Rung Thong Nui Voi hotel and park — villas in a pine forest, Japanese and Chinese gardens

for a deluxe room · day entry 190k₫ per person

A hotel and a park at once: a hundred hectares of pine forest at the foot of Nui Voi — Elephant Mountain — half an hour from Da Lat along the airport road. It is built not as a hotel with a garden but as a park with villas inside it: you are driven around in a buggy, and you can either stay the night or come for the day on a ticket. The themed zones are borrowed from other cultures and each sits on its own slope: a Japanese garden with a red torii gate, a house under a curved roof, clipped ball-shaped shrubs and beds of hydrangeas; a Chinese courtyard with a round moon gate in the wall, a pavilion under a hundred silk lanterns and carved wooden screens; a Korean hanok; a Central Highlands village with longhouses. In the middle is a lake with a fountain, a gilded seated Buddha on a platform in the middle of a white bridge, and above it, up the steps, a Zen monastery with an orange tiled roof and a white statue of Guanyin. Between the zones run stone paths, boardwalks along the stream and benches under bamboo and pines. The lodging is scattered over the hills: three-storey white villas with mansard roofs and flower names — Tulip, Mimosa, Lavender — on one slope, a row of container bungalows with wooden decks above the valley on another. The rooms are modern and expensively finished: backlit timber battens on the wall, a full-height window with two armchairs and a small table, a freestanding tub by a blinded window. The view over the pine hills is the main reason to come: in the rain the mist crawls along the ridges, and you see it just as well from the decks as from the room window.

Worth knowing. Day visits run 08:00 to 17:00 every day; vouchers are exchanged for tickets until 16:00. Entry is 190,000 ₫ per adult and includes the buggy ride around the grounds and four attractions — kayaks, the rope park, the caterpillar coaster and the haunted house. Ticket resellers offer the same combined ticket at 180,000 ₫. Children under one metre go free, under 1.4 m pay half. Go-karting, boat rides and the tea ceremony are charged separately. The site covers 100 hectares and opened in June 2023, built by the L.T.C company. Lodging: 10 villas and 20 bungalows, including a row converted from shipping containers and hotel-standard tents by the stream. A deluxe room costs 69 dollars a night, about 1.8 million ₫ — that is what our own booking cost in late August 2026. The eight-bedroom villa for sixteen people is listed by the resort itself at 13 million ₫ from Sunday to Thursday and 14 million ₫ on Friday and Saturday, breakfast, welcome drink and buggy included. Guests staying over do not pay separately to enter the grounds. Check-in from 14:00, check-out by 12:00. Food: several restaurants and cafés across the grounds, Vietnamese cooking. Portions are large and prices are not resort prices — salad 110,000 ₫, noodles with meat and vegetables 120,000 ₫, cola 20,000 ₫, beer 28,000 ₫ (checked on site on 29 August 2026). Getting there: Km 214 of the Lien Khuong – Prenn expressway, K'Long hamlet, Hiep Thanh commune. It is 25–30 minutes from central Da Lat along the new road over the Prenn pass, and 12 km from Lien Khuong airport. There is no public transport to the gate: people come by motorbike, car or taxi. The resort phone is 0912 491 768 and the booking line is 1900 588 877.