Les Meilleurs Hôtels de Luxe à Hoi An

The most celebrated resort on the central Vietnam coast, Nam Hai spreads across a headland above Ha My beach with villas featuring private infinity pools that seem to pour into the South China Sea. The spa complex built around a Cham-inspired design is extraordinary, and the cultural programme — silk lantern making, cooking classes, Ancient Town guided walks — is the most comprehensive in the region.

• Private pool villas
• Most celebrated resort
• Cham spa

A Vietnamese colonial-style resort on Cua Dai beach with an exceptional spa, multiple pools, and easy boat access to the Ancient Town. The Victoria group's understanding of Vietnamese hospitality makes its properties feel genuinely local rather than generically international, and the cooking school is particularly well regarded.

• Cua Dai Beach
• Boat access to Ancient Town
• Cooking school

The finest hotel within the Ancient Town itself, Anantara occupies traditional Vietnamese merchant houses along the Thu Bon River with rooms featuring silk furnishings, lacquerware, and lanterns. The pool overlooks the river, the in-house bicycle service puts the lantern-lit lanes at your disposal, and the cooking school is a genuine introduction to the breadth of central Vietnamese cuisine.

• River views
• Ancient Town immersion
• Vietnamese design

A lush garden resort on Cua Dai beach with palm-shaded bungalows, multiple pools, and a full spa in a garden of tropical plants. The resort runs regular boat transfers to the Ancient Town, and the sunset from the beach terrace bar is among central Vietnam's most reliably beautiful.

• Garden bungalows
• Beach access
• Boat transfers

A refined boutique in the Ancient Town along the Thu Bon River with rooms that combine Vietnamese lacquerwork and silk textiles in a contemporary register. The rooftop terrace with its river and rooftop panorama is extraordinary at the Full Moon Festival, and the in-house tailor can produce made-to-measure ao dai in 48 hours.

• Ancient Town riverside
• Rooftop terrace
• Tailor service

The Rosewood group's central Vietnam debut has quickly established itself as the finest resort on An Bang beach, with villas featuring private pools, a spa drawing on Cham and Vietnamese healing traditions, and a restaurant that approaches central Vietnamese cuisine with the seriousness it deserves.

• An Bang luxury
• Cham spa
• Central Vietnamese cuisine