Wellness today is no longer confined to treatment rooms. Across Vietnam, the Best Spa & Wellness Resort and Best Spa of the Year nominees reveal a broader idea of restoration, shaped by landscape, ritual, skilled touch and experiences designed to bring body, mind and rhythm back into balance with intention.
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Wellbeing has become one of travel’s most personal luxuries. Not because it promises escape, but because it creates the rare opportunity to slow down enough to notice how we feel.
Sometimes that begins with place. A coastline that resets the senses. Forest air, mineral-rich water, morning movement, nourishing food, or the quiet discipline of a retreat designed around rest. At other times, renewal is more immediate: the warmth of a treatment room, the confidence of experienced hands, a carefully chosen ritual and an hour in which nothing is required of us.
As Gourmet Vietnam Awards returns for Season 2, two wellness categories consider these distinct but increasingly connected expressions of care.
Amanoi
The Best Spa & Wellness Resort of the Year 2026 nominees are:
Six Senses Con Dao · Amanoi · Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion · Regent Phu Quoc · Namia River Retreat · Meliá Vinpearl Cam Ranh
Here, wellness extends beyond a single appointment. It can shape the rhythm of an entire stay, through movement, sleep, nutrition, nature, therapeutic traditions and moments of deliberate stillness. The strongest resorts understand that restoration cannot be reduced to a programme; it is created through the relationship between environment, expertise and the way a guest is invited to experience time.
Bremiere Wellness Center
The Best Spa of the Year 2026 nominees are:
Woosah Spa · Bremiere Wellness Center · ESC Spa · The Spa
These spaces bring the focus closer. Atmosphere matters, but so do precision, intuition and trust. A memorable spa experience is built through details that may seem almost invisible: the transition from arrival to treatment, the quality of touch, the sense of privacy, the pacing of a ritual and the calm that remains after it ends.
Regent Phu Quoc
Together, the nominees across both categories reflect a more considered understanding of wellness in Vietnam. Some offer journeys shaped by destination and retreat; others concentrate that same philosophy into a few restorative hours. What unites them is a belief that wellbeing should feel neither performative nor prescribed, but deeply personal.
ESC Spa
The strongest wellness experiences are defined by more than beautiful surroundings or an extensive treatment menu. They depend on precision, sensitivity and a clear philosophy of care. Across these nominees, Vietnam’s wellness landscape reveals a growing confidence, balancing international standards with increasingly distinctive ideas of restoration.
GOURMET VIETNAM AWARDS 2026 SEASON 2
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