Four Seasons The Nam Hai Marks Ten Years With Renewed Villas
The 100-villa resort near Hoi An will reach its tenth year as a Four Seasons in December 2026, with its Hue-inspired villas renovated and an anniversary programme.
Four Seasons Resort The Nam Hai, on the beach near Hoi An in central Vietnam, announced in September 2026 a programme to mark ten years under the Four Seasons name, which it will reach in December. The anniversary coincides with the renovation of its villas, the first since the group took over the resort in 2016.
The Nam Hai opened in 2006 and was at the time the most ambitious resort ever built in Vietnam. It occupies 35 hectares on Ha My Beach, a long stretch of sand between Hoi An and Da Nang, and has 100 villas, laid out in rows that step down towards the sea, with three swimming pools on terraces at the centre. Its architecture drew on the garden houses of Hue, the former imperial capital, with dark timber roofs, raised sleeping platforms at the centre of each villa and a plan governed by the principles of feng shui.
The renovation keeps that structure and lightens what is inside it, with paler finishes and new fabrics and textures. The one-bedroom and family villas were completed in December 2025, and work on the three-bedroom pool villas, each of which has its own staff, began in July 2026.
The restaurants have changed too. Lá Sen serves contemporary cooking from central Vietnam under chef Heath Gordon, Nayuu is a Japanese omakase counter led by Alex Moranda, and Sol & Sao turns from a café by day into a place for Vietnamese small plates in the evening. The Heart of the Earth Spa, set in pavilions around a lotus pond, has added treatments with crystal singing bowls and guided meditation to a programme influenced by the teachings of the Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. The resort’s cooking academy remains one of its best-known activities.
For the anniversary, guests staying three nights or more between 20 November and 20 December 2026 are offered a choice of experiences, including a tour of the architecture, floating meditation and a class at the cooking academy.
The resort holds two Michelin Keys. It is fifteen minutes from the old town of Hoi An, a UNESCO World Heritage site, and half an hour from Da Nang airport, which is also the starting point of The Vietage, the luxury rail carriage that runs down the coast. Elsewhere in Vietnam, two hotels hold three Michelin Keys.