Hotels we recommend
Where to stay in Vietnam
Three hotels in Vietnam we would book for a client, in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City. Two of them book 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
- 3
- Cities
- 2
- With partner perks
- 2
- Newest
- 2024
By city
The hotels
Hanoi · 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.
Hanoi · 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
Ho Chi Minh City · District 1
JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon
2024 · 305 rooms
JW Marriott's first hotel in Ho Chi Minh City, opened in September 2024 on the corner of Hai Ba Trung Street and Le Duan Boulevard in District 1, linked directly to the mPlaza Saigon complex. Two towers: a 21-storey hotel tower with 305 rooms and suites and a 31-storey residential tower with 260 one- to three-bedroom suites, with a rooftop JW Garden of more than 1,000 sq m.
Marriott Luminous
On our list
Hotels in Vietnam 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.
Vinh Hy Bay, Vinh Hai Commune
Three MICHELIN Keys; on our list for Jean-Michel Gathy's temple-roofed villas above Vinh Hy Bay.
Thirty-one villas and pavilions above Vinh Hy Bay inside Nui Chua National Park, drawn by Jean-Michel Gathy in the shapes of Vietnamese temple roofs. Opened 2013.
Lam Son Square
On our list for French colonial shutters and courtyard on Lam Son Square.
Built in 2005 in the French colonial manner rather than inherited from it — shutters, courtyard and all — opposite the Opera House on Lam Son Square.
What to know
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi and JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon. Each has its own page with the rooms, the restaurants and what booking through us adds.
Of the hotels we recommend, JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon, which opened in 2024. JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi followed in 2013.
JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi: its rooms start at 48 square metres. JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon from 38 and Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi from 32.
JW Marriott Hotel Hanoi (Marriott Luminous) and JW Marriott Hotel & Suites Saigon (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.
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