Light Hotel

Top choice in Halong City


The good-sized, modern and super-clean rooms here are excellent value, especially the spacious triples with one large and one small bed. Chuck in the fact that the extremely helpful staff speak English and you've got Halong City's best budget find. Laundry service and motorbike rental available.


Lonely Planet's must-see attractions

Nearby Halong City attractions

1. Sunworld

0.32 MILES

Vietnamese and cruise-ship tourists flock to this cable car that spans the Cua Luc inlet, offering dramatic views over Halong Bay. The views are…

2. Beach No 1

0.43 MILES

This wide and sandy beach offers good sunset strolls and views of the cruise ships and lighthouse. It's accessible behind the massive Sunworld complex.

3. Hang Thien Cung

3.91 MILES

Part of the same cave system as nearby Hang Dau Go, Hang Thien Cung has ‘cauliflower’ limestone growths as well as stalactites and stalagmites.

4. Hang Dau Go

3.95 MILES

This huge cave consists of three chambers reached via 90 steps. Inside, ceilings soar up to 25m high, while some rather disco-festive lighting illuminates…

5. Hang Sung Sot

8.4 MILES

The popular Hang Sung Sot has three vast chambers – in the second there’s a pink-lit rock phallus unsurprisingly regarded as a fertility symbol. Even less…

6. Hang Trong

9.39 MILES

Hang Trong has wide-arched entrances on either side and a ceiling clustered with stalactites. It's so named because when the wind blows through its…

7. Cat Ba National Park

12.12 MILES

Cat Ba's beautiful national park is home to 32 species of mammal, including most of the world's 65 remaining golden-headed langurs, the world's most…

8. Trung Trang Cave

12.3 MILES

Within Cat Ba National Park but accessed from a separate roadside entrance 2km north of Hospital Cave, the multi-chambered Trung Trang Cave is fun to…