The 31 Best Resorts in Vietnam

Perched on a forested hillside above Vinh Hy Bay inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve, this Aman resort earns its Michelin 3 Keys by making seclusion feel like an event. Villas with private pools and open-plan spa bathrooms face the water, the grounds stay mostly wild, and the architecture splits the difference between contemporary minimalism and local materials. Fresh Vietnamese food, a serious wellness complex, and easy access to the national park fill out the rest.

Seventy-three villas spread across 240 acres of a secluded Vietnamese peninsula, and the place still manages to feel quiet. This Michelin two-key beach resort leans into hand-crafted, sun-bleached aesthetics that keep the five-star comfort from feeling stiff, with styles drawn from indigenous housing forms. Most villas have plunge pools, some face the beach directly, and three restaurants means you're unlikely to leave for dinner. The excursion list runs from temple tours to open water, naturally.

A hundred modern-minimal villas stretch along China Beach just outside Danang, each walled for privacy, forty of them with their own plunge pools. The Nam Hai is a full-scale luxury beach resort, with three pools, four tennis courts, a spa with eight private suites, and two restaurants covering Vietnamese, international, and fresh seafood. The Michelin Guide awarded it 2 Keys. Pack light; everything else is already there.

Each of the eighty-nine villas here comes with its own private pool, which makes the case for never leaving fairly easy to make. This is a luxury resort on a crescent beach midway between Hue, Da Nang, and Hoi An, where the interiors draw from the elegant garden houses of Hue and layer in lacquerwork, silk embroideries, and artisanal ceramics. Resident guides handle heritage walks, cycling, and karst exploration for guests who do eventually surface. It holds two Michelin Keys.

White-sand beach right outside the door, a Greg Norman golf course nearby, and day trips to Cham Island for snorkeling or fresh seafood from the fishermen who live there. This full-service resort sits on Da Nang's coast with 357 rooms, all of them including a balcony, marble bath, and rain shower at the base level. Suites run up to 1,800 square feet with ocean views. Multiple restaurants, a full spa, and a city that's quietly become a reason to linger in central Vietnam.

A short boat ride from Nha Trang is the price of admission here, and the gulf between mainland and peninsula is the whole point. This luxury resort plants 58 private villas, each with plunge pool and outdoor garden shower, into a lush, mountainous bay. Hilltop villas do exactly what they promise, and the Presidential Villa is a private mountainside compound. The Six Senses spa and multiple restaurants ensure no one suffers through the seclusion. It holds a Michelin Key.

The journey in starts at a 19th-century iron bridge in Old Saigon, where a speedboat picks you up and carries you 25 minutes upriver to a forested stretch of shoreline. This intimate luxury resort arranges its suites and villas, all natural wood and stone with private sun decks, through tropical gardens with enough space between them that you forget neighbors exist. Butler service runs around the clock, and the pool villas come with their own plunge pools.

A Michelin Key resort on Vietnam's southeastern coast, Azerai Ke Ga Bay comes from Adrian Zecha, the man who invented Aman, so the aesthetic instincts are exactly what you'd expect: modern, spare, locally inflected, and polished within an inch of its life. Three pool areas, an immersive spa, yoga, and al fresco dining with uninterrupted sea views. The rooms are faultless at every level; some have private pools.

Private pool villas are the only accommodation Six Senses does, no high-rises, no bare-bones bungalows, just teak-lined rooms open to the sea breeze on a near-unreachable Vietnamese island. Fifty villas come with butler service, canopy beds, and a studied lack of clutter; the four-bedroom duplex sleeps an entire extended family comfortably. Cooking classes and moonlit beach dinners are on offer for anyone who wants the full performance. The Michelin Guide awarded it one Key.

A private islet on the Thu Bon River, screened by palms, with villas that have their own pools and terraces facing the forest or the water. This wellness resort outside Hoi An organizes itself around the spa, which leans into ancient Vietnamese remedies, herbal steam rooms, and cold plunge rather than facials and serums. Two farm-to-table restaurants work with local produce and freshly caught seafood, and a sunset dinner cruise is an option for those who need a reason to leave.

Every room faces the ocean, and with sage green and navy paired against pale timber, the 330-room resort pulls off something unusual: a sense of calm at a scale that usually sacrifices it. Part of the larger Hoiana complex, it leans hard into families without losing the thread for everyone else, with 20 restaurants, a coastal golf course threading through sand dunes, and a casino waiting for anyone whose relaxation requires higher stakes.

Stone fireplaces and rattan lampshades sit inside rooms that blend French colonial bones with Vietnamese village details, about an hour outside Hanoi in the Ba Vi mountains. The Meliá resort offers a spa using locally sourced ingredients, a restaurant mixing Vietnamese and international cooking, and a colonial-era terrace bar where local spirits and mountain views compete for your attention. The kind of place where the city feels further than it is.

The resort isn't accessible by road, so you arrive by boat, which sets the tone rather well. Each of the 37 timber villas comes with a private pool, a veranda, and a patch of jungle, plus a butler who handles everything from excursions to existential indecision. The spa leans on spring water treatments, the rooftop bar has sweeping views of the bay, and the beach is the kind that makes you territorial about telling people.

The villas here are shaped after the Vietnamese conical hat, which is either a clever nod to local craft or the most photogenic architectural joke on Bai Dai Beach. This Cam Ranh resort spreads between mountains and the South China Sea, with rooms running from garden-view standards up to lagoon pool villas. The beachfront Ana Beach House draws people in with open-fire cooking and fresh-caught seafood, and a spa sits at the quieter end of the grounds.

The architecture draws from the ancient Champa civilization, so latticed screens and handmade ceramics run through the whole resort, most visibly at a restaurant where dishes arrive in clay pots beside a working pottery studio. Tropical forest on one side, the South China Sea on the other, seven restaurants and bars in between, and a spa using ingredients grown on the property. A full-scale beach resort, in other words, and a committed one.

Private-pool villas sit between the South China Sea and a calm lake on Bai Dai beach, one of southern Vietnam's quieter stretches of coastline. This neoclassical villa resort has a grandeur unusual for a beach property, with arched gold-accented public spaces and leather-furnished lounges that feel more European drawing room than tropical escape. The YHI Spa sits lakeside, and Cam Ranh International Airport is ten minutes away, which is either convenient or suspicious depending on your plans.

The resort bar is called Mojito's and serves mojitos made from fresh sugarcane, which tells you almost everything about how this place operates. Low-slung, grass-roofed buildings nestle into the coastal hills above a private palm-fringed beach so thoroughly that the whole resort half-disappears into the landscape. Rooms are generous even at the basic level, with four-poster beds and spa-style bathrooms, and snorkel gear, beach yoga, and breakfast in bed all come at no extra charge.

All-villa resort on a private beach at the base of Fairy Mountain, looking out at Turtle Island and the South China Sea. Villas run from garden-view doubles to ocean-facing suites the size of a small apartment, with wide balconies and separate lounges standard. Dining includes Hispania, Asia's first outpost of chef Marcos Morán's celebrated Spanish kitchen. A coral restoration program gives guests something to feel good about between meals.

Terraced rice fields carved into the mountains by the Hmong community over centuries sit right outside the window, which is the whole point of being here. This resort in Lao Cai Province is the only one of its kind in Mù Cang Chải, its bamboo architecture and brocade details borrowing from the surrounding culture rather than ignoring it. Pool villas mirror the mountain skyline; the Charcoal Grill handles open-fire highland cooking after dark.

Balconies facing Ha Long Bay's limestone karsts are available at multiple room tiers, and springing for one is an easy argument to make. This large international luxury resort sits on the Ha Long Marina waterfront with close to 300 rooms, from standard garden-facing options up to multi-bedroom villas. Restaurants cover fresh seafood, Cantonese, and Viet-French; excursions onto the UNESCO-listed bay, with its islands and floating villages, are straightforwardly arranged.

Dining inside a 125-year-old church is one option; a traditional Vietnamese tea house is another. This small luxury resort sits within the Trang An World Heritage Site, surrounded by the karst peaks of northern Vietnam, and the architecture threads local tradition through a quietly colonial, contemporary lens. Rooms range from suites to standalone villas. The spa and pool handle the easy days; the valley outside handles the rest.

The entire resort is built around a fiction: designer Bill Bensley invented a French colonial university, complete with academic departments, student records, and a quiet closure in the 1940s. None of it existed. Each building plays along, so the spa occupies the old mycology wing, done up in full Alice in Wonderland surrealism. A beach resort on Phu Quoc where the theming is the attraction, and the beach is genuinely beautiful too.

Yen Tu Mountain is considered the birthplace of Vietnamese Buddhism, and this luxury resort sits at its base, built to look like a traditional palace and monastery because apparently the bar for hotel theming can be set very high. No TVs anywhere, but the rooms have forest-facing windows, dark wood paneling, copper lamps, and private balconies on many floors. Staying here means beating the pilgrimage crowds to the pagodas at dawn, which is its own reward.

More than 500 private-pool villas arranged around a central lagoon on Phu Quoc's Gulf of Thailand beachfront: this is a resort that functions less like a hotel and more like a small town. The contemporary-colonial villas run from one to four bedrooms, and the usual scale amenities, spa, yoga, kids' program, and watersports, are all here. Being part of the wider Vinpearl complex quietly doubles the options without requiring any extra effort.

Each of the 366 villas at this Khem Beach resort comes with its own private pool and tropical garden, which means you can go an entire day without seeing another guest if that's your ambition. The interiors lean quietly contemporary, warmed by local materials and crafts. Kitchenettes make the villas practically self-sufficient, though the restaurants run from a poolside bar to Italian and pan-Asian options whenever solitude loses its appeal.

A resort that occupies an entire peninsula at Phu Quoc's southern tip, surrounded by the Gulf of Thailand on both sides. The 215 villas each come with a private pool, and many front their own stretch of beach, so the place functions less like a hotel than a small, well-staffed island. The main pool snakes lagoon-style between the two shorelines, and the Plumeria spa, multiple restaurants, and a kids' club mean checkout is mostly theoretical.

A Singapore-sized island off the coast of Cambodia isn't the most obvious resort destination, but Phu Quoc has been quietly building a case. Salinda is a resort of around a hundred suites and villas spread generously enough that it never feels full. Private balconies, rain showers, and king beds are standard throughout. A Thai-run spa, Vietnamese, Italian, and Indian dining, and a Night Market just beyond the gates round things out.

Handcrafted furniture and Vietnamese art fill the 127 rooms at this East Sea coastal resort, where private balconies look out over gardens or open water. The pool suites wrap a bedroom, living space, and bathroom around a terrace pool in a way that makes leaving feel optional. The kitchen moves between Vietnamese home cooking and something more ambitious depending on the hour. The Michelin Guide has it among its selected hotels.

Thirty-nine stone-and-timber villas built into the rock face of Ham Rong Mountain at 1,555 meters, with views straight across Muong Hoa Valley to Fansipan. This mountain resort takes the local materials seriously, using indigenous textiles and custom furniture throughout, while the spa leans on herbal and traditional remedies rather than the usual generic menu. The kitchen does local recipes in a more considered register than you'd find down in the valley.

A 700-metre outdoor pool is the kind of detail that stops you mid-scroll, and Vinpearl Cua Sot earns it. This sprawling beach resort on Xuan Hai Beach in Ha Tinh sits across 42 private-pool villas tucked into tropical gardens, built for big family trips rather than quiet honeymoons. The YHI Spa is shaped around the lotus flower, and the largest water park in north-central Vietnam is right next door, so everyone finds their version of a good afternoon.