Top 3 Boutique Hotels with an Artistic Soul

Alongside large-scale resorts and skyscraper hotels, boutique hotels infused with artistry are becoming a compelling choice for your next trip. This week, WWK’s Choice takes you inside three one-of-a-kind stays to add to your travel list.

Capella Hanoi

A Symphony in the Heart of the Capital

Ảnh: Capella Hanoi

Tucked on a quiet street beside the Hanoi Opera House, Capella Hanoi feels like a time machine carrying guests back to the golden age of Opera in the 1920s.

Designed by acclaimed architect Bill Bensley, the hotel is a tribute to Opera and Art Deco architecture. From the moment you step inside, you are immersed in a world of grandeur — vivid colour palettes, sharp geometric lines and carefully arranged handcrafted décor. The result is dramatic yet refined.

Capella Hanoi

The hotel has been reimagined as a grand inn where the world’s greatest artists, designers and composers once stopped to rest. Capella Hanoi offers 47 rooms and suites, none of them identical. Each room is named after an artist, composer or classic Opera production. Art here is not limited to paintings on walls. It lives in original costume sketches, stage mementos and handwritten scripts. The hotel holds over 1,000 antiques, portraits and original performance costumes sourced from around the world. Staying at Capella Hanoi is a chance to inhabit the off-stage world of the stars.

Azerai La Résidence Hue

A Coda on the Banks of the Perfume River

Stretching along the romantic Perfume River with a direct view of the ancient Hue Citadel, Azerai La Résidence is a living witness to history — drawing guests back into the regal, romantic atmosphere of the 1930s.

Ảnh: Azerai La Residence, Hue

At its heart is a grand colonial mansion that once formed part of the French Resident Superieur’s palace, a gathering place for officials and high-society figures of the era. The hotel stands as a vivid expression of Art Deco style: soft curves, angular volumes and intricate geometric motifs. Seen from afar, the building resembles a great white ocean liner moored by the river, carrying within it the dignity and prestige of history.

The hotel offers 122 rooms and suites, many with large balconies overlooking a lush tropical garden or the tranquil Perfume River. Time’s passage is felt in every detail — from vintage ceiling fans and dark-wood furnishings to precious archival photographs of old Hue. The hotel preserves the quiet, refined atmosphere of Indochine colonial life.

Ảnh: Azerai La Residence, Hue

The Myst Dong Khoi

A Saigon Opera of Old

Located in the heart of bustling Ho Chi Minh City, the hotel presents a singular presence: a pristine white building with playfully arranged windows and cascading green climbing vines.

Crafted by dedicated local designers, The Myst Dong Khoi embraces a tropical modern architectural style. Step into the lobby and you are enveloped in a warm, intimate space — wood doors aged by time and asymmetrically staggered bay windows adding to its character.

Inside each room: gleaming hardwood floors, a vintage rotary-dial telephone, oil paintings and delicate brass fittings. Notably, most rooms feature spacious balconies with stone or timber freestanding bathtubs surrounded by greenery — a sanctuary of stillness amid Saigon’s relentless energy.

From artefacts salvaged from the old Ba Son Shipyard, solid cast-brass keys to hand-painted landscapes of the Southern Vietnamese countryside — every element of the stay communicates the elegance and open spirit of Southern Vietnam and its people.

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