This Buddha-themed amusement park and water park has tons of rides for small children and can easily amuse a family, inexpensively, for a whole day. Go on a weekday orweekend and bring your camera for tons of amazing selfie!
120 Hanoi Highway, Tan Phu Ward, Thu Duc City (Dist. 9), HCM
Contact: +(84) 28 3896 0260 – 1900 636 787
Hours: 7:30AM–5PM
Ticket: 60,000 VND/Child
Ticket: 120,000 VND/Adult
The water park’s slides and rides make it a popular local attraction that gets busy on the weekends. Go on a weekday for a welcome break from the hustle and heat of the city. Dam Sen Water Park with 31 aquatic equipments and a wave pool of 3000m2 in width appropriate for all ages from calm games such as Wandering River, Wave pool, Massage pool, Aqua dance, Action pool to thrilled games such as Kamikaze, Boomerang, Multi slide, Twister space bowl, Love storm, Giant slide, Tornado, Twister etc…and a children paradise including water palace, elephant and hippopotamus families together with pretty and colorful slide for children.
Address : 03 Hoa Binh, Ward 3, District 11, HCMC
Phone : (028)-38588418
Hours: 8:30AM–6PM
Entrance fee: 120,000 VND/Adult
80,000 VND/Child <1.4m
The Saigon Zoo and Botanical Gardens, established in 1864, is Vietnam’s largest zoo and botanical garden. Located on Nguyen Binh Khiem Street in District 1, Ho Chi Minh City, it is home to over a hundred species of mammals, reptiles and birds, as well as many rare orchids and ornamental plants.
2 nguyen Binh Khiem, District 1, HCMC
Contact: 028 38291425
Entrance fee:
Ticket: 60,000 VND/Adult
Ticket: 40,000 VND/Child <1m-1.3m
Hours:7AM–5:30PM
Generations ago, Vietnamese puppeteers performed for their rural communities in waist-deep water, bringing to life legends and stories about their region. Water puppetry theaters like Golden Dragon Water Puppet Theater continue that tradition into the modern day and are a fun, family-friendly way to experience a hallmark of traditional Vietnamese culture.water puppet show, which is closely associated with the spiritual life of Vietnamese people, especially in the countryside. The show’s chosen stage is the surface of a water pool. The puppeteers present their clever skills in managing puppets by long bamboo rods and string mechanism under the surface. A traditional Vietnamese orchestra is an excellent music accompaniment. The puppets depict the story from the songs during the show, which reflects the peaceful life of the Vietnamese countryside, so it is not too difficult to understand it.
55B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, Ben Thanh Ward, District 1, Ho Chi Minh City
Phone: 028 3930 2196 – 0989 370 873
The “Traditional Water Puppet Show” is now performing
Every Tuesday and Friday at 06:30 PM.
With live music.
Price: 300,000 VNĐ
Tickets are on sale at Box Office: 55B Nguyen Thi Minh Khai
Open time: 09 AM to 11:30 AM – 1:30 PM – 06 PM.
Vietopia is an entertainment city – career guidance for children! Vietopia is an indoor play model where inspiration and dreams are nurtured through career incarnation activities for children aged 4-15.
At Vietopia, children can independently explore more than 30,000 square meters of city campus with full of buildings, streets, traffic and economy, just like a real society! Through practical role play, children learn about different professions, get paid commensurate with their labor, and manage money properly.
Add: No. 2-4, street 9, Him Lam new urban area, Tan Hung Ward, District 7, City. HCM
Hours:
Tuesday – Friday 8h – 16h
Weekends, holidays 9h – 17h
Entrance fee:
Adults: 45,000 VND
Children: 280,000 VND
Hotline: 0906 642 677 VND
KizCiti – The first career-oriented city for children. A place where children can experience, be independent and express themselves. Kizciti is basically a miniature city for kids between
the ages of three and 15, where they have the
opportunity to live the life of an adult. You’ll find anything here a city would need to function, shrunken down to size for children –everything from a fire and police station to a bank and newspaper.
Location: Khanh Hoi Park, Hoang Dieu street,
Ward 5, District 4, HCMC
Contact: 090 401 19 77
-Opening hours:
Tue – Fri 8:00 am – 4:00 pm
Ticket fee: 20.000 VND – children 180.000VND
Sat – Sun 9:00 am – 8:00 pm
Ticket fee: 20.000 VND – children 220.000VND
A new snow park is wooing families who want to beat the early summer heat.
It’s not New York’s Central Park. It’s not even close to Dubai’s Snow Park.But for many families in Saigon, this newly-opened snow park should do for now if they want to know what it feels like to play in the cold. Snow Town claims that you can do everything in its indoor space of 4,000 square meters, from walking up a snow hill to building a snowman. The place is open from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m., all year round. Tickets cost up to VND200,000, or less than $9, and will give you two hours to play with the snow and take all the selfies you want.
Address: 125 Dong Van Cong, Thanh My Loi Ward, District 2, City. HCMC
Location: 3rd floor, The CBD Premium Home building
Hotline: 1900 588838
Hours: 10:00 am – 10:00 pm
Ticket: from 150,000 – 220,000 per person