Hotel in Hanoi old quarter

Hanoi's buzzing streets and chaotic traffic are part of its charm, but it's good to have a calm. Here's top 5 Hotel in Hanoi old quarter.

Hotel in Hanoi old quarter

1.Hanoi Imperial Hotel

Hanoi Imperial Hotel – one of the best hotels in Hanoi Old quarter – next to Hoan Kiem Lake and offer luxurious rooms with big windows and city view.

Hanoi Imperial Hotel

Tel: (+84-4) 3933 5555 * Fax: (+84-4) 3938 1315

Address: No 44 Hang Hanh Str. , Hoan Kiem Dist. , Hanoi, Vietnam

Email: contact@hanoiimperialhotel.com

Website: http//www.hanoiimperialhotel.com

2. Y Lan Guesthouse

Y Lan Guesthouse

Hanoi is the world's copycat capital when it comes to hotels, restaurants and tour operators, but there's nowhere else like Y Lan Guesthouse, quite possibly the most authentic homestay in Vietnam. Behind a thick door off a busy boulevard in the French Quarter, the quiet, modest guesthouse faces an incredibly beautiful 150-year-old temple.

The tiled temple, fronted by wooden columns and dangling orange lanterns, houses the ancestor altars of the family of Mrs Nguyen Thi Kim Oanh, the guesthouse owner. Bedroom number three, with louvered shutters, has a balcony overlooking the pretty fan-shaped tile tips of the temple.

No-nonsense Mrs Oanh, who speaks French but little English, provides breakfast on the marble-topped table next to the family kitchen, and will take you inside the family temple if you ask.
• +84 4 3826 7307, ylan_guesthouse@yahoo.com.vn, doubles from £22

3. Maison d'Orient

Maison d'Orient

This perfectly pitched Hanoi hotel combines Indochine elegance with a modern ambience. Ceiling-height padded silk headboards prop up wonderfully comfortable beds layered in white cottons in rooms with polished wooden floors, silk lamps, red Oriental trunks-turned-tables, and chairs upholstered in silver cotton and chenille.

Its location on Hang Trong, just south of the Old Quarter, and just around the corner from one of the most popular shopping streets, Hang Gai, makes it the perfect base for shopaholics. After a day pounding the streets, head to the top-floor Le Royal Spa, for a soothing foot massage.
•+84 91 205 5872, hanovahotel.com, doubles from around £100 for three nights B&B

4. La Maison Hai Ly

La Maison Hai Ly

A scythe-shaped bend in a Red River tributary hides this exquisite 18th-century house. It is just 15 minutes from Hanoi's Old Quarter but a rural calm descends on La Maison Hai Ly and its garden of flourishing guava, banana and orchids.

The house, with a low, tiled roof tipped with circular blue ceramics, was transplanted from Hoi An, a former Chinese mercantile port in central Vietnam.

This hideaway for two combines an open-plan living room and kitchen facing the private garden. In winter, keep cosy with the cottage wood burner; in summer, light the barbecue in the walled garden.

Breakfast is provided and Vietnamese meals, using herbs and seasonal vegetables from a nearby market garden, can be requested for supper.
•+84 4 39 76 62 46, orientalbridge.com/maison-en.htm, $90 a night for two, $15 per extra person, including breakfast

5. St Joseph's Hang Da

St Joseph's Hang Da

Modest and minimalist, this modern nine-room hotel is a great place to meet fellow travellers, and a great-value find. The large front window in the black-and-white tiled breakfast room/reception looks out on to busy, non-touristy Duong Thanh, an arrow-straight street on the edge of the labyrinthine Old Quarter.

St Joseph's spartan, olive-hued rooms have thoughtful touches – coffee-and-maroon Chinese boxes-turned-bedside-tables, desks, mini bedside lamps, and drums converted into gold-beaded floor lamps.

Ample breakfasts – cereals, fruit, pancakes, French toast and pho (Vietnamese noodle soup) – is served in delicate ceramics, and a fully stocked mag rack invites lounging and lingering.

It also happens to be opposite one of Hanoi's best cha ca (pan-fried fish with turmeric and dill) restaurants, Cha Ca Thang Long, at number 19-21.
•+84 4 3923 4229, josephshangdahotel.com, doubles from $40 B&B

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