I’ve had a lot of conversations with people who booked what they thought was a Hoi An beachfront hotel and arrived to find a road between them and the sand.

It happens a lot here, partly because a couple of the beaches have been eroding for years, and partly because there are resorts with Hoi An in the name that are twenty or thirty minutes outside Hoi An.

So I’ll get to the three I’d book again (with real images I took), but I also want to explain what you’re checking for, because that’s the bit that saves people money.

This is a spin-off from my bigger Hoi An accommodation guide, which goes through all four areas and who each one suits. This one is only about hotels on the beach in Hoi An, meaning the ones that actually put you on sand.

Quick Answer: The best Hoi An beachfront hotels are Sol An Bang Beach Resort & Spa if you want the best beach at a mid-range price, Palm Garden Resort Hoi An for a full resort week on a proper stretch of sand, and Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai if the budget stretches. All three are directly on the beach with no road to cross. An Bàng is the beach I’d book. Cửa Đại has eroded badly and only a few properties there still have real sand in front of them.
The three I’d book again:
- Sol An Bang Beach Resort & Spa, An Bàng. 4.4 from around 600 reviews. Three pools, right on the best beach in Hoi An, and you can walk to the An Bàng restaurants.
- Palm Garden Resort Hoi An, Lạc Long Quân. 4.6 from over 2,700 reviews. Big grounds, beach bar, tennis, and a lot of guests who come back every year.
- Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, Hà My. 4.7 from over 1,100 reviews. The expensive one. Technically in Điện Bàn, about twenty minutes north of the Ancient Town.
What “beachfront” tends to mean around here:
- Sand at your feet. Private frontage, no road to cross. This is the one you want.
- Across the road. A thirty second walk, which is fine, but you can’t sit on the balcony looking at the sea.
- Beachfront on paper. Cửa Đại, where there’s a sea wall or sandbags in places and the sand can disappear at high tide.
- Hoi An in the name only. Some well known beach resorts here are a half hour drive away.
Rough prices:
- An Bàng beachfront rooms: around $80 to $180 a night.
- Resorts along Lạc Long Quân and Cửa Đại: around $100 to $220.
- Four Seasons The Nam Hai: from around $600, and a lot more for the pool villas.
- Beachfront homestays and small villas at An Bàng: $40 to $90.
Two things to check before booking:
- Open satellite view on the map and look for a road between the hotel and the sand.
- Check which month you’re going. From October the sea gets rough and some beach businesses shut.

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The 3 Hoi An Beachfront Hotels I’d Book Again

Beachfront accommodation here falls into three rough groups. There are the big five star resorts, there are small boutique hotels with ten or twenty rooms, and there are homestays and villas sitting just behind the sand with their own path down to it.

All three are in this post, because the right answer depends a lot on your budget and on how much time you actually plan to spend in the hotel.

1. Sol An Bang Beach Resort & Spa

Location: An Bàng, Hội An Tây
Rating: 4.4 from around 600 reviews
Prices: Roughly $90 to $180.

If the beach is the main thing for you, book this one, because An Bàng is the best beach on this coast and Sol is sitting on it.

It’s low and spread out among trees and sand, which I like a lot more than the big block-and-lawn resorts down at Cửa Đại.

There are three pools, so even in April when it’s busy nothing feels crowded. The rooms are a good size and the beds get a mention in most of the reviews, which sounds like a small thing until you’ve had a week of bad ones. Breakfast is the usual big Vietnamese resort buffet.

The other thing I like is that you can walk out. The An Bàng restaurant and bar strip is right there, so you’re not eating at your hotel every single night, which does happen at some of the more isolated places.

The street outside is a bit scruffy, and honestly I prefer it that way, because it means local food, a laundry and a couple of spas within two minutes.

One thing to know. There’s been beach restoration work along parts of this stretch, so if you’re booking months ahead, message them and ask what the sand in front of the hotel looks like at the moment. They’ll tell you.

Check Sol An Bang Beach Resort rates & dates

2. Palm Garden Resort Hoi An

Location: Lạc Long Quân, Hội An Tây
Rating: 4.6 from over 2,700 reviews
Prices: Roughly $110 to $220.

Palm Garden Resort Hoi An 5 scaled Vietadvisor

Palm Garden is the one I’d book for a proper resort week. Have a read of the reviews and you’ll notice how many of them start with something like “this is our third time here”, which tells you plenty.

It’s a big place with real grounds, a long stretch of its own beach, a beach bar, tennis courts, bikes to borrow and two happy hours a day.

That last one sounds trivial and it isn’t, it’s exactly the sort of thing that shapes how a week goes. The staff come up in almost every review, and at some point you have to assume that’s not an accident.

It’s on Lạc Long Quân, the road running between An Bàng and Cửa Đại, so you’re about 15 minutes from the Ancient Town and a few minutes from the An Bàng strip if you fancy a night out of the hotel.

I’d book this for a family, or for anyone whose holiday basically is the hotel. It makes less sense if you want to be out every evening, because then you’re paying resort money for somewhere you barely use.

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3. Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai

Location: Hà My, Điện Bàn
Rating: 4.7 from over 1,100 reviews
Prices: From around $600.

Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai 9 scaled Vietadvisor

Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai 8 scaled Vietadvisor

This is the expensive one. It’s also the best hotel on this coast and probably one of the best in the country, so if you can stretch to two or three nights in the middle of a longer trip, I think it’s worth doing.

You get villas, three big pools, a gym people apparently make a point of using, and a wide, well kept beach. The service is what you’re paying for, and the reviews are full of small things being sorted out before anyone asks for them.

Two honest notes. It’s at Hà My in Điện Bàn, about twenty minutes north of the Ancient Town, so it isn’t really Hoi An even though everyone books it as Hoi An. And everything inside is priced the way you’d expect, so either budget for that or walk out to Hà My village to eat, which is easy enough.

If you’re coming from the airport, this one is on the way, which is handy when you’re sorting the transfer. My Da Nang to Hoi An guide has what those rides cost.

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What Beachfront Actually Means Here

I’d read this bit before booking anything, because the same word gets used for four fairly different situations.

Beachfront, oceanfront and sea view all turn up in the listings here and they don’t mean the same thing, and the phrase “beach resorts near Hoi An” is doing an awful lot of work in some of them.

What the listing says	What you actually get
Beachfront, private frontage	Sand at your feet, no road. What you want.
Beachfront, across the road	A thirty second walk. Fine, but no sea view from the balcony.
Beachfront at Cửa Đại	Sea wall or sandbags in places, and the sand can more or less go at high tide.
“Hoi An” in the name	Sometimes twenty to thirty minutes outside Hoi An.

That last one catches out more people. Two of the most searched beach resorts with Hoi An in the title are a half hour drive from the Ancient Town, which is completely fine if you know about it beforehand and quite annoying if you don’t.

The Cửa Đại situation is worth understanding properly. Erosion has taken a lot of that beach over the last ten years or so.

Some resorts do maintain their own frontage well, others are looking at a sea wall, and it changes property by property and year by year, so recent my photos are worth more than the hotel’s own gallery.

Cua Dai beach hoi an The One Id Skip 2 scaled Vietadvisor — Private sand, across roads, sea walls, or 30 minutes away

Cua Dai beach hoi an The One Id Skip 5 scaled Vietadvisor — Private sand, across roads, sea walls, or 30 minutes away

Which Beach: An Bàng, Cửa Đại or Hà My

An Bàng

An Bàng is the one I’d pick. It’s the widest and most swimmable, there’s a proper strip of restaurants and bars behind it so you’re not stuck in your hotel, and it’s fifteen minutes by bike into town on a flat road through the paddies. It’s busier than it used to be, and the sellers who work the sunbeds can be quite persistent, but I still think it’s the best of the three.

An Bang Beach in the Afternoon 3 scaled Vietadvisor — An Bàng beach

An Bang Beach in the Afternoon 4 scaled Vietadvisor — An Bàng beach

Cửa Đại

Cửa Đại is the old resort strip and the beach is the issue. Some of the properties are lovely and one or two keep private stretches that are better than the public beach, but on a first trip I wouldn’t gamble on it.

Hà My

Hà My up towards Đà Nẵng, is quiet and wide and mostly empty. That’s great if you’re at a resort with everything you need on site, and less great if you want to wander out for dinner.

Ha My beach 3 scaled Vietadvisor — Hà My beach

Ha My beach 2 scaled Vietadvisor — Hà My beach

If you’re still weighing beach against town in general, that’s the question I go through properly in where to stay in Hoi An, and how many nights make it worth it is in how many days in Hoi An.

A Few Others Worth a Look

These didn’t make the three, for various reasons, but I’d have no problem recommending any of them.

Boutique Hoi An Resort

Lạc Long Quân. 4.5 from over 1,100 reviews, a well kept private beach, free shuttle into town and cheaper than Palm Garden. Reviewers with babies and toddlers rate it highly, which not every resort here manages.

Victoria Hoi An Beach Resort and Spa

Cửa Đại. 4.6 from over 2,000. This is the exception at Cửa Đại. Lovely Indochine architecture, a free shuttle, and a long list of complimentary things including lantern making and SUP. Check recent beach photos before you commit.

Beachside Boutique Resort Hoi An

An Bàng. Small, 4.7 from over 100, and about thirty seconds from the sand, so not quite on it. Great pool and good value, so it’s the compromise if true beachfront is out of budget.

An Bang Beach Hideaway Homestay

An Bàng. 4.7 from over 100. A homestay, not a hotel, with a private path down to the beach and a host who sorts out everything. If you want An Bàng cheaply, this is how you do it.

Bliss Hoi An Beach Resort & Wellness

Thăng An, Beautiful, 4.8 from over 1800, one of the most searched beach resorts with Hoi An in the name, and about thirty minutes south at Thăng An. There’s a shuttle and by all accounts it runs well. Just book it knowing where it is.

What It Costs and When to Book

Beachfront rooms at An Bàng go for somewhere around $80 to $180 a night depending on the season and how far ahead you book. The bigger resorts along Lạc Long Quân and at Cửa Đại sit between $100 and $220. Homestays and small villas with beach access at An Bàng start around $40.

The Nam Hai is in its own bracket, starting around $600 and going a long way up for the pool villas.

Prices move a lot with the season. February to May is the good stretch and it’s priced accordingly. July and August are hot and busy with domestic holidays. From late October into December you can find some very good rates if you don’t mind the weather.

I’d book four to six weeks ahead for the good months, and much further out if your trip runs into Tết.

FAQ

What does beachfront mean in Hoi An? Anything from sand at your feet to a hotel across a road from the beach. Check the satellite view before you book.

Which is the best beach in Hoi An? An Bàng, for the width, the swimming and the food and bars behind it.

Are there Hoi An hotels with a private beach? Yes. Palm Garden, Boutique Hoi An Resort and Victoria all keep their own stretches, and so does The Nam Hai.

How far is An Bàng from the Ancient Town? Four kilometres, so fifteen minutes by bike or about ten by car.

Is Cửa Đại beach still worth it? Only for a specific property with a maintained frontage. The public beach has eroded badly.

Do beachfront hotels run shuttles into town? Most of the bigger ones do, but frequency varies a lot, so ask how many times a day before you book.

Can I get a massage if I’m staying at the beach? Several spas do free pickup and drop-off from anywhere in Hoi An, which is easily the simplest option from out there. Here are the ones I’d use.

How I’d Pick

Open the hotel on Google Maps, switch to satellite and zoom in on the frontage. You’re looking for two things: whether there’s a road between the building and the sand, and whether there’s actually sand or a grey line of sea wall. It takes about thirty seconds and it’s more useful than the photo gallery.

If it passes that, book it. And if you’re stuck between two, the thing I’d use to decide is whether you can walk out of the gate to dinner, because at An Bàng you can and at most of the Cửa Đại places you can’t.

3 best Hoi An Beachfront Hotels I’d book again in 2027