The Best Hotels Near New World Phu Quoc Resort, by the Record
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Fuchsia orchids on black marble, koi ponds threading through palms and hibiscus, and sightlines so deliberately composed you'd swear a cinematographer laid them out. This all-suite-and-villa resort on Phu Quoc's white sand beach earns a Michelin Key and a Forbes Four Star by going all in: private pools, a speakeasy bar styled like a luxury train car, a rooftop infinity pool, and a spa that treats "innovative treatment" as a minimum standard.
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A tower resort on Phu Quoc's Long Beach where rooftop gardens and palms are less decoration than structural argument, the whole property angled to keep the sea in view from almost every corner. With 459 rooms, this is a full-scale luxury resort, family-friendly and sprawling, set against an island where more than half the land sits inside a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. The kind of place where the jungle does a lot of the heavy lifting.
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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.
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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.
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Three colonial villas on the Gulf of Thailand, designed by Vann Molyvann, Le Corbusier's most celebrated Cambodian student, give this boutique resort in Kep its architectural backbone. The 18 rooms have polished teak beds and private terraces, and the infinity pool stares out at the water in a way that makes sightseeing feel optional. Catamarans, kayaks, and paddleboards are on hand for guests who need a reason to feel virtuous about it.
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A 15-minute speedboat ride off Cambodia's south coast, this private-island resort is so thoroughly swallowed by jungle that you can barely spot a rooftop from the water. Forty villas each come with plunge pools, and the spa occupies the island's highest point, which tells you where the priorities lie. Michelin awarded it 2 Keys. Water sports, a sheltered cove, and excursions into Ream National Park fill the hours between naps.