A magical city steeped in history

Turn off Đồng Khởi into Hồ Huấn Nghiệp street and within a minute you reach a tall building with greenery on every balcony. Look closer and it gets stranger. The entrance to this five-star hotel sits under a plain tiled roof like an old house’s, and the lobby holds timber piles, steel roof trusses and […]

Sometimes your nose knows you have arrived before your eyes do. Step in from the pavement on Hồ Huấn Nghiệp and the first thing to reach you in the lobby of The Myst Dong Khoi is usually a soft trace of ylang-ylang on the cool air, while the traffic from Đồng Khởi follows for a […]

Stand on Hồ Huấn Nghiệp street in the early evening and look up. The windows and balconies of The Myst Dong Khoi are scattered across the facade in an unusual pattern, with plants spilling over the edge of every floor. The Michelin Guide describes the building in much the same terms. In short, The Myst […]

It is eleven at night and you have seven booking tabs open for a trip to Saigon. Every hotel calls itself “steeped in local culture”. Every gallery has the same lanterns, the same bamboo corner, the same lacquer painting. By tab five they blur. So what is a cultural luxury hotel? Put simply, it is […]

Color is the first decision that touches everything else. Before the flowers are chosen or the invitations are printed, a couple settles on a mood, and that mood is almost always a color. It shows up on the save the date, in the bridesmaids’ dresses, on the napkins folded at each place, in the light […]

Weddings are quietly changing shape. The five hundred guest banquet is no longer the default, the flower budget is being spent with more thought, and couples are asking a simple question of every choice on the plan: does this actually feel like us? This is an editorial look at the wedding trends taking hold across […]

Every December, the same story plays out in offices across Saigon. The year-end party gets talked about in October, half-planned in November, and scrambled together in the last fortnight before the date. Most of what goes wrong on the night was actually decided weeks earlier, in a booking that came too late or a headcount […]

The year end party looks effortless only when the work behind it started early. Three months out, a good venue in central Saigon still has December dates open and your budget is still a blank page you can shape. Leave it to November and you are choosing from what nobody else wanted. This is a […]

Once the venue and date are settled, one question tends to stall the whole plan: buffet or set menu? It sounds like a catering detail, but it quietly shapes everything else, how the room is laid out, how much the awards run overtime, whether people mingle or stay put, and how tightly you can hold […]