Sleeping at Zannier Bai San Ho, Vietnam’s quietest luxury

The best meal of our stay at a five-star hotel in Vietnam cost about three quid. A local family fished our supper from the traps in front of us, and we ate charred prawns with tamarind and clams in lemongrass broth on red plastic chairs, watching the sun drop behind an ugly concrete bridge. That's the trick of Zannier Bai San Hô. Serious barefoot luxury on an undeveloped stretch of Phú Yên coast – 98 hectares, a brass key to your own villa, a spa built on the five elements – but always with a sense of place. I reviewed it for Citizen Femme, travelling with my baby son, the one the host plucked sticky from the car and carried inside before I'd even got out. It might be the quietest luxury in Vietnam. Hard to reach, and all the better for it.

Ellie Fazan reviewed Zannier Bai San Ho, a luxury resort on Vietnam’s south-central coast, for Citizen Femme, published April 2025.