Quy Nhon and Da Lat: 2 More Vietnam Cities for New Year’s Fireworks

Not every Vietnamese city has a New Year’s Eve fireworks show built for hotel-view marketing, and pretending otherwise would mean stretching thin evidence further than it goes. Quy Nhon and Da Lat both have real countdown fireworks, but neither has the marquee, hotel-marketed show you’ll find in Phu Quoc, Hanoi, Nha Trang or Ha Long — so we’re covering both cities together in one shorter guide instead of forcing two full write-ups out of thinner material. Here’s what’s actually confirmed in each place, and which hotels, if any, legitimately share the sightline.

Quy Nhon: FLC’s Own Beachfront Countdown

Quy Nhon actually has two separate New Year’s Eve fireworks events several kilometers apart, and it’s easy to conflate them if you’re hotel-hunting. The public countdown display fires from Nguyễn Tất Thành Square in the downtown core — a municipal show with no hotel-view marketing built around it, so there’s no real “best hotel for this show” story to tell. The other is private: FLC Quy Nhơn, the resort complex out at Nhơn Lý on the Eo Gió headland north of downtown, runs its own beachfront countdown fireworks as part of a New Year’s Eve festival staged on the resort’s own sand. Eo Gió itself — the name translates roughly to “windy pass” — is one of the most photographed coastal viewpoints in Bình Định province, a set of cliffs wrapping a small cove, which is a large part of why FLC built its resort complex out here rather than downtown.

That FLC show is the one worth planning a hotel around, and it’s confirmed for the 2024 countdown — domestic coverage described the fireworks by Eo Gió as marking FLC’s “return,” language tied to the group’s own comeback after a rocky stretch for the company, and paired with joint holiday packages between FLC and Bamboo Airways. That framing implies a gap in the countdown tradition at some point before 2024, not an unbroken annual show. Put plainly: FLC Quy Nhơn has run its own beachfront countdown fireworks in recent years, but we can’t confirm it has fired every single December 31st without interruption. If you’re booking for a specific New Year’s Eve, it’s worth a quick check with the resort directly that the countdown festival is happening that year before you commit a room around it.

This is also why the hotel list below is short and, deliberately, all one brand. FLC Quy Nhơn’s fireworks launch from its own private beachfront inside the resort complex, not from a public square that any hotel along the coast can see. Unlike Nha Trang’s April 2 Square, where a whole strip of unrelated beachfront hotels shares the sightline, here it’s really only the hotels physically inside the FLC complex that have a legitimate shot at the show. A hotel in downtown Quy Nhon, even a beachfront one, isn’t going to see this display — it launches over 10 kilometers away, around the headland at Nhơn Lý.

FLC Luxury Hotel Quy Nhon

FLC Luxury Hotel Quy Nhon sits inside the FLC complex at Nhơn Lý, on the same stretch of coastline as the resort’s own beach and golf grounds, putting it closest to where the countdown fireworks actually launch. As the upper tier of the complex’s accommodation, it’s the pick if you want to be inside the festival grounds itself rather than watching from a distance, with the resort’s pools, golf course and private beach all part of the same grounds the fireworks go up from. Confirm the exact room type and check current availability directly, since New Year’s Eve inventory at the complex tends to move early.

FLC Grand Hotel Quy Nhon

FLC Grand Hotel Quy Nhon is the complex’s larger-scale property, also within the FLC Nhơn Lý grounds and sharing the same beachfront the countdown festival is staged on. It’s built to handle bigger group and conference traffic than the Luxury property, which in practice makes it a reasonable second option if the Luxury hotel is sold out for New Year’s Eve — you’re not giving up the in-complex sightline that makes booking here worthwhile in the first place, just trading some of the boutique feel for scale.

FLC City Hotel Beach Quy Nhon

FLC City Hotel Beach Quy Nhon rounds out the complex’s beachfront lineup, and its value for this specific night comes entirely from being inside the FLC grounds rather than downtown. It’s worth treating all three of these hotels as functionally interchangeable for fireworks purposes — the real decision driver is price and room availability on the night, not which one technically sits closest to the launch point, since all three sit within the same complex. The further a hotel sits from Nhơn Lý and Eo Gió, the less realistic any fireworks-view claim becomes, FLC-branded or not.

If the public downtown show interests you more than the FLC resort’s private countdown, our guide to Quy Nhon Beach Clubs & Bars covers where locals actually watch the fireworks from the promenade and rooftop bars, checkpoints and crowds included. And if none of the three FLC hotels above suit your dates or budget, our roundup of the Ultimate 6 Romantic Hotels in Quy Nhon for Couples is a good next stop — none of them share the FLC sightline, but they’re solid picks for the rest of your stay.

Da Lat: Lakefront Hotels Near a Modest Countdown Show

Da Lat’s New Year’s Eve fireworks are a different animal from the beachfront cities in this series — a low-altitude, modest-scale display rather than a big barge-launched show, staged in the middle of downtown around Xuân Hương Lake. For Tết Dương Lịch (the Western New Year, December 31/January 1), Lâm Đồng province’s official plan puts Đà Lạt’s fireworks at Quảng trường Lâm Viên — Lâm Viên Square — in Xuân Hương ward, right at the lake’s edge. That was the location for the December 31, 2024 countdown into 2025, and it’s confirmed again for December 31, 2025 into 2026, so this looks like a consistent annual spot rather than a one-off. In 2025 it doubled as the closing ceremony for that year’s Đà Lạt Flower Festival.

Worth noting for anyone digging around for more detail: separately, for Tết Nguyên Đán (Lunar New Year, a different holiday about six weeks later), Đà Lạt runs its own low-altitude fireworks too — at Yersin Park and the Xuân Hương Lake marina, both also right by the lake. Don’t confuse the two events if you’re checking dates; they’re in the same lakeside neighborhood but on different nights, and provincial announcements for each holiday tend to come out separately.

None of this is on the scale of a Nha Trang or Ha Long show. “Low-altitude” fireworks (pháo hoa tầm thấp) is the same lighter-weight category used for smaller cities and towns across Vietnam that don’t get a full high-altitude display — shorter in duration, launched from ground-level racks rather than a barge, and aimed more at the local crowd filling Lâm Viên Square than at drawing fireworks tourism. That’s a reasonable thing to know going in if you’re specifically chasing a big show; Đà Lạt on New Year’s Eve is a genuinely lovely, cool-climate place to be, with its own flower-festival-adjacent atmosphere, but the fireworks themselves are a modest bonus rather than the main event.

No hotel in Đà Lạt runs explicit “fireworks view” marketing or has reviews describing a confirmed sightline to the display — low-altitude shows over a small lake plaza just aren’t the kind of thing hotels build a pitch around. What you can book honestly is a lakefront hotel with a direct outlook over Xuân Hương Lake and the Lâm Viên Square area where the display happens — proximity to the launch zone, not a promised view of the fireworks themselves.

Dalat Palace Heritage Hotel

Dalat Palace Heritage Hotel, the colonial-era 5-star property built in 1922 on Trần Phú Street, sits on a small rise directly above Xuân Hương Lake, with guest reviews describing a “panoramic view of the shimmering lake surface” from balcony rooms. It’s the closest thing Đà Lạt has to an established lakefront landmark hotel — all colonnades, high ceilings and period furniture — and it’s an easy walk down to Lâm Viên Square, close enough that a room on the right side of the building puts the launch zone essentially in the foreground of the lake view, without the hotel itself marketing that as a fireworks feature. Book a lake-facing room specifically, since not every room in the property looks out over the water; some face the surrounding gardens or the golf course instead.

TTC Hotel – Ngoc Lan

TTC Hotel – Ngoc Lan sits roughly 200 meters from Xuân Hương Lake, and higher-floor rooms are described as looking out over Lâm Viên Square and the lake beyond. It’s a more moderately priced 4-star alternative to the Dalat Palace with a genuine claim to the same general outlook, without any fireworks-specific marketing attached to it — book it for the location and the price point, not for a promised view of the show. As with the Dalat Palace, ask specifically about which side of the building your room faces before booking, since the lake- and square-facing rooms aren’t uniform across the property.

If you’re flying into Đà Lạt for New Year’s Eve, our guide on getting from Đà Lạt Airport to the city center is worth a look before you book transport, since the airport sits well outside town and taxi availability tightens up around the holiday. And wherever you end up staying, treat the fireworks plan itself as provisional — low-altitude countdown displays like this one are set by the provincial People’s Committee each year and occasionally shift timing or scale close to the date, so it’s worth checking the local announcement in the weeks before you travel.