The InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort was named as ‘Asia's Leading Luxury Resort’, ‘Viet Nam’s Leading Resort’, and ‘Viet Nam’s Leading Spa Resort’ at the World Travel Awards (WTAs) Asia & Australasia Gala Ceremony 2016 which recently took place at this resort. 

Owned by the Sun Group, the InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort is located on the Son Tra Peninsula and was designed by world-renowned architect Bill Bensley.  Since operations began in June 2012, the resort has welcomed a large number of international visitors, including world famous superstars and politicians.  Most notably, the resort boasts the quintessence of traditional Vietnamese cultural and architectural values.

This luxury resort features the traditional Vietnamese architectural style.  Designer Bensley spent years visiting Buddhist temples, palaces, imperial tombs, and modest villages across the country in order to acquire the resort’s unique architectural vocabulary.  The property’s overall striking black-and-white colour scheme, for example, reflects the black lacquered wood and white tiles of Vietnamese temples. (Bensley also added a signature pop of colour to each space, such as the vibrant yellow of the Citron Restaurant).

 Interiors at the resort recall Vietnamese temples too, with hanging lanterns, ornately carved candle stands, and temple motifs like dragons, elephants, lions and lotus flowers.  In all of the room categories at the resort, visitors will find a wealth of indigenous Vietnamese shapes, such as wood-spindled temple windows and the silhouetted form of the traditional Hoi An lanterns.

Bensley also took great delight in blurring the lines between high and low culture, incorporating humble village details into the most luxurious of settings.  Ceramic bricks from the Bat Trang traditional craft village line the walls of the Club Peninsula Suite and surround the indulgent deep-soak tubs in the Seaside Pool Villas on the Rocks. After a swim in the villa’s infinity pool, with its dramatic East Sea panorama, visitors  can rinse off under showerheads fashioned from real hill tribe baskets from the Central Highlands.  Even the in-room minibars were inspired by the tiny-drawered cabinets of traditional Vietnamese pharmacies found in Ha Noi.

Of course, Bensley’s creativeness does not end there.  Customers will also find old French-inspired chairs, quirks like cast iron ostriches poised alongside the marble bathtubs, and even surfboard-shaped terrace tables drawn from Bensley’s own Southern California roots.