Fairmont Hanoi opened in February 2026 as the brand’s first hotel in Vietnam — 291 rooms and suites steps from Hoàn Kiếm Lake, eight bars and restaurants led by Luke Nguyen and Michelin-starred Nicolas Isnard, and a 38,000 sq ft spa built around a signature bathhouse.
Hanoi’s Old Quarter is the most atmospheric square kilometre in Southeast Asia — a thousand years of commerce compressed into thirty-six streets — and for a century its grand-hotel story belonged to one address, the Metropole. In February 2026 it gained a second chapter: Fairmont Hanoi, the brand’s Vietnam debut, steps from Hoàn Kiếm Lake, designed by Perkins Eastman and Aston Design around the city’s heritage and art.
Fairmont Hanoi: Key Facts
- Opened: February 2026 — Fairmont’s first property in Vietnam, developed with GELEX Group
- Location: 10 Trần Nguyên Hãn Street, Hoàn Kiếm — the hotel places itself between the Old Quarter and the French Quarter, steps from Hoàn Kiếm Lake
- Keys: 241 guest rooms, 38 Fairmont Gold rooms and 12 suites — a Presidential Suite to follow — with views over the Old Quarter, skyline or inner garden
- Dining: eight venues — Tran Dynasty, where celebrity chef Luke Nguyen reworks Vietnamese heritage; Bacco, led by Michelin-starred chef Nicolas Isnard; the Japanese-inspired Hiryu; plus 10 Central Café, YY Bar, the Fairmont Gold Lounge and the Pool Terrace & Bar
- Wellness: the Cirua Spa, Fitness & Wellness Club — a 38,000 sq ft urban retreat with a signature bathhouse, hydrotherapy and thermal facilities, plunge pools, saunas, steam rooms and 10 treatment rooms
- Events: the Old Quarter’s largest pillarless ballroom at 12,000 sq ft, within a 4,000-plus sq m MICE centre
- Rates: from US$427 per night all-in for an entry Fairmont King, read for a midweek night in mid-November 2026 — full comparison below
The Bathhouse Is the Statement
Thirty-eight thousand square feet of spa in a city-centre hotel is resort-scale wellness dropped into the Old Quarter, and the bathhouse concept — hydrotherapy circuits, thermal rooms, plunge pools — reads as a direct import of the longevity-and-recovery wave this section has tracked from Dubai to Sicily. The dining bench is equally deliberate: Luke Nguyen gives the hotel Vietnamese credibility no imported brand chef could, while Isnard’s Bacco imports a Michelin pedigree. Between them, Fairmont Hanoi is positioning against the Metropole’s century of heritage with the one thing heritage can’t retrofit: scale of facilities.
Vietnam, From Experience
Vietnam is home ground for this site: my Six Senses Con Dao review — a property that earned two separate trips from me — remains one of my most-read Vietnam pages, and the country rewards exactly the trip Fairmont Hanoi anchors: culture-dense days in the capital before the islands or the bays. A luxury base by Hoàn Kiếm Lake with a genuine recovery spa is the missing piece for the north; for the coast, my Four Seasons Hoi An review covers the other half of the classic two-centre Vietnam trip.
Tip: Hanoi’s sweet spot is October to December — dry, cool and golden — and it’s also peak season for Hạ Long Bay cruising, three hours east. Build the hotel into a north Vietnam loop rather than a stopover; the bathhouse earns its keep after Old Quarter walking days.
How Much Does Fairmont Hanoi Cost?
I priced a midweek night in the cool season — Wednesday 18 to Thursday 19 November 2026, two adults, one room — across the sites that carry Fairmont Hanoi. The entry category is the Fairmont King Room (41 sq m). Expedia was cheapest all-in at US$376 a night, US$427 with taxes and fees. Trip.com listed the same room at US$382, or US$433 all-in, and bundles an exclusive Cirua bathhouse experience into the rate — which, given that the bathhouse is the reason to stay here, is worth more than the six-dollar difference. Booking.com prices this property in euros rather than dollars and showed €372 for the night including taxes, with the One-Bedroom Junior King Suite at €426. Move up on Trip.com and a Fairmont Gold King with lounge access runs US$619 all-in, while the 88 sq m Fairmont 1 Bedroom Suite King is US$670.
On a property like this the sites usually swing 10–20% apart, and five minutes of clicking can save you real money — here the three platforms landed within about US$10 of each other on the entry room, so the deciding factor is what is bundled rather than the headline rate. Traveloka, which often prices Southeast Asian hotels sharply, did not return Fairmont Hanoi as a bookable property on the day I checked, so I have left it out rather than quote a rate I could not read. The links below are pre-filled with the property.
- Check rates on Booking.com — free cancellation on most room types, no prepayment needed.
- Compare on Trip.com — the only platform bundling the Cirua bathhouse experience into the room rate.
- See it on Expedia — cheapest all-in on the dates I checked, and useful if bundling flights.
How to Book
Book Fairmont Hanoi direct via fairmont.com. The hotel is currently listing a Summer Retreat offer — stay three nights and pay for two — bookable until 30 September 2026. For the wider trip: Nội Bài airport private transfer · Hạ Long Bay day cruise.
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