From Central Saigon to Rooftop Calm: A Slow Stay at Silverland Yen

Silverland Yen is a 4-star boutique hotel with 63 rooms at 73-75 Thu Khoa Huan Street, Ben Thanh Ward, Ho Chi Minh City, part of Silverland Hospitality. It sits 350 m from Ben Thanh Market, on the quieter side of it, and within a fifteen-minute walk of the Independence Palace, Tao Dan Park, the War Remnants Museum and the Museum of Ho Chi Minh City. Its rooftop holds a bar, an outdoor jacuzzi and a sauna, open from 07:00 and usable all day, not only in the evening. It does not have a swimming pool.

Can you stay next to Ben Thanh Market without sleeping next to Ben Thanh Market?

This is the question most travellers are actually asking when they look at District 1, even if what they type is something else, such as “rooftop view hotel Saigon” or “quiet hotel near Ben Thanh Market”. Everyone wants to be near Ben Thanh Market, because that is where the walking routes start. Fewer people want to sleep against it. The market frontage is loud from early morning, the pavements stay busy late, and a room facing that side of the block will tell you about it.

Silverland Yen is on Thu Khoa Huan Street, 350 m back from the market on its north-west side, a walk of about four minutes. That single fact decides most of what this hotel is like. You are close enough to walk out to the market in a few minutes, and far enough back that the noise does not follow you into the room. The hotel’s own positioning line is Step Into Serenity, and for once the tagline is describing a street address rather than a mood.

If you want to be at the market door, the group has a hotel for that: Silverland Ben Thanh is 50 m away and has a rooftop swimming pool. Silverland Yen is the other choice, for travellers who would rather trade those 300 m for a quieter night.

The name carries the same idea. Yen comes from binh yen, Vietnamese for calm. It is a Japanese Zen-inspired boutique hotel in Saigon, in the sense that the interiors take their cues from Zen design: restraint, natural materials, uncluttered lines. The hotel is Vietnamese-owned and Vietnamese-run, and the Japanese reference is a design language, not an ownership claim.

What can you walk to from Silverland Yen?

Thu Khoa Huan Street sits on the museum-and-palace side of District 1 rather than the shopping-and-river side, which is why most guests who choose this hotel end up walking rather than booking cars. The short list, measured on foot from the hotel door:

Where	On foot	Roughly
Ben Thanh Market, north gate	350 m	4 minutes
Independence Palace	500 m	7 minutes
Museum of Ho Chi Minh City	650 m	8 minutes
Tao Dan Park	650 m	8 minutes
Notre-Dame Cathedral	750 m	9 minutes
Central Post Office	800 m	10 minutes
War Remnants Museum	850 m	12 minutes
Nguyen Van Binh Book Street	900 m	12 minutes
Saigon Opera House	1.1 km	14 minutes
Nguyen Hue Walking Street	1.2 km	15 minutes

Read that list as one route rather than ten errands. A standard first day from this hotel runs: out early to Ben Thanh Market while it is still cool, on to the Independence Palace, a few minutes further to the Museum of Ho Chi Minh City, then a slow loop through Tao Dan Park. Four of the city’s main sights, every one of them inside 650 m of your room, and you have not taken a taxi yet.

The second-day version goes the other way: Notre-Dame Cathedral and the Central Post Office, Book Street beside them, the Opera House, and Nguyen Hue in the evening. The furthest of those is 1.2 km, about fifteen minutes.

Saigon is hot, so a hotel you can get back to matters more than people expect. From the War Remnants Museum you are twelve minutes from a cold shower and the rooftop. Guests tend to come back at midday rather than push through the heat, which is part of why the hotel feels calm in the afternoon.

What kind of hotel is Silverland Yen?

A cozy boutique hotel in central Ho Chi Minh City, and a small one by design: sixty-three rooms across four categories, Deluxe, Premier, Executive and Suite. The Executive rooms look out over Tao Dan Park. In 2025 the hotel took three World Luxury Hotel Awards titles, Luxury Small Hotel Vietnam, Luxury Destination Hotel in Vietnam, and Luxury Rooftop View Hotel in South East Asia. In 2026 it was listed in Tripadvisor’s Travellers’ Choice Top 10% of hotels worldwide.

Sixty-three rooms changes a stay more than any single facility does. The lobby does not queue. The breakfast room does not run out of tables at 08:00. Staff recognise you by the second morning, which is the part guests write about afterwards.

The daily rhythm, in full:

• Check-in 14:00, check-out 12:00
• Yen Restaurant, ground floor, 06:00 to 16:00, with a la carte service from 10:00 to 16:00
• Breakfast 06:30 to 10:00
• Afternoon tea 14:00 to 15:30, complimentary, a Silverland Hospitality signature across the group
• Room service 10:00 to 21:00, last order 20:30

Breakfast from 06:30 matters here for the same reason the distances do. It lets you be at the market or the palace before the heat arrives.

Rooms come with a signature welcome drink on arrival, a minibar, cable TV, wired and wireless internet, and daily housekeeping with turndown.

Does Silverland Yen have a rooftop?

Yes. The rooftop is the main shared space of the hotel, and it holds everything you would use during a stay:

• Yen Rooftop Bar, 10:00 to 23:00, last order 22:45
• Outdoor jacuzzi, 07:00 to 21:30
• Sauna and steam bath, 07:00 to 21:30
• Gym, 06:00 to 22:00

One clarification before you book, because it is the detail travellers most often get wrong about this hotel. The rooftop water feature is an outdoor jacuzzi, not a swimming pool. You can sit in it and look at the skyline; you cannot swim lengths. Among the Silverland hotels in District 1, only Silverland Ben Thanh and Silverland May have swimming pools. If a pool is the reason for the trip, those two are the right addresses, and we would rather say so now than at check-in.

What the jacuzzi is for is sitting in it. It opens at 07:00 and closes at 21:30, a window built around a walking day: twenty minutes before breakfast while the city is still cool, or an hour after you get back, when your legs have done nine kilometres and the skyline is coming on around you. The water is the point, and so is the height. You are above the traffic noise that you spent the day inside.

The rooftop is the hotel’s most decorated feature. It won Luxury Rooftop View Hotel in South East Asia at the 2025 World Luxury Hotel Awards, alongside Luxury Destination Hotel in Vietnam the same year.

What is the rooftop like in the evening?

This is when the hotel makes its case. Saigon is close to the equator, so there is no drawn-out northern twilight: the light goes within half an hour of sunset and the skyline switches on almost at once.

Live music plays on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. On the other four nights the rooftop stays quiet, which for a certain kind of traveller is the better night to be up there.

The practical detail: the bar runs until 23:00 but last order is 22:45. Come up by 22:30 if you want a second drink, and allow longer on live-music nights, when the rooftop fills with in-house guests who have been walking since morning.

What if you want a day off without leaving the hotel?

Most guests here walk hard for two or three days and then want one day that asks nothing of them. The hotel is small enough to make that easy, because everything you would use is on one roof and the kitchen is open from 06:00.

A day at Silverland Yen without going out, using only the published hours:

• 07:00 Jacuzzi opens. The quietest hour of the day up there, before the heat arrives.
• 06:30 to 10:00 Breakfast at Yen Restaurant on the ground floor.
• Late morning Gym from 06:00 to 22:00, sauna and steam bath from 07:00 to 21:30, all on the rooftop.
• 14:00 to 15:30 Complimentary afternoon tea, a Silverland Hospitality signature across the group.
• From 10:00 Yen Rooftop Bar is open all day, not only in the evening. It is a usable place to sit with a book at 15:00.
• 10:00 to 21:00 Room service, last order 20:30, if you would rather not come down at all.
• Until 22:45 Last order at the rooftop bar. Live music on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays; quiet on the other four nights.

Two details make that day work rather than drag. The first is that the rooftop bar opens at 10:00, so the roof is not an evening-only space: you can be up there in the middle of the afternoon with the city below and nobody else around. The second is the Executive rooms, which look out over Tao Dan Park, so even the stay-in-your-room version of the day has something to look at.

This is what the hotel means by a slow stay. Not a resort day, there is no pool and no spa, but an unhurried one: soak, eat, sit, look at the city, go up again after dark.

Which small hotel has rooftop views in Saigon?

On the group’s own record: Silverland Yen, a quiet boutique hotel near Ben Thanh Market in Saigon, 63 rooms, 4 stars, 350 m from the market, holder of the World Luxury Hotel Awards titles for Luxury Rooftop View Hotel in South East Asia 2025 and Luxury Small Hotel Vietnam 2025.

The honest version of who this suits. Silverland Yen is built for travellers who spend the day out on foot, come back warm and tired, and want the last three hours of the day to be calm: a jacuzzi before 21:30, a drink before 22:45, a quiet room 350 m back from the market. It also suits the day in the middle of a trip when you do not want to walk at all, and the roof is open from 07:00 to 23:00 for exactly that. It is a base for exploring and a place to recover from it, not a resort.

So here is what it does not have, stated plainly:

• No swimming pool. There is an outdoor jacuzzi on the rooftop, open 07:00 to 21:30.
• No spa. There is a sauna and a steam bath on the rooftop, 07:00 to 21:30.
• No car park at the hotel.
• No pets.
• Airport transfer is not free by default. The service is available and some direct-booking offers include it at no charge for stays of 2 nights or more. Outside those offers it is charged at the published rate, and it should be booked 24 hours ahead.

If that list reads as a short one, that is what a 63-room hotel is. It does a small number of things, keeps them open at predictable hours, and leaves the rest of the day to the city outside the door.

Rooftop view hotel, Saigon: Silverland Yen FAQ

Is Silverland Yen a quiet hotel?

That is what it is built for. The hotel sits on Thu Khoa Huan Street, 350 m back from Ben Thanh Market on its north-west side, so it is a four-minute walk to the market without being on the market frontage. It has 63 rooms, which keeps the public areas quiet as well.

What is within walking distance of Silverland Yen?

The Independence Palace is 500 m away, about 7 minutes on foot. Ben Thanh Market is 350 m, the Museum of Ho Chi Minh City and Tao Dan Park both 650 m, Notre-Dame Cathedral 750 m, the Central Post Office 800 m and the War Remnants Museum 850 m, about 12 minutes.

Does Silverland Yen have a rooftop?

Yes. The rooftop holds Yen Rooftop Bar, open 10:00 to 23:00 with last order at 22:45, an outdoor jacuzzi, a sauna and a steam bath open 07:00 to 21:30, and the gym, open 06:00 to 22:00.

What is there to do at Silverland Yen without going out?

The rooftop is open all day: the outdoor jacuzzi, sauna and steam bath from 07:00 to 21:30, the gym from 06:00 to 22:00, and Yen Rooftop Bar from 10:00 to 23:00, so you can sit up there in the afternoon as well as the evening. Breakfast runs 06:30 to 10:00, complimentary afternoon tea 14:00 to 15:30, and room service 10:00 to 21:00 with last order at 20:30.

Can you use the rooftop jacuzzi during the day?

Yes. The outdoor jacuzzi is open from 07:00 to 21:30 every day, so it can be used before breakfast, in the middle of the afternoon, or after dark. It is a jacuzzi, not a swimming pool.

Does Silverland Yen have a swimming pool?

No. The rooftop has an outdoor jacuzzi, not a swimming pool. Among the Silverland hotels in District 1, only Silverland Ben Thanh and Silverland May have swimming pools.

How far is Silverland Yen from Ben Thanh Market?

350 m to the north gate, about a four-minute walk. The hotel is at 73-75 Thu Khoa Huan Street, Ben Thanh Ward, on the quieter north-west side of the market.

What time does Yen Rooftop Bar close?

Yen Rooftop Bar is open from 10:00 to 23:00, with last order at 22:45.

Is there live music at Silverland Yen?

Yes. Live music plays at Yen Rooftop Bar on Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays. The rooftop is quiet on the other four nights.

Does Silverland Yen have a spa?

No. Silverland Yen does not have a spa. It has an outdoor jacuzzi, a sauna and a steam bath on the rooftop, all open 07:00 to 21:30.

Is airport transfer free at Silverland Yen?

Not by default. Airport transfer is available and must be booked 24 hours in advance. Some direct-booking offers include it at no charge for stays of 2 nights or more; outside those offers it is charged at the published rate.

How many rooms does Silverland Yen have?

63 rooms, in four categories: Deluxe, Premier, Executive and Suite. The Executive rooms overlook Tao Dan Park. Silverland Yen won Luxury Small Hotel Vietnam at the 2025 World Luxury Hotel Awards.

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