Today I’m sharing the five Hoi An massage spas I’ve been to over the last couple of years, and which one I’d book if I could only pick one.

Massages in Hoi An are cheap. A sixty minute body massage at a decent spa runs 300,000 to 500,000 VND, so somewhere between twelve and twenty dollars, and there are hundreds of places offering one. Which is the actual problem, really. When everything costs roughly the same and every shopfront looks the same, there’s no obvious way to choose. Most people end up walking into whichever spa is nearest their hotel.

I get a massage most trips, and over time I’ve built up a short list.

These are five spas I’ve actually been to, and I’ve said which treatment I had at each one. Where I’m going on reviews instead of my own experience, I’ve said that too.

You won’t find any resort spas here, mostly because I don’t stay at resorts in Hoi An, so I can’t tell you whether the Almanity or Anantara spa is worth the money. If that’s what you’re after, this isn’t the post.

Quick Answer: The best massage in Hoi An for the money is Ni Spa at 68 Đào Duy Từ, which looks very plain from the street. Art Spa on An Hội is the easiest Hoi An massage spa to walk into if you’ve never had a massage in Vietnam, because they give you a form about pressure and comfort first. Serene Spa on Hoàng Diệu is where to go for a head spa or hair wash. Ylang Ylang does the firmest deep tissue and includes free hotel pickup. Blueberry Spa is the quiet one.
The five spas:
- Ni Spa & Massage, 68 Đào Duy Từ. Best value. 5.0, 3,200+ reviews. Until 10pm.
- Art Spa, 37 Nguyễn Phúc Tần, An Hội. First-timers, and foot massage. 4.9, 1,700+.
- Serene Spa & Massage, 06 Hoàng Diệu. Head spa, hair wash, facials. 5.0, 4,100+.
- Ylang Ylang Spa, 114/20 Trần Nhân Tông. Deep tissue, free hotel pickup. 4.8.
- Blueberry Spa, 02 Tôn Thất Tùng. Small, no tour groups, open until 11pm. 5.0.
Hoi An massage prices in 2026:
- Foot massage, 60 min: 250,000–400,000 VND.
- Body massage, 60 min: 300,000–500,000 VND. 90 min: 450,000–700,000 VND.
- Head spa or hair wash, 50–70 min: from about 289,000 VND.
- Hot stone, 90 min: 550,000–800,000 VND.
- Resort spas: 800,000 VND and up, before service charge.
Before you go:
- Say soft, medium or strong at the start. Vietnamese massage is firm by default.
- Bring cash. A few spas add about 3% on card and a couple don’t take card at all.
- Tip 50,000–100,000 VND if you liked it. Nobody will ask you for one.
- Message on WhatsApp the same morning if you want a slot between 6 and 8pm.

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The 5 Best Massage Spas in Hoi An

I’ve listed these in the order I’d recommend them for an ordinary massage. If you want something specific, like a head spa or proper deep tissue work, skip down to the one I’ve flagged for it.

1. Ni Spa & Massage, 68 Đào Duy Từ (5.0 ⭐️)

Ni Spa is the one I’d book if you just want a good massage and don’t care much about anything else.

It doesn’t look like anything from the street. Plain front, basic interior, none of the dark wood and orchid arrangements the Old Town spas go in for.

I only went the first time because a friend who lives here told me to, and I’d have walked straight past it otherwise.

The massage was better than anywhere else on this list. I had a 60 minute Vietnamese body massage and the therapist actually worked into my shoulders, and asked me twice whether the pressure was alright.

That sounds like a very low bar, and it is, but a lot of prettier spas in this town will give you a smooth, even, perfectly nice hour and leave the sore bit exactly where it was.

You get the usual opening that most spas here do, water and a snack and then a foot soak with lemongrass in it.

Walk-in prices are at the cheaper end of these five. Nobody tried to sell me a package on the way out, which I appreciated.

The location is the trade-off. It’s on Đào Duy Từ heading west out of town, so you’re five or ten minutes’ walk from the Japanese Bridge. Fine in the morning, a bit of a trek at the end of a long evening.

2. Art Spa, 37 Nguyễn Phúc Tần (4.9 ⭐️)

Art Spa 37 Nguyen Phuc Tan scaled Vietadvisor

Art Spa 37 Nguyen Phuc Tan 4 scaled Vietadvisor

Art Spa is the one I send people to when it’s their first massage in Vietnam.

Before anything happens they hand you a form. It asks how much pressure you want, and it asks which parts of your body you’d rather they didn’t touch. That second question is really why this place is on the list.

If you’ve never done this before, or you’d just rather not have to explain any of that once you’re already lying face down, the form sorts it out for you.

Everything else is a well-run mid-priced spa. Herbal foot soak, private rooms with a door, tea and fruit afterwards, and the staff speak enough English to handle anything the form missed.

I had the foot massage here, which is what most of their reviews are about too. If you’ve been walking the Ancient Town since morning, that’s the one you want, and most Hoi An spas throw in neck and shoulders at the end of a foot massage anyway, so you get more than you paid for.

It’s on An Hội island near the night market, which makes it easy to fit into an evening. Massage, dinner, then the lantern boat if that’s on your list.

3. Serene Spa & Massage, 06 Hoàng Diệu (5.0 ⭐️)

Serene is the smartest of the five and the most expensive, although most expensive here still means under twenty dollars an hour.

What they’re best at is the Vietnamese nourishing hair wash and head spa. It’s 50 to 90 minutes of pomelo shampoo, a long scalp acupressure section, steaming, and neck and shoulder work while you’re lying there.

Head spa has completely taken over Hoi An in the last two years and half the town advertises it now, but Serene does it better than the places that added it to the menu last month.

If your hair has spent a week in salt water and sun, book this instead of a body massage.

That’s the only treatment I’ve had here. They also do four hands massage and facials, and both get good reviews, but I can’t tell you anything about them from experience.

Two things worth knowing. There are two Serene branches a few streets apart, one on Hoàng Diệu and one on Phan Châu Trinh, and people turn up at the wrong one fairly often, so check which address is on your booking. And they add around 3% if you pay by card.

4. Ylang Ylang Spa, 114/20 Trần Nhân Tông (4.8 ⭐️)

Book this one if your back actually hurts.

Their Vietnamese deep tissue uses forearms and elbows and it is firm. Not painful, but firm, and it’s the kind of massage you can still feel the next day. If you want something gentler, ask for medium and be clear about it, because firm is where they start.

The catch is where it is. Ylang Ylang is out east towards the beach, too far to wander to from the Ancient Town. What makes it work is that hotel pickup and drop-off anywhere in Hoi An is free if you book a slot ahead.

Two of you, 90 minutes each, car both ways, comes to about what one treatment costs at a resort spa.

It’s also the most-booked spa in Hoi An on the booking platforms by a decent margin, which counts for something if you’re choosing from another country with nothing else to go on.

If you’re staying at An Bang or Tân Thành instead of in town, this is the easy pick, because the pickup takes care of the annoying part.

Compare Hoi An spa treatments and prices

5. Blueberry Spa, 02 Tôn Thất Tùng (5.0 ⭐️)

Blueberry is small, it’s north of the centre, the owners run it themselves, and they don’t take tour groups. That last bit is the whole reason I’ve included it.

The thing that most often goes wrong at the big, heavily reviewed spas isn’t the massage itself. It’s that you end up in a shared room with three other people, one of them is chatting to their friend, and the door keeps opening. Blueberry limits its own numbers, so that doesn’t happen there.

I had a 90 minute hot stone here, which is the treatment I’d book again. They answer WhatsApp quickly and can usually take you within the hour, and they’re open until 11pm, later than anywhere else on this list.

It’s about fifteen minutes on foot from the Ancient Town, or five in a Grab.

A Few More Hoi An Spas People Recommend

I haven’t been to any of these, so treat this as a list of names to look up and not as recommendations. They all come up constantly and I’ve heard good things.

Golden Rose Spa, 07 Phan Đình Phùng, has an enormous review base and enough staff to do massage and nails at the same time.
Blue Gift Spa on Mạc Đĩnh Chi has a Korean-speaking owner and takes bookings on KakaoTalk, so it’s the one I’d point Korean travellers to.
White Rose on Hai Bà Trưng is a head spa specialist and one of the few places in town doing prenatal massage properly, with side-lying positioning.
Phố Spa, just off Lê Lợi, is down a quiet lane, which means no horns coming through the wall.
Ningy Spa on Trần Cao Vân has a reputation for very strong hands, so ask for medium unless you’re sure.

Golden Rose Spa scaled Vietadvisor — Golden Rose Spa, Blue Gift Spa, White Rose, Phố Spa, Ningy Spa

Blue Gift Spa scaled Vietadvisor — Golden Rose Spa, Blue Gift Spa, White Rose, Phố Spa, Ningy Spa

How Much a Massage in Hoi An Costs

Hoi An massage prices have crept up since 2024, but the town is still cheaper than Hanoi’s Old Quarter and quite a lot cheaper than District 1 in Saigon.

Treatment	Price
Foot massage, 60 min	250,000–400,000 VND
Body massage, 60 min	300,000–500,000 VND
Body massage, 90 min	450,000–700,000 VND
Hot stone, 90 min	550,000–800,000 VND
Head spa / hair wash, 50–70 min	289,000–500,000 VND
Resort or hotel spa, 60 min	800,000 VND upwards

If you book through Klook or a similar platform, most Hoi An spa treatments come out between $9 – $26 USD, sometimes with pickup included. That’s usually close to the walk-in price and occasionally a bit under it, because spas discount to fill their quiet hours.

At the very bottom end, anywhere advertising sixty minutes for under about 200,000 VND is a gamble. Sometimes it’s a small family place that’s lovely. Sometimes it isn’t. I’d read the last month of reviews before booking one of those.

What to Know Before Your First Massage in Vietnam

Say how hard you want it

More people are disappointed by pressure than by anything else, and it goes both ways.

Traditional Vietnamese massage is firmer than most visitors expect. It uses acupressure, rolling and long deep presses, and if you don’t say anything you’ll usually get strong. The words are nhẹ for light and mạnh for strong. Everyone understands both and nobody minds being told.

The opposite happens at the smarter spas, where you get a soft, uniform, very pleasant hour that does nothing at all for the actual sore spot.

If you’ve come for relief, say strong, point at the two places that hurt, and expect to be asked halfway through whether it’s alright. All five of these will change what they’re doing partway through if you ask.

Bring cash

A couple of spas in Hoi An are cash only, and several add around 3% if you pay by card. It’s easier to just have the notes on you.

Tipping

Tipping isn’t obligatory in Vietnam and none of these places will push you for one. If you were happy with the massage, 50,000 to 100,000 VND handed to the therapist directly is normal. If anyone follows you out to reception asking for more, that’s a place not to go back to. It didn’t happen to me at any of the five.

Booking

You can walk in outside 6 to 8pm. Inside that window, and on rainy afternoons when everyone in town gives up on sightseeing at the same time, the good spas fill up. A WhatsApp message on the morning of is enough and most of them reply within minutes.

One more thing, about picking a place off the street

If you search “Hoi An massage for men” the results get odd quite fast, so it’s worth knowing how to tell the two sorts of business apart. They’re often on the same street.

A normal spa has a printed menu with times and prices you can read from outside, a reception you can see into, staff in uniform, and reviews written by couples and families. The other sort has no visible prices, a curtain across the doorway, and someone outside talking to men as they walk past.

If a place feels off when you put your head round the door, just leave. There are hundreds of others within a ten minute walk.

FAQ

How much is a massage in Hoi An? 300,000 to 500,000 VND for sixty minutes at a good spa, less for feet, considerably more at a resort.

Do I need to book ahead? Only for evening slots and rainy afternoons.

Is Vietnamese massage painful? Firm, not painful, and it stops being firm as soon as you say so.

What do I wear? Disposable shorts are provided, so bring nothing.

Can we get a couples massage? Yes, most of these have double rooms at no extra cost. Mention it when you book, it’s a room allocation and not a package.

Conclusion: The Best Massage in Hoi An

So that’s the five Hoi An massage spas I’ve been to. If you take one thing from this post, make it Ni Spa for the massage itself, Serene if you want the nicer hour, and Ylang Ylang if something is actually sore.

The other bit of advice I’d give is about timing, which took me embarrassingly long to work out. I used to book a massage for the first evening of a trip, when I hadn’t done anything yet. It’s much better on the evening after your longest day.

If you’ve been to any of these recently and something has changed, or you’ve found a spa I’ve missed, leave it in the comments. Places here change hands quickly and I’d rather take something off this list than leave it up when it’s no longer any good.

And if you’re still putting the trip together, I’ve got a Hoi An things to do guide and a post on how many days in Hoi An you actually need.

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