The new 39-storey, 286-bedroom
Reverie Saigon in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, has soft-opened, with an official opening scheduled for this September.
The hotel, which combines couture style with bespoke, Italian design, also includes a 1,200sq m (12,917sq ft), 10-treatment room spa that features a decidedly European-inspired setting, striking a balance between opulent luxury and natural inspiration.
The 10-treatment room spa uses organic spa products from ila and Voya, as well as custom-blended essential oils from Thailand and Dr Taffi essential oils from Italy. The spa also features separate men’s and women’s steam and sauna facilities, a 24m (78ft) outdoor swimming pool with two jacuzzis, a beauty salon with four private treatment rooms, a Himalayan pink salt sauna within the women’s area, and an ice fountain within the men’s facilities.
The 10 treatment rooms include four couples' suites. Facials, foot scrubs, massages and body polishes all rate high on the spa menu, and incorporate Voya Atlantic seaweed, Himalayan pink salt, and Amazon mud. Treatment highlights include the two-hour Reverie Harmony, performed by two therapists and concluding with a customised facial and a simultaneous head and foot massage.
The spa reception area is a bold combination of white marble, golden mosaic tiles, rose carpeting and plush leather. A curved staircase is decorated in a floral mosaic pattern designed by Sicis of Italy, and provides a segue from the classical extravagance of the reception area to the more contemporary ambiance on the floor above.
In the treatment areas, bowed walls of slatted walnut line the passageways, designed to be an abstract interpretation of waves. Inside the treatment rooms, walls are clad in a cafe au lait shade of leather, and floor-to-ceiling windows allow for natural light. The spa uses Earthlite spa beds and Frette bath linens.
The swimming pool, located on an open-air deck, includes mosaic tile artistry, also by Sicis, and an underwater sound system plays a compilation of music that changes with the mood of the day.
Designed by architect Kent Lui of Kent Lui Tactics, the hotel itself also includes unique design elements, including a colourful ceiling installation of individual pieces of hand-blown glass in the street-level lobby, which, intertwined, echo the geographic silhouette of Vietnam.
Each of the 286 bedrooms are individually furnished by Italian design houses including Visionnaire, Provasi, Giorgetti and Colombo Stile, and feature floor-to-ceiling windows looking out to the city and the Saigon River. Interiors range from sophisticated modern to classically European, and from fashionably chic to whimsical and sassy, the company said.
The hotel features unique details; a one-of-a-kind Bechstein grand piano, dating from 1895, will sit in the La Scala Grand Ballroom, reimagined and transformed by the Florentine company Baldi into an opulent piece of art. Meanwhile a 3m (10ft) tall Baldi clock in the main lobby, commissioned especially for the hotel, is made with crystals and 24-karat gold accents.
Hand-blown glass chandeliers by Venini and crystal chandeliers by VGnewtrend adorn the ceilings, and even the elevators ooze opulence, with walls of sleek, stencilled steel and golden agate fossil. The hotel is also home to a 48m (157ft) long bar – the length of a city block – that can cater to up to 300 patrons at a time.
As reported in
Spa Opportunities, the hotel is also part of a new consortium of upscale hotels in Vietnam, the Quintessential Collection Vietnam.
