Vietnam trip cost from India

Flights: what Delhi, Mumbai and Bangalore actually pay

Vietnam Airlines runs direct flights between Delhi, Mumbai and both Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City, which keeps fares more competitive from India than from many other countries. On well-booked advance fares, round-trip economy from Delhi or Mumbai runs roughly ₹18,000–35,000; from Bangalore, Hyderabad, Chennai or Kolkata (mostly one-stop via Delhi, Mumbai or a Southeast Asian hub), ₹25,000–45,000 is a realistic range. Booking 6–10 weeks ahead and avoiding peak Indian holiday windows (Diwali, Christmas–New Year, summer school holidays) is what keeps you toward the lower end of that range — prices climb toward ₹50,000–70,000+ on short-notice or peak-season bookings.

If Phu Quoc is your only Vietnam stop, it's worth checking for a direct flight specifically — a handful of routes exist from India, and flying there directly (rather than connecting through Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City) is also what makes Phu Quoc's visa exemption apply, covered below. For a multi-city trip, flying into one gateway and out of the other (an "open-jaw" ticket) rather than a round trip into a single city avoids backtracking and typically costs only a modest premium.

The e-visa: what Indian passport holders actually need

There is no visa-free arrangement between India and Vietnam for ordinary tourism — the e-visa covered on the homepage applies to Indian citizens the same way it does to most other nationalities: $25 for single entry, $50 for multiple entry (roughly ₹2,200 / ₹4,400), valid up to 90 days, applied for entirely online at the official government portal, evisa.gov.vn. Processing officially takes 3–5 working days, though applying at least a week ahead — and well ahead of it during Indian holiday travel spikes, when volume rises — avoids any risk of a delay eating into your trip.

A detail worth flagging specifically for Indian travelers: search results for "Vietnam visa India" return a long list of third-party agencies charging a service fee on top of the $25 government fee, sometimes substantially more. None of them offer anything the official portal doesn't — applying directly at evisa.gov.vn avoids the markup entirely, and the process itself (passport photo upload, passport data page scan, online payment) takes most people well under an hour.

One genuine exception worth knowing: as covered on the Phu Quoc guide, Indian citizens (like all nationalities) get a 30-day visa exemption specifically for Phu Quoc — but only if flying there directly from outside Vietnam, not via a connection through Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City. If your trip includes any mainland stop, the standard e-visa is still required.

On-ground costs: does being from India change anything?

Not meaningfully. Hotel, food, transport and activity prices in Vietnam are set in Vietnamese dong regardless of where a visitor is from, so the budget/mid-range/luxury figures throughout this site apply the same way to Indian travelers as anyone else — use the calculator above (already set to INR) with your own route and travel style for an exact number. The one place nationality does matter is the visa cost covered above, and — for travelers coming from a hot climate already — the fact that Vietnam's heat and humidity in the south won't feel as much of an adjustment as it does for visitors from cooler countries.

Timing a trip around Indian holidays and Vietnam's own seasons

Flight prices from India spike around the same windows most Indian travelers are already trying to avoid for other destinations — Diwali, the Christmas–New Year stretch, and the May–June school holiday period all push fares toward the higher end of the ranges above, on top of Vietnam's own peak season (June–August, and around Tết) doing the same to hotel prices independently. The genuinely favorable overlap is February to April: past the winter Indian holiday rush, ahead of the Indian summer break, and squarely inside Vietnam's own best weather window (covered in more depth on the homepage) for the north and center specifically.

It's worth double-checking the exact Diwali and any other relevant holiday dates for your travel year specifically, since they shift on the lunar calendar — a trip planned just before or after the holiday rush, rather than assuming a fixed date range, is what actually captures the fare savings.

Food: vegetarian options and Indian restaurants

Vietnamese cuisine leans heavily on fish sauce and meat broths, which makes strict vegetarian eating more of an active effort than in, say, Thailand — worth knowing before you go rather than discovering it mid-trip. That said, it's entirely manageable: tofu and vegetable dishes (đậu phụ, rau xào) are available everywhere, and phrasing your request clearly ("không nước mắm, ăn chay" — no fish sauce, vegetarian) at a street stall goes a long way, since fish sauce is often added by default even to dishes that otherwise look vegetarian.

Every city covered on this site has at least a handful of Indian restaurants, concentrated most heavily in Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City and Da Nang, priced roughly on par with mid-range Vietnamese restaurants — useful for the odd meal if you want a break, though relying on them exclusively means missing most of what makes the food scene on this site worth reading about in the first place.

Worked example: a 7-day trip, fully in INR

Using the 7-day route covered elsewhere on this site (Hanoi → Ha Long Bay → Hoi An → Ho Chi Minh City) at mid-range spending, here's what the full trip looks like for one traveler flying from Delhi:

On-ground figure converted from the USD range on the 7-day page at approximately ₹88/$1. Actual on-ground cost depends on your exact route, travel style and group size — use the calculator above for a figure specific to your trip.

Worked example: a 10-day trip, fully in INR

The same route extended to the 10-day version (three extra nights spread across Hanoi, Hoi An and Ho Chi Minh City), at mid-range spending, for two travelers:

On-ground figure converted from the USD range on the 10-day page at approximately ₹88/$1. Set travelers to 2 and currency to INR in the calculator above for an exact figure on your own route.

Money: cards, cash, and ATM fees

Indian debit and credit cards work at Vietnamese ATMs the same way any foreign card does, subject to the same roughly 30,000–55,000 VND (about ₹105–195) flat withdrawal fee most Vietnamese banks charge regardless of amount — withdrawing larger amounts less often, as noted on the homepage, saves meaningfully over a week-plus trip. Check with your specific Indian bank about foreign transaction fees before you go — these vary widely by bank and card type, and some travel cards waive them entirely, which is worth knowing before relying on ATM withdrawals as your main source of cash.

Carrying a small amount of USD as backup cash is a reasonable habit for Indian travelers specifically, since USD is more widely exchangeable at short notice in Vietnam than INR is — most currency counters in Vietnam don't deal in Indian rupees at all, so any INR cash brought along is effectively only useful once exchanged into USD or VND before you leave India.