From secluded coastlines and forested hills to river landscapes and restorative retreats, Vietnam’s finest resorts are showing how beautifully hospitality can exist alongside nature. The Best Natural Resort of the Year nominees celebrate places where landscape, thoughtful design and a gentler way of living come together, allowing travellers to rediscover the luxury of space, stillness and time.
There are places we travel to, and there are places that quietly change the pace of everything.
Perhaps it begins with waking to the sound of waves instead of an alarm. A morning walk beneath the trees. Sunlight moving across the mountains. A quiet afternoon beside the river, or simply the pleasure of seeing nothing beyond the window but open sky and landscape.
Amanoi
Nature has a way of asking us to slow down.
And the best resorts understand that the experience does not need to compete with its surroundings. Instead, architecture follows the land, wellness draws from the environment, and every moment feels connected to something larger than the room we are staying in.
This is the beauty of a retreat shaped by nature.
Following a successful first season, Gourmet Vietnam Awards returns in 2026 for Season 2, continuing its celebration of the people and places bringing new energy to Vietnam’s culinary and hospitality scene.
Alba WellnessValley by Fusion
This year’s Best Natural Resort of the Year nominees reveal the remarkable variety of landscapes that define travel across Vietnam.
Along the coast, secluded bays and long stretches of shoreline create a natural sense of escape. Further inland, lush valleys, riverside settings and quieter destinations offer their own interpretations of restoration and retreat.
Some resorts invite guests to reconnect through wellness, movement and the outdoors. Others create privacy through villas framed by mountains, gardens or the sea. And some possess that rare sense of harmony in which design seems to disappear into the landscape, allowing nature itself to become the defining experience.
The Best Natural Resort of the Year 2026 nominees are:
Azerai Ke Ga Bay · JW Marriott Cam Ranh Bay Resort & Spa · Amanoi · Alba Wellness Valley by Fusion · Premier Village Phu Quoc Resort · Le Palmier Ho Tram Resort · Le Palmier Long An Boutique Resort · Legacy Mekong, Can Tho, Autograph Collection · Villa Le Corail, a Gran Meliá Hotel · InterContinental Halong Bay Resort
Azerai Ke Ga Bay
Ten resorts, ten distinctive ways of experiencing Vietnam through nature.
For us at Epicure Vietnam, this category is about more than beautiful scenery, private villas or a sense of seclusion.
A truly memorable natural retreat creates room to breathe. It reminds us to notice the landscape, to move a little more slowly, to listen to the sounds around us and to rediscover pleasures that often become lost in the rhythm of everyday life.
Premier Village Phu Quoc Resort
Because perhaps the greatest luxury nature can offer is not escape.
It is the feeling of returning to ourselves.
GOURMET VIETNAM AWARDS 2026 SEASON 2
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