Under a new plan, the oldest hotel in Vietnam, Hotel Continental will be closed piece by piece next year in order to construct a new five star hotel. Originally built in 1890, the renovation will endaevour to keep the hotel’s rare old look.

Continental always attracted guests with its ancient and modest beauty. The room are as high as four metres and spacious with a view of the centre of the city, and its two bars, two restaurants and a conference hall with all the modern conveniences are the main features that attract tourists, so the hotel’s room occupancy rate reaches 70-80 per cent.

The sidewalk restaurant La Dolce Vita right in front of the hotel along Dong Khoi Street was recently refurbished so it looks the same as it did during the war.

Up to now the ancience plush hotel with its original and unparalleled architectural style has still kept its pristine form of more than one hundred years on, both inside and outside.