Tuan Chau Island has an area of about 400 hectares, located next to Ha Long Bay, owning an international port that can serve up to 3 million passengers a year.
Tuan Chau Island from oblivion to a high-class tourist area
- Location: Tuan Chau Island, Ha Long City, Quang Ninh Province, Vietnam
- Fee: Free to go to the island, but there are fees for attractions, hygiene, and entertainment
- Opening time: 24/24
The appearance of the road connecting the mainland to the island has boosted the economy and tourism strongly. That helps bring Tuan Chau from a poor island to become a precious pearl of Quang Ninh. This road facilitates more convenient and faster traffic for tourists from Hanoi and Hai Phong to the island and the international port to visit Ha Long Bay.
The time when Tuan Chau Island welcomes a large number of visitors is on the official holidays, weekends, and during the year from April to October. So when you come here, please pay attention to those times, services and prices can be higher than other periods.
In addition, you need to pay attention that Tuan Chau Island has two ports: Tuan Chau Port 1 and 2.
- Tuan Chau Port 1 has a convenient anchorage for ships visiting the bay during the day, which can welcome about 200 large and small cruises at the same time. Both pier sides are rows of luxury houses and villas, including a helipad and seaplanes. Also, the ferry port next to port 1 is used to travel to Cat Ba Island.
- Tuan Chau Port 2, also known as Tuan Chau International Port, is located to the left with an area nearly 10 times larger than Tuan Chau 1 port. Tuan Chau 2 can accommodate 500 large ships at the same time. This anchorage of luxury cruises serves tourists visiting and staying overnight on Ha Long Bay.
What to do and see on Tuan Chau Island
In this section, Vietnamdrive introduces some well-known places and activities in Tuan Chau to help you explore this growing island for a fun experience.
1. Visit Tuan Chau Park
This park is a large entertainment area in Tuan Chau, invested and built with exciting games to meet the needs of a large number of tourists, including fairy trains, slides, roller coasters, spinning wheels, and flying dishes.
Typically, the unique performances of dolphins and seals at the water park can become an interesting moment for your children.
- Ticket price: 350,000VND/pax for dolphin show and games in the park.
- Children under 1m are free of charge.
- Dolphin Club show time at 10:00 am, 15:00, and 20:30; each show usually lasts 20 minutes.
- Other play areas are open from 8:00 am – 22:00.
2. Explore Dinosaur Park
If traveling with children, this park will be an exciting place for them to explore and take pictures, including giant characters such as King Kong, dinosaurs, etc.
Compared to other parks, the dinosaur park in Tuan Chau is not big, but it is also an attractive stop for you and your family to come together to learn about works of art.
3. Relax at Tuan Chau Beach
A long beach in Tuan Chau with fine white sand will give a lovely chance for you to swim in the clear blue water. Usually, from 4 pm, many locals and tourists gather very crowdedly to play and swim. Sometimes, a few tourists do windsurfing, kayaking, and jet-skiing here.
4. Play golf at Tuan Chau 27-hole golf course
Tuan Chau Golf Course is the northwest of the island with an area of 140 hectares. This international-standard golf course has 27 holes, a total length of 250 yards, and a width of 100 yards.
You can find the typical design of the island and sea that shows right on this course, creating a new experience when playing golf at this place.
Conclusion
Tuan Chau Island aims to build a full range of facilities to become an outstanding tourist area of Ha Long as well as Quang Ninh Province in general.
Thus, the island has tried to develop high-class hotels and resorts, conference centers, dining venues, and cruise ports. All are to promote sea travel and high-class tourism in North Vietnam.
However, with the above development orientation, Tuan Chau Island lacks cheap hotels and amusement parks large enough to compete with other locations and retain guests to stay on the island longer.
