Bookend Your Vietnam Vacation With One of These Stunning Beachfront Retreats
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With over 2,000 miles of coastline, Vietnam has an abundance of dazzling, palm-lined beaches. You’ll find gin-clear bays with dramatic karst backdrops in the north, rugged coves along the central coast and talcum-white crescents of sand hugging the southern end—and that’s not even counting the thousands of islands sprinkled offshore.
Unsurprisingly, Vietnam’s best beach resorts are just as varied, so choosing one is no easy feat. Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, for example, has a central location, allowing you to alternate between sunbathing and touring Hội An’s colorful Old Town, while the remote Zannier Bãi San Hô resort will make you feel like a castaway (albeit a very pampered one). The InterContinental in Đà Nẵng wraps its whimsical villas in a maximalist, Indochine-inspired design, and Azerai Ke Ga Bay’s pared-down suites are as soul-soothing as the beach just outside. Below are eight of our favorite Vietnamese beachfront retreats. They’re ideal bookends to a culture-packed trip around the country, but also well worth a trip on their own.
Banyan Tree Lăng Cô
Huế
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Vietnam has no shortage of beautiful bays, but Banyan Tree just might claim one of its prettiest. Wedged between rolling, jungle-cloaked mountains and the blue nothingness of the South China Sea, the resort’s spectacular setting steals the show. But the architecture—a riff on the pagodas and clay-tiled roofs of the nearby ancient cities of Huế and Hội An—is also gorgeous. Fill your days with Vietnamese cooking classes, mountain hikes and rounds of golf, or simply lounge around the almost two-mile-long beach with a mango mojito and a page-turner.
Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, Hoi An, Vietnam
Hội An
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While Hội An’s culture-packed Old Town is just a 15-minute drive away, you’ll be hard-pressed to leave the tropical grounds of The Nam Hai at all. With three breathtaking infinity pools, a spa village with floating treatment suites and a roster of complimentary activities (from singing-bowl meditations to Vietnamese coffee tastings), this all-villa property offers plenty of reasons to stay in. But if you do feel like venturing out, the resort’s guided excursions—such as sunrise cruises with traditional fisherfolk—help you dive deep into the local culture.
Regent Phu Quoc
Phú Quốc
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If you’ve come to Vietnam to spoil yourself silly, this high-design hideaway on the silvery sands of Phú Quốc island’s Long Beach is just the ticket. With lots of creams, straight lines and pale woods, the airy design delivers a tranquil riff on Vietnam’s traditional architecture. The amenities, however, are decidedly more indulgent: There’s a cutting-edge spa, myriad complimentary perks (grab-whatever-you-want minibars, round-the-clock butler service in some rooms) and villas with huge infinity pools hugging almost the full length of their terrace.
Six Senses Con Dao
Côn Đảo
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With mile after dreamy mile of beach on the mainland, it’s easy to forget that Vietnam also has so many islands floating off the coast. In the Côn Đảo archipelago, a 45-minute flight south of Ho Chi Minh City, Six Senses Con Dao channels the castaway fantasy with beachfront villas built from bamboo and reclaimed teak, and breezy restaurants dealing in fish plucked straight from the sea. Time your visit between May and December for the chance to see baby turtles hatching on the resort’s private beach.
InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort
Đà Nẵng
Draped over a hill on a crescent of honey-hued sand, this whimsical beach retreat feels like a grown-up Vietnamese wonderland (in the best possible way). Interiors draw inspiration from the country’s Indochine mansions; dark-hued suites and villas are fitted with jewel-toned textiles and local lacquer work, while the villas come with infinity pools or Jacuzzis that seemingly melt into the sea. You’ll want to spend most of your stay at the beach, and getting there is half the fun: It’s reachable via a 427-foot-long cable car through gardens where wild monkeys roam.
Zannier Bãi San Hô
Phú Yên
As the sole occupant of a rugged bay in the little-visited Phú Yên province, this resort is miles away from any of coastal Vietnam’s tourist hubs—and that’s precisely the point. You check in here to bliss out, with your toes in the sand or your limbs in the care of a masseuse at the subterranean spa. Villas are sprinkled along the beach, the rice fields and the surrounding hills, and they all draw on traditional dwellings from tribes around the country (think: high-pitched thatch roofs, clay-covered walls and floors made of reclaimed hardwood), while the restaurants come furnished with the kind of Vietnamese antiques you wish you had in your own home.
Photo courtesy of Frederik Wissink for Zannier Hotels.
The Anam Mui Ne
Mũi Né
With tiled floors in kaleidoscopic patterns, lantern-shaped lampshades and classic polished teak furniture, The Anam Mui Ne perfectly channels Vietnam’s Indochine-era atmosphere. Tropical gardens hug two lap-length pools, and there’s a kids club with all the bells and whistles. But adults need not fret: The lemongrass-scented spa and a seriously good drinks list (try the Drunken Dragon, with tequila and red dragon fruit) offer plenty of grown-up pleasures.
Azerai Ke Ga Bay
Bình Thuận
Kê Gà Bay, a swoop of brilliantly white sand just three hours from Ho Chi Minh City, punches well above its weight as a quick weekend getaway for city slickers. The Azerai occupies one of the area’s prettiest stretches with a hush-hush haven of whitewashed suites and villas, glittering pools and a smart modern restaurant. If the quiet atmosphere and soothing rooms—all blond woods and eggshell whites—feel familiar, that’s no accident: The Azerai brand is the brainchild of a legendary hotelier known for his Zen-like design style.
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