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How Much Is a Massage in Hội An? We Read Ten Spa Menus to Find Out

We read the published menus of ten Hội An spas on 7 November 2026. The cheapest full-body hour runs from 370,000 to 550,000₫, with a median of 430,000₫, about US$17. Here is the same count for oil, foot, Thai and hot stone massage, why guides say 150,000₫ and resorts 1,400,000₫, and where our own menu sits, including where it is the dearest.

Nghê Prana EditorialNovember 7, 20268 min

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How much is a massage in Hội An? About 430,000₫, roughly US$17, for a 60-minute full-body massage at a spa that publishes its prices. That is the median of the cheapest all-day hour on ten Hội An spa menus we read on 7 November 2026, which ran from 370,000 to 550,000₫. Two of the ten print a 30% discount beside the price, which takes that hour down to 290,000 and 320,000₫. One resort spa's published hour is more than three times that, and a local guide puts budget massage lower still. We are Nghê Prana, a riverside hotel on the Thu Bồn with a spa of our own, and our prices are in the table too, including the treatment where we are the dearest on the list.

How much is a massage in Hội An? The short answer

60 minutes, per personLowestMedianHighestMenusNghê Prana
Cheapest full-body hour on the menu370,000₫430,000₫550,000₫10450,000₫
Oil or aroma massage370,000₫465,000₫550,000₫10450,000₫
Vietnamese massage390,000₫412,500₫460,000₫6520,000₫, with herbal compress
Hot stone massage450,000₫480,000₫550,000₫7520,000₫
Thai massage440,000₫525,000₫600,000₫8570,000₫
Foot massage290,000₫382,500₫440,000₫8450,000₫
The cheapest hour, taken for 90 minutes500,000₫605,000₫750,000₫10600,000₫

At 26,000₫ to the dollar, 430,000₫ is about US$17 and the whole range of the first row is about US$14 to US$21. Every figure is the printed price before any discount, read on 7 November 2026.

How we counted. We opened the websites of Hội An spas that appear in Google's results for massage in the town and read each menu. We kept the ten that print a duration next to a price in text we could read. From each we took the printed price for an adult, on offer all day, before any discount. A median is the middle value, so one expensive menu does not pull it up. Three more menus were left out: two give "from" prices with no duration, and one prints a column of prices we could not match to treatment names. We have not named the ten, because this page is not a ranking of our neighbours; each price is on the spa's own website. Only one of the ten dates its list (September 2026); the other nine carry no date, so they show what each site displayed on 7 November.

Vietnamese 500,000 dong banknotes fanned out on a table, with gold rings resting on them
The median hour on the ten menus, 430,000₫, is less than one of these 500,000₫ notes.

Why does the same hour have so many prices?

Seven things move the number. None of them is a catch; they are the questions that make two menus comparable.

  • Printed price or sale price. Four of the ten advertise a discount: two print 30% off beside each price, one shows 20% off and one up to 10%. On those two menus the printed 415,000₫ and 460,000₫ hours become 290,000₫ and 320,000₫.
  • Time of day. One menu has a 360,000₫ hour that runs only from 8:00 to noon, which is why it is not in our count.
  • Which massage. The cheapest hour on a menu is usually a plain Vietnamese or aroma massage. At the median, Thai costs about 60,000₫ more than oil.
  • Minutes. Going from 60 to 90 minutes adds 130,000 to 200,000₫ on the ten menus, with a median of 152,500₫. On our menu it adds 150,000₫.
  • One person or two. Most menus price per person, and at least one prints a price per couple. Read which.
  • Pickup. Five of the ten advertise free pickup in Hội An. Some attach conditions, such as 90 minutes or two guests.
  • The final bill. One of the ten says in writing that nothing is added to the printed price. The other nine do not say on the pages we read, so it is worth asking.

Why do guides say 150,000₫ and resorts 1,400,000₫?

WherePriceSource
Budget massage, duration not given150,000–350,000₫Hội An villa's price guide, 4 June 2026
After a printed 30% discount, 60 min290,000–320,000₫two of our ten menus, 7 November 2026
Day spa with a published menu, 60 min370,000–550,000₫, median 430,000₫our count of ten menus, 7 November 2026
Mid-range spa, 60 min400,000–800,000₫VietnamSpot, prices as of July 2026
Premium spa, 60 min800,000–1,800,000₫VietnamSpot, prices as of July 2026
Resort spa south of Hội An, 60 min1,400,000₫the resort's booking page, 7 November 2026

These figures do not contradict each other; they measure different places. Our count only sees spas with a website and a readable menu, which is the part of the market a visitor can check from a phone. The budget band comes from a price guide published by a Hội An villa, which also gives 150,000 to 350,000₫ for a foot massage and 250,000 to 500,000₫ for a Vietnamese massage, with no method stated. Those may be the small shops that do not appear in search results; we could not check them. VietnamSpot's guide gives no budget figure for Hội An at all, and starts at 400,000₫. Its premium band for an hour ends at 1,800,000₫, and the one resort hour we could read sits inside it, at 1,400,000₫. The same page lists 90 minutes at 1,850,000₫ and does not say whether tax is included.

For the same comparison across the whole country, from a pavement in Hồ Chí Minh City to a resort in Cần Thơ, see massage prices in Vietnam.

An empty spa room with a white massage table, a rolled towel and two oval mirrors on a wood-panelled wall
Our count compares printed prices only; it says nothing about the room that comes with the hour.

Where our own menu sits

60 minutesNghê PranaMedianMenus lower than oursMenus higher
Oil massage450,000₫465,000₫2 of 10 (1 the same)7
Cheapest full-body hour450,000₫430,000₫6 of 104
Hot stone520,000₫480,000₫5 of 72
Thai570,000₫525,000₫7 of 81
Foot massage450,000₫382,500₫8 of 80

So the honest answer is this: our oil massage is priced just under the town's middle, and our other treatments are priced above theirs. Our foot massage is the dearest of the nine prices we compared. Our Vietnamese massage, at 520,000₫, costs more than all six on the list, and it is a different treatment, built around a warm herbal compress. If the lowest price is what you want, there are cheaper hours in Hội An, and a printed discount widens the gap. They are a perfectly good choice. A price says nothing about how good the massage is, and we did not try to measure that.

A therapist in a patterned tunic placing dark heated stones along a guest's upper back
On five of the seven menus, hot stone costs the same as oil. On ours it costs 70,000₫ more.

What our price includes

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  • Our price is the bill. Final, VAT included, no service charge, nothing added at the desk.
  • A private room with a door that closes, and for two, the couple's room with two beds side by side.
  • A consultation before you start: pressure, your health, and a body map where you tap a zone once to focus on it and twice to avoid it.
  • A male or a female therapist on request; write it in the booking note.
  • For hotel guests, 15% off spa treatments, which takes the 450,000₫ hour to 382,500₫. That discount is for in-house guests only. Visitors get a fresh drink after the treatment.
  • Free pickup to the spa from anywhere in Hội An, hotel guest or not. It is one way, to the spa, and as the count above shows, several spas in town offer one too. We are 3.2 km from the Old Town, so it keeps the trip simple; massage near the Old Town has the details.

How much is a massage for two in Hội An?

Double the per-person price: about 860,000₫ for two at the median cheapest hour, and 900,000₫ for two oil massages here, side by side in the couple's room. Only two things on our menu cost less when two of you take them: the private jacuzzi, 300,000₫ each for 30 minutes against 400,000₫ alone, and the private herbal steam, 250,000₫ each for 20 minutes against 300,000₫ alone. What 900,000₫ for two gets you walks through the afternoon, and the couple spa page is where to book it.

Do you tip for a massage in Hội An?

It is optional. If you would like to, we suggest 50,000 to 100,000₫ for an hour, handed to your therapist. The reasoning is on tipping for a massage in Vietnam.

Do you remove all your clothes for a full-body massage?

Not here. For the oil, hot stone, herbal, bamboo and pregnancy treatments you undress to your underwear, which stays on for the whole treatment, and a towel covers you throughout; only the area being worked on is uncovered. For Thai massage without oil and for the foot massage you stay fully dressed. Nghê Prana is a licensed hotel spa and every treatment is therapeutic: there are no sexual services of any kind. The treatment-by-treatment answer is on what to wear to a massage.

What we could not verify

Five limits, stated plainly. This is ten menus, not every spa in Hội An, and it leaves out every shop without a readable website. We read websites; we did not phone or visit, and only one list carries a date, so a price may have changed since it was posted. The budget band rests on one guide with no stated method. We could read only one resort price: other resort pages either refused our request or printed no price. And we counted prices only, so this page cannot tell you which hour is the better massage. The one set of figures we can vouch for is our own, read from our live menu on 7 November 2026.

How to book

Nghê Prana Riverside Hotel & Spa, Hẻm 384 Nguyễn Tri Phương, Cẩm Nam, Hội An, on the Thu Bồn, 3.2 km from the Old Town, about 10 minutes by bicycle or 6 by car. The spa is open from 9:00 to 21:00 every day and takes visitors as well as hotel guests. See the full menu on the wellness page, book on the online form, or message +84 896 687 961 on WhatsApp or Zalo; for the free pickup, send your location and the time you would like, and we reply within 15 minutes. Booking for two? Start at the couple spa page.

Spa prices read from the published menus of ten Hội An spas on 7 November 2026; dollar figures at 26,000₫ = US$1. Budget band from a Hội An villa's guide (4 June 2026); mid-range and premium bands from VietnamSpot (prices as of July 2026, page updated 27 September 2026); resort price from a resort's booking page; all read on 7 November 2026. Nghê Prana prices from our live spa menu, read the same day. If our menu and this page ever disagree, the menu stands and we correct the page.

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Frequently asked questions

How much is a massage in Hoi An?

About 430,000₫, roughly US$17, for a 60-minute full-body massage at a spa that publishes its prices. That is the median of the cheapest all-day hour on ten Hội An spa menus read on 7 November 2026, which ran from 370,000 to 550,000₫, counting the printed price before any discount. Two of the ten print a 30% discount, which takes that hour to 290,000 and 320,000₫.

How much is a foot massage in Hoi An?

The eight menus with a 60-minute foot massage ran from 290,000 to 440,000₫, with a median of 382,500₫, read on 7 November 2026. Ours is 450,000₫, the dearest of the nine prices we compared.

How much is a Thai or hot stone massage in Hoi An?

On the menus we read on 7 November 2026, 60 minutes of Thai massage ran from 440,000 to 600,000₫ with a median of 525,000₫ (eight menus), and hot stone from 450,000 to 550,000₫ with a median of 480,000₫ (seven menus). Ours are 570,000₫ and 520,000₫.

How much more does a 90-minute massage cost in Hoi An?

Going from 60 to 90 minutes adds 130,000 to 200,000₫ on the ten menus we read on 7 November 2026, with a median of 152,500₫. On our menu it adds 150,000₫: the oil massage goes from 450,000₫ to 600,000₫.

How much is a resort spa massage in Hoi An?

One resort south of Hội An lists 1,400,000₫ for 60 minutes and 1,850,000₫ for 90 on its booking page, read on 7 November 2026, without saying whether tax is included. VietnamSpot's guide gives a premium band of 800,000 to 1,800,000₫ for an hour, with prices as of July 2026.

Is Nghê Prana the cheapest spa in Hoi An?

No. Six of the ten menus we read on 7 November 2026 have a cheaper hour than our 450,000₫, and our foot massage is the dearest of nine prices. Our oil massage is close to the middle, at 450,000₫ against a median of 465,000₫. Our price is final, with VAT included and no service charge.

References & Sources

  1. Nghê Prana Editorial (2026). Count of the published menus of ten Hội An spas, read 7 November 2026 — printed price for an adult, on offer all day, before any discount; medians computed by us; spas not named on this page. Nghê Prana.
  2. Hoi An Luna Villa (2026). Hoi An Massage Price Guide 2026 – What Is Worth Paying For? — posted 4 June 2026; budget massage 150,000–350,000 VND, foot massage 150,000–350,000, traditional Vietnamese 250,000–500,000; no method stated (read 7 November 2026). lunavilla.vn. View source
  3. VietnamSpot (2026). Spa in Vietnam: Treatments, Prices & Where to Go 2026 — updated 27 September 2026, prices as of July 2026; Hoi An 60 minutes: mid-range 400,000–800,000 VND, premium 800,000–1,800,000; no budget figure for Hoi An (read 7 November 2026). vietnamspot.ru. View source
  4. A resort spa south of Hội An (2026). Online booking page — 60 minutes 1,400,000₫, 90 minutes 1,850,000₫; does not say whether tax is included; resort not named on this page (read 7 November 2026). Resort booking page.

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