Five Hotels in Vietnam Partner for Quintessential Collection

A group of Vietnam’s most exclusive hotels have partnered to create a new digital platform, the Quintessential Collection Vietnam.

The five properties are the Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, The Nam Hai in Hoi An, The Reverie Saigon, La Residence Hotel & Spa in Hue and Paradise Cruises on Halong Bay.

Every month, the general manager from one of the Quintessential hotels will blog on a range of issues, from getting a tuxedo made in Hanoi, reading a translation of the great epic Vietnamese poem, The Tale of Kieu, to a night at the opera, and so on.

“The headline coming out of Vietnam, for years and years, was ‘Good Morning, Vietnam,’” said Jim Sullivan, who wrote National Geographic’s first travel book to Vietnam. “That headline was fine for a destination that appealed to backpackers. But when a hotel starts picking up guests in a Rolls Royce limited-edition Phantom Dragon, we’re on the cusp of a very elegant evening, indeed. Good Evening, Vietnam.”