Cheap Flights from Dublin to Da Nang

October is when fares on this route tend to sit lowest, so start there if your dates flex. The price calendar runs from September through March, skips April, then picks up again for May and June. From the Vietnamese side, Tet — the lunar new year — moves through late winter and lifts fares around it; from Ireland, the Christmas and New Year school break does the same in December. October also falls within Da Nang's rainier stretch, so weigh the saving against the chance of rain. Midweek departures usually undercut Friday and Saturday, and nudging your dates by a few days often changes the fare more than switching carrier.

Connections come first here: nothing on this route is nonstop, so the hub effectively writes your itinerary. Qatar Airways builds the day around Doha, Emirates and Etihad around the Gulf, Turkish Airlines around Istanbul, while SWISS, British Airways and Air France swing the trip over Zurich, London or Paris, adding a European leg before the long haul. Lufthansa City Airlines feeds the German hubs, and Aer Lingus or Air Baltic often work the short opening hop of a combined ticket. As for what's included: the long-haul full-service carriers fold meals and a checked bag into the fare, while Air Baltic is the low-cost outlier, with checked baggage typically an add-on rather than an inclusion.

You land at Da Nang's airport, which sits on the edge of the city itself — the riverfront and the beach side are both a short taxi or ride-hail away, so there is no long transfer to budget for. Passport control is the first checkpoint, and this is where your entry paperwork matters, so keep it to hand rather than buried in a checked bag. Taxis and app-based cars queue outside the terminal; booking a car through an app fixes the fare in advance and skips any haggling at the kerb. Give the driver a hotel or street name rather than just a district — the beach strip and the city side are different ends of town.

Currency

VND (₫)

Power sockets

Type A, C, F, G · 220 V

Language

Vietnamese

Emergency number

113, 114, 115

Driving side

right

Calling code

+84

Internet domain

.vn

Population of Da Nang

2.8 M (2024)

Time zone

UTC+07 (Asia/Ho_Chi_Minh)

Country facts: Wikidata

• Check what entry documents Vietnam asks of your passport and how long an e-visa takes to arrange before you commit to dates.
• Book the outbound and return as single tickets so a missed connection at the hub is the airline's problem to fix.
• Read the layover as carefully as the fare — a short stop looks efficient until a delayed first leg strands it.
• If your ticket mixes carriers, check the baggage rules for the low-cost leg separately from the long-haul allowance.
• October tends to price lowest, while the weeks around Tet and the Christmas break move to their own rhythm.
• Note that the fare calendar leaves April blank here, so a spring trip needs a March or May comparison.