Hanoi-based Sofitel Metropole Hotel has made the Conde Nast Traveller Hot List 2010, the publication's annual list of the "66 Coolest New Hotels in the World".
The 100-year-old hotel has received numerous other accolades in the past. It was chosen as one of the 500 best hotels in the world by readers of Travel & Leisure and Conde Nast Travel; selected as the best hotel in Hanoi by Hong Kong's Destin Asian, Asia Money magazine and Vietnam's VnEconomy.
It was also named 2007's best hotel for businessmen in a capital city, by readers of the Business Traveller Asia Pacific.