Hoi-An

Disclosure: This article contains affiliate links. If you make a booking through these links, we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Hoi An, Without the Wet-Season Gamble We almost booked Hoi An for late October, purely because the flights were cheap. A guesthouse owner I emailed gently talked us out of it: “The lanterns are beautiful, yes — but the river comes up the lanes most years, and you may spend your evenings watching rain off a balcony.” We moved the trip to March instead, and the difference was night and day: warm, dry, golden light over the river, and the Old Town glowing every single evening without a cloud in the way. ...