Overview

These internationally managed accommodations with personalised services and extensive facilities are centrally located to make your business travel, weekend retreat or extended stay convenient and enjoyable. Surrounded by the largest concentration of commerce and business, the residence is ideal corporate housing for the expatriate on project assignment or relocation. You can stroll at your leisure to the many restaurants, entertainment areas and city attractions located outside the residence. There is a convention centre, child education centre and a shopping mall on the lower floors. Being the tallest tower, each residence offers panoramic views of the city. Enjoy the rich culture of Hanoi while living in a spacious and comfortable private apartment with the luxurious services and facilities that you desire.

Choice of Serviced Residence

Each of the 185 fully furnished residences from one to three-bedroom layouts as well as the three-bedroom penthouse is designed for the distinguishing tastes and needs of the international traveller. Fully-equipped kitchens, IDD telephone with a private number and elegant and contemporary furnishings are provided to make your stay convenient and comfortable. Tailored to meet your individual needs, the Somerset Grand Hanoi offers a welcome alternative to a hotel while on business or holiday in Hanoi.

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Attractions

Old Quarter

Everything spills out onto pavements which double as workshops for stone-carvers and tinsmiths, and as display space for merchandise ranging from pungent therapeutic herbs and fluttering prayer flags to ranks of Remy Martin and shiny-wrapped chocolates. With so much to attract your attention at ground level it is easy to miss the architecture, which reveals fascinating glimpses of the quarter's history starting with the fifteenth-century merchants' house otherwise found only in Hoi An.

Perfume Pagoda

Vietnam's most famous pilgrimage site, the Perfume Pagoda, Chua Huong, hidden in the folds of the Mountain of the Perfumed Traces, and said to be named after spring blossoms that perfume the air. The easiest and most popular way to visit the pagoda is on a day-tour out of Hanoi, or with a hired car and driver for the day.

The One Pillar Pagoda

The One Pillar Pagoda is one of the few monuments of Vietnam dating back to the time of the founding of the first Vietnamese empire, which is independent from China in the 11th century. However, the present pagoda is not the original building. After it has repeatedly been damaged or destroyed in its almost 1,000 years of existence, it was renovated and rebuilt over and over again. The last reconstruction took place in 1955, after the French colonial forces had blown it up before their retreat in 1954.

The Temple of Literature

This pagoda and the surrounding complex have played a prominent role in the history of Vietnamese thinking. Originally it had been built in 1070 in honour of the Chinese philosopher Confucius, whose teachings have influenced Vietnam almost as strongly as they have shaped China. This temple has been for centuries the place where exams for the rank of Mandarin were taken.