It is raining today

Vietnam's largest marine museum. The answer when it rains

An island theme park on Hon Tre, reached by cable car across the sea

The only mud bath downtown. Walkable from the backpacker quarter

A 90-dish seafood buffet at 280,000₫ a head, draught beer included

Nha Trang's oldest and cheapest mud bath. From 120,000₫

The central market and the food lanes around it. Where seafood is priced honestly

Plastic stools, a dripping phin, 20,000₫. How locals actually drink coffee

Thirty places with a posted board and daytime hours: recliners in the quarter, garden spas, saunas

Six malls, three of them walkable from the beach, and where to go when the sea is up

Rough seas cancel every island tour — and there is a bowling alley on the third floor of a mall on Trần Phú

Six cinemas, four chains, and five of the six sit inside a shopping mall

Rooms by the hour and karaoke bars open until 5am: two different things sharing one word

Treadmills facing the sea, a women-only floor, and two public 50 m pools

Sixteen halls across all four sides, the earliest opening at 4am: with the number to book