Asia Park Da Nang: Is It Worth It? | Vietnam

One thing I love to do when I travel is visit theme parks! So when I was planning my Hoi An and Da Nang itinerary I knew I wanted to visit Ba Na Hills and Asia Park. They are both owned and operated by the Sunworld company. Check out the post ‘Ba Na Hills: Is It Worth It‘ for a full review of that park, but what did I think of Asia Park in Da Nang?

Asia Park

• 🗺️1 Phan Đăng Lưu, Hoà Cường Bắc, Hải Châu, Đà Nẵng, Vietnam
• 🕐3pm – 10pm (Monday to Sunday)
• 💰Free entry (Wristbands and ride tickets have a fee)

Where Ba Na Hills is located up in the mountains, Asia Park is actually located in Da Nang city centre.

When I booked my hotel, I originally planned to walk to the park, so I purposely chose one not too far away. However when the receptionist asked me about my plans while in Da Nang, and I said ‘Asia Park’, she didn’t have a clue where I meant!

(The Grab taxi there cost me 44k, and the one back to my hotel cost 57k)

It’s open every day from 3pm until 10pm. Entry to the park is free, but you can pay extra depending on how many rides you want. I paid 250k for an unlimited ride ‘All-In-One’ wristband (about £8). You can also just buy a ticket for the Sun Wheel for 75k.

Now the way I understood it from the website, is that it’s a bit like an Asian version of Disney’s Epcot. It has different ‘pavilions’:

• Singapore
• Nepal
• Cambodia
• Thailand
• India
• China
• Korea
• Japan
• and Vietnam

Honestly, the theming was a bit lost on me. There was the odd statue of a panda or a dragon and that was about it. Cambodia was the only real obvious one. Everything was written in English (which was great as an English-speaking person), but it then didn’t even have the different languages to help differentiate between the zones.

Rides & Attractions

There are 19 rides and attractions altogether. Unlike the rides at Ba Na Hills, the ones at Asia Park are more like proper theme park-style rides. However, there are only about eight that are suitable for adults.

Before I visited I checked online and it said only one of them was ‘suspended’. When I got to the park, there were actually THREE suspended…leaving only five thrill rides.

If you are a family looking for something to do in the evening, Asia Park may be a good option. Especially as adults can enter for free and only child wristbands would need to be paid for. But as a solo adult, in hindsight, I would have done some things differently.

I did enjoy the observation wheel, you can pay for this individually (£2.50) and I did like the views across Da Nang. As I only wanted to ride this and the thrill rides, rather than the kids rides, I didn’t think the All-In-One wristband was worth it for me. Especially with 3 out of the 8 larger rides being suspended during my visit.

I ended up going on seven rides in total (a couple I went on more than once):

• Sun Wheel – This is one of the main attractions, a 115m observation wheel that takes 15 minutes to do a full rotation. The views across the city are quite good. You can see Dragon Bridge, Marble Mountains, and the airport!
• Paradise Falls – probably my favourite ride. A launch rollercoaster where you sit on a quad bike.
• Port of Sky Treasure – A runaway train-style rollercoaster. I enjoyed this one too.
• Queen Cobra – Their ‘Must Try’ rollercoaster reaching speeds of 80kph with five 360-degree twists. Honestly, it was incredibly rough and gave me a headache. I went on it twice, on different parts of the train and it was just as rough at the front and nearer the back.
• The Flying Kirins – A pirate ship. I couldn’t sit right at the back due to weight balance and had to move to a lower seat. Fair enough, but I tried to make it as thrilling as I could by wanting to sit as high as possible…
• Ninja Flyer – Spinning ride where you lay on your front.
• Love Locks – Typical fairground ride that spins round in a circle super fast…then does the same in reverse. I started questioning my life choices.

Another thing I found a bit strange is that everything had a staggered opening. Online it said the rides opened at 3pm and the Sun Wheel opened at 4.30pm. My original plan was to do the rides at 3pm, stay until the Sun Wheel opened, and then leave around 5pm time to go and get something to eat.

With the staggered opening times, several of the ‘thrill’ rides didn’t open until 5.15pm. One ended up not opening until 6.45pm. I stayed because I had paid for the wristband but there was a lot of hanging around and I ended up getting bored waiting for things to open. (Many of the kids rides all opened from 3pm).

If I was aware of this in advance, I would have gone there later on, at more like 6pm. All the rides were walk-on, so it’s not like I had to hang around in lines either. I may have had a different opinion if I had gone later, instead of hanging around a near-empty park for what ended up being 4 hours.

I would recommend going later rather than earlier.

Food & Drink

Maybe the business plan is to keep people there longer. Because I did end up then eating at the park, just for something to do. In the middle, there is a ‘street food’ street with a handful of different vendors.

I had a Korean-style corn dog, with potatoes squished into the batter (that tasted a bit like chips), for 39k. It was OK, nothing to particularly write home about. And then I had an avocado ice lolly for 25k, which was quite nice.

Final Words

I had high expectations for Asia Park, but unfortunately, I was a bit disappointed. Especially after I had visited Ba Na Hills and I absolutely LOVED it. In comparison, yes Ba Na Hills much more expensive, but I spent 8.5 hours there and thought it was great.

Being a sister park, it feels like they do put more effort and money into Ba Na Hills and Asia Park is kinda just left on the sidelines.

I’d seen lots on social media about people visiting the abandoned waterpark near Hue, Asia Park gave me a similar feeling. I didn’t have to wait for people to get out of my photos..because there were next to no people in the park.

As mentioned, if the online communication had prepared me a little better, I may not have been quite so disappointed. If I was aware that:

• more of the rides were actually closed than what was listed online (they looked fully shut, not even like a temporary closure).
• there were staggered opening times – I would have arrived later and not had so much time hanging around.
• I think families with younger children would enjoy it much more.

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Last Updated on May 23, 2025