Temporary housing in Ho Chi Minh City, Hanoi and Da Nang: an address from the first night
Nothing on this page is signed. Asia Relocation Vietnam holds a furnished residence or a partner hotel in-house for as long as the interval lasts, which is what stops a household agreeing to a Vietnamese lease it has not had time to read.
The expensive mistake at the start of a posting in Vietnam is not a bad hotel. It is a lease signed in week two because the family had nowhere else to be, on a flat nobody had time to compare, in a district chosen because it was near the temporary one.
A stay removes that pressure and does nothing else. The household has a real address from the first night — somewhere to cook, to do laundry, to send a suitcase — and the permanent decision is then taken calmly, or not taken at all until the posting is confirmed.
Asia Relocation Vietnam holds furnished residences and works with hotels and boutique establishments across the three Vietnamese cities it covers. What is included is confirmed in writing before you commit, because a category name tells you nothing about a particular building.
What is held for you, and what a booking deliberately is not
Read the right-hand column first if you are deciding between this page and its neighbour.
What the stay carries
- A furnished home, not a room. Living space, an equipped kitchen and sleeping areas sized to the household that is arriving.
- Building amenities where they exist. Pools and fitness centres are common in Vietnamese serviced residences; we say which building has what.
- Hotels for the shorter end. Partner hotels and boutique establishments, for a week on the ground or for one person.
- Dates allowed to move. Booked on the assumption that a handover slips, which in Vietnam it frequently does.
- Inclusions in writing. Cleaning, utilities, internet, what is metered and what is not, before you commit to anything.
Confirmed in writing before the booking is held, city by city.
What a booking is not
- A lease. No Letter of Intent, no negotiation, no signature — that journey is home search, and it comes after.
- A workspace. A company needing premises in Vietnam is looking for office search.
- An introduction to the city. Districts, clinics and registrations belong to city orientation.
- A school plan. If the term has already started, school search is the urgent file, not this one.
- A rate off a list. Nobody prices a Vietnamese stay from a category name and a number of nights.
Any of these can run on the same file. Name them in the inquiry.
Four ways a household is housed while Vietnam is still being decided
The right one is decided by how long, how many, and how firm the end date is.
The serviced residence
The default where a family arrives together: furnished throughout, a kitchen that works, and a building with amenities. It is the option that lets ordinary life resume before the permanent search is finished.
The hotel or boutique establishment
For one person, or for a short spell on the ground before a decision. Central, serviced, and free of the small logistics a household does not want in its first week in a Vietnamese city.
Units held together for a team
Companies opening in Vietnam rarely send one person. We hold several units in the same building so the first employees land on identical terms and appear on one file rather than five.
The stay whose end date is not known
Work authorisation pending, a handover that has already moved once, a posting awaiting confirmation. Here the flexibility of the building matters more than the building.
Five steps from your dates to a key at the door
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Dates, household, city
When you land, how many of you, and which of the three Vietnamese cities. If the city is not settled, say so — that changes what we recommend rather than blocking it.
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What the household actually needs
Cooking or not, laundry, the run to an office or a school gate, and how much space the first weeks require. Most of the wrong bookings come from skipping this.
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A shortlist, with inclusions attached
Two or three real options rather than a category, each with what it includes set out in writing. You compare buildings, not brochures.
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Held before you fly
The booking is confirmed from here while you are still abroad, so the household arrives in Vietnam with an address rather than a search.
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The extension, or the handover
If the permanent home is ready, the stay ends. If it is not, it is extended. Either way the same coordinator handles it, which is why the end date is allowed to be uncertain.
Four arrivals in Vietnam that need a roof before they need a home
Households whose permanent home is not ready
The commonest case by far. A building that finished late, a handover that moved, or a search that deserves more time than the arrival date allows.
Short business stays
A spell on the ground to see the operation, meet the team or make a decision. Serviced, central, and over before anything needs to be committed to.
The first employees of a new entity
A company establishing itself in Vietnam housing its first arrivals while the workspace is being sorted out. Held together, reported together.
Families who want to see the districts first
Choosing a Vietnamese neighbourhood from photographs is how a first year goes wrong. A stay buys the weeks in which that choice becomes an informed one.
Where a stay can be held, and what changes between them
This is one of the services that reaches all three cities, and the three are not interchangeable.
In Ho Chi Minh City the useful question is which side of the city the stay should be on, because the interval is when a household forms its opinion of the districts it will later be choosing between. Temporary housing and the permanent search are run here by the same team, so those two conversations are never held by two people who have not spoken.
Hanoi has its own stock and its own habits, and the capital rewards booking earlier than feels necessary. Da Nang is genuinely covered — it is one of the three cities named for this service — on a smaller market, which we scope against what is actually there rather than assuming the two larger cities apply.
What arrivals ask before a Vietnamese stay is held
Why not just book a hotel ourselves?
Can the stay be extended if the lease start moves?
What is actually inside a serviced residence?
Is a hotel ever the better answer?
Do you book for a whole team arriving together?
Can you hold something in Da Nang?
Does taking a stay commit us to anything else?
What decides what a stay costs?
When the interval is over and the address has to be permanent
The search that ends in a signature
Shortlist, accompanied viewings, the Letter of Intent and the day the keys change hands, in Ho Chi Minh City.
Home search →The whole destination side
What Asia Relocation Vietnam runs for an arrival, which service reaches which city, and the order they belong in.
Relocation in Vietnam →Give us the landing date and how many of you there are
A coordinator comes back with two or three real Vietnamese options, their inclusions in writing, and a stay held before you fly.
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