Sex club Da Nang: the hostess bars, street by street

Where the bars are: An Hai and Hai Chau

The four bars on this page sit in two parts of the city. An Hai, on the beach side of the Han river, between the river and My Khe beach, has two of them: BLANK Lounge & Bar at 223 Duong Dinh Nghe and GOD Bar Lounge at 115 Ha Bong. From the hotels along Vo Nguyen Giap, the beach road, both are a short Grab or taxi ride inland.

Hai Chau, the central district on the other bank, has the other two: BUNNY Bar & Lounge 2 at 12 Nguyen Du and Bubble Tokyo at 01 Nui Thanh. From the beach side the ride crosses the river by one of the bridges; from a hotel in the centre, or from the airport, Hai Chau is the closer side.

For a reader searching for a sex club in Da Nang, that is the whole of what this site lists: no single nightlife street, no row of doors, just these addresses on the two banks of the river. Grab and taxis both run at the hours these bars keep, and it is worth settling how you get back before they close at 02:00.

Sex club Da Nang: what each bar actually is

A sex club in Da Nang, in the European sense of a venue built around sex, is not what any of these four bars is. Each one is a hostess bar of the Japanese kind, and they sit along a line: at one end the quiet counter bar, where a hostess serves you and talks; at the other the karaoke girls bar, with private rooms, a microphone and a set that includes singing.

BLANK Lounge & Bar is the quiet end. It presents itself as a place to unwind with conversation rather than volume, and its hostesses wear a uniform. It is a counter bar, not a room bar.

GOD Bar Lounge calls itself a Japanese-style girls bar on its own site, and its tagline uses the word kyabakura, the Japanese name for a club where a hostess sits at your table. That is how it works: a hostess joins you for a set, pours and keeps the conversation going, in a small room lit for talking rather than dancing.

BUNNY Bar & Lounge 2 is a karaoke girls bar, with counter seats and karaoke rooms. A hostess joins you, pours, talks and sings in the rooms, and the bill is a set fee plus what you order.

Bubble Tokyo has a long counter and VIP private rooms, and the karaoke is in the rooms. It describes itself in Japanese and is aimed at the Japanese and Korean residents of the city, and it takes reservations online as well as by phone.

Whichever end you choose, the evening is company, drinks and, in the room bars, karaoke: none of these four is a sex club in Da Nang except in the words of a search box. None of them publishes a stage, a show or dancing.

How an evening runs in a hostess bar

The pattern is much the same across the format, and it helps to know it before you push the door, above all if you expected a sex club in Da Nang of the European kind. What follows is general practice, not the house rules of any one bar.

You are shown to a counter seat or, if you booked one, to a room. A hostess joins you. In the Japanese format the set is the unit: a block of time in her company, quoted at the door. She pours, she talks, and in the karaoke bars she sings with you. You will usually be asked if you want to buy her a drink; it goes on the bill as a line of its own, separate from the set.

When the set runs out, the staff ask if you want another; the bill is paid at the end, and asking for it itemised is normal.

The hostess's work is company: conversation, pouring, karaoke. She sets the limits of the evening, and touching her is not part of the set. Anyone who came looking for a sex club in Da Nang finds a quieter evening than the search suggests, and it ends when the set does.

On a first visit a counter seat is the easier start: you see how the room works before you take a private room for a group.

Sex club Da Nang: what the bill depends on

No bar on this page publishes a price, so what can be said is what moves the bill:

• the length of the set, since a longer block of a hostess's time costs more;
• the room, since a private karaoke room is priced above a counter seat;
• the drinks you buy for the hostess, charged one by one;
• what you order for yourself.

At the door, ask for the set price and what it covers, and if you want a room, ask for the room charge as a separate figure. BUNNY Bar & Lounge 2 states the structure plainly, a set fee plus what you order, and in practice that is how the whole format works. Bring cash in dong: none of the four lists card payment.

There is no sex club in Da Nang price list to quote, because none of these bars publishes one. The set, asked for at the door before the first drink, is the number to fix first, and the rest of the bill follows from it.

Opening hours and when to reserve

GOD Bar Lounge opens first, at 18:00. BLANK Lounge & Bar, BUNNY Bar & Lounge 2 and Bubble Tokyo open at 19:00. All four close at 02:00.

All four list phone and WhatsApp; GOD Bar Lounge also has a website, and Bubble Tokyo takes reservations online. For a counter seat on a weeknight a booking is rarely needed. For a group, a weekend or a private room, message ahead: the karaoke rooms at BUNNY Bar & Lounge 2 and the VIP rooms at Bubble Tokyo are the ones to reserve. Ask for the set price and the room charge in the same message, so the booking settles both.

Elsewhere in Vietnam

Da Nang is the city with the most bars on this site. Saigon has one, Pirates, a Japanese karaoke bar on Le Thanh Ton in District 1, described on the home page. No bar is listed in Hanoi or any other city yet, and this page will not invent one.