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Accor is Running a Vietnam Super Sale, But You Have To Hurry
No time to twiddle your thumbs on this one: today is the last day of the Accor sale on various hotels in gorgeous Vietnam.
Similar to the Australasia-wide sale Accor had going a few months ago, this one just runs for a few days, and the rates they're offering are up to 50% off standard.
The deals work like this: at every Novotel in Vietnam — that includes the Novotel Dalat and the Novotel Nha Trang — the rates are just $45 a night across the country. At fancier Accor properties like the Grand Mercure Phu Quocor the La Residence Hue, there's a flat rate of $75 a night in this sale. There are also $45 rates on a couple of Mercure hotels due to open soon, in Hanoi and Hue.
Vietnam hotel market is definitely heating up and Accor has another ten projects in the pipeline there, with tourism booming — so this kind of sale might have the lowest prices you see in a while. You need to book through the Vietnam Super Sale website to get these prices and remember, by the end of today it'll all be over.
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Hyatt Plonks A Resort In The Sand of Vietnam's Famous China Beach
You know what? We don't hear enough about the Vietnam hotel scene, and we know they totally have one because of all the heavily-touristed beaches along that beautiful coast of theirs.
Finally now we have an update on the Vietnam situation from Hyatt Hotels, and it's looking good; they've begun construction on the new Hyatt Regency Danang Resort and Spa, with 174 luxury condominiums and 27 oceanfront pool villas. The tropical property, due to open in early 2010 (so soon!) on 50 acres of land along a half-mile of China Beach, which Forbes named one of the top ten most beautiful world beaches, will be designed in the layout of a Vietnamnese town.
This sprawling plan, from the architectural firm RMJM, will maximize each room's views of sights like Marble Mountain and, of course, the sparkling blue South China Sea.
If this sounds a little too much like your idea of paradise, the complex will also offer a few private residences for sale, starting from one-bedrooms around $180,000, all the way up to private villas for $1,400,000. Those are a little too close to New York prices for us, but hey—they've got one of the world's best beaches and we've got the East River, so perhaps it makes sense.
[Image: Hyatt Regency Danang Resort]
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Sleep With History At Saigon's Hotel Continental
France's meddling in Vietnam really didn't turn out well for anyone. But one of the positive side effects to the colonization is the Hotel Continental Saigon, in present-day Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. So it's no wonder Graham Greene made his protagonist a guest at the hotel when he wrote The Quiet American.
Gorgeous, imposing and extravagant French Colonial hotels are perhaps the only thing in HCM more ubiquitous than families of five speeding past on lawnmower-engine mopeds. Of these hotels, Continental is certainly the most historic and quite possibly the most beautiful.
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Pilgrimage Vietnam Worth Pilgrimage to Vietnam
When it comes to user reviews of Pilgrimage Village in Hue, Vietnam, everyone’s a-talkin’ about the greenery. "Tropical paradise," "felt like you were out in the rainforest" and "serene and lovely" are all slightly-hackneyed-but-still-helpful superlatives doled out by TripAdvisor reviewers.
They also rave about the fresh fruit served every morning and noted that Pilgrimage is only $5 more than Vinh Hung Resort (in nearby Hoi An), and well worth the upgrade.
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Raffles In Vietnam :: Insert Luxury Hotel Chain Here
Last week, we told you about the historic hotel in Phnom Penh, Cambodia bearing the Raffles name. Never to be outdone by its neighbor and fiercest competitor, Vietnam has announced a Raffles hotel of its own, set to open in Da Nang sometime in 2011.
The resort will be set right on China Beach on a stretch of sand usually inhabited only by fisherman. Once notorious for being the site of bloody battles during the Vietnam War, it's and now famous for such pristine beauty one can hardly imagine anything but pleasantries occurring there.
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French Hotel Chain Invades Vietnam
French hotel operator Accor announced this week that they would be ramping up their presence in Vietnam, adding 12 hotels to their current 8 by the end of 2010.
Forget any visions of unspoiled hill tribe regions in the far north: the 150-room Pullman Sapa Resort and the 200-room Pullman Lao Cai Hotel are on the way. Heavily touristed Ha Long Bay will get its first international hotel: Novotel Ha Long Bay, opening this summer.
Two new Mercure brand hotels will open in Hanoi, scheduled for 2009 and 2010--the first Mercure hotels in the country. More Novotels are on the way, including one in the beach resort area of Nha Trang.
Surprisingly, there were no high-end Sofitel hotels in the announcement, despite a lack of choices for luxury travelers and a booming export economy attracting plenty of foreign business travelers. Vietnam attracted 4.2 million foreign visitors in 2007, an annual increase of over 17 percent.
Still these will probably not be the last of the announcements: Accor opened an office in Ho Chi Minh City (Saigon) on Wednesday.
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Nam Hai Vietnam Wins Best Award
Last week in Bangkok the Asian TTG Travel Awards for hotels, airlines and travel agents were handed out, and one of our favorite Vietnamese spots, the Nam Hai near Hoi An was awarded the prize for Best New Beach Resort.
Less than one year into its life--it first opened in December 2006--the Nam Hai is really stacking up the accolades. As well as this best new beach resort award, it's been listed in the Conde Nast 2007 Hot List (in both the US and the UK), been picked as a "best of the best" of new hotels by Gourmet Traveller, and, on top of all of that, we think it's a nice place too. A place to watch as it goes from strength to strength in the future, we hope.
[Photo: frenchcoupleAlps]
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Cubicle Dreamin': Ultra-Luxury in Hoi An
Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.
In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K visits Vietnam...in her mind. Enjoy.
Just last week another friend of mine came back from a glorious holiday in Vietnam, and I'd really like to retrace my backpacking days there but stay in a bit more luxury this time round. From what I've heard the ultimate luxury in Vietnam is at the Nam Hai in Hoi An on the central coast.
The Nam Hai is quite new, having opened in December 2006, and perhaps what you'd call a boutique luxury resort--it's relatively small for this kind of resort with just 40 pool villas and 60 regular villas, all free-standing with views to the South China Sea. My choice is a pool villa complete with my own infinity pool; some of the villas have five bedrooms, so I can take a few friends too.
On top of that, the resort has three amazing beach front pools, one of which is temperature-controlled if you get an unlucky chilly day. In between swims I can play tennis, badminton or basketball, snack in the outdoor restaurant or head into historic Hoi An for some sightseeing. Sounds like nothing can go wrong.
[Photo: frenchcouplealps]
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A Tight Squeeze for Luxury in Vietnam
If you travel to Vietnam on business at the last minute, you may notice a problem getting that upscale room in the hotel you wanted. According to this news article, there's a shortage of hotel rooms at the top end and things could get worse before they get better. Some interesting notes:
- Ho Chi Minh City needs 17,000 more international-standard luxury rooms by 2010.
- Hanoi's hotels can only meet 70 percent of needs during the peak tourism season.
- Most foreign and domestic travelers chose to stay at luxury hotels, according to the survey conducted at 29 hotels in 10 big cities nationwide over the last two years.
- The survey also showed net profits were up 21 and 40 percent at four and five star hotels respectively, much higher than the 4 percent increase at three-star hotels.
So if you're heading that direction, you may want to look into a suite at a 3-star hotel, booking far ahead at the Park Hyatt in Saigon (pictured here), or getting out of the two main cities and chilling out at the Imperial Hotel in Hue instead.
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Going Mad With Asian Hotel Openings
Get planning your trip to Asia: there are new hotels opening up all over the place there, so get in before everyone else does! To start off, the first W Hotel in South East Asia will be springing up soon at popular resort area Koh Samui in Thailand. The new W Hotel and Residences should be ready late next year and will feature 70 villas and all the normal W paraphernalia.
And over in China, an exclusive luxury hotel in Shanghai called The Place Hotel and Spa should be ready in early 2008. Situated in one of Shanghai's most exclusive neighborhoods, Jing'an Park, it will feature 24 hour butler service, Wifi everywhere and a comfortable in-room breakfast service.
And finally, for fancy accommodation in Vietnam, the Vietnam Casino City development is underway in Vung Tau province, starting out with 1,200 hotel rooms, 10 restaurants and a Greg Norman-designed golf course--all this lot to be ready by late 2009, with plenty more to follow.
[Photo of Koh Samui by Pete4Ducks]
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Angelina Jolie Not the Only One Making Vietnam So Hot Right Now
With tourism to Vietnam ever on the increase (and with the country all over the news these days after Angelina picked up the new kid), it's about time that the imperial city of Hue with its famous Citadel also got a 5-star hotel. Since June last year, the Imperial Hotel in Hue has been in operation on the banks of the Perfume River.
The Imperial of Hue City is starting out with almost 200 rooms, and current rates for a deluxe room start at just $130, including breakfast, bottles of mineral water and round trip airport transfer. They also give you free broadband internet, although it might not quite be Wifi yet. This price is for a two night stay, but for a 5-star even the daily rate is pretty reasonable.
[Photo: Nicole1980]
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Good Rate :: Suite at the Park Hyatt Saigon
[Ed. Note: This is the Good Rate in our Good Rate/Bad Rate feature. This rate was valid on August 29, 2006 and is subject to change. Enjoy.]
If you're going to go all rock star on us and splash out in a suite, you should stay at the best place in town--right?
Our "Bad Rate" pick this week was $468 double for a suite at the Caravelle Hotel in Saigon, Vietnam (without breakfast). If you're going to spend that kind of money in a country where a $10 lunch is considered expensive and an air-conditioned backpacker hotel room is under $15, you should expect and get a lot.
So book a suite at the Park Hyatt Saigon, the reigning champ in this evolving city, and by most accounts the only true international-standard 5-star hotel in the area.
For a Park Suite King, the rate is $358 a night including breakfast. For that you get the usual upscale amenities, 70 square meters (750 square feet) of space, a marble bath, two 25-inch satellite TVs, and big windows with wooden shutters--a nice French Colonial touch.
The centrally-located Park Hyatt Saigon has a good fitness center, a nice outdoor courtyard pool, a spa, several highly-rated restaurants, and a staff that wins plenty of praise from guests. With many locally-rated 5-star hotels going for around $100 for a standard double, this is no screaming bargain, but if you're going to go first class all the way, do it right.
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