16 of the best hotels in Vietnam for 2025

Vietnam’s hotel scene is in blossom, offering everything from grand heritage hotels and ocean-view villas to sleek boutiques and pampering wellness retreats

T he smell of hoa sua (milk flower) trees on balmy breezes, grilled fish wrapped in wild herbs, cities that have stood for a millennium and, of course, 2,000 miles of tropical coastline with glorious beaches … Vietnam is a destination rich in both cultural and natural treasures. Its hotel scene reflects its complex history and the aesthetic sensibility of its people. Restaurants shaped like lotus flowers, private pools sunken into giant boulders and thatched cottages clinging to vertiginous rice paddies are just a few reasons to love the country’s hotel offering. Allow our expert to introduce the very best hotels in Vietnam.

Main photo: Bai San Ho, Phu Yen Province

1. Four Seasons Resort Hoi An

Best for romance
This world-class resort has a prime location on a beach halfway between the dynamic young Danang and the delightful heritage town of Hoi An. There’s a luxurious amount of space, with fragrant tropical gardens to wander, three tiers of infinity pool to lounge by and big swathes of white beach — look for fishermen bobbing along the coast in perfectly circular bamboo boats. The holistic spa is set in a secret lagoon and large elegant villas have private decks and gardens; higher categories add minibars, laundry, sea views and heated private swimming pools.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

2. Bai San Ho, Phu Yen Province

Best for a secret retreat

One of the hottest addresses in Vietnam can be found in the relatively undiscovered province of Phu Yen on the country’s south-central coast. Set amid a vast 240 acres of mountains, forest, rice paddies and beach, Bai San Ho has been designed to echo the culture and architecture of rural Vietnamese peoples, with sustainable wooden buildings, thatched roofs and secret courtyards. Villa interiors are all supremely stylish and decked out in smoky hues, with textured walls, hand-made rattan furniture and Vietnamese artefacts.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

3. Capella Hanoi

Best for drama

Situated in Hanoi’s Old Quarter, a few steps from the French neoclassical Hanoi Opera House, this historic French building has had more costume changes than Maria Callas, transforming over the century from an actors’ residence to a brothel and an army depot, and then its latest incarnation as a high-end boutique hotel with a swimming pool and spa. Designed by Bill Bensley, the hotel’s 47 rooms are suitably theatrical, resplendent in red velvets, tangerine silks and black woods, with hand-painted murals of opera boxes and cellos on the walls.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price ££

4. Amanoi, Ninh Thuan Province

Best for one-percenters

One of Asia’s top luxury hotels brings A-list exclusivity in the emerald mountains of Nui Chua National Park in south central Vietnam (a 70-minute car transfer from Cam Ranh International Airport). Everything has been designed to astound and stupefy even the very rich, from the awesome ocean views of Vinh Hy Bay to temple-like Jean-Michel Gathy architecture to the rambling pool villas and hypnotic spa. A ten-minute buggy ride will take you to the Beach Club where you can snorkel, eat crispy seafood pancakes and lounge by the infinity pool.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

5. Tam Coc Garden Resort, Ninh Binh

Best for country living

Set in an area of outstanding natural beauty, surrounded by rippling limestone mountains, a patchwork of green and gold rice fields, silvery rivers and a network of shimmering caves, Tam Coc Garden has a location many a five-star hotel would envy. It’s also one of the most charming boutique hotels in Vietnam, with rooms housed in little stone cottages with tiled floors, Tonkinese art and private gardens. The restaurant serves zingy fresh Vietnamese dishes — lemongrass beef salad, prawn and mint rice paper rolls, chilli pork satay — using greens picked from the garden.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price ££

6. An Lam Retreat, Ninh Van Bay

Best for nature

This chic beachside bolt hole has a striking back-to-nature design and a wonderfully wild location in Ninh Van Bay, near Nha Trang. Living up to its name — which translates to Forest of Peace — the hotel has 37 standalone villas laced between the beach and jungle and use biophilic architecture to minimise energy consumption and increase wellbeing. There’s a private beach, a freshwater swimming pool and a small but lovely spa, but the resort’s showpiece is Sen restaurant, shaped like an unfurling lotus flower and serving a variety of moreish Vietnamese cuisines.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price ££

7. Six Senses Con Dao

Best for beaches

Remote and set on one of the most ravishingly beautiful beaches in the country, Six Senses Con Dao is castaway luxury at its very best. Making the most of its untamed island setting in the far south of the country, the resort has everything from clam collecting to snorkelling tours to treks along the coast and speedboat rides to Bay Canh lighthouse for lunch. Spa treatments incorporate local coffee, coconuts and sea salt, and every single one of the deceptively simple wooden villas comes with sweeping views of the South China Sea.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

8. The Reverie Saigon, Ho Chi Minh City

Best for glitz

It’s an almost surreal experience stepping into this hotel as you leave behind the hyperactive streets of Ho Chi Minh City’s District 1 for a 21st-century skyscraper version of the Palace of Versailles. Cream, blue, black and beige marbles dizzyingly clash with wood veneer panelling, rainbow flower chandeliers and gilded Louis XV sofas. The rooms are only slightly calmer: heavy on the gold tones with oversized velvet headboards, crackle-glaze mirrors and chaises longues in the windows. What’s sleeker is the thoughtful white-gloved service and the hotel’s fleet of Bentleys for gadding about town.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

9. Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi

Best for history

Built in 1901, the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi has long catered to the top names of the day, from Charlie Chaplin and Somerset Maugham to Jane Fonda and Fidel Castro —and Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un, who met here for their 2019 Hanoi summit. The hotel’s design matches its French Quarter location, blending shuttered windows, twirly cornices and wrought-iron awnings with rice paper lanterns, beautiful polished hard woods and staff in traditional ao dai tunics.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price ££

10. JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay Resort & Spa

Best for style

This Phu Quoc resort might be large but it’s got personal service, a winning beachside location and heaps of style. Designed by Bill Bensley as a playful pastiche on a French colonial university, the “campus” features châteauesque architecture, tutu colour schemes and a seashell-shaped swimming pool. Bright, oversized rooms and suites have four-poster beds, marble bathrooms and balconies, where you can drink punchy cups of Vietnamese coffee while staring at the peppermint-green Gulf of Thailand.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

11. Azerai La Residence, Hue

Best for boutique vibes

On the banks of the romantically titled Perfume River, in the heart of Vietnam’s old Imperial capital, sits Azerai La Residence. It’s set in a bright-white 1930s art deco mansion flanked by two new streamlined wings that house 122 rooms and suites, decorated in taupe, teak and terrazzo. The riverfront swimming pool is the perfect place to cool down after stomping around Hue’s citadel and blue stone temples and the spa has locally inspired treatments, such as Vietnamese cupping, pandan leaf hair washes and bamboo leg therapy.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price ££

12. Anantara Quy Nhon

Best for getting off the beaten track

You could catch a domestic flight from Danang to Quy Nhon — but it’s so much more memorable to ride the rails. Anantara hotels have their own luxury teak and rattan-trimmed train carriage, The Vietage, gliding between the Anantara Hoi An and their all-villa beach resort in Quy Nhon on Vietnam’s central coast. You’ll arrive at a destination still little known to international tourists, with a long stretch of golden sands and fishing boats criss-crossing the bay. Ask the hotel to arrange a tour of the area’s 1,000-year old Cham towers and citadels.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price ££

13. InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort, Danang

Best for monkeying around

Cartoon-cute, red-shanked douc langur monkeys are just one of the thousands of species of flora and fauna that inhabit the Son Tra Nature Reserve, which rings the InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort. As well as being a wildlife hotspot, this pad is a magnet for influencers, who come to pose amid the eyecatching design, featuring 244 rooms and villas tumbling down the hillside onto a bow of soft ivory sands (there’s a funicular to zip you up and down). Enchanting interiors combine colonial-style columns and panelling with Vietnamese lanterns, antiques and fanciful zoological artworks.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price ££

14. Six Senses Ninh Van Bay

Best for barefoot luxury

If the Flintstones ever holidayed in a luxury beach resort it might look something like Six Senses Ninh Van Bay. Spread along a private beach framed by jungle covered mountains and dramatic rock formations, villas are perched on stilts with private swimming pools sunk into boulders. Endangered black-shanked douc langurs swing through the trees and wine-tasting dinners are served in a cave. To reach it, you’ll have to take an internal flight and then board a speedboat for a final 20-minute wind-in-your-hair transfer.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

15. Regent Phu Quoc

Sprawling along the white sands of Long Beach on the beautiful (if rapidly developing) island of Phu Quoc, the newly-opened Regent has quickly made its mark as one of the hottest addresses in Vietnam. Too fancy for mere rooms, the Regent has 126 oversized suites and villas fanning along the beach and around an enormous lagoon-shaped swimming pool. Each has gorgeous contemporary interiors — creamy marbles and dark teaks, warmed with flashes of claret, bronze and teal — and features lots of lovely little touches, from pillow menus to complimentary mini-bars, fragrant bath salts and wireless phone-charging pads. Make for the swish rooftop pool bar for sundowners made with Vietnamese gin, before retreating to one of three sensational restaurants (Vietnamese-Chinese, international, Japanese omakase), overseen by much talked-about Spanish chef Bruno Anon.

Spa Y
Pool Y
Price £££

16. Topas Ecolodge

Gorgeous views are guaranteed at this quaint resort, which tumbles down rice paddy-ridged mountains in Hoang Lien National Park in Northern Vietnam. Set 950m above sea level, 41 minimalist lodges have pared-back Scandinavian-inspired interiors, with exposed stone walls, rattan furniture and glass doors sliding onto patios with spectacular mountain views. The best also have private plunge pools, but no one will miss out with two beautiful bow-shaped infinity pools elsewhere. Breakfast is served in a stilted restaurant made from two traditional Tay houses, while barbecue dinners sizzle at the open-air Pavilion.

Spa No
Pool Yes
Price ££