HCMC hotel lobby the best of the world’s best
HCMC’s Reverie Saigon has been recognized as having the world’s best lobby at The best of the best: World's top hotels awards by leading Australian travel site Traveller.
"The fantasy lobby here is mind-bogglingly ostentatious yet somehow the hotel pulls it off, Murano glass chandeliers and blue Bolivian marble tiles and all," the travel site wrote.
Located in District 1, The Reverie Saigon enjoys the prime location of being just 300 meters away from the Tax Trade Center and 400 meters from Opera House. The Union Square is 500 meters away and the Tan Son Nhat International Airport is just an eight-kilometer drive away.
Its 12 categories of accommodation range in size from 43 to 313 square metres, including 286 guestrooms and 89 full-service residential-style suites that offer some of the most spacious rooms and suites in the city.
"The most striking pieces include the custom-made, emerald green Baldi Monumental clock and the rather grandiose, five-meter-long, Baroque-meets-Rococo sofa from design firm Colombostile, which is custom-made with purple ostrich leather and a gilded trim and bejeweled by a singular, precious amethyst stone. Meanwhile, vibrant mosaics by Sicis of Italy adorn the lobby wall," the hotel's website notes.
The world’s best lobby is among several honors bagged by hotels in Vietnam recently.
Early this month, Capella Hanoi was 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.
The Azerai La Residence in the former imperial capital of Hue has been voted among the 10 best hotels in Southeast Asia by readers of U.S. travel magazine Conde Nast Traveler.
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