issue 54 - AsiaLIFE Magazine

listings
hotel &
travel
AIRLINES
Air Asia
254 De Tham, D1 Tel: 3838 9810
www.airasia.com
Asia’s largest low-cost airline operates
one daily flight between HCM City-Hanoi,
as well as international flights to Bangkok,
Phuket, Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur.
Cathay Pacific
72-74 Nguyen Thi Minh Khai, D3
Tel: 3822 3203
www.cathaypacific.com
Hong Kong-based airline makes three
flights daily to HCM City and two flights
daily to Hong Kong’s international airport.
Malaysia Airlines
Unit G8 Ground floor, SG Trade Center
37 Ton Duc Thang, D1 Tel: 3824 6663
www.malaysiaairlines.com
Offers daily flights from Hanoi and HCM
City to Kuala Lumpur, with four economy
class fare levels: low, basic, smart and
flex.
Turkish Airlines
8th floor, AB Tower 76A Le Lai, D1
Tel: 3936 0360
www.turkishairlines.com
Awarded as the Best Airline in Europe
offers the brand new Comfort Class to E
conomy class: 46inch leg room, personalised
entertainment screen and globally
awarded cuisine on-board.
Vietnam Airlines
Hanoi: 25 Trang Thi, Hoan Kiem
Tel: 6270 0200
HCM City: 16th Floor, Sun Wah, 115
Nguyen Hue, D1
Tel: 3832 0320
www.vietnamairlines.com.vn
The domestic route map is extensive,
with several flights daily between major
and less touristed cities throughout
Vietnam. Flies internationally throughout
Asia and to Paris, Frankfurt, Moscow,
Sydney, Melboure, Los Angeles and San
Francisco.
CON DAO
Six Senses Con Dao
Dat Doc Beach, Con Dao Dist, Ba Ria
Tel: 064 3831 222
www.sixsenses.com/SixSensesConDao
The first 5 star resort with 50 villas
stretch across a mile-long beach, each
villas has its own infinity-edge pool facing
the ocean and a stunning restaurant.
DALAT
Ana Mandara Villas Resort & Spa
Le Lai, Ward 5, Dalat Tel: 063 3555 888
www.anamandara-resort.com
Luxury 35-acre resort encompasses 17
restored early 20th-century villas and
65 rooms set in the rural highlands. La
Cochinchine Spa offers wide range of
treatments. Le Petite Dalat Restaurant
serves Vietnamese and fusion cuisine.
Heated swimming pool, art gallery and
cooking classes in organic garden.
activities
Dalat Easy Rider Tours
70 Phan Dinh Phung
dalateasyriders@yahoo.com
www.dalat-easyrider.com
Ride pillion with English-, French- or
German-speaking tour guides on
motorbike adventures that start in Dalat
and snake through mountains, jungles
and deltas, lasting anywhere from three
to 21 days.
HANOI
Intercontinental Westlake Hanoi
1A Nghi Tam, Tay Ho Tel: 04 6270 8888
www.intercontinental.com
Located on the waterfront with contemporary
Vietnamese design, restaurants,
business services, fitness centre including
exercise classes and pool.
Mövenpick Hotel Hanoi
83A Ly Thuong Kiet
Tel: 3822 2800
www.moevenpick-hotels.com
Conveniently located in the heart of
Hanoi’s business district, a 40-minute
drive from Noi Bai International Airport
and only 5 minutes from the city centre,
Mövenpick Hotel Hanoi is the latest
five-star hotel in town, tailored to meet
the needs of discerning guests and
especially corporate travellers.
Sheraton Hotel Hanoi
K5 Nghi Tam, 11 Xuan Dieu, Tay Ho
Tel: 04 3719 9000
www.starwoodhotels.com
“Resort within a city” boasts 299 spacious
guest rooms with panoramic views,
fitness centre, international restaurant
and Hemisphere Vietnamese restaurant.
Sofitel Metropole
15 Ngo Quyen, Hoan Kiem
Tel: 04 3826 6919
www.sofitel.com
Located downtown. Colonial-style hotel
with well-regarded restaurants/bars serving
French & Vietnamese cuisine, plus
Italian steak house.
HO CHI MINH CITY
Caravelle Hotel
19 Lam Son Square, D1 Tel:
3823 4999
www.caravellehotel.com
One of the city’s most prestigious
venues. Features a casino, Reflections
Restaurant and al fresco 9th-floor
Saigon Saigon Bar.
Equatorial
242 Tran Binh Trong D5 Tel: 3839
7777
www.equatorial.com/hcm
On the intersect of 4 districts, with 333
rooms, Orientica Seafood restaurant
and bar, Chit Chat cafe, pool (swim-up
bar), gym.
InterContinental Asiana Saigon
Corner of Hai Ba Trung & Le Duan, D1
Tel: 3520 9999
saigon@interconti.com
www.intercontinental.com/saigon
305 rooms/suites with floor-to-ceiling
windows, five restaurants/bars, meeting/
banquet facilities, spa/health club
and lounge with panoramic view.
Mövenpick Hotel Saigon
253 Nguyen Van Troi, Phu Nhuan
Tel: 3844 9222
www.moevenpick-saigon.com
Has 278 well-appointed rooms/suites,
five restaurants/bars, meeting/banquet
escape take flight with travel promotions around the region
Summer Saver
The Caravelle is offering 50 percent off its
published room rates until 30 September,
with complimentary unlimited use of Wi-Fi
Internet in room and throughout the hotel.
This month guests also can book deluxe
rooms with daily buffet breakfast and
roundtrip airport transfers starting at VND 4
million per night for two or more nights. For
bookings, email: rsvn@caravellehotel.com
or call 08 38 23 49 99. The hotel is at 19
Lam Son Square, District 1.
Island Tradition
A package focusing on Vietnamese culture
at Six Senses hotel comes with a Vietnamese
green tea scrub, natural facial and
Vietnamese massage. Then head to the
cooking class to learn traditional cuisine in
a typical market setting, using an original
design in a wood burning oven. The
hotel also provides an historical tour of the
island, daily buffet and a la carte breakfast
and airport transfers. Also available are 30
percent discounts for three or more nights,
until 31 October, or 10 percent discounts
for booking more than 30 days in advance,
until 15 October. Info at sixsenses.com/
sixsensescondao.
Honeymoon in Phan Thiet
Set on the secluded and pristine Ke Ga bay,
facing a century-old French light house,
the Princess d'Annam is the first all-villa
luxury boutique resort in Vietnam. The
resort style mixes modernist sensibility and
post-colonial ambience. With 57 villas, eight
swimming pools, two restaurants, and a
1,800-square-metre spa complex, Princess
d’Annam has a French management team
with personalized attention, including a
24-hour butler service. Those who stay
five nights get a free cocktail and head and
shoulder massage, for eight nights it’s a
body massage. Honeymooners, ask for the
bed decoration with flowers, fruit basket,
sparkling wine and chocolate upon turn
dow. Visit princessannam.com.
Dalat’s Vegetable Fields
Evason Ana Mandara Villas Dalat sits on 35
acres of suburban parkland that forms its
own unique compound, an area originally
known as the 'Bellevue Quarter', a nod to
the rich French influence. Striking views
of the surrounding town, countryside and
flourishing vegetable fields abound from all
areas of the gently sloping hillside property.
Through 31 October, two-night bookings
come with dinner, three nights are charged
for two, and four nights are charged for
three in addition to dinner. Honeymooners
get a free upgrade to the next category,
massage, herbal bath, champagne, and
other discounts. See anamandara-resort.
com.
Stay 3, Pay 2 in Nha Trang
Novotel Nha Trang is charging for just two
nights when three consecutive nights are
booked, through 31 October. The hotel
offers guests in house complimentary
use of the sauna, steam bath, swimming
pool, gym, Mac computer at the lobby,
sun lounge and towel at a private beach.
Contact 058 625 6900 or novotel-nhatrang.
com. The hotel is at 50 Tran Phu street,
Nha Trang city.
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