The Reverie trumpets luxury – with a 24-carat gold Baldi carriage-clock (taller than a man) in reception, and acres of glistening Italian marble and gilt. Rooms glitter with mosaic and floor-to-ceiling glass. Walls are adorned with priceless art, while the staff are poised to cater to every wish.
Location
The hotel sits in the 39-storey Times Square building in the heart of District One, Ho Chi Minh City’s business and tourist centre. The lobby opens onto Nguyễn Huệ boulevard, the main pedestrian street. The old French colonial centre (with the principal tourist sights), the choicest shops and the Bitexco Financial Tower are literally on the doorstep.
Style and Character
A red velvet Colombostile sofa as long as a stretch limo, a vast ballroom decorated like Milan’s La Scala by Rubelli, rooms replete with gold rococo flourishes…this is a 21st-century vertical Versailles, albeit secreted inside an undistinguished plate-glass business tower.
It’s not a hotel for lovers of the frugal or understated, but a fantasy palace for real and pretend tycoons and princesses – a theatre-set for the ostentatious. Get into the act and the Reverie is great fun.
Service and Facilities
Staff are strategically positioned at every turn, ready to escort you anywhere (even the lift) and to cater to every whim. The rooftop pool has mesmerising Saigon river and city skyline views.
The two-floor spa is discreet, with sumptuous treatments and plenty of sauna and steam room space at any time of day. And the concierge is up-to-date and well-informed on the city’s best high-end eating and drinking, if a little short on detail on Saigon’s burgeoning, hipster speakeasy scene.
Rooms
Lavish rooms come in a bewildering 12 categories and include 62 suites, no two of which are the same. All are sealed from any city noise by thick glass, electric curtains and blinds. And all have with king-sized beds draped with rabbit-fur soft Frette linen sheets.
Bathrooms come with tubs and showers, bewilderingly complex heated bidet-toilets and Chopard toiletries. The panoramic suites are the best mid-price choice, with two walls of room-high windows offering at-your-feet city views, and mosaic decoration by designers like Giorgetti.
Food and Drink
The hotel has four restaurants, two of which are formal and have a dress code. The Royal Pavilion is a Saigon dining destination in its own right – serving an ever-changing menu of gourmet Cantonese dishes (such as braised bird’s nest soup with crab roe and crab meat, or baked chicken in lotus leaf) and some of the finest dim sum outside Hong Kong. The pork puff buns and red-rice rolls burst with flavour and collapse in the mouth like chocolate truffles.
The R&J (after Romeo and Juliet) offers competent Italian standards. The all-day Café Cardinal and the street side Long Bar are informal. The former offers snacks and panoramic Saigon views. The latter’s bar spans almost 165 ft, serves decent Singapore Slings and Mai Tais (though you’ll find better in one of the nearby speakeasies) but has no air-conditioning.
The main hotel restaurant offers a big buffet of European and Chinese hot dishes, cold meats and cheeses, fruits and eggs cooked in any conceivable manner. For a quieter breakfast served à la carte on white linen with a crisp European, Asian or American newspaper and a skyline view of the capital, eat in the 39th floor club lounge – use of which comes complimentary with any of the suites.
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