Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
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.
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About the property
- Opened
- 1901
- Rooms
- 330
- Suites
- 28
- Renovated
- 2023
- Interiors
- David Grace Designs International (Heritage Wing, 2023)
- Owned by
- S.E.M Thong Nhat Metropole Hotel Company
From our stays
We stayed in September 2024
Rooms and suites
Luxury Room
32 sq m · Heritage Wing, 1920s French and Indochine décor, renovated 2023 · 54 rooms
Premium Room
32 sq m · Opera Wing, neo-classical décor in white, black and red
Grand Luxury Room
37 sq m · Heritage Wing, French bathtub in some rooms, high tea and evening cocktails included · 40 rooms
Grand Premium Room
48 sq m · Club floors of the Opera Wing with Club Metropole lounge access
Suites
Prestige Suite
64 sq m · Opera Wing, separate living room, Club Metropole access
Metropole Suite
69 sq m · Heritage Wing, created in 2023 from interconnecting rooms · six suites
Graham Greene Suite
70 sq m · Con Coc park view · Heritage Wing second floor, living room with balcony · named after the author, who stayed in 1951
Charlie Chaplin Suite
70 sq m · Con Coc park view · Heritage Wing third floor, living room with balcony · Chaplin honeymooned here in 1936
Somerset Maugham Suite
70 sq m · Heritage Wing first floor, with a private garden · Maugham stayed in 1923
Grand Prestige Suite
176 sq m · hotel garden and courtyard view · the largest suite, Opera Wing · living room, dining area, library, pantry and a private spa room
Dining and wellness
- Le Beaulieu
- modern French fine dining
- Spice Garden
- modern Vietnamese restaurant
- angelina
- cocktail bar and restaurant
- Le Club Bar
- French brasserie and bar · afternoon tea
- La Terrasse
- pavement café
- Bamboo Bar
- poolside bar · by the pool
- Wellness
- Le Spa du Metropole, a 400 sq m spa over the garden courtyard and pool with eight spa suites (two for couples) and a steam bath, plus a heated outdoor pool and a fitness centre in the inner garden.
Where it is
- Hanoi Railway Station
- 10 min by taxi
- Noi Bai Airport
- 28 min by car
15 Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi
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Book the Heritage Wing for the 1901 building, its original wooden staircase and the Indochine-era rooms; light sleepers should ask for the soundproofed rooms in the Opera Wing, as traffic noise reaches the street side. Of the three suites named after former guests, the Somerset Maugham has its own private garden, and the Graham Greene and Charlie Chaplin have balconies over Con Coc park.
Luxury Room (32 sq m), Premium Room (32 sq m), Grand Luxury Room (37 sq m) and Grand Premium Room (48 sq m). Suites: Prestige Suite (64 sq m), Metropole Suite (69 sq m), Graham Greene Suite (70 sq m), Charlie Chaplin Suite (70 sq m), Somerset Maugham Suite (70 sq m) and Grand Prestige Suite (176 sq m).
Where the hotel takes part in a partner programme, you get a room upgrade on arrival where one is free, breakfast for two each day, a hotel credit to spend on dining or the spa, and early check-in or late checkout when the hotel can give it, at no extra cost to you.
Le Beaulieu, modern French fine dining in the room it has used since 1901, with more than 600 wines (MICHELIN Guide selection; refurbished 2022); Spice Garden, modern Vietnamese, with regional specialties from across the country; angelina, cocktail bar, whisky lounge and restaurant; Le Club Bar, french brasserie and Vietnamese dishes over the pool and courtyard garden; afternoon high tea and jazz; La Terrasse, parisian-style pavement café and Bamboo Bar, thatched-roof poolside bar.
Le Spa du Metropole, a 400 sq m spa over the garden courtyard and pool with eight spa suites (two for couples) and a steam bath, plus a heated outdoor pool and a fitness centre in the inner garden.
On Ngo Quyen Street in the French Quarter of Hoan Kiem, a few steps from the Opera House.
Noi Bai International Airport (HAN) is 28 to 40 minutes by car.
Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi opened in 1901. It was last renovated in 2023: heritage Wing's 103 rooms and suites and its lobby, a 21-month restoration by David Grace Designs International, reopened 15 December 2023; six Metropole Suites created from interconnecting rooms.
Built in 1901 by the French investors Gustave-Emile Dumoutier and André Ducamp on the former Boulevard Henri-Rivière, with a façade of more than 80 metres that made it the largest hotel complex in Indochina. The contemporary, neo-classical Opera Wing stands beside the original building. A wartime bomb shelter under the grounds, used during air raids in the 1960s and 1970s, was rediscovered in 2011 and reopened in May 2012; the Heritage Wing lobby and rooms were redone by David Grace Designs International of Singapore in a 21-month project completed in December 2023.
