Christmas and New Year are some of the best occasions for families and friends to get together and spend some quality time with each other while enjoying great meals and raising a toast to all for health and happiness. Treat yourself and your special ones with one of the following extravagant retreats Timeout has picked for you. This December, you can pamper yourself with the largest staycation packages that include various luxury hotels and resorts across the country.

Sheraton Saigon Hotel &Towers is 

ANH TUKK restaurant will offer programmes to celebrate the upcoming festive season providing guests with enjoyable menus that perfectly complement the festive spirit as well as reimagined dining spaces that promise an unrivalled venue for the end of year celebrations.

Acecook announced to open its first cup noodle restaurant, named Acecook Buffet Mi Ly, located in the first and largest Aeon Mall, Haiphong on December 14.

Celebrate the arrival of this holiday season with Melia Hanoi Christmas Tree Lighting Ceremony and an indulgent feast at El Restaurant full of good tidings and good cheer from December 24 to 31.

Sheraton Grand Danang Resort has multiple prestigious awards at the World Luxury Hotel Awards 2020, M&C Asia Stella Awards, and World Luxury Restaurant Awards.

Continuing more than two decades of conquering customers with the quintessence of Cantonese cuisine in Ho Chi Minh City, Chinese restaurant brand Ngan Dinh Cantonese has officially appeared in Hanoi, offering diners in the capital a luxurious and classy culinary space within the 5-star Hanoi Daewoo Hotel.

La Rive Gauche Restaurant at Grand Mercure Danang is back to satisfy your seafood craving with the dazzling deal "Dine 4 Pay 3" on every Friday until November 30, 2020.

Hotel de la Coupole – MGallery, nestled in the heart of Vietnam’s northwestern Sapa town, is delighted to announce the appointment of Phuc Nguyen as new executive chef. In this highly revered position, Chef Phuc will be heading up the dynamic culinary team to enhance the hotel’s dining portfolio.

Golden Dragon Restaurant is bringing back its hottest offer of "Come 4 Pay 3" for an unforgettable Chinese cuisine experience for visitors in Danang.

As one of the oldest hotels and historical spaces of Ho Chi Minh City, Rex Hotel Saigon has become a favourite destination for many tourists – and has now launched attractive offers.

Life for many of us has changed beyond recognition compared to just a few months ago – and one of the biggest changes has been the need to do electronically what we have historically done face-to-face: video conferencing for meetings, shopping online, restaurant delivery, day-to-day banking, and so on.

Hundreds of restaurant and bar owners protested in the southern French city of Marseille on Friday against new shutdown orders to curb surging coronavirus numbers, as the country recorded nearly 16,000 new cases.

Face masks and mica partitions recently became indispensable items in many of the capital’s restaurants, pubs, and cafes as Hanoi authorities requested them to facilitate 1-metre spacing between guests and adhere to pandemic prevention regulations.

While Vietnam has experienced an unprecedented boom in recent decades, the current pandemic is now having a clear negative impact on the economic outlook. The effects of the crisis, into which Vietnam has fallen completely through no fault of its own, are visible to the naked eye. In Mui Ne for instance, there are only very few guests at the resorts. Ho Chi Minh City’s otherwise lively District 1 restaurants are deserted, and in Hanoi’s Tay Ho district, rents are falling due to a lack of tenants. There are countless other examples. In short, the crisis is felt everywhere. However, these are only the indicators that are quickly recognisable from the outside. Foreign trade, investments, and the not negligible remittances from overseas Vietnamese are also putting pressure on the economy. It is clear to every observer that economic recovery will be a Herculean task. But what can Vietnam do to reposition itself powerfully and finally emerge from the crisis stronger?