If you only have one day in Ho Chi Minh City, spend the morning at the War Remnants Museum and the afternoon at the Independence Palace. They are a ten-minute walk apart, together they cost 140,000₫, and between them they explain more about this city than anything else you will do. Then walk to Nguyễn Huệ for the evening and eat on a plastic stool somewhere near it.
That is the short answer. The long one is below: 26 things to do in Saigon, the classics first with the prices and hours we checked against each operator’s own website in October 2026, then the things we actually do on our own days off. We live here, so we will also tell you what has changed. Notre-Dame is closed to tourists, the city’s museums doubled their prices on 1 October 2026, and the buses are free until the end of the year.
Checked October 2026. The War Remnants Museum, the Museum of Ho Chi Minh City and the Fine Arts Museum all moved to 60,000₫ on 1 October 2026. Notre-Dame Cathedral is open for Mass only, with no reopening date. About 135 city bus routes are free until 31 December 2026, and foreign visitors qualify. The districts were abolished on 1 July 2025, so every address below gives the new ward, with the old district in brackets where it helps. Our District 1 guide explains which new wards replaced the old centre.
| Sight | Ward | Hours | Adult ticket | Nearest metro |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| War Remnants Museum | Xuân Hòa | 07:30 to 17:30 daily | 60,000₫ | Bến Thành, then a short ride |
| Independence Palace | Bến Thành | 07:00 to 18:00 daily | 80,000₫ (40,000₫ palace only) | Bến Thành |
| Notre-Dame Cathedral | Sài Gòn | Outside at any time, inside for Mass only | Free | Opera House |
| Central Post Office | Sài Gòn | Daily, closing time varies | Free | Opera House |
| Nguyễn Huệ Walking Street | Sài Gòn | Always open | Free | Opera House |
| A O Show, Saigon Opera House | Sài Gòn | 18:00, most weekdays | 800,000₫ to 1,750,000₫ | Opera House |
| Ben Thanh Market | Bến Thành | 07:00 to 22:00 (food stalls from 04:00) | Free | Bến Thành |
| Museum of Ho Chi Minh City | Sài Gòn | 08:00 to 17:00 daily | 60,000₫ | Opera House |
| Cu Chi Tunnels | An Nhơn Tây / Nhuận Đức | 07:00 to 17:00 daily | 135,000₫ for foreign visitors | None, half a day by road |
| Saigon Water Bus | Sài Gòn (Bạch Đằng) | First boat 08:30 | 15,000₫ any distance | Ba Son |
If you have one, two or three days
- One day: War Remnants Museum at 07:30 before the groups, Independence Palace after, lunch near Ben Thanh, then Notre-Dame from the outside, the Post Office and Book Street. Sunset on a rooftop, dinner on a motorbike food tour.
- Two days: add the Cu Chi Tunnels on the morning of day two, back by lunchtime, then the 17:10 water bus up the river and dinner in Thảo Điền.
- Three days: add a Mekong Delta day trip, or stay in town for Chợ Lớn and Binh Tay Market in the morning, a museum after lunch and the A O Show at 18:00.
1. War Remnants Museum
28 Võ Văn Tần, Xuân Hòa Ward (formerly District 3). Open 07:30 to 17:30 every day including public holidays, with the ticket desk closing at 17:00. Adults pay 60,000₫ from 1 October 2026, the same price whatever your passport.
If you do one serious thing in Saigon, make it this. The museum tells the story of the American war from the Vietnamese side, mostly through photographs, and some of them are very hard to look at. Go first thing in the morning, before the tour buses arrive, and give it at least two hours. The tanks, planes and artillery in the courtyard are the part people photograph. The galleries are the part people remember.
Two things to know before you go. Three of the big permanent galleries, including the Agent Orange room, closed for redisplay in June 2026 and reopened on 21 September with new touchscreen displays. And the museum has warned that it does not sell tickets through any reseller, so buy at the gate or on the museum’s own ticket site. Our War Remnants Museum guide has the ticket prices, what is in each gallery and how long to allow.
2. Independence Palace
135 Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa, Bến Thành Ward (formerly District 1). Open 07:00 to 18:00 every day, Tết included. The full ticket, palace plus the exhibition hall, is 80,000₫. A palace-only ticket is 40,000₫.
This is where the war ended: a North Vietnamese tank came through these gates on 30 April 1975. Inside, the 1960s building has been left almost exactly as it was, with the cabinet room, the war room, the basement bunker and the president’s rooftop helipad. It is a ten-minute walk from the War Remnants Museum, which is why the two belong in the same day.
Use the main gate on Nam Kỳ Khởi Nghĩa. The second gate on Nguyễn Du only sells tickets from 08:00 to 16:00, which catches people out in the late afternoon. The discounted senior and student prices are listed for Vietnamese citizens, so most foreign visitors pay the full adult price.
3. Notre-Dame Cathedral, from the outside
1 Công xã Paris, Sài Gòn Ward. Free to see from the square at any time.
Most guides still tell you to go inside. You can’t. The cathedral has been under restoration since 2017, and the parish’s own website says plainly that it is closed to tourists and open only for people attending Mass. The 2027 finish date was dropped in December 2025 and has not been replaced. The good news is that the two new gold crosses went back on top of the spires in March 2026, so the outside looks better than it has in years, scaffolding and all.
If you want to see the inside, go to Mass. There is an English Mass at 09:30 on Sunday morning. Be a worshipper while you are in there, not a photographer.
4. Central Post Office and Book Street
2 Công xã Paris, Sài Gòn Ward, directly across the square from the cathedral. Free to enter.
A working post office built in the 1880s, with a vaulted iron roof, painted maps of old Saigon on the walls and a portrait of Ho Chi Minh watching over the counters. You can still send a postcard from here, which is the right thing to do with it. There is also a newer photobooth in the lobby that prints your picture as a stamp.
Walk out of the side door onto Nguyễn Văn Bình, the book street, which runs between the post office and the cathedral. It is a short, shaded pedestrian lane of bookshops and cafés, and it is the calmest five minutes in the centre. Closing times at the post office vary by source, so do this one before late afternoon.
5. Nguyễn Huệ Walking Street and the Café Apartment
Nguyễn Huệ, Sài Gòn Ward. Free, open at all times.
A 670-metre pedestrian boulevard running from the yellow City Hall down to the river. In the day it is a wide, hot, open space. After dark it is where the city comes to walk, skate, busk, take wedding photos and eat ice cream, and at weekends the side roads close to traffic in the evening and it fills right up.
Halfway down, at number 42, is the Café Apartment: a nine-storey 1960s apartment block that now holds a café or a shop behind almost every door. It was painted bright white before Tết 2026, so ignore the old ochre photos. Pick a café on an upper floor with a balcony and look straight down the boulevard. The lift may ask for a small fee, and the stairs are free.
6. The A O Show at the Saigon Opera House
7 Công trường Lam Sơn, Sài Gòn Ward. Shows at 18:00 on most weekdays and some Sundays. Tickets 800,000₫, 1,250,000₫ or 1,750,000₫ by seat zone.
The Opera House was built by the French in 1898 and seats 468, so there is not a bad view in the place. The resident show is A O, an hour of bamboo acrobatics and contemporary circus about the move from village to city, with live music and no dialogue, so it works whatever language you speak. Book ahead: online sales close two hours before curtain and the cheaper seats go first.
Weekend visitors take note: in the autumn 2026 schedule there are almost no Saturday shows. The Opera House metro station is right under the building.
7. Ben Thanh Market and its new square
Bến Thành Ward, between Lê Lợi, Phan Bội Châu, Phan Chu Trinh and Lê Thánh Tôn. Open 07:00 to 22:00 daily under the market’s own rules, with fresh food and eating stalls from 04:00. Free to enter.
Saigon’s most famous market, and the most touristed. Come for the building, the food court in the middle (the chè stalls and the bún riêu counters are the bits locals still rate) and dried goods like coffee, cashews and pepper. Be careful with clothes and anything branded, much of it is counterfeit, and in May 2026 the city seized more than 1,500 fake items in a single sweep of the Ben Thanh and Saigon Square area.
Haggle hard. Counter at 20 to 30 per cent of the first price and expect to meet somewhere between a third and a half. The square in front of the market was repaved in a blue wave pattern before Tết 2026 and is now one of the busiest photo spots in town. Ben Thanh is also the terminus of Metro Line 1, and our Ben Thanh Market guide goes gate by gate, with the stalls worth eating at. Our guide to Saigon’s markets and how much to haggle at each covers the better ones too.
8. Tân Định: the pink church and the market
Tân Định Church, 289 Hai Bà Trưng, Xuân Hòa Ward. Free.
The Church of the Sacred Heart has been painted pink inside and out since 1957, and it is the most photographed building in a neighbourhood Time Out named one of the coolest in the world in 2026. The light is best from about four in the afternoon. It is a working parish, so dress for a church and don’t wander in during Mass.
Across Hai Bà Trưng is Tân Định Market, a century-old French market building that is the best place in the city to buy fabric. If you are having something tailored, buy the cloth here first.
9. Jade Emperor Pagoda
73 Mai Thị Lựu, Tân Định Ward (formerly Đa Kao, District 1).
A Taoist pagoda built by the city’s Cantonese community in the early 1900s, dark, smoky with incense and crowded with carved wooden figures of gods and judges of hell. Barack Obama visited in 2016. It is a working place of worship rather than a museum, so keep your voice down and your shoulders covered.
Arrive on foot, by motorbike or by Grab bike. Cars have been banned from Mai Thị Lựu between 06:00 and 22:00 since March 2026. The one day to avoid is the Jade Emperor’s birthday, the ninth day of the lunar new year, when the queue runs down the street.
10. Two city museums for 60,000₫ each
The Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, 65 Lý Tự Trọng, Sài Gòn Ward, open 08:00 to 17:00 daily. The Fine Arts Museum, 97A Phó Đức Chính, Bến Thành Ward, open 08:00 to 17:00 according to its own website. Both 60,000₫ from 1 October 2026, with children and students free.
The city museum is in the old Gia Long Palace, a white colonial mansion that is worth the ticket for the building alone, and its history of Saigon from rice port to megacity fills in everything the war museums leave out. The Fine Arts Museum is three linked colonial villas full of Vietnamese painting, lacquer and propaganda art, and it is rarely busy. Both are good answers to a rainy afternoon.
11. Chợ Lớn and Binh Tay Market
Binh Tay Market, 57A Tháp Mười, Bình Tây Ward (formerly District 6). Open 07:00 to 18:00, with a night market from 18:00 to midnight.
Chợ Lớn is Saigon’s Chinatown, the old trading city on the western side, full of Chinese temples, herbal medicine shops and wholesale streets that each sell one thing. Binh Tay Market is its centre: a 1928 building with a clock tower and a courtyard, now a protected historical site. It is a wholesale market, so come for the building and the spice aisles rather than for bargains.
The newer reason to come is the night market, which has run around the building every evening since December 2025, with food stalls and, on some nights, lion dancing. Almost no English guide has caught up with it yet.
12. Bùi Viện on a Saturday night
Bùi Viện, Bến Thành Ward (formerly Phạm Ngũ Lão, District 1). Pedestrianised on Saturday and Sunday nights from 19:00.
The backpacker street. Loud, cheap, competing sound systems on both sides, plastic stools in the road and a crowd that is shoulder to shoulder by nine. See it once, on a Saturday, then walk five minutes somewhere you can hear yourself. Do not take the balloons: nitrous oxide is illegal in Vietnam and the police do enforce it. Our guide to Bùi Viện has where to drink on it and around it.
13. Saigon from the top of Landmark 81
720A Điện Biên Phủ, Thạnh Mỹ Tây Ward (formerly Bình Thạnh). SkyView observation deck on floors 79 to 81.
Landmark 81 is the tallest building in Vietnam at 461 metres, and its SkyView deck is the highest view in the city: the river bending round Thủ Thiêm, the whole of the old centre and, on a clear evening, the sun going down behind it. Tân Cảng metro station is beside the tower, which is the easy way there.
We are going to be straight with you about the ticket. The old official SkyView website now belongs to a gambling site, and we could not find a current price we could verify, so we are not printing one. Buy at the ticket desk in the basement and expect weekend prices to be higher than weekday ones. If you would rather have a drink with your view, the rooftop bars in our list further down cost less than the deck.
14. The Saigon River by water bus
Bạch Đằng wharf, 10B Tôn Đức Thắng, Sài Gòn Ward. 15,000₫ a trip, any distance.
Saigon is a river city that mostly ignores its river. The water bus fixes that for the price of a coffee. Take the 17:10 from Bạch Đằng: it runs daily, goes the full hour up to Linh Đông and puts you mid river as the light goes. Or get off after 27 minutes at Thảo Điền and walk into the expat quarter for dinner. Only four boats a day run the whole route, so check our Saigon Water Bus timetable and fares before you go. The water bus is not part of the free bus scheme.
15. The Cu Chi Tunnels
Two sites about 70 km northwest of the centre: Bến Đình in Nhuận Đức commune and Bến Dược in An Nhơn Tây commune, 13 km apart. Open 07:00 to 17:00 daily. Foreign visitors pay 135,000₫ (35,000₫ entry plus a 100,000₫ guide ticket, since 1 February 2026). Vietnamese visitors pay 35,000₫.
A network of more than 200 km of tunnels that Viet Cong fighters lived and fought in during the war. You crawl through a short stretch, see the trapdoors, kitchens and booby traps, and come away with a very different idea of the war than the one Hollywood gave you. Bến Đình is the one most tours use, and its tunnels have been widened for visitors. Bến Dược is bigger, quieter and keeps part of the original system, plus a memorial temple.
Plan on half a day, leaving around 07:00 and back by lunch. Read the small print on cheap tours: a 299,000₫ coach tour that excludes entrance fees really costs you 434,000₫. The shooting range is paid on the day, per bullet. Our day trips from Saigon guide has more ideas within two hours of the city.
16. A Mekong Delta day trip
My Tho, Thới Sơn island and Bến Tre, southwest of the city. Group day tours from Saigon run from about 399,000₫ to 699,000₫ per person.
The standard day trip, and a good one if you set your expectations right: coconut groves, fruit orchards, a bee farm, a horse-cart ride, coconut candy being made in Bến Tre and a ride through the canals in a small rowed sampan. It gets crowded. Thới Sơn took about 38,000 visitors in a single week in July 2026 and the sampan queue ran to two or three hours at the peak, so go on a weekday.
Two things the brochures will not tell you. The famous Cái Răng floating market at Cần Thơ is not a realistic day trip, because the boats trade at dawn and are gone by eight, so it needs an overnight stay. And the Cái Bè floating market no longer runs at all.
17. A night food tour on the back of a bike
If you do one thing on this list that is not a landmark, make it this one. Back of the Bike Tours puts you on the back of a motorbike with someone who lives here and takes you into the parts of Saigon you would never find on your own: five or six stops, plastic stools, bánh xèo, ốc, bún thịt nướng and whatever is good that night.
Do it at night. When the heat breaks, the city turns itself inside out, and alleys that looked shut at four in the afternoon are three deep in people by eight. It is also the quickest way to stop being frightened of the traffic. After two hours weaving through it on the back of a bike, crossing the road on foot feels like nothing.
18. Snails on Vĩnh Khánh
Ốc means snails, and by extension the whole family of shellfish cooked with garlic, chilli, tamarind, coconut and lemongrass. It is Saigon’s great social food: you order six plates for the table and it goes on for hours. Vĩnh Khánh street in the old District 4 is its home, one road of ốc restaurants that are all full from about seven. Walk the strip and sit wherever is busiest. Our write-up on why the sauce is the whole point will help you order.
19. Eat your way down a hẻm
The alleys are where this city actually eats. Pick one, walk it slowly and order from whichever stall has the most stools occupied. That is the only review system you need. Our list of 15 Saigon dishes to try tells you what to point at.
20. Drink coffee like a local
Vietnamese coffee is its own thing, built on robusta, condensed milk and ice, and roughly twice as strong as the arabica you drink at home. Order a cà phê sữa đá, sit on a low stool and watch the street. Then try an egg coffee, whipped yolk and sugar on top of an espresso, which tastes like tiramisu. Our guide to the best egg coffee in Saigon has where.
21. Ride Metro Line 1 to the end and back
Saigon’s first metro line opened in December 2024 and runs just under 20 km from Bến Thành out to Suối Tiên across 14 stations in about half an hour. Single tickets cost about 7,000₫ to 20,000₫ depending on distance, and trains run from 05:00 until about 22:00.
Here is the game. Pick a number between 1 and 14, get off at that station, walk for an hour and get back on. You will end up in neighbourhoods you had no reason to visit, which is the point. The view from the elevated section as it crosses the river at Ba Son is worth the fare on its own, and Ba Son station sits right next to a water bus wharf, so you can come out by train and go home by boat. Our guide to Metro Line 1 lists every station.
22. Watch the sun go down from a rooftop
Obvious, but obvious for a reason. Sunset over this skyline lands between about 17:25 and 18:20 all year, and it is one of the genuine perks of living here. Go on a weeknight and you will have the place mostly to yourself. Our list of the best rooftop bars in Saigon covers the big hotel terraces.
23. A cocktail bar night
Saigon has two bars in the 2026 Asia’s 50 Best Bars rankings and a lot more that deserve to be. Start early at a hotel bar, then work your way towards somewhere with no sign on the door. Our new guide to the 10 best cocktail bars in Saigon has the full list with prices.
10% off at The Racha Room, Snuffbox and Symposium with the Saigon Scene app. The Racha Room in Thảo Điền does Thai-inspired cocktails and food that is good enough to come for on its own. Snuffbox on Tôn Thất Đạm is a proper hidden-door speakeasy. Symposium in Bình Thạnh is where to go when you want to talk.
24. A Japan night without leaving the centre
Start with dinner at an izakaya, then walk it off through Little Japan around Lê Thánh Tôn and Thái Văn Lung. The trick is to look up. The alleys off those streets are stacked vertically, and the best bars are on the second, third and fourth floors behind a stairwell you would walk straight past. Our guide to Saigon’s Japan Town has a route.
25. Drink at happy-hour prices
Almost every bar in the city runs a happy hour, and nobody publishes them in one place except us. Our free map of happy hours in Saigon shows more than 130 of them with their days and times, so you can see what is on near you right now, from Thảo Điền taprooms to District 1 rooftops. For gigs, quiz nights and Sunday roasts, check what’s on in Saigon this week.
26. Make something with your own hands
Paint a mug, make a silver ring, cook a three-course Vietnamese lunch or race a go-kart up three floors of a shopping mall. Saigon is full of things to do that are not on any landmark list, and they are often what people remember best. Our guide to unusual things to do in Ho Chi Minh City has fourteen of them, from padel to clay pigeon shooting.
Getting around
- Buses are free until 31 December 2026. About 135 of the city’s roughly 180 routes cost nothing, and foreign visitors qualify. Tap a contactless bank card or phone wallet on the reader as you board. No fare is taken, it only counts you. Airport and interprovincial routes are excluded.
- Metro Line 1 runs from Bến Thành through the Opera House, Ba Son, Thảo Điền and An Phú to Suối Tiên. Pay cash at the counter or tap a contactless card at the gate. Integrated bus and metro tickets are due from 1 January 2027.
- Grab is the default for everything else. A Grab bike across the centre costs a fraction of a car and is quicker in traffic.
- Roadworks: Metro Line 2 construction has made parts of Nguyễn Thị Minh Khai and Cách Mạng Tháng Tám one-way since September 2026, which affects the roads around the War Remnants Museum.
What it costs
| Item | Price |
|---|---|
| War Remnants Museum | 60,000₫ |
| Independence Palace, full ticket | 80,000₫ |
| Museum of Ho Chi Minh City or Fine Arts Museum | 60,000₫ each |
| Cu Chi Tunnels, foreign visitor | 135,000₫, plus transport |
| Mekong Delta group day tour | About 399,000₫ to 699,000₫ |
| A O Show | 800,000₫ to 1,750,000₫ |
| Saigon Water Bus | 15,000₫ a trip |
| Metro Line 1 | About 7,000₫ to 20,000₫ a trip |
| City buses | Free until 31 December 2026 |
| Notre-Dame, Post Office, Nguyễn Huệ, Ben Thanh Market, Tân Định Church | Free |
A full day of the central sights, the War Remnants Museum, the Independence Palace and a city museum, comes to 200,000₫ in tickets. The only place in this guide that charges foreigners more than Vietnamese visitors is Cu Chi, where the guide ticket brings a foreign visitor’s total to about four times the local price. The city’s museums and the palace charge everyone the same.
When to go
The dry season runs from December to April and the wet season from May to November. By the national weather service’s 1991 to 2020 averages, February is the driest month, with 8 mm of rain, and September the wettest, with 273 mm over 18 days. December and January are the most comfortable, because the daytime highs are at their lowest of the year, around 32°C. April and May are the hottest, close to 35°C. October and November are when heavy rain can coincide with the year’s highest tides, and that is when the riverside streets flood worst.
Tết, the lunar new year, falls on 6 February 2027. The city gets very quiet and very beautiful for a week, and the Independence Palace stays open throughout, but many family restaurants and small shops close for several days.
Where to go for what
- Short on time: the War Remnants Museum and the Independence Palace, ten minutes apart.
- A rainy afternoon: the Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, the Fine Arts Museum, or the Café Apartment.
- With children: the water bus, the go-karts and the city zoo. Our guide to Saigon with kids has the rest.
- After dark: Nguyễn Huệ, a motorbike food tour and a rooftop. See things to do in Ho Chi Minh City at night and our Saigon nightlife guide.
- On a budget: the free buses, the 15,000₫ water bus, the free landmarks and a happy hour from our map.
- Somewhere to stay: our guide to where to stay in Ho Chi Minh City goes area by area.
How we picked
We live in Saigon, and this list is the one we give friends who visit. The landmarks are here because a first visit without them would be strange. The second half is what we actually do with our own evenings. Every price, opening time and address in the first half was checked against the operator’s own website or official notices in September and October 2026, and where we could not verify something, such as the Landmark 81 ticket price, we have said so instead of guessing.
Some of the tours, bars and cafés in the second half are Saigon Scene partners. They are marked with their member offer, and Saigon Scene members get 10% off at each. The landmarks and day trips have no commercial relationship with us. Prices change, and the museums changed theirs on 1 October 2026, so if a number here is out of date, tell us and we will fix it.
Ho Chi Minh City: your questions answered
Is Notre-Dame Cathedral in Saigon open?
Only for Mass. The cathedral has been under restoration since 2017 and is closed to tourists, according to the parish’s own website. You can see the outside from the square at any time, and the English Mass at 09:30 on Sunday is the way to see the inside. No reopening date has been set since the 2027 target was dropped in December 2025.
How many days do you need in Ho Chi Minh City?
Three full days covers the city comfortably: one for the central sights and museums, one for food and neighbourhoods, and one for the Cu Chi Tunnels or the Mekong Delta. Two days is enough for a real sense of the place if you are passing through.
Do foreigners pay more at Saigon attractions?
Mostly not. The War Remnants Museum, the Independence Palace and the city museums charge everyone the same adult price. The exception is the Cu Chi Tunnels, where foreign visitors pay 135,000₫ against 35,000₫ for Vietnamese visitors, because of a compulsory guide ticket.
Are the buses in Ho Chi Minh City really free?
Yes, until 31 December 2026, on about 135 city routes. Foreign visitors qualify. Tap a contactless bank card or phone wallet on the reader when you board: nothing is charged, it only counts the trip. Airport and interprovincial routes, the metro and the water bus are not included.
What is the best time to visit Ho Chi Minh City?
December to March, the heart of the dry season, when rainfall is lowest and December and January are the least hot months. September and October are the wettest. Tết, on 6 February 2027, is a beautiful but quiet week when many small businesses close.
Is Ho Chi Minh City safe?
Yes. Violent crime against visitors is rare and most people find it comfortable to walk around, including at night in the central areas. The realistic risk is phone and bag snatching from passing motorbikes, so keep your phone off the table at pavement cafés and carry a bag on the side away from the road.
Do you tip in Vietnam?
It is not expected and there is no fixed percentage. Rounding up a taxi fare, leaving small change at a street stall or 5 to 10 per cent at a sit-down restaurant is appreciated. Some restaurants already add a service charge, so check the bill first.
Do I need a visa for Vietnam?
It depends on your passport. Citizens of 12 countries, including the UK, Germany, France, Italy, Spain and Japan, can stay 45 days without a visa until March 2028. Most other nationalities can get a 90-day e-visa. Apply only through the official government sites, evisa.gov.vn or thithucdientu.gov.vn, as many lookalike sites charge a markup.
Why do Saigon addresses have new ward names?
Vietnam abolished the district tier of local government on 1 July 2025 and merged most wards. Old District 1 is now mostly Sài Gòn Ward and Bến Thành Ward, for example. Everyone still says District 1 out loud, and nobody will be confused if you do, but a ride-hailing app or a hotel form may want the new ward.
