Oriental Suites Hotel & Spa
by the TopOfHotel team
Oriental Suites is a 4-star on Hang Dao Street in the dead center of the 36 ancient streets, with 42 renovated rooms and some looking straight out at Hoan Kiem Lake — score 8.5.
Oriental Suites is a 4-star on Hang Dao Street in the dead center of the 36 ancient streets, with 42 renovated rooms and some looking straight out at Hoan Kiem Lake — score 8.5.
In-Depth Review
Rooms and decor
Oriental Suites Hotel & Spa sits on Hang Dao Street, near the Hanoi night market that pitches its tents every Friday through Sunday and sells embroidered scarves, Vietnamese silk, hanging lanterns and street food for what feels like a kilometre straight. The lobby leans into the mood with brass lamps and carved Oriental wood cabinets — a bit of colonial-era Hanoi. Real guests score it around 8.5/10. We upgraded to a Deluxe Lake View on the insider tip: roughly 28 square metres in cream and brown, with carved teak furniture standing next to a flat-screen and a Nespresso machine. Pull the curtains back and there's Hoan Kiem Lake — a dark-green oval with the red Huc Bridge stitched across it. The bathroom is marble with a deep soaking tub. All 42 rooms have been fully renovated, and you can feel the freshness.
Food and amenities
Breakfast the next morning runs both buffet and a la carte downstairs. The crowd-pleaser is a hot bowl of pho ga (chicken noodle soup), followed by toast with butter and an eggs Benedict cooked to order — genuinely 4-star quality. Come midday, the in-house spa is worth a slot: we took the 75-minute Hot Stone massage in a room kept dim with scented candles that sealed off the market noise from below. The therapists know what they're doing, and a hot ginger tea lands the moment you're done. It's the kind of reset that makes the chaos of the old streets feel a long way away.
Location and getting there
Location is the number-one selling point. Step out the door, walk 50 metres, and you're in the Hang Dao night market; turn left and it's a 5-minute walk to Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple; ten more minutes gets you to Dong Xuan Market, Hanoi's giant covered market. Every street around the hotel starts with "Hang" — meaning "goods" — so Hang Dao was silk, Hang Bac silver, Hang Can flutes, a living map of a 1,000-year-old trading-guild system. Grab a bia hoi (fresh draft beer) for about 40 cents on a plastic stool by the road and watch Hanoi pour past. Noi Bai airport is roughly 27 km out, and the hotel runs transfers.
Things to know before booking
Being dead center has a cost. The hotel sits in the busy trading district, so the daytime hum of vendors and traffic carries up to the lower floors — ask for a higher room to keep it to a murmur. Rates start around $57 a night (roughly NZ$95) and climb toward $97, which is pricier than the lower-ranked picks further down this list, and the lake-view rooms carry the steepest premium and sell out first in high season. If that view is the whole reason you're booking, lock it in early and request the Hoan Kiem side by name.
Our take
Oriental Suites Hotel & Spa is the pick if you want to sleep in the actual heart of the 36 ancient streets, steps from the night market, and you're happy to pay a little extra for a Hoan Kiem Lake view. Guests like the blend of antique furniture and modern comfort, and the spa really does deliver a calm pocket in the middle of all that old-street noise. For first-timers who want everything within a short walk, this is hard to beat.
Score Breakdown
Assessed by our editorial team from data and real guest reviews
The Honest Verdict — pros & what to know
- A 4-star sitting right on Hang Dao Street, in the dead center of the 36 ancient streets — you can't get more in-the-thick-of-it than this in the Old Quarter.
- About a 5-minute walk to Hoan Kiem Lake and Ngoc Son Temple, and the Old Quarter night market sets up right outside the door Friday to Sunday.
- 42 fully renovated rooms that pair carved antique furniture with flat-screen TVs and Nespresso machines — the old-meets-new mix lands well.
- Some rooms look straight out over Hoan Kiem Lake, with the green oval water and the red Huc Bridge in frame.
- Has a spa, a restaurant doing both buffet and a la carte breakfast, and an airport transfer service — proper 4-star kit for the price.
- It sits in the middle of the trading-and-market district, so the daytime hum of vendors and traffic carries up to the lower floors. Ask for a higher room to cut the noise.
- Rates start around $57 a night, pricier than the lower-ranked hotels further down this list, and the lake-view rooms carry the steepest premium.
- Those lake-view rooms fill fast in high season, so you'll want to book well ahead if the view is the whole point of staying here.
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Insider Tips
- Ask specifically for a room on the Hoan Kiem Lake side — the view is the reason to pay the premium here.
- The Old Quarter night market is right outside the door Friday to Sunday; walk it after dark for silk scarves, lanterns, and street food.
- Request a higher floor to keep the daytime street noise of Hang Dao down to a murmur.