- 🗓️ 18 September 2026 · the global Michelin Keys selection, 2,832 hotels honoured
- 🇻🇳 21 hotels in Vietnam · two with three Keys, four with two Keys, fifteen with one Key
- 🔑🔑🔑 Capella Hanoi · retains its three Keys, alongside Amanoi; 47 rooms designed by Bill Bensley
- 🔑 Hotel de la Coupole, MGallery · in Sa Pa, in the northern mountains, retains its Key
- 🔑 InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula · new entry to the list, on the Son Tra Peninsula
On 18 September 2026, the Michelin Guide published its global selection of Keys, the hotel equivalent of stars. Vietnam has 21 properties listed, and three of them belong to the same owner, the Vietnamese group Sun Group: Capella Hanoi, which retains its three Keys, Hotel de la Coupole in Sa Pa, which keeps its Key, and InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort, a new entry with one Key.
We have detailed the global results and the complete 2026 selection, as well as the new French three-Key hotels.
Vietnam, second country in Southeast Asia
Two Vietnamese hotels hold three Keys, Capella Hanoi and Amanoi. Four have two, including Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, promoted this year, Four Seasons The Nam Hai, and Banyan Tree Lang Co. Fifteen properties receive one Key, from Park Hyatt Saigon to Six Senses Ninh Van Bay. The Guide sees it as a market that has acquired the codes of international luxury without losing its identity.
◆ The three honoured Sun Group hotels
Capella Hanoi, 47 rooms and an opera decor
Opened in 2022 just steps from the Hanoi Opera House, Capella is the work of Bill Bensley, who designed it as a 1920s artists’ residence. With only 47 rooms and suites, it is one of the smallest three-Key hotels in the world. Three of its restaurants are also featured in the Guide’s selection.
La Coupole in Sa Pa, Bensley’s other fantasy
At 1,500 metres above sea level in the Tonkin mountains, Hotel de la Coupole, under Accor’s MGallery brand, blends French haute couture with northern minority costumes, another signature of Bill Bensley. It retains the Key obtained during the first Vietnamese selection.
Danang joins the list
On the Son Tra Peninsula, InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort cascades down to a private beach, featuring the funicular designed by Bensley to connect its levels. It obtains its first Key, in addition to the Michelin star retained by its French restaurant La Maison 1888.
What Sun Group gains from this
A conglomerate born in Danang, Sun Group is best known for its theme parks and cable cars. Its three honoured hotels, all designed by the same architect, demonstrate a strategy: properties with strong personalities rather than interchangeable brands. The Guide rewards precisely this.
Photos: © Sun Group.
