Sunrise Nha Trang Beach Hotel & Spa

Sunrise stands at 12–14 Tran Phu, toward the southern end of the seafront. What makes it recognisable is the architecture: it is built in Indochine style with colonial detailing. Arches and columns rather than the glass slabs that make up most of the rest of the street.

There are 125 rooms, described by the hotel as ocean-facing throughout, most with their own balcony. The list runs Deluxe, Deluxe Ocean View, Grand Deluxe, Premium Deluxe Ocean, then Junior Suite Ocean and Executive Suite Ocean View, so you are choosing floor and floor area rather than whether you see the water.

The food and drink side is unusually full for a city hotel: The Lounge Restaurant, The Lounge Bar, the Sunrise Coffee House, a pool bar, a lobby lounge and The Sky Lounge upstairs, plus a Roman-style pool and the Sunrise Spa.

The trade is the one the whole strip shares: the beach in front is public, busy at weekends and worked by hawkers. In exchange the inland restaurants and the island-tour desks are walkable, and most of a trip needs no vehicle.

Other places to stay in the Trần Phú strip: Red Sun Nha Trang Hotel, An Vista Hotel Nha Trang, Starcity Bayfront Nha Trang. Trần Phú beach is across the road, and the cafés around here are on the tourist-quarter page.