Pre-arrival information

Visa

To enter Vietnam, you may need a visa. Citizens of the ASEAN countries, Russia, P.R. China, R. Korea and Japan may not need a visa for a short visit. If you are not sure, please inquire at a Vietnamese consulate.

The Organizers should request a visa for you in the Immigration Department in Hanoi. Please complete the VISA FORM (or its PDF format) and return it to the workshop secretariat at least 3 weeks before your date of arrival.

After we get your visa approval document issued by Immigration Department (the usual processing time is one week), we will send you a scan of this document by email. You would need to bring this document to a Vietnamese consulate of your choice and submit it with a visa application in order to get the visa stamped on your passport.

In some cases, it is possible to get a "visa on arrival", that is a visa to be picked up at the border checkpoint at a Vietnamese international airport.

Some people have been successful with using online services such as "My Vietnam Visa" to obtain a Vietnamese tourist visa.

Accommodation

Participants of NCTP-40 and IWTCP-3 have discounted rates at the following hotels:

• Du Parc Hotel Dalat (~4 star):
  200m from conference/workshop venue
  Address: 7 Tran Phu Street, Da Lat
  Standard room: 650,000 VND per night (~ 31 USD, tax and service included)
  Max. 2 persons. Breakfast included. Free Wi-Fi.
• Dalat Palace Hotel (5 star):
  Same place as conference/workshop venue
  Address: 12 Tran Phu Street, Da Lat
  Superior room: 2,300,000 VND per night (~ 107 USD, tax and service included)
  Max. 2 persons. Breakfast included. Free Wi-Fi.

Instructions for room booking:

Participants book directly with the hotels at the following contact:

Bùi Thị Kim Thúy (Ms.)
Senior Sales Manager
Dalat Palace Luxury Hotel & Golf Club Dalat Hotel DuParc
Office phone: +84 4 3938 8468
E-mail: sales.hanoi@dalatresorts.com

When you make your booking request, please remember to convey that you are conference/workshop participant to get the discounted room rates.

Note that the hotels can guarantee room availability for participants only until 17 July 2015. So please book your room early!

Transportation

Da Lat can be reached by air at Dalat Airport (DLI) also called Lien Khuong Airport, which is located about 30 km south of Da Lat. Dalat Airport is a domestic airport with flight connections to international airports in Hanoi (HAN) and Ho Chi Minh City (SGN). As of April 2015 there are two daily flights from Hanoi and four daily flights from Ho Chi Minh City to Dalat Airport, operated by Vietnam Airlines and Vietjet Air. Tickets of Vietnam Airlines and VietJetAir can be bought online:

• http://www.vietnamairlines.com/ (Vietnam Airlines)
• http://www.vietjetair.com/ (VietJetAir)

From Dalat Airport to city center:

Shuttle bus runs frequently to pick up passengers from the airport to the city center. Shuttle bus ticket can be purchased for VND 40,000 (or US $2) from the ticket booth in front of the luggage pick-up area or at the bus. Please tell shuttle bus driver to stop at your hotel.

A number of taxis will be waiting for you outside of the arrival gate, the most popular names include Phuong Trang, Thang Loi and Mai Linh. A taxi ride from the airport to Da Lat city center takes about 30-40 minutes and cost about VND 200,000 (or US $10).

From city center to Dalat Airport:

Please ask your hotel's receptionists to help request an airport shuttle bus or taxi.