This art-filled boutique is a stunning blend of French colonial and contemporary Vietnam, with world-class dining, an award-winning spa and topped with a rooftop pool and buzzy bar, at the heart of the country’s most cosmopolitan city.
Location
A 30-minute drive from the airport and a 10-minute walk to restaurants, shops and key sights, such as the Saigon Central Post Office, the Reunification Palace and the War Remnants Museum.
Style and Character
The building itself is a work of art with its smooth lines and sensuous curves, before you step through the enormous wooden doors and into the gorgeous triple-height lobby. Designed on Feng Shui principles, it sets the tone with acres of marble, floor-to-ceiling windows, statement lighting, sumptuous fabrics and huge vases of flowers. The female staff wear beautiful silk ao dai, the traditional Vietnamese dress, and the hotel is a showcase for the owner’s gallery-worthy collection of paintings and antiques.
Service and Facilities
Service is effortlessly efficient and friendly. The concierge is a wealth of information on what to do and where to eat nearby, but take time to relax in the art-filled library and lounge around the glass-walled saltwater pool on the 24th floor. It comes with stunning views over the city and after dark the lounge bar attracts a trendy crowd, with DJs spinning tropical house. Le Spa des Artistes blends Asian and European techniques, and guests arriving early or leaving late can use the showers.
Rooms
Rooms and suites are light-filled and elegant, with gleaming rosewood parquet, white walls, dark-wood furniture handcrafted by local artisans and taupe soft furnishings. Vast, feather-soft beds are clad in crisp white Egyptian cotton and a wafty white linen curtain separates the sparkling marble bathrooms – where my Executive Studio Suite had a decadent red, claw-foot tub with a view over the city, Lanvin lotions and potions and a separate dressing area. All rooms have international plug sockets, a Nespresso machine and a television in an ornate gilt frame.
Food and Drink
The all-day dining Saigon Kitchen takes its inspiration from an Asian street food market, but the expansive breakfast buffet ranges from French patisserie and a full English to pho and dim sum. The buffet lunch serves up Western and Pan-Asian favourites, while dinner is à la carte, with a seafood extravaganza at weekends.
Bag a velvet sofa for an indulgent high tea in the ground-floor Café des Beaux Arts, to the strains of a grand piano. Super-cool Japanese firm Super Potato designed the seductively lit, wood-panelled Social Club on the 23rd floor, with a creative menu from top chef Anne-Cécile Degenne of sharing plates and top-notch steak and seafood. Then head up to the rooftop bar for a bespoke cocktail – Saigon by Night mixes up basil-infused vodka, mango and Sauvignon Blanc.
For any further information, kindly contact us at +84.936.600.886 or +84.946.762.224 for free guide.