An Thuong and My An: Should You Base Yourself Here? (2026)
An Thuong is a six-to-eight block grid at km 7 on the coast road, between Nguyễn Văn Thoại and Phan Tứ, running back from the beach boulevard. It is the only part of Da Nang you can genuinely live in on foot: cafés, coworking, gyms, bars, laundry and a supermarket inside a ten-minute walk, with the sand five to ten minutes away. Hostels start around $10, boutique rooms run $25–60, and monthly rents are $300–500 for a studio and $400–650 for a one-bed — if you negotiate. English-language listings routinely quote 30–100% over local rates, which is the single most important thing to know before you sign anything here.
The grid, decoded
Eight blocks, three streets that matter, and one of them is the reason people come.
The streets are literally numbered — An Thuong 1 through 7 and beyond — which makes this the easiest neighbourhood in Vietnam to navigate and the hardest to describe, because the numbers carry no meaning until someone tells you which ones matter. Three do.
Ngô Thì Sĩ is the bar spine. Craft taprooms, The Tipsy Expat, Corner Pub, sports bars, and the backpacker centre of gravity. Weekdays it closes around midnight, weekends 02:00–03:00. An Thuong 6 is the centre of activity — the densest run of cafés and restaurants, and where the neighbourhood feels most like a neighbourhood. An Thuong 4 is the Korean strip, K-BBQ and Korean cafés, feeding the city's largest source market since 2016; it continues on An Thuong 8 and out onto Phạm Văn Đồng. See the Korean quarter for the eating side of that.
The boulevard on the seaward edge is Võ Nguyên Giáp, which is where the hotel wall and the beach access sit. Cross it and you are on the sand. Everything else here is behind that line: the further back from the boulevard you go, the cheaper and quieter it gets, and the more Vietnamese the street becomes. That gradient is the whole economics of the area in one sentence.
Distances that matter, measured along the coast road: the My Khe strip is 2.5km north, Man Thai 4.5km north, Lady Buddha about 9km north, the Marble Mountains 4km south, Non Nuoc 5km south and Hoi An 23km south. Hai Chau is about 3km west across the river.
An Thuong prices, nightly and monthly
Two markets run side by side here: a nightly one for travellers and a monthly one for the people who never left. The nightly rates are honest and posted. The monthly ones are negotiable, and the gap between what you are quoted and what your Vietnamese neighbour pays is the subject of the next section.
| What | Price | What you get | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostel dorm | from ~$10 a night | The An Thuong hostel cluster, most of it within a block or two of Ngo Thi Si. This is where solo travellers meet people in Da Nang — the alternative is $5–8 dorms on Tran Phu in Hai Chau, which are cheaper and far less social. | WORTH IT |
| Boutique hotel or apartment | $25–60 a night | Small independent properties inside the grid, usually with a rooftop pool. Cheaper than the beachfront wall 2.5km north and you get a neighbourhood instead of a corridor. | WORTH IT |
| Studio, monthly | $300–500 a month | The nomad default. Furnished, air-conditioned, usually in a small block with an elevator. Utilities add $50–80 on top because the air-conditioning runs constantly. | WORTH IT |
| One-bed apartment, monthly | $400–650 a month | More space, a real kitchen, and the band where the foreigner markup bites hardest. A Vietnamese renter is commonly paying 6–9 million₫ for what is quoted to you at 14–19 million₫. | DEPENDS |
| Pool building, monthly | $550–850 a month | The serviced blocks with a rooftop pool and a gym, which is what most of the Instagram version of Da Nang nomad life actually is. Worth it if you will use the pool daily; otherwise you are paying $200 a month for a photograph. | DEPENDS |
| Coworking desk | $72–100 a month | Seaview runs about $72–85 for a 24/7 ninth-floor ocean-view desk; ACE is around $100. Day passes are roughly 150,000₫. Spaces genuinely fill up in the December to April peak. | WORTH IT |
Rates checked August 2026. Add $10–20 a month for fibre at 150+ Mbps and $40–60 for a scooter. A comfortable single person's total here lands at $1,000–1,500 a month; lean is about $800. Full breakdown on what Da Nang costs.
The foreigner markup on An Thuong rentals
Expect a foreigner price and negotiate against it. In An Thuong the same apartment is commonly listed at 6–9 million₫ to a Vietnamese renter and 14–19 million₫ in English — a 30–100% gap that is standard, not exceptional. The same logic runs through the Vo Nguyen Giap seafood barns (per-kg quoted, per-100g billed), scooter rental damage deposits and beach loungers. None of it is dangerous. All of it is avoidable by asking the price first, in writing, before you commit.
| What you are renting | Quoted in English | The local price | The gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| One-bed apartment in the An Thuong gridThe defining gap in this neighbourhood. Same building, same floor, different language of enquiry. | 14–19 million₫/mo | 6–9 million₫/mo | +100% |
| Furnished one-bed in My AnOne or two streets back from the grid, at rates a resident pays. The quality difference is close to nothing. | about $500/mo | about $283/mo | +77% |
| Hot desk at ACE or Seaview coworkingPublished rates on a wall. Coworking is the one thing here with a genuinely fixed price. | $72–100/mo | $72–100/mo | same price |
| A month on a rented scooterAlso flat. It is the damage deposit and the inspection at the end that vary — photograph every scratch on day one. | $40–60/mo | $40–60/mo | same price |
None of this is illegal and almost none of it is aggressive. The fix is boring and it works: ask what the Vietnamese price is, ask in writing, and hunt in person rather than through English listings. The Facebook expat groups — 60,000-plus members across the Da Nang and Hoi An ones — are where residents actually find apartments. Book one or two weeks in a hotel first, then walk the streets you are considering.
What the grid actually is
Everything that makes this neighbourhood work, and the one thing that is eroding it.
What has changed here, and what My An offers instead
Busier and pricier every year, and the residents say so louder than the visitors do.
The 2025–26 mood in An Thuong is best summarised as noticeably busier and pricier. Rents have moved, the cafés have multiplied, and the grid that people describe as a discovery in 2019 blog posts is now a well-known and heavily commercialised eight blocks. Two specific complaints come up constantly and both are real: construction noise — drilling at 01:00, pile-drivers at 05:00 — and the general sense that the area is being built out faster than it is being planned. The universal resident advice follows from that: never rent sight-unseen. Sleep a few nights in a hotel, walk the street at 07:00 and again at 22:00, and look up for scaffolding.
The answer to that, for a lot of people, is not to leave the area but to move one frame outward. Mỹ An proper — the ward around the grid rather than the grid itself — is quieter, more residential and more Vietnamese, and it is where the balance-seeking long-stayers end up. A furnished one-bed at local rates runs about $283 a month. XLIII does the specialty coffee that the laptop crowd rates highest, and Bắc Mỹ An Market at km 8.5 is a working local market rather than a tourist one — it is also the actual home of kem bơ, blended avocado over coconut ice cream, at 8,000–30,000₫.
The other direction is cheaper still: Man Thai at km 2.5 or Khuê Mỹ down at km 11 roughly halve An Thuong beachfront rents, and both are perfectly workable with a scooter. What you give up is the walk to the café. That is a bigger loss than it sounds if you work from one.
An Thuong and My An, practically
Where to stay inside the An Thuong grid
Search the neighbourhood rather than the city — An Thuong prices sit well below the beachfront wall 2.5km north for the same standard of room, and you get a walkable street instead of a boulevard. Filter for a high floor and read the reviews for the word "construction" before you commit to more than a few nights.
An Thuong FAQ
Where exactly is An Thuong in Da Nang?
It is the numbered-street grid at km 7 on the coast road, on the beach side of the river, bounded roughly by Nguyen Van Thoai to the north, Phan Tu to the south and Vo Nguyen Giap on the seaward edge. Streets are named An Thuong 1 through 7 and beyond. My An is the wider ward around it.
Is An Thuong a good place to stay in Da Nang?
Yes, if you are staying more than about five nights or you are working. It is the only genuinely walkable neighbourhood in the city — cafés, coworking, gyms, bars and food inside eight blocks, with the beach a 5–10 minute walk. For a short first trip, the My Khe beachfront 2.5km north is the easier answer because the sand is across the road.
How much is rent in An Thuong per month?
Studios run $300–500, one-beds $400–650 and buildings with a rooftop pool $550–850, plus $50–80 in utilities. Those are English-listing prices. A Vietnamese renter commonly pays 6–9 million₫ where you are quoted 14–19 million₫ for the same one-bed, so treat the first number you are given as an opening position.
What is the foreigner markup on Da Nang rentals?
Between 30% and 100% on apartments listed in English, and it is standard rather than exceptional. The fix is to hunt in person and through the Facebook expat groups rather than English listing sites, and to ask what the Vietnamese price is before you negotiate. See what Da Nang costs for the wider two-price problem.
Which street in An Thuong should I stay on?
Not Ngo Thi Si if you want to sleep — it is the bar spine and runs to 02:00 or 03:00 at weekends. An Thuong 6 is the centre of activity and the best compromise; the streets furthest back from Vo Nguyen Giap are the quietest and cheapest. An Thuong 4 is the Korean strip, which is excellent for eating and busy at night.
Is An Thuong walkable to the beach?
Five to ten minutes on foot, depending on which block you are on. Cross Vo Nguyen Giap and you are on My Khe sand. That is the entire argument for the neighbourhood — it is the only place in Da Nang where you can live without a scooter and still swim daily.
How much is coworking in Da Nang?
Seaview is about $72–85 a month for a 24/7 desk with a ninth-floor ocean view, and ACE is around $100. Day passes run roughly 150,000₫. Spaces fill up between December and April, which is the Western nomad peak. Full picture on the nomad guide.
Is An Thuong noisy?
Yes, in patches, and it is the number one resident complaint in this city. Construction drilling at 01:00 and pile-drivers at 05:00 are a genuine genre of local grievance, and karaoke runs late. Nothing about a listing photograph tells you this — book a hotel for a week and scout the street before signing anything.
with a beach,
minus the visa.
An Thuong is the reason the nomad label sticks to Da Nang: a walkable grid, 150+ Mbps fibre for $10–20 a month, coworking from $72, and the sand five minutes away with no burning season. What it does not have is visa certainty — there is no digital nomad visa and no retirement visa, so the standard play is a $50 90-day multiple-entry e-visa and a border run, repeatedly. That is the single structural weakness in the whole proposition and it is worth understanding before you ship your life here.
Read the nomad guide