Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi

Hanoi, Vietnam. Located on Ngo Quyen Street in Hoan Kiem District, in the heart of Hanoi.

Sofitel Legend Metropole HanoiHanoi, Vietnam

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Address: Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi
15 Ngo Quyen Street, Hoan Kiem District
100000 Hanoi
Vietnam
Telephone: +84 24 3826 6919
Official website: sofitel.accor.com
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358 rooms in two wings: the historic Heritage Wing of 1901 and the contemporary Opera Wing.
Le Beaulieu for French haute cuisine, Spice Garden for Vietnamese cuisine, Angelina, Le Club Bar and the poolside Bamboo Bar.
Le Spa du Metropole, a heated outdoor pool and the restored Vietnam War air-raid shelter, shown on the hotel’s Path of History tour.
Located on Ngo Quyen Street in Hoan Kiem District, in the heart of Hanoi.

12 dates, written by Grand Hotels of the World from the sources below.

August 1901
Run by the Compagnie Française Immobilière with André Ducamp as first administrator, the Grand Métropole Hôtel opens as French Indochina’s largest and most modern hotel.
1916
The Métropole becomes the first place in Indochina to screen motion pictures.
1923
Somerset Maugham stays while writing The Gentleman in the Parlour.
1936
Charlie Chaplin and Paulette Goddard celebrate their honeymoon at the hotel.
1951
Graham Greene stays on his first visit to Hanoi; his experiences inspire The Quiet American.
1954
The hotel is nationalised, renamed Thống Nhất (Reunification) and used as the official government guest house.
1964
A bomb shelter is built in the courtyard as American air raids loom; Jane Fonda and Joan Baez later shelter there in 1972.
8 March 1992
Fully restored after a joint venture with Pullman, the hotel reopens as the Pullman Hotel Metropole, later becoming a Sofitel.
1994 – 1996
The new 135-room Opera Wing is added.
2011
The forgotten air-raid shelter is rediscovered beneath the Bamboo Bar; it is restored and opened to visitors in 2012.
27 – 28 February 2019
The hotel hosts the Hanoi summit between Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un.
2024
After a 21-month renovation, the historic Metropole Wing reopens as the Heritage Wing.