Coworking and remote work in Vietnam

Prices below come from listings and travel sites that disagree with each other, so they are rough. Confirm with the space.

• Hanoi. One 2026 guide puts drop-in passes at about 150,000 to 250,000 dong a day ¹. A global operator lists day access from about 390,000 dong in the city ².
• Ho Chi Minh City. A booking site, last updated May 2026, shows day passes from about 315,000 dong ³. Another guide puts day rates at about 180,000 to 250,000 dong for some local spaces ¹.
• Da Nang. A guide puts a day pass at about 5 to 8 US dollars ¹. One list gives a very low figure for one space. Check before you go, because we treat that figure as an outlier.
• Monthly desks. A hot desk in a premium space is reported at about 80 to 150 US dollars a month in Ho Chi Minh City ¹. Check before you go.
• VAT. Many listings leave out 10 percent VAT ¹.

Spaces named in guides include Toong, Dreamplex, CirCO and Enouvo Space. A name is not a recommendation, and we have not visited them.

1. Buy a day pass first, and for a month's plan, a week.
2. Test the wifi with a video call, not a speed test alone.
3. Sit in the chair for a full day. Check the noise, the light and the opening hours.
4. Ask about meeting rooms and phone booths if you take calls.
5. Check whether you can pause or cancel a monthly desk.

Many cafes welcome laptops, and it is the free option. A 2026 guide gives these norms ⁴:

• One drink in an independent cafe usually buys about 3 to 4 hours. Order again every 2 to 3 hours.
• Avoid laptops at cafes that serve food from about 11:30 to 13:30, when tables are needed for lunch.
• Small heritage cafes with a dozen seats or fewer are not workspaces.
• Music is louder than in many Western cafes, and upper floors are quieter. Take calls outside or in a paid room.
• Work cafes in Da Nang, Da Lat and Ho Chi Minh City often have a socket at every table. Chains usually have sockets only along walls, so those seats fill early. Garden cafes and rooftops often have none.
• Independent cafes often close between 18:00 and 21:00. Chains often run 7:00 to 22:00.

• Median city speeds reported for April 2026 were about 132 Mbps down in Da Nang and about 241 Mbps in Hoi An. Chains and coworking in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City run roughly 50 to 300 Mbps or more ⁴. These are city medians, not measurements inside a cafe.
• Speed is rarely the problem. A crowded room and a 2.4 GHz-only network cause most slow calls ⁴.
• In rural homestays, speeds of 5 to 30 Mbps and spotty calls are reported ⁴.
• Keep a SIM or eSIM with data as a backup, and sit near the router ⁴.

• Time. Vietnam is on one time zone, UTC+7, all year. It does not change its clocks ⁵. A call with the US means an early morning or a late evening for you. Work out the offset for your own city and the season, because their clocks change and Vietnam's do not.
• Power. Mains is 220 volts at 50 Hz, with type A, C and F sockets ⁴. Many two-pin plugs fit. A short extension lead helps.

All pages were read or seen in search on Oct 20, 2026. Prices are rough listing prices.

1. Search summaries of 2026 digital nomad and coworking guides in Vietnam (day-pass and monthly prices; seen in search): digital-nomad-guides.com
2. Regus, "Coworking space in Hanoi" (seen in search): regus.com
3. Workin.space, "Coworking day pass in Ho Chi Minh City", updated May 2026 (seen in search): book.workin.space
4. Day Trips Vietnam, "Work-friendly cafes in Vietnam 2026", Aug 17, 2026 (cafe norms, speeds, sockets, hours, backup): daytripsvietnam.com
5. Vietnam Spot, "Vietnam time zone 2026: UTC+7" (single time zone, no daylight saving; seen in search): vietnamspot.ru