Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort will ring in the Year of the Cat with a smorgasbord of vibrant dining experiences, traditional Tet merriment, and outdoor pursuits to foster quality family time. Perched on Ho Tram Beach, an easy commute from Ho Chi Minh City, the resort’s Tet program from Jan. 18-28, 2023 is packed with indulgent buffets and a la carte menus, beach bonfires with marshmallow roasts, outdoor cinema nights, kayak racing, lion dancing, calligraphy giving, lantern floating, morning excursions to ‘Monkey’s Temple’ Truc Lam Chan Nguyen and more. Ho Tram’s “place to be”, Breeza Beach Club will host its vibrant ‘Ho Tram Seafood Market’ to a backdrop of live chill-out music on Lunar New Year’s Eve, Jan. 21, and Jan. 28. Crabs, squid, grouper, snapper, shrimp, mussels, snails, clams, and scallops caught from local waters that day will be displayed in large bamboo baskets. Diners choose whether to have their seafood grilled, wok-fried or steamed, topped off with a selection of accompaniments. Breeza will also host Steak Night on Jan. 20 with menu options including striploin, rib eye, beef tenderloin and Black Angus tomahawk steaks. Surf ‘n’ Turf Night on Jan. 22 and 24 affords a selection of grilled premium beef cuts and fresh seafood, and Gala Seafood Buffet on Jan. 23 offers lobster, prawns, clams, sentinel crab, shellfish, squid and more. On Jan. 25, Breeza’s Savory Seashell Night’s a la carte shellfish selection will include crabs, lobster, prawns, clams and oysters. Throughout the Tet program, Breeza will open a bar by Ho Tram Beach’s white sands and aquamarine waters. Anchored with fresh seafood, local specialties, and international cuisine, buffet dinners held at the resort’s Sasa restaurant throughout the Lunar New Year program are themed ‘Dolce Vita’, ‘Roast Carving Buffet’, ‘BBQ Seafood’ and ‘Japanese Twist’ and accompanied by a live band. To celebrate the first day of the Lunar New Year, January 22, Dolce Vita will brim with Italian favourites including antipasto, freshly made pizza, pasta, salad and decadent desserts including a Dolce & Gabbana cake. Packed with roast beef, pork rack, pasta, noodles, salads and more, the Roast Carving Buffet will be held on January 23 and the BBQ Seafood, underpinned by an assortment of fresh seafood accompanied by meats including pork and beef ribs and sausages, on January 24. A wide assortment of sushi, fresh sashimi, ramen and grilled or pan-fried Japanese favourites will underscore the Japanese Twist buffet on January 25 and 28. Held from 5.30-10pm, each buffet dinner’s price starts at VND 1,299,000++ per adult and VND 850,000++ per child from four to 11 years old, with additional free-flow beverage options on offer. Vietnamese restaurant Muoi, that recently reopened following a four-month makeover, will serve its new ‘Taste of the Sea’ menu dedicated to live seafood including lobster. The revamped restaurant’s changes include a new open kitchen, an open bar and array of fish tanks that showcase the new menu’s seven live seafood options lobster, grouper, pomfret, clams, sentinel crab, prawns and turgid Venus shell. Live seafood is sourced from local fish markets. To mark Tet, Muoi will craft Vietnamese cuisine with a modern twist priced at VND 999,000++ per dish from January 23 to 25. The resort’s Tet program includes lantern making, conical hat painting, Tet ornament, calligraphy, flower making craft, coconut leaf craft, tote bag painting, and bracelet making workshops for all ages. In addition to cooking classes for making sticky rice cake ‘banh Tet’ and other Tet foods, watermelon eating challenges will be staged by the resort’s 1491-square-metre pool with direct access to the beach. Outdoor activities range from traditional games such as ‘Monkey Bridge’ to recreational pursuits including shore fishing, slow bike racing, and tennis and table tennis tournaments. The Kids Club will keep children entertained with trying on traditional costumes, hopscotch, shuttlecock kicking, mandarin square capturing, coloring, painting and craft activities. The resort’s YHI Spa is also offering a 10% discount on manicures and blow-dry hair treatment. A 152-room and 83-villa property, five-star Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort features a host of world-class facilities such as three restaurants including a beach club, a swim-up bar, coffee shop, 20-treatment room spa, an executive lounge The Level Lounge, ballroom and conference facilities, kids club, gymnasium, gift shop and more. The contemporary rooms, suites and villas afford unencumbered views of the ocean, lush gardens, lakes and swimming pools. The Level Villas guests enjoy access to The Level Lounge and The Level Pool, and a range of bespoke privileges including private check-in and check-out, complimentary afternoon cocktails and snacks, pillow menu and much more. For more information about Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort, visit www.melia.com, email info@meliahotram.com or call +84 (0) 254 3789 000.

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A Christmas tree lighting ceremony, a beach bonfire and marshmallow roast, ‘lobster, prawn and steak’ nights and photos with Santa Claus are among Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort’s array of celebrations this festive season. Poised on Ho Tram Beach within an easy commute from Ho Chi Minh City, the resort’s festive program kicks off on December 18 with a tree lighting ceremony accompanied by cocktails and canapes, a choir performance, and a visit from Santa Claus. Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve buffets anchored with fresh seafood, Asian specialties and traditional Christmas favourites will be served at Sasa restaurant from 6.30-11pm. The resort’s Breeza Beach Club will host its vibrant ‘Ho Tram Seafood Market’ on Christmas Eve from 6.30-11pm. Brimming with crabs, squid, fish such as grouper and snapper, shrimp, mussels, snails, clams and scallops caught from local waters that day, large bamboo baskets are assembled on bamboo stalls at the beach club’s outdoor terrace to a backdrop of live chill-out music. Diners determine if their seafood and meats are grilled, wok-fried or steamed, and choose from sauces and popular Vietnamese accompaniments Santa Claus will visit the resort’s various dining outlets from 6.30-8pm on Christmas Eve, before the bonfire and marshmallow roast on Ho Tram beach gets underway from 8.30pm. Breeza Beach Club will also host the lobster, prawn and steak night on Christmas Day and New Year’s Day, and a steak night on December 30, all from 6.30-11pm. A countdown party on New Year’s Eve from 11pm until 2am the following morning will be staged at Breeza and on the beach, with a DJ spinning the decks. Workshops such as Christmas biscuit making, ornament colouring, postcard decoration, balloon twisting with a clown, will be held throughout the program. A 152-room and 83-villa property, five-star Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort’s features a host of world-class facilities such as three restaurants including the beach club, a swim-up bar, coffee shop, 20-treatment room spa, an executive lounge The Level Lounge, ballroom and conference facilities, kids club, gymnasium, gift shop and more. The contemporary rooms, suites and villas afford unencumbered views of the ocean, lush gardens, lakes and swimming pools. For more information about Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort, visit www.melia.com, email info@meliahotram.com or call +84 (0) 254 3789 000. Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort is offering a ‘Christmas Experience’ for two nights from December 23-25, 2022 that includes a stay in a Deluxe Ocean View Room, daily buffet breakfast for two, the Christmas Eve buffet for two with free-flow water, soft drink, juice, beer and in-house wine, and other activities including the bonfire and marshmallow roast, surprise Christmas gift, visit from Santa Claus, arts and crafts workshops and more. The Christmas Experience is priced at VND 6,500,000++ per night for two people, with a booking window until December 20, 2022.

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Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort has welcomed this month’s grand opening of sister developments at The Pier, South East Asia’s longest pier, and at Hamptons Plaza, a shopping, dining and entertainment precinct. Stretching over 270 metres into the East Sea, the pier is a first for Vietnam. With a design inspired by California’s famous piers including Santa Monica Pier, Hermosa Beach Pier, and Venice Fishing Pier, the new attraction makes the most of Ho Tram’s idyllic beach setting. The pier is connected to Hamptons Plaza, a lively commercial and service street that stakes a claim as the only upscale plaza in Vietnam that overlooks the sea. In addition to shopping stores, entertainment spaces suitable for events, a music fountain for children, and murals, Hamptons Plaza is home to diverse local and international dining options. The pier and plaza make for the second and third phases of developer Tanzanite International’s master plan the Hamptons Ho Tram on the sandy shores of Ho Tram, following the debut of phase one with 17-hectare Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort in 2019. Situated near the pier and Hamptons Plaza, the 152-room and 83-villa resort features three restaurants including a beach club, three swimming pools, a coffee shop, 20-treatment room spa with an additional foot massage area and beauty salon, executive lounge The Level Lounge, ballroom and conference facilities, kids club, gymnasium, gift shop and more. The resort’s contemporary rooms, suites and villas afford unencumbered views of the ocean, lush gardens, lakes and swimming pools. Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort’s general manager Alvaro Berton said the iconic new developments right on the resort’s doorstep were fantastic new magnets for Vietnam’s new IT destination Ho Tram. “Vietnam’s Ho Tram is fast developing a reputation as Ho Chi Minh City’s answer to New York’s Hamptons, Rome’s Naples and Sydney’s Blue Mountains; a go-to retreat where the well-heeled flock for a getaway that’s just two hours away by car, upscale and restorative,” he said. “The pier and open-air plaza are only five minutes’ stroll eastward from our resort along Vietnam’s most stunning stretch of sand, adding to all of the exciting culinary, wellness and recreational experiences our resort offers.” A complimentary buggy transports guests between the resort and the pier and plaza. Surrounded by mangrove forests and the Ray River, Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort basks in an average temperature of 28 degrees Celsius year-round and is within close proximity of the Greg Norman-designed Bluffs Ho Tram Strip golf course, Phuoc Buu Nature Reserve and Binh Chau Hot Springs. Located 107km from Tan Son Nhat International Airport, the resort is easily accessible from Ho Chi Minh City and beyond. Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort’s The Level Villas feature private pools, access to The Level lounge and a host of bespoke privileges including complimentary cocktail time, use of the lounge’s meeting room and the YHI Spa’s sauna and steam bath, a pillow menu, and a superior level of personalized service overall with, for example, separate check-in and check-out and concierge service. Western, Vietnamese and health-themed romantic picnics, meat and seafood barbecues, floating breakfasts, sunset canapes, karaoke, Playstation4, board games and more are among the resort’s in-villa experiences. For more information about Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort, visit www.melia.com, email info@meliahotram.com or call +84 (0) 254 3789 000.

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Five-star Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort situated a two-hour drive from Ho Chi Minh City has launched a “resort within a resort” called The Level Villas that sets apart 61 upscale villas with their own private pools as well as a private lounge and a host of bespoke privileges. The 17-hectare beachfront resort’s two-, three- and four-bedroom The Level Villas range in size from 220sqm to 465sqm and have their own private pools, BBQ areas, outdoor showers and gardens, living areas and separate dining areas. Spacious terraces and/or balconies jut from every villa. Strategically dispersed across the resort, all of the villas lend themselves to private seafood BBQs, pool parties and floating breakfasts. Other experiences on offer in the villas include house parties with live music or a DJ, picnics in the garden, a private set menu dinner, and cooking and mixology classes. The Level Three- and Four-Bedroom Villas, the leading accommodations, directly front Ho Tram beach, where the sun rises to the left and goes down to the right in a spectacular arc over the East Sea daily. Their huge living areas give way to a sublime outdoor setting, with a large infinity pool, sun loungers and an entertaining terrace, and, in turn, the beach. The Level Villas provide access to a lounge and other private areas such as a pool, and breakfast overlooking the beach at Breeza Beach Club, Vietnam’s first Spanish beach club with a distinct Mediterranean vibe. An array of privileges includes complimentary cocktail time, use of the lounge’s meeting room and the 10-treatment room YHI Spa’s sauna and steam bath, a pillow menu, and a superior level of personalized service overall with, for example, separate check-in and check-out and concierge service. “As its name aptly suggests, The Level Villas will elevate the experience in Ho Tram to an entirely new level,” said the resort’s general manager Manuel Ferriol. “Drawing on our warm Spanish hospitality, we have created a resort within a resort priding itself on privacy and exclusivity.” In-room services include a selection of digital newspapers and magazines, a capsule coffee maker and special tea station, and late check-out until 4pm subject to availability. In addition to Breeza Beach Club, situated on the beach adjacent to a 1491 square metre pool, Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort is also home to all-day dining restaurant Sasa, fine dining restaurant Muoi, three swimming pools, a swim-up bar, a coffee shop, a ballroom and conference facilities, gymnasium, kid’s club, gift shop and more. A broad spectrum of daily activities range from those that tap into Vietnamese culture including crafting traditional lanterns and painting conical hats to outdoor pursuits such as paddle board lessons, kayaking, cycling and basic tennis lessons and wellness sessions including aqua aerobics, Tabata, Zumba, sunrise yoga, tai chi and stretching. YHi Spa offers a vast selection of indulgent massages, facials and body scrubs based on natural, ecological products renowned for their antioxidant and regeneration properties. The resort offers boat, bike and seafood wet market tours, as well as fishing and hiking, and visits to the Binh Chau hot spring and mud bath, to nearby Vung Tau city and to historical sites Long Tan and Long Phuoc. Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort is also within easy reach of The Bluffs Ho Tram Strip, a links style 18-hole championship golf course designed by golfing legend Greg Norman. For more information about called The Level Villas at Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort, visit www.melia.com, email info@meliahotram.com or call +84 (0) 254 3789 000

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Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort has opened Vietnam’s first Spanish beach club, with panoramic views of one of the country’s best beaches, entertainment in spades and a distinct Mediterranean vibe. Dubbed “the place to be”, Breeza Beach Club brings the spirit of the world-famous Mediterranean chill-out beach clubs and bars to Vietnam’s south, perched on some of the five-star resort’s most inspiring ground right on Ho Tram beach and adjacent to a 1491-square-metre pool at the heart of the 17-hectare property.      Breeza Beach Club is home to an open kitchen, a bright and airy interior that seats up to 160 people, as well as a capacious terrace with an outdoor cocktail bar at its centre designed to take advantage of Ho Tram’s sunsets, and picture-perfect cabanas peppered between coconut trees on the beach.   Referencing the beach clubs of Ibiza and Bali, yet exuding its own boho chic, Mediterranean feel, Breeza is open from 10.30am until 12.30am daily. The venue hosts live music by saxophonists, trumpeters and violinists, DJs spinning the decks, themed parties, dancing shows, large bonfires and more. To pay homage to Spain’s famed gastronomy, the beach club’s chefs specialise in curing, then fire-grilling their own meats. Their colourful yet simple dishes include crudos, ceviches, and flamed and grilled seafood. Breeza has concocted a selection of imaginative cocktails in consultation with celebrity New York mixologist Joseph Boroski, recognised as one of the globe’s top bartenders, and Hendrick’s ambassador Charmaine Thio, who is also a bartender at one of the world’s top 50 bars, Singapore’s 28 HongKong Street. “Life is a breeze at Breeza and there isn’t a better place in Vietnam to be on the water,” said Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort’s general manager Manuel Ferriol. “Our beach club is a tribute to Spain’s unique way of life, where we celebrate the pleasures in life such as delectable Spanish cuisine, chilled out entertainment and spectacular sunsets.” Dotted with sofas, Breeza’s outdoor terrace lends itself to BBQs. The private cabanas, sprinkled around the beach club on the sand, come with exclusive premium drinks packages. The beach club’s design, like the 152-room and 61-villa resort in general, deploys a neutral palette of colours as a complement to Ho Tram‘s sandy shore. Deemed one of the most prestigious properties in the global Meliá Hotels and Resorts portfolio, Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort is a two-hour drive from Vietnam’s largest metropolis Ho Chi Minh city. The resort celebrated its grand opening on April 20 this year, cutting the ribbon on three restaurants, three swimming pools, a swim-up bar, a coffee shop, a 10-treatment room spa, an executive lounge, a ballroom and conference facilities, a kid’s club, gymnasium, gift shop and more. For more information about Meliá Ho Tram Beach Resort, visit www.melia.com, email info@meliahotram.com or call +84 (0) 254 3789 000.

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