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Updated August 2026 · By the LongDenViet workshop, Ho Chi Minh City
Da Nang does not have a lantern quarter of its own. That is not a knock on the city — it is a beach town, and a good one — but if you are searching for where to buy lanterns in Da Nang, the honest answer is that the craft lives thirty kilometres south, in Hoi An.
That is closer than it sounds. Most visitors staying along My Khe Beach can be in Hoi An's old town in under an hour, or skip the trip entirely and have a set delivered straight to the hotel the next day. Both routes work. This guide lays out which one fits your itinerary.
Da Nang itself is worth a paragraph of its own, since it tends to get treated as a stopover between the airport and Hoi An. It is not — it is a genuine city in its own right, with a long beachfront, its own market culture around Han Market, and enough restaurants and rooftop bars to fill several days without ever leaving the city limits. The lantern question is really the only place where Da Nang defers to its smaller neighbour.
Neither is wrong. It depends on how much of your day you want to spend on a bus.
If you have a free morning or afternoon and enjoy wandering old streets, go to Hoi An yourself. You get to see the lanterns lit at the night market, pick your own colours, and haggle a little. If your days are already booked — diving, the Marble Mountains, a beach club reservation you are not cancelling — ordering ahead is the better use of your time.
Being straight with you
We are LongDenViet, a lantern workshop in Ho Chi Minh City — we do not have a shop in Da Nang. What we do have is a next-day delivery route from our workshop that reaches Da Nang hotels reliably, which is why this page exists.
There is a third option worth mentioning too: some travellers do both. They visit Hoi An once for the atmosphere, buy nothing that day because the stalls are crowded and prices are not fixed, then order the exact shape and colour they remembered once they are back in their Da Nang hotel room with a clearer head and a photo to reference. It sounds indecisive, but it is often the option that leaves people happiest with what actually arrives.
Silk lanterns do double duty here: photo prop by day, warm light by night.
A lantern strung above a balcony rail near My Khe Beach catches the sea breeze and turns gently — it photographs well against the water at golden hour, and lit after dark it gives a resort room the kind of warm glow that overhead hotel lighting never does.
Smaller sizes (20–35 cm) suit a balcony rail or headboard. Larger ones look better hung from a beach-bar awning or villa terrace where there is more overhead space. Either way, the frame folds flat afterward, so it survives the flight home in a suitcase without extra padding.
Coastal air is more humid and saltier than an inland city, which matters for anything metal but does not really touch a lantern — the frame is bamboo, the skin is silk, and neither corrodes. The one practical note: a lantern left permanently outdoors on an exposed balcony will fade faster under direct tropical sun than one brought in during the day, the same as any fabric would.
Worth knowing before you go looking for lanterns downtown.
Han Market, near the river, is Da Nang's main indoor trading market — clothes, food, souvenirs, the usual mix of a busy Vietnamese city market. Dragon Bridge is the after-dark spectacle everyone photographs, breathing fire on weekend nights. My Khe Beach is the reason most people are here at all: long, sandy, and the centre of the resort strip.
Further out, the Golden Bridge at Ba Na Hills and the Marble Mountains draw a full day each if you have the time — neither sells lanterns either, but both are worth the trip on their own terms. Da Nang also has a growing digital-nomad and long-stay expat community drawn by the beach and the relatively low cost of living, and a fair number of that crowd end up ordering a lantern for a rented apartment rather than a hotel room, which the delivery route below covers just as well.
None of these are lantern shopping streets. That craft belongs to Hoi An, a different town with a different history, and pretending otherwise would be doing you a disservice.
Plain silk shapes share one price table; painted, folded and disc shapes run a little higher.
Prices come straight from the workshop — there is no stall-side haggling once you order on WhatsApp, and the figure we quote is the figure you pay. Plain silk in the round, inverted-garlic, banh-u, diamond and custard-apple shapes all share the same size-based table:
The flying-saucer (disc) shape runs a touch higher for the extra folding: 120,000 VND at 30 cm, 150,000 VND at 35 cm, 160,000 VND at 40 cm, 170,000 VND at 45 cm, 270,000 VND at 60 cm. The umbrella shape sits above that again — 140,000 VND at 30 cm, 160,000 VND at 35 cm, 180,000 VND at 40 cm, 210,000 VND at 45 cm, 320,000 VND at 60 cm. Hand-painted lanterns cost the most, since each one is painted by hand rather than printed: 160,000 VND at 30 cm, 220,000 VND at 35 cm, 240,000 VND at 40 cm, 300,000 VND at 45 cm, 500,000 VND at 60 cm, up to 1,800,000 VND at a full metre.
In USD terms that is roughly 1–40 USD depending on size and shape — we quote the exact VND figure on WhatsApp before you pay anything.
Da Nang rooms vary a lot in scale — a resort headboard is not a beach-club terrace.
From our Ho Chi Minh City workshop, through Hoi An, up the coast to your hotel.
The order does not come from a store round the corner — it travels the length of the country, so it helps to see the route rather than just take our word for the timing. Da Nang sits close enough to Hoi An that the two effectively share a delivery day once an order leaves the workshop.
Central Vietnam has a storm season — it affects delivery days more than the lantern itself.
Da Nang and the whole central coast run into their wet season roughly September through November, when tropical storms occasionally slow road and courier traffic for a day or two. It rarely cancels a delivery outright, but if you are ordering during that window and have a firm date — a wedding, a specific check-out day — message us a little earlier than you otherwise would.
Outside that window, from roughly February through August, the coast runs dry and hot, and next-day delivery is close to guaranteed if the order goes in before mid-afternoon. Either way, the lantern itself is unaffected by rain in transit — it ships wrapped, and the fold-flat frame has no exposed silk until you unfold it at the hotel.
Five minutes on your phone, delivered to reception the next day.
Handmade bamboo-and-silk lanterns from our Ho Chi Minh City workshop — same craft as Hoi An, delivered to your door.
Is there a lantern shop in Da Nang itself?
Not a dedicated one in the way Hoi An has its lantern street and night market. Da Nang is a resort and beach city; the handmade silk-lantern craft is centred in Hoi An, about 30 km south. You can visit yourself or have one delivered to your Da Nang hotel.
How much does a silk lantern cost?
Plain silk shapes start at 30,000 VND for a 10 cm lantern and go up to 900,000 VND for a full 100 cm piece; flying-saucer, umbrella and hand-painted styles run a little higher. We confirm the exact price on WhatsApp before you order.
Can a lantern be delivered to my Da Nang hotel or resort?
Yes. Message us the hotel name and room number, and delivery usually arrives the next day if ordered before mid-afternoon. Reception can hold it for you if you are out.
Will a lantern survive the flight home from Da Nang?
Yes — the frame folds flat, down to roughly the size of a dinner plate, so it slides into a suitcase without extra packaging. It opens back out in under a minute at home.
What size lantern suits a Da Nang balcony or resort terrace?
A 30–40 cm lantern works well on a balcony rail or headboard. For a beach-bar awning or villa terrace with more overhead space, 60 cm and above reads better and still folds flat for the flight home.
Do flying-saucer or umbrella shapes cost more than round ones?
Yes, slightly. A 30 cm flying-saucer lantern runs 120,000 VND and a 30 cm umbrella shape 140,000 VND, compared to 90,000 VND for a plain round lantern of the same size — the extra folds take more time to make.
Can a resort or beach bar in Da Nang order lanterns in bulk?
Yes. Tell us the count on WhatsApp and we quote a wholesale price rather than pricing each piece individually — a common request from beach-bar and boutique-hotel owners furnishing a whole terrace.
Does the central Vietnam storm season affect delivery to Da Nang?
Occasionally, roughly September to November when tropical storms can slow courier traffic for a day or two. It rarely stops delivery, but if you have a firm date during that window, message us a little earlier than usual.
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Tell us the shape, colour and size on WhatsApp, and we dispatch the same day — it usually reaches your reception desk the next day.
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