Vietnam Cycling Tour

You reserve your spot for free and pay nothing to join. Once enough travellers have signed on, usually around 10, we confirm the departure and email you a confirmation with an invoice for the full trip price. You pay it by card or bank transfer within 7 days, in US dollars, pounds, euros, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, New Zealand dollars or Indian rupees. Reservations close 7 days before departure.

Yes. A road bike and helmet for the week come from a local rental partner, and they're fitted to you on Day 1. You don't need to bring or ship your own bike.

Solo travellers aged 18 to 40 who want a genuine cycling trip. Most people come on their own, and some come with a friend. The maximum for each departure is shown with its dates. Group cycling on shared roads works best kept small, so this trip runs smaller than SoloNomads' non-cycling trips.

The Trip Host rides with the group for all seven days, sets the pace, and is the person you go to if anything goes wrong. A licensed local agency and licensed local guides deliver the ground services, including the support van and bike rental.

It starts at our hotel in Hue on the afternoon of Day 1, and we send the address when you book. It ends in Hoi An on the morning of Day 7. Fly into Hue (HUI) and home from Da Nang (DAD).

March to May is the best time to ride this route, and the departures run in those months. Hue and Da Nang are mostly dry and warm, with highs of about 28 to 34°C by May, so early starts help. We don't run this trip from about September to December, when typhoons and heavy rain can flood Hue and Hoi An, and October and November are usually the worst months.

Some passports get 45 days visa-free in Vietnam and others need an e-visa. Rules change, so check our Vietnam visa guide for your passport before you book flights. Only apply on the official site, evisa.gov.vn, and fill in the free pre-arrival form before you land.

We stay in small hotels and guesthouses picked for location: central Hue, a beach guesthouse in Lang Co, and a short walk from Hoi An's old town. You share a twin room with a traveller of the same gender. Four meals are included. Street food and local restaurants cost about 30,000 to 100,000 dong a dish, so budget roughly 400,000 to 600,000 dong a day for other meals and drinks, a bit more in Hoi An.

The bike and helmet come from us, along with a repair kit. Bring padded cycling shorts if you have them, comfortable trainers or your own cycling shoes and pedals if you use clip-ins (flat pedals are fitted as standard, so this is optional), sunglasses, sunscreen and a light rain jacket. Off the bike you'll want light, breathable clothes, something that covers your shoulders and knees for temples, a swimsuit for An Bang beach, a refillable water bottle and a phone pouch you can wear while riding.

Yes, it's a condition of joining, and it must cover you for guided cycling touring as well as medical treatment and evacuation. Check your policy before you book. Many standard policies cover organised, guided cycling, but confirm it with your provider rather than assuming.

You should be comfortable riding 55 to 75 km on consecutive days, including one sustained climb of about 500 metres over roughly 10 km on Day 4. Day 3 is about 65 km, mostly flat, so you'll arrive at the foot of the pass with a long day already in your legs. You don't need racing fitness or climbing experience, and clip-in pedals are optional, but you do need to have ridden a bike regularly in the months before the trip. This isn't a trip to start cycling on.

That's fine, and it's common. The support van follows the group on every riding day, and you can hop in for any stretch, including all or part of the Hai Van Pass climb, and rejoin the group further on.