Located along the beautiful beaches of Cam Ranh, a city in the South Central Coast region of Vietnam, The Anam is a 5-star colonial beach resort that strikes the perfect balance between modern luxury and cozy Indochina charm. The resort is home to 77 villas and 136 rooms and suites, with grand sweeping balconies or large outdoor terraces.

Luxurious amenities include three sparkling pools edged with bougainvilleas, immaculate lawns, lush gardens, and four restaurants that serve the best Vietnamese and international cuisine. The resort also has a spa, recreation and fitness center, and offers guests a wide array of activities to enjoy including water sports, yoga, tennis, and more.

The Anam Spa is a stunning sanctuary with 10 treatment rooms inspired by ancient Asian traditions and healing rituals. All of the spa’s therapists have been specially selected and trained with secrets that have been handed down over generations. The menu features a series of indulgent body scrubs, nail care, hair care and skin treatments, including the ultra-indulgent Four Hands Massage.

We interviewed Mandy Tran Thi My Dung, Director of Sales and Marketing, who shared insider tips, recommended spa treatments to try, and more:

Why You’ll Love It: It really depends on the guest and what kind of treatments they prefer.  Some guests love our signature massage, The Anam Arising, which offers deep, soothing stress relief. Other guests love our spa’s facials, designed to hydrate and brighten the skin, and to combat wrinkles and aging.

Other guests love spoiling themselves with a variety of treatments including the Bourbon Tea Intense Body Wrap and Nepalese-style tea exfoliation; the latter a 60-minute treatment designed to revitalize the skin’s radiance through gentle massage and exfoliation including an aromatic paste of apricot oil, shea butter, bamboo powder, and four tea elixirs to rid your skin of impurities.  

What we tend to notice is the positive and relaxing effect the spa’s ambiance has on our guests the moment they enter the spa. Situated within our lush 12-hectare resort overlooking stunning Long Beach on Vietnam’s pristine Cam Ranh peninsula, The Anam Spa is a tranquil sanctuary in which to reinvigorate mind, body, and spirit (as well as to indulge in luxury). 

The vivid greenery of the spa’s charming gardens under a dome of clear blue sky with the aquamarine ocean on its doorstep, combined with the neutral palettes of the spa itself accentuated with timber sourced from sustainably-cultivated forests, heightens the senses yet makes for a soothing place to be.

When you step inside the spa and its calming ambiance, you’ll soon notice it is anchored by a beautiful resting under a sloping roof fashioned in glass panels with water gently flowing over it, casting faint, mesmerizing shadows underneath. The Anam has been recognized as one of Asia’s best spa hotels in Smart Travel Asia’s Best In Travel 2019 poll.  Our Organic Mud Body Wrap also won a Harper’s Bazaar Malaysia 2018 Spa Award.

Key Features: The Anam Spa has 10 treatment rooms, including four VIP rooms designed for couples, each equipped with two massage beds, a steam room, sauna and outdoor granite Jacuzzi, as well as four couples rooms and two single rooms.  

The spa’s therapists, who have all been specially selected and trained in the art of massage and treatments, follow a ‘high-touch, low-tech’ approach steeped in holistic Asian healing traditions. As part of The Anam Spa’s “Let Your Mind Go, and Your Body Will Follow” mantra, the spa offers a complete sensory experience and uses fresh, healthy, and natural quality ingredients.

Upstairs from the spa, the Beauty Salon offers a range of manicures and pedicures, as well as hair treatments. An adjacent deck offers a panoramic view of the beach and resort. You can access our spa menu here.

Insider’s Tip: For an indulgent getaway to Cam Ranh, stay in one of The Anam’s incredible spa villas. Set on 400 square meters of hillside land located next to The Anam Spa’s grounds, two one-bedroom spa villas with private pools feature exclusive spa therapy areas with a steam room and sunken granite Jacuzzi, enabling the indulgence in a spa journey without leaving the comfort of the villa.

Guests staying at these villas overnight indulge in a complimentary spa treatment per guest, per day. If these Private Pool Villas are not occupied, other guests at the resort have the chance to enjoy a signature spa package amid the premium accommodation. On the hill nearby, there are also two two-bedroom spa villas with private pools. See news here.

We have also recently introduced two new 267-square-meter spa villas set on a hill and replete with couples’ massage tables, a large private outdoor pool, and panoramic ocean views. In addition to their spa facilities, the villas also offer two spacious bedrooms with an en-suite bathroom, a kitchen, a large living room, and a private pool with a deck, BBQ grill, and sun beds.  See news story about our new two-bedroom spa villas here.  

Also, The Anam offers a series of Wellness Journeys featuring private yoga sessions, detoxifying and slimming massages, green tea body scrubs, and deep cleansing facials. The suite of new three- and five-day packages has been designed to provide a restorative holiday, with our resident yogi Umesh hosting private 60-minute yoga sessions daily for these Wellness Journeys at several venues around our resort, including our vast, oceanfront lawn, and a yoga room and deck with an ocean view. See news here.

Snacks: The Anam Spa’s team tends to a spa garden where aloe vera, rose, chrysanthemum, ginger, and artichoke are grown for use in the spa’s teas. Our spa also offers detox water infused with watermelon, cucumber, fresh lemongrass, mint, and orange, and snacks including dried ginger and dried sweet potato.  

Bonus: The Anam offers other wellness activities including complimentary sunrise yoga on our vast lawn overlooking Long Beach and its aquamarine waters with our resident yogi Umesh, as well as our brand-new in-resort vovinam classes. See news here. 

Splurge Treatment: The ‘Tropical Detox and Slimming’ Journey is one of the indulgent spa packages on offer involving a body massage that promotes better circulation, salt glow exfoliation, a fresh coffee and orange extract body wrap, and steam and sauna treatments to further drain toxins. 

Insider’s Favorite: Involving two of our therapists simultaneously deploying massage techniques for either 40 or 60 minutes, the ‘Four Hand Massage’ treatment makes for the ultimate body massage experience. 

Unique Treatment: The adage to “roll in the mud” takes on an entirely new meaning at The Anam Spa; albeit a luxurious and healthy one. Based on mud sourced 30 minutes away from nearby Nha Trang, the award-winning organic mud body wrap at The Anam’s 10-treatment room spa envelops spa-goers for 45 minutes, improving skin tone and leaving the body’s largest organ feeling smooth and years younger. Rich in natural minerals stemming from geological change, mud has been used to treat a host of diseases such as chronic arthritis, insomnia, stress, and skin problems like psoriasis in Nha Trang for generations. This treatment won a Harper’s Bazaar Malaysia 2018 Spa Award.

Featured Products: The Anam Spa features Sothys Paris products, renowned for their sublime textures and regeneration properties.

For more information and to book a treatment, visit the website and follow them on Instagram: @the.anam.camranh

[Images courtesy of The Anam]

The Anam

Long Beach

Northern Peninsula Cam Ranh,

Khanh Hoa, Vietnam

+84-258-398-9499

info@theanam.com