It’s all too easy
to while away
the time at The
Beach Club, a
semi open-air
bar affording
a panoramic
prospect of one
of Vietnam’s
most pristine
locales,
Cam Ranh’s
Cheshire grin
of a coastline.
The Beach
Club lounges
by The Anam’s
600-square-
metre infinity
pool, with
sunbeds hovering
over the water’s
surface, to a backdrop of white sands
and turquoise waters, dotted with the
occasional sampan and coracle and
picturesque islands in the distance.
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THE BEACH
CLUB
Dramatic headlands named “Song
Lo,” meaning the wave next to the
mountain, rise up to the immediate
north and west. The Beach Club and infinity pool make for the pièce de
résistance of the new resort that
celebrates its grand opening in April
2017.
its bygone-era-feeling watering hole,
where a grand piano is put to use every
night by the ship’s resident, classically-
trained musician. While King Kong might be lurking behind this karst or
that karst, you’ll likely be too lost in the
bar’s exquisite tapestry of sound and
setting to care about anything else.
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PARADISE
ELEGANCE’S
PIANO BAR
The newest luxury cruise
ship on Halong Bay
launched in March 2017
as the biggest and baddest
vessel to ever ply the waters
of Vietnam’s most famous
natural attraction -- and not
just because all 31 cabins feel like 5-star
hotel suites (although that feature
would certainly suffice). No, Paradise
Elegance is also in a class by itself for
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