Hanoi address named among 10 new standout hotels in Asia

Capella Hanoi has been named among the top 10 new standout hotels in Asia by The New York Times.

"On a quiet, leafy boulevard in the city’s capital, steps from Hanoi Opera House and the Old Quarter, Capella Hanoi conjures the glamour and high society of opera in the Roaring Twenties," the daily newspaper commented.

"The hotel’s theatrical, Art Nouveau style is the work of Bill Bensley, the architect and designer known for creating transportive environments for luxury hotels around the world. Almost everywhere the eye lands is an ode to opera," it added.

Capella Hanoi on Le Phung Hieu street, Hanoi's Hoan Kiem district, has 47 plush rooms and suites (some with French balconies, others with terraces) decorated with operatic memorabilia.

The other nine hotels in the list are Six Senses Bumthang (Bhutan), TRIBE Phnom Penh Post Office (Cambodia), Moxy Shanghai Xuhui (China), Raffles Udaipur (India), Buahan, a Banyan Tree Escape (Indonesia), Hoshino Resort KAI Yufuin (Japan), The Clan Hotel Singapore (Singapore), Josun Palace, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Seoul Gangnam (South Korea) and Avani Chaweng Samui Hotel & Beach Club (Thailand).

In July, Capella Hanoi was second on the list of 15 best city stays in Asia as voted by Travel + Leisure readers.

"Located near the opera house in Hanoi's Old Quarter, this Bill Bensley-designed property is a glamorous homage to the excess of the Roaring Twenties in Vietnam. Rooms are not only spacious, they're beautifully eye-catching, thanks to a mix of colors, patterns, and textures," the U.S. travel magazine wrote.

It is also the only Vietnamese hotel in the top 100 best new resorts in the world as ranked by Travel + Leisure.

"If there's a Vietnamese phrase to describe Capella Hanoi, it's “tinh te” (delicate). A 'tinh te' state of mind is a process of careful selection. Both nuances of “tinh te” are present in Capella Hanoi," the magazine wrote on its website in April this year.

Last year, the 47-room hotel was one of best new accommodations in Asia-Pacific according to travel megazine DestinAsian’s The Luxe List 2021.