Duck Stop Hoi An (2026): Honest Guide to the Viral Duck Farm

Hoi An Travel Tips · Updated August 2026

Ducks — hundreds of them, sprinting at your shins across a rice paddy while a farmer hands you a bamboo stick and promotes you to Duck Leader. That is Duck Stop Hoi An in one sentence, and it explains why a tiny family farm in An Mỹ village keeps showing up on phones at our rental shop with the same question attached: is this real, and how do we get there? Yes, it’s real. It costs 100.000₫. And almost everything that goes wrong with a visit comes down to three things nobody puts on the booking page — the address that now says “Da Nang,” the hour when the ducks clock off, and the fact that there is a completely different Duck Stop 300 km away that people book by mistake.

№ 01What actually happens at the duck farm

The Duck Stop Hoi An format is simple enough that it survives any language barrier. You arrive, pay, and are handed a bucket of grain and a conical hat. A guide walks you into the field, opens a gate, and several hundred ducks come at you in a single brown wave — this is the part every video on your feed is showing you, and it is genuinely funny in person because the ducks are entirely uninterested in you and entirely interested in the bucket.

Then come the set pieces:

• Duck leading. You get a bamboo pole and herd the flock across the paddy. The ducks cooperate roughly as well as you’d expect, which is the point.
• The duck massage. You sit on a bench, bare feet out, and the guide scatters grain across your feet. The ducks clean it off. It is ticklish, slightly alarming for the first four seconds, and the single most photographed thing on the farm.
• Photos. The guides know exactly where to stand you and will take your phone without being asked. This is not incidental — half of what you’re buying is someone who knows the light and the angles.
• The farm talk. A short, unhurried explanation of how the ducks are raised and how the eggs are farmed. Skippable if you want, but it’s the bit that turns a photo stop into an actual visit.

A Vietnamese coffee-making session is offered separately at around 350.000₫ per person if you want to stretch the visit; the duck experience itself is the 100.000₫ ticket.

№ 02The other Duck Stop — the one people book by mistake

We’ve had guests turn up at the shop asking how to ride to a duck farm that was, in fact, an overnight bus away. Two minutes of checking saves the whole afternoon.

№ 03Where Duck Stop Hoi An really is (the address confuses everyone)

Here is the second Duck Stop Hoi An detail that trips people up, and it is nobody’s fault. Since Vietnam’s 2025 provincial reorganisation folded Quảng Nam into Đà Nẵng, the farm’s official address now reads something like An Mỹ village, Hội An Đông ward, Đà Nẵng city. Travellers read “Đà Nẵng,” picture the city 30 km up the coast, and either give up or book a long transfer they don’t need.

Ignore the city name. On the ground, the farm sits in the rice fields on the eastern edge of Hội An, off the Võ Chí Công coastal road, reachable from the old town in about ten to fifteen minutes. If you’re coming from Nguyễn Trai street near the Anmira Resort area, it’s under a kilometre. It is a Hội An outing in every practical sense.

№ 04How to get to Duck Stop Hoi An

Four ways, in the order we’d actually recommend them:

The road out is genuinely pleasant riding — open paddies, water buffalo, almost no traffic once you’re off the main street. If you don’t have wheels yet, we’re at 84 Phan Châu Trinh, ten minutes from the old town, and this is exactly the kind of trip a scooter or e-bike is for. Our cycling routes guide covers the same countryside if you’d rather pedal.

№ 05The noon mistake — and the best time to go

This is the one piece of information that changes a visit and it is almost never mentioned: the ducks rest between roughly 12:00 and 13:00. They are put away. Turn up in that window and you have paid to look at an empty field with a nice swing in it.

Opening hours run from 8:30 in the morning until around 17:00–17:30 depending on the season and the day. Because it’s a small family operation, hours can shift — a quick message before you ride out is worth the thirty seconds.

№ 06Cost, tickets, and how to book

Duck Stop Hoi An entry is 100.000₫ per person, roughly $4, and that includes the bucket of feed — there is no upsell at the gate for the core experience. Children under six generally go free. The Vietnamese coffee class is the one paid add-on at around 350.000₫.

You can simply turn up and pay in cash, which is what most independent visitors do. Booking ahead is worth it in two situations: if you’re arriving in a group of more than four, or if you want it packaged with hotel pickup and other countryside stops so you don’t have to think about logistics.

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To book direct with the farm instead, they run their own reservations through the official Duck Stop Hoi An website.

№ 07What to wear and bring

• Sandals or flip-flops you can slip off. The duck massage happens barefoot and the field is damp. Trainers are the wrong shoe here.
• Trousers you don’t mind getting muddy — or shorts. There is mud. That is the nature of a duck paddy.
• Cash. 100.000₫ notes; don’t count on card payment at a family farm.
• Sun protection. Almost no shade in the field itself.
• A phone with charge. You will take more photos than you plan to, and the guide will use your phone, not theirs.

№ 08Is Duck Stop Hoi An worth it? The honest version

Duck Stop Hoi An is worth it for: families with children, anyone travelling with someone who has been dragged through one too many heritage houses, photographers, and people who like small, unpolished, non-corporate attractions. Four dollars for forty-five minutes of genuine silliness is good value by any measure, and the family running it are warm without being performative.

Less worth it for: anyone expecting a substantial attraction. This is 30 to 60 minutes, not a morning. Build a day around it and you’ll be standing in a rice field at 09:20 wondering what’s next. Travellers who dislike animals in tourism settings should also know the ducks are working animals being herded and fed several times a day — they are healthy and clearly well kept, but it is a farm running a paid experience, not a sanctuary.

It’s four dollars and forty-five minutes, and it’s the photo your family will actually put on the fridge. Just don’t plan your whole Tuesday around a duck.

— Anh Khoa, dân Hội An

№ 09What to pair it with (because you’ll have time left)

Everything below sits within a few kilometres of Duck Stop Hoi An, which makes the duck farm a great first stop on a countryside morning rather than a destination on its own:

• Trà Quế vegetable village — organic herb gardens, 10 minutes away; see our Trà Quế guide.
• An Bàng beach — 10 minutes east, ideal for lunch after a muddy morning.
• Cẩm Thanh coconut forest and the basket boats — the other famously silly Hội An activity, and they pair perfectly.
• The rice-paddy loop back into town — mapped out in our Hội An motorbike routes guide.

Rainy season and wondering whether it’s still on? Duck farms and rain are a poor mix — see our rainy day guide for the indoor swaps.

№ 10FAQ — Duck Stop Hoi An

Updated August 2026. Duck Stop Hoi An prices, hours and the noon rest window checked against the farm’s own listings at the time of writing; a small family operation can change its schedule, so message ahead if you are riding out specially. Some links are affiliate links that support this site at no cost to you.