Hotels we recommend
Where to stay in Hanoi
Two hotels in Hanoi we would book for a client, in Hoan Kiem and Nam Tu Liem. One of them books through a partner programme, which adds an upgrade where one is free, daily breakfast for two, a hotel credit and late checkout, at the hotel's own rate.
- Hotels
- 2
- With partner perks
- 1
- Newest
- 2013
The hotels
Hoan Kiem
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
1901 · 358 rooms · Renovated 2023
Hanoi's French colonial grand hotel, opened in 1901 as the Grand Hôtel Métropole Palace on Ngo Quyen Street in the French Quarter, steps from the Opera House. It has two wings, the original Heritage Wing, restored in 2022-23, and the neo-classical Opera Wing, with a courtyard garden and pool.
Nam Tu Liem
JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi
2013 · 450 rooms · Renovated 0
A 450-room hotel in Hanoi's new district at Tu Liem, beside the Vietnam National Convention Center and the Hanoi Museum. Carlos Zapata Studio's building has a curled, cantilevered form modelled on a dragon, with lakeside gardens below.
Marriott Luminous
On our list
Hotels in Hanoi we rate but have not yet stayed in, drawn hollow on the map. The hotels above are first-hand; these are where we are going next. We book them as we book the rest.
Hoan Kiem
Three MICHELIN Keys and Forbes Five-Star; on our list for Bensley's opera auberge by the Opera House.
Forty-seven rooms by the Opera House, built by Bensley as a fictional auberge for singers — a thousand pieces of opera memorabilia, and a different character behind every door.
What to know
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi and JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi. Each has its own page with the rooms, the restaurants and what booking through us adds.
Of the hotels we recommend, JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi, which opened in 2013. Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi followed in 1901.
JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi: its rooms start at 48 square metres. Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi from 32.
JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi (Marriott Luminous). Booked through us, each adds a room upgrade where one is free, breakfast for two each day, a hotel credit and early check-in or late checkout when the hotel can give it, at no extra cost to you.
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi: Noi Bai International Airport (HAN) is 28 to 40 minutes by car. JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi: Noi Bai International Airport (HAN) is 28.8 km away; the hotel runs an airport shuttle.
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