Buses and limousine vans in the delta

Mien Tay (Western) bus station is the main terminal for coaches to the delta. Its operating company gives the address as 395 Kinh Duong Vuong, An Lac ward, Ho Chi Minh City — on the western edge of the city, towards the expressway. Its own website has a route search, though when we checked on 12 October 2026 it returned no results, so it is not yet a useful timetable.

Mien Tay is not the only boarding point. Ticket listings for Can Tho, Chau Doc and Rach Gia also show An Suong station and pick-up points in several city districts, and on some routes the new Mien Dong station. If your hotel is in the centre, a coach that boards in a central district can save the trip out to Mien Tay; the listing names the exact pick-up point.

Tickets are sold in three ways, and most travellers use more than one over a trip:

• At the station counter. Each operator has its own window. This works for frequent routes outside holidays, but you may wait for the next departure with seats.
• On the operator's website or app. Larger companies sell online; FUTA (Phuong Trang), for example, runs futabus.vn. You choose a seat and the boarding point.
• On a ticket marketplace. Sites such as Vexere and redBus list several operators side by side, which is useful for comparing times on the same day.

These names are examples of the types of seller, not recommendations. Whichever you use, read the boarding point and the drop-off point carefully: they decide how long the journey takes door to door more than the vehicle does.

We have not found a single rule on luggage size, child fares or seat allocation that applies across companies; each operator sets its own and prints it in the ticket conditions. Read them before you pay, especially for a large suitcase or a child who needs a seat.

Night buses run on the longer routes — listings show departures from Ho Chi Minh City to Can Tho and Chau Doc from around midnight to late evening. A few habits help: board at a station rather than a roadside pick-up, keep your passport, phone and money on you rather than in the hold, and note the vehicle's plate number when you board.

• You need to be somewhere at a fixed time early in the morning — a boat at 07:00, a border crossing, a flight — and the first bus would arrive too late.
• Three or four of you, with luggage, on a leg where both stations are outside town: a car may cost little more per person and save two taxi rides.
• You want to stop on the way. Buses do not wait while you look at a market or a pagoda.
• It is the week of the Lunar New Year and you have not booked.

For those cases see independent routes for where to break the journey, or compare the route planner times by car and bus.