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Sheraton Hotel & Spa

With 30 floors, the Sheraton Nha Trang was designed to

provide dazzling sea views from each of its 280 rooms

and an array of restaurants and bars

delivers a multi-dimensional, uplifting guest experience

Nha Trang

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HOT Destination

raveling Vietnam’s southern

coastline at the start of 2012

provided an opportunity to expe-

rience a few of the new hotels,

restaurants and entertainment venues

during the new year holidays.

Our longest stop of the journey was

a week in Nha Trang, roughly 320KM

northeast of Saigon. Though we’ve been

to Vietnam a half-dozen times, this was

our first time into Nha Trang.

One of the charms of city’s is it’s coastline,

commonly listed as one of the world’s top

by the “Most Beautiful Bays in the World”

organisation based in Vannes, France.

(www.world-bays.com)

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We were fortunate to have used the Sheraton Hotel &

Spa as our base of operations. Ranked as the first inter-

nationally renowned, 5-star brand to cultivate a beach

destination within Vietnam, the site lived up to it’s billing.

It’s central location offered a convenient place to arrange

business meetings - as we often found it to be the num-

ber-one gathering place for Nha Trang’s business pro-

fessionals and expatriates. The hotel was also a stone’s

throw from the beach and shopping malls.

With 30 floors, the Sheraton Nha Trang was designed to

provide dazzling sea views from each of its 280 rooms

and an array of restaurants and bars. Their 9 classes of

accommodation range from spacious deluxe rooms to

70-square-meter executive suites and one

awe-inspiring 182-square-meter presidential suite. Each

room has a balcony that juts far enough to provide

an open-air view of the bay and a beach that’s been

described by many as the best in Vietnam.

Guests in the presidential suite and others staying in a

room or suite on the 22nd-26th floors have access to the

Sheraton Club Lounge, an awe-inspiring modern lounge,

which delivers a multi-dimensional, uplifting guest expe-

rience.

Business travelers and leisure travelers who crave extra-

special treatment and amenities should check in here.

One of our regular haunts was the Sheraton’s Altitude

Bar, located on level 28 -- which is well-known as the

highest bar in Nha Trang. It was a pleasure to relax and

enjoy the spectacular view of the bay as the female DJ

duo performed an eclectic mix of music. We agreed with

Raaj Dhillon, the hotel’s F&B Director when he said “this

is one of the best spots to watch sunset in Nha Trang or

to enjoy the scene of the seaside city lit up with lights at

night.”

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We also dropped in at the Sheraton’s Shine Spa

for their Vietnamese Massage, one of their sig-

nature treatments. Shine Spa is the second of

its kind in Asia-Pacific region, after the brand was

launched in 2009 at Sheraton Maldives Full Moon

Resort & Spa. Shine Spa for Sheraton is part of the

Silk Route Spa Collection by Sheraton.

 

Symbolic of traveling between modern and

ancient worlds on one of the most legendary

journeys, winding its way through land and time,

mystery and magic, the Silk Route Spa Collection

draws on influences from East and West, com-

bining them into a extraordinary guest experi-

ence. With treatments originating from China,

Thailand, India, Arabia and the Mediterranean,

the Shine Spa therapist sends you on a truly magi-

cal journey. The subtle natural aromas transport

you to faraway places where sheer indulgence

awaits.

 

Though the Sheraton is an oasis in it’s own right,

we were able to stay in touch with the outside

world, working from the Link@Sheraton, a unique

WiFi lounge launched by Sheraton last year. In the

Link@Sheraton, we were able to connect to the

Internet, send email, watch TV on a plasma screen

and browse through local and international news-

papers and magazines.

We were regular visitors to several of the prop-

erty’s restaurants:

Steam ‘n Spice is a restaurant that celebrates the

best of Asia’s streets with a cheery indoor space.

This concept is a first for the entire Starwood

group of hotels, and is certainly worth a visit.

Feast is a tried-and-true culinary concept that

taps the culinary heritage of Italy, India and a

number of distinct Asian locales and turns out a

la carte dishes a la minute. On the lobby level,

Toastina provided us with deli favorites,

to-go style ***

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