
Grand Plaza Hotel.
Luxurious hotel in Hanoi
This is a five-star hotel, which is part of the Grand Plaza shopping mall-hotel complex, investment by Charmvit, a Korean group.
This is a two-tower building of 28 stories and 2 basements, totaling 607 rooms on 168,000sq.m. The building was built at the cost of $160 million.
The hotel is special because it is decorated with pure gold. This is the first and only hotel in Vietnam inlaid with gold sheets imported from China.
The hotel’s corridors, drawing-room and even elevators are decorated with gold.
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Gold-inlaid apartments

A gold-inlaid bathroom.
Each apartment is from 133.2 to 260.8 square meters. At the price of VND100 million ($5,000) per one square meter, the price ranges from VND13 to 26 billion ($600,000 to $1.2 million) for an apartment. There are up to 242 apartments of this type.
Estate experts doubted of the success of this project because the real estate market in Vietnam is very cold now. However, the investor says that many overseas Vietnamese have registered to buy the luxurious apartments.
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Family temple laminated with 60 taels of gold

This wood house is built inside a garden of 5,000sq.m. All patterns inside the house are inlaid with gold.
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Phuong Linh