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  • 44 BLY THUONG KEIT STREET
     Hanoi, Vietnam 01235
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Melia Hanoi

  • November 25, 2006
  • Rated 5 of 5 by Composthp from Singapore, Singapore
Melia Hanoi

Melia Hanoi is a superb 5-star hotel that has accommodated an impressive list of guests and VIPs from around the world. Centrally located near the Old Quarter and the Hoan Kiem lake as well as tourist attractions, this hotel is ideal for a luxurious weekend getaway.

We took advantage of the hotel's promotion package and stayed at the executive suite. The room was divided into a living area with a spacious bedroom. It has a luxurious bathroom that one can spend hours in (it would be perfect if the tub came with Jacuzzi features, too). Guests could choose their preferred type of pillow from the "pillow" menu. Our room came with a superb view of the fast changing city.

The executive package includes special check in at the executive floor reception and late check out (until 4pm), complimentary buffet breakfast, afternoon tea, and pre-dinner snacks. The complimentary buffet breakfast offered a mix of American, continental and local dishes, much to everyone’s delight. In the evenings, a pair of wooden dolls dressed in Vietnamese ao dai welcomed us. These were accompanied with bookmarks bearing clever sayings. We felt utterly pampered during our stay here.

Concierges at the main lobby readily came forward to offer guests assistance and advice on where and how to go and what to dine. The "bell-hop" in the form of a lovely lady in white ao dai outside was quick to help us into a taxi and to instruct the driver on our destinations. No worries about language barriers.

The in house Oasis beauty salon offered a variety of services to pamper guests. Since this was an R&R trip, I decided to try their Dead Sea salt body scrub. The experience was not what I would like to repeat though. The salon was a converted suite with 2 armchairs for guests wanting foot massages or pedicures and a cubicle holding 2 narrow beds where body massages were done. My masseur was a chatty young lady in her twenties who did not seemed to understand the word "privacy". The massage was almost clinical with little attempts to cover parts of me that was not being massaged. I was shivering with cold and the music designed to relax was drowned by the constant drilling due to renovation works in the upper floors. The masseur’s constant staring did not help either and I almost died of embarrassment when she parted the curtain and instructed me to walk naked across the room to the bathroom to shower off the salt (a bathrobe would have been nice). Had there been other guests having their pedicures or foot massages, they would have been treated to a "free show". I later learnt from other guests that they too had similar experiences.

While I would not hesitate recommending this hotel, I would strongly advice guests to think twice before trying the massages.

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From journal Vietnam, An Emerging Dragon

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