Vietopia

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Amazing and fun place for the kids. A whole mini world of things to learn and explore. The kids left this place full of new experiences. The staff is extremely friendly and good with kids, and they explain everything in English too. Our kids has English as a second language so their English isn’t perfect. But they had lots of fun and managed to learn many new things. Planning your visit, make sure you have enough time for your kids to enjoy this huge place. We stayed for 4 hours and didn’t even try half of the activities, and it was a really calm day with only a handful of visitors. Usually this place is filled with up to a thousand of excited kids and their parents.

Place is quiet and not crowded eventhough we were there on a weekend, Saturday. The only downside is that some of the activities my kids can’t do as the employees there don’t speak English, so that was a challenge. They just said “sorry, I no English. Cannot.” Overall, a good place to be for the kids to enjoy themselves and try the different “occupation”. It’s very very similar to Kidszania.

OMG - this is such a cute concept! This is a large 2-floors indoor theme park with probably 30-40 different small rooms/pavilion with various job functions representing a city: police station, fire station, newspaper, factories, photo studio, gas station and auto repair, supermarket, archeological site, space camp, dentist, post office, fashion design studio, court, recycling center, subway station, car design center, farm with cows, hospital, nursing station, science center, magic school, cooking school, and so forth. The idea is that some pavilions require you to spend fake money while some places where you work, you earn fake money. It's such a cool concept to let your child understand the concept of "having to work" to earn a salary to be able to spend it later. At each station there is a sign showing how much each activity costs or earns. A staff person brings the kid(s) into the pavilion for the activity (parents aren't allowed to go in but can watch from the outside). Nearly all activities are for 4 year olds and above and take about 30 minutes or so. Most activities resemble a job/career. At some activities there are some souvenirs as well: for instance at the cooking school you actually get to bake a little pancake that you can take out and eat, while at one of the science places you get to bring the yogurt bottle out and drink as well. I love how well integrated everything is. The actual ticket counter of this place resembles an airline checking counter complete with a fake security screening where the kids get an armband that you scan into each activity so the parents can keep track. There is a fake large passenger jet model where the kids can learn how to be a flight attendant. For the fire station, the kids actually ride in a small firetruck "across the town" complete with sirens to where the fake fire is and get to extinguish it there with a real water gun. Similarly, for the hospital work you might have to drive the ambulance "around town" as well and then treat a "passed out" patient at some other parts of the town. For the modeling school, the staff shows them how to perform on the catwalk behind the curtains first and then later the curtains open for the parents to see their kids' show. Everything was so much fun and we couldn't finish all the activities in time, so I recommend coming here early to spend all day here. There is a real mediocre restaurant on site so you can buy and eat food. You probably can smuggle food in as they don't check bags at the entrance. The staff can speak English to the kids too, though I don't know how good it is as I asked them to speak Vietnamese to them. There is WiFi everywhere and one charging station with various USB/phone cables. Entrance ticket was about 280,000 đồng for a kid (4 years and older) and 45,000 đồng for adult. There are no in-and-out priveleges. We went on a Wednesday and it was fairly empty. Some downsides: there is no AC so sometimes it can get stuffy and hot. It's also very loud in here, so if you as a parent want to chill at the restaurant and work, bring some earbuds. I wish some activities take less then 30 minutes so that you can try more things. I also wish they would allow the parents inside each pavilion to take better pictures and videos.

Hello, I'm writing this as I am 18. But I went to Viettopia in 2016 when I was 8, and I don't know if either the firefighting water spray activity or being forced by my mother to do the news reporting video that still traumatises me to this day. And definitely this themepark will bring me more trauma, now I am studying as a radiologist doctor (born and raised in Australia). From vivid memories: I had experiences in nursing, packaging drinks, spraying screen fires, flying a fake plane, learning vietnam's road signs, learning to drive simulator cars, pretending to be a model, learning how to make coffee, being a delivery driver (for packages), suprising a worker with my english while she was teaching me english words, creating icecream, seeing pepsi production, dentistry, photography, instrument playing and giving cpr to a dummy. I nearly went into nursing (babies) and dentistry - so I guess this themepark was the spark of my intentions to study medicine and health. Definitely even if you don't go to school here, at least bring your children to come here it gives them a good idea of what may spark their interests in the future. And some of these skills even though taught mainly in Vietnamese, I still take part in interest of like photography and instruments such as piano and flute. There are so many little stores and areas to play in there, I still have the little Viettopia paper money with me, as memories. I 100% recommend.