Tuan Chau Island – Your Getaway to Paradise

Evidence of the ever-increasing pull of Halong Bay can be seen best at Tuan Chau Island, the main harbor providing access to the UNESCO World Heritage Site. The island has become a destination of its own making in recent years, with an array of food, drink, accommodation, and entertainment options available to those awaiting passage into the limestone seascape ahead of them.

Halong Bay is a must for your jouney to Vietnam and you can consider Tuan Chau Island when you visit Halong Bay.

As Halong Bay’s popularity has grown immensely in recent years, Tuan Chau Island has been increasingly expanded to its current capacity of an astounding 2000 ships, waiting for passengers in what has been recognized as the largest artificial harbor in the world. About 43 million USD (10,000,000,000 VND) has been pumped into Tuan Chau Island since the dawn of tourism in Halong Bay, which is larger than many villages across Vietnam’s countryside.

Tuan Chau Island

More than a just a Harbour

Due to its separation from Halong city, many tourists opt to stay on Tuan Chau Island and enjoy the wealth of activities that place it well above other harbors around the country. Much of the incredible amounts of money spent on Tuan Chau Island have been for attracting visitors and enticing them to spend their own money before their cruise has even begun.

Tuan Chau Beach – Like the island itself, Tuan Chau beach is completely artificial, made from scratch during the construction of the seaborne harbor. The sun faces directly eastwards into the bay and therefore provides an excellent place to watch the sunrise beyond the karst spires of the bay. Despite its constructed nature, Tuan Chau beach is incredibly realistic and offers the perfect picture of paradise across white sands, windswept palm trees and attractive beach huts made from straw and wood.

Tuan Chau Beach

The Restaurants – Given the diversity of passengers to Halong Bay, Tuan Chau Island has matched it with a diverse selection of restaurants and food courts for hungry customers before the start of their cruise. Vietnamese food is offered alongside other East Asian cuisines, as well as Indian, Italian and American, lending a slice of home for visitors to Halong Bay.

The Bars and Cafes – Passengers wanting a celebratory pre-cruise drink can do so at any of the bars on Tuan Chau Island, serving beer, cocktails and wines to suit every budget. In the daytime, visitors are reminded of which country they are in with an array of cafes serving Vietnamese coffee in all of its forms.

Entertainment Shows – A circus and a martial arts showing are on display almost every day of the week on Tuan Chau Island, keeping passengers entertained ahead of their sailing.

Accommodation – Hotels in Tuan Chau Island range up to 4-star beachfront offerings with sweeping views over the ocean and forested mountains in the distance. For tourists looking for more upmarket accommodation than this, then Halong city itself can fulfill such a desire.

Dolphin Show on Tuan Chau Island

How to get to Tuan Chau Island

Tuan Chau Island is the endpoint for tours from Hanoi, which lies about 150km and 2.5 – 3 hours to the west. The vast majority of tourists don’t need to concern themselves with how to get there, as tour companies have return transfer services available from Hanoi and this is by far the easiest and usually the cheapest way to get to the harbor. Some passengers prefer the use of a private car to transfer from the capital, but for those looking for more of a challenge, public bus and train services are available.

What tours can you do from Tuan Chau

From Tuan Chau you can book a Halong Bay cruise or Lan Ha Bay cruise and stay overnight on cruise for visiting beautiful Halong Bay. It is easy to book a cruise in Halong Bay with Vietanm Escape Tours Travel as our website is friendly for booking online. You can chooe the date, how many people you are and click to the booking to choose if you wish to book a transfer together or not then you can submit a cruise in Halong Bay. Please contact us for more detail.