Vietnam gets its first Small Luxury Hotel of the World, Anam Mui Ne
The Anam Mui Ne, a luxury resort with a design inspired by the Indochine era, has joined an exclusive selection of the globe’s leading boutique independent luxury properties – the Small Luxury Hotels of the World (SLH) portfolio.
According to a press statement, the resort, which opened in January this year on the Mui Ne beach, is the first Vietnamese property to join SLH, deemed the most desirable community of independently minded travellers and independently spirited hotels in the world.
The statement adds that hotels must undergo a stringent vetting process and conform to the highest standards of luxury and guest wellbeing before being accepted into the SLH’s characterful collection of intimate spaces in unusual places.
Headquartered in London with offices worldwide, SLH represents 520 hotels in more than 90 countries that are anti-chain and anti-same and offer secluded, discrete options. Benefits for SLH’s travelling members include discounts on bookings, early check-in and late check-out, complimentary breakfast and room upgrades.
Anam Mui Ne’s founder and owner Pham Van Hien says he and the resort’s team were thrilled to be recognised by such a prestigious group that shared his passion for an intimate, classic and distinctly Vietnamese hotel brand that is a welcome counterpoint to the industrialised hotel chains.
“It is an absolute honour to join SLH and for The Anam Mui Ne, crafted by age-old artisans from across Vietnam, to be recognised as the collection’s first Vietnamese property,” says Hien.
The appointment of the Anam Group’s group general manager Laurent Myter as a member of the International Advisory Board of Hoteliers for SLH’s APAC region marks the first time that a representative from Vietnam has had a seat on the advisory board. He was previously an executive director and the president of SLH’s International Advisory Board of Hoteliers for three years and two years respectively.
Built on 1.2 hectares of spectacular oceanfront, the independently owned and operated resort is situated in Mui Ne, a popular beach town within an easy commute from Ho Chi Minh City. It comes with 127 rooms and suites, two restaurants and a bar, a five-treatment-room spa, two spacious swimming pools, one freshwater and the other saltwater, a ballroom, conference rooms, water sports center, fitness center, yoga room, kid’s club, gift shop.
Borrowing deeply from the templates of architecture inspired by the grand old French villas in Hanoi and the garden homes of Central Vietnam, the resort pays homage to both colonial-era and classic Vietnamese aesthetics. To wit, the customised encaustic mosaic tiles, Cham decorative vases and statues on plinths, teak furniture crafted from sustainable forests, stone from Thanh Hoa and Nghe An, and authentic thatched roofs from Binh Thuan.
