |
| Rating | 4.9 from around 450 verified bookings |
| Included | Feeding, duck leader walk, duck massage, photos |
| Not included | Food, drink, transport |
Booking ahead gets you a time slot and free cancellation, which matters more than it sounds in October and November when the weather here does what it likes.
Is It Ethical?
It is a petting farm. The ducks have space, the staff manage how visitors handle them, and there is no buffalo riding here, which is the part of this format that draws most of the complaints elsewhere. It is still several hundred farm birds being handled by a queue of tourists every day.
If you would not take your children to a petting farm at home, do not take them to this one.
Would I Book It
With children, yes, first thing in the morning, and I would not hesitate.
Without them it depends entirely on how many days you have. On four days or more, go, it is four dollars and an hour and you will get a video out of it that you will actually show people. On two days, I would give the hour to the town.
The one thing I would not do either way is treat this as an afternoon. Book the car home before you leave town, and have somewhere to be by eleven.
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