This year, Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi celebrates its 125th anniversary. It has 358 rooms, ranging from standard to luxury in the Heritage and Opera wings. Its most luxurious rooms cost nearly VND200 million ($7,800) per night.
Notable figures who have stayed at the hotel include U.S. presidents Donald Trump Bill Clinton, and George H. W. Bush, Russia’s President Vladimir Putin, Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev, French presidents François Mitterrand and Jacques Chirac, and British Prime Minister Tony Blair.
Tim Cook, then Apple CEO, stayed at the hotel during his two-day visit to the Vietnamese capital in April 2024.