What will be open and closed during Chinese Lunar New Year in Danang?

OPEN DURING TET
Billabong Pub & Restaurant From the 23rd to the 27th will be open from 4pm to Midnight. Read more: Billabong TET Openning Hours
Lifestyle Resort was open last year with no price increases. Expect the same again this year.
Montgomerie Links was open last year and will be again this year.

CLOSED DURING TET
Bread Of Life: Closes on January 21st and re-opens on February 2nd.

For expats the main concern is probably where to eat or drink during Tet. I would like the comments section of this post to be a place where you can leave the names and addresses of restaurants, cafes and bars that are open during Tet.

Most Vietnamese cafes will remain open. They do good business catering to people catching up with old friends, prices may be higher than normal but they should go back down again after Tet.

If you know of any other places that are open please let me know in the comments below.

The Furama Resort Danang offers a 15% discount to anybody who mentions that they saw this article on indanang.com. The Furama discount applies to all of the Food and Beverage outlets in Furama Resort Danang.

Also, the Cafe Indochine at Furama has special Tet buffet dinners with many Tet specialities including squared sticky rice cakes, jelly stewed chicken or pork, Vietnamese pork and beef loaf as well as different Tet salads and desserts. The guests will have the Tet feelings and experience at the Furama Resort Danang.

The Furama Resort Danang would like also invite InDanang readers to the Tet ceremony on the 1st day of Tet (3rd February, 2011) at the resort lobby. The ceremony starts at 8:30 am and finishes at 9:30 am.

Furama Resort wishes everyone in Danang all the best and happiness for the New Year of Cat. Chuc Mung Nam Moi!

The purpose of the Village Market is to create an ambience and experience of the traditional Tet holiday period of Vietnamese people as in the past to visiting foreign guests and to herald in the beginning of Tet – the most celebrated holiday in Vietnam. You will be ensured of witnessing a glimpse of real village life and have a close-up view of local crafts at our Village Market.

Guests will be welcomed by our “Spring Garden Paradise” in the lobby, together with 500 red lanterns and 12 bamboo animals at the Resort entrance gate and will enjoy a lion dance, monochord “?àn b?u” and bamboo instrument “T’rung” performances and partake in specialty dishes such as Pancake “Bánh Xèo”, Danang Chicken Rice, Quang Noodle “M? Qu?ng”, Hanoi Noodle “Pho Ha Noi”, “Bèo-N?m-L?c” Cakes, Seafood Barbecue, Sweet Soup, Sugarcane and Coconut Juice which will all be at our Village Market. You will also have the chance to purchase some souvenir items, to take back to your hometown, all at reasonable prices.

We look forward to welcoming you to our Village Market and wishing you all a Happy New Year – “Chuc Mung Nam Moi!”

A word of warning, get shopping done as soon as possible, the 3 days before the new year are arguably Vietnam’s busiest shopping days. You may have already noticed how Metro and Big C are busier than usual.

Tet is officially only three days but most shops will be shut down for longer than that. Expect some shops and restaurants to open on the 17th, more than likely with increased prices. With each day more shops will be open. Expect business to be back to normal on the 22nd of February.

Businesses which tend to stay open are coffee shops, which usually add a surcharge, and hotels, which in some cases double their prices.