Vietnam’s Alma Resort, named the top resort in Southeast Asia in this year’s Travel + Leisure World’s Best Awards, has introduced a romantic package complete with a private candle-lit dinner for two on the beach, floating breakfast, and a couple’s massage.

The ‘Alma Amore’ package includes a VIP welcome with sparkling wine and local artisanal chocolate-dipped fruits, daily international breakfast for two, daily sunset cocktails at Beach Bar affording panoramic views of Long Beach, and a nightly turndown service with romantic surprises.

One picture-perfect floating breakfast is also included for couples staying at a pavilion with its own private pool.

Cumulative benefits include a 60-minute ‘Couple’s Indulgence’ signature spa massage at Le Spa, a romantic candle-lit dinner for two on the beach and a Vietnamese cooking class for minimum stays of two nights, three nights and four nights respectively.

Other Alma Amore perks include round-trip airport transfers, unlimited access to daily wellness activities, the fitness centre and sports facilities as well as resort-wide high-speed Wi-Fi, and late check-out until 6pm.

The ‘Paradise of Love’ romantic dinner for two comprises a set-up of a candle-lit table on the sands of Long Beach with a private chef and waiter.

Featuring highlights from the nearby ocean, such as oysters, prawns and lobster, the intimate five-course meal comprises salad, soup, fresh oysters, rose sorbet to clean the palate, a main of either ‘surf and turf’ grilled beef steak and prawns or baked half lobster thermidor, and dessert. The dinner includes a bottle of red or white.

As part of the Vietnamese cooking class at Atlantis, held at Alma’s beachfront restaurant Atlantis, the couple learn recipes that have been handed down the generations. Together they cook quintessential Vietnamese dishes including bò lá lốt (ground beef wrapped in betel leaves), chả giò tươi (fresh spring rolls) and phở (Vietnamese soup with bone broth, rice noodles and meat).

Alma has been called out as the top resort in Southeast Asia, the No 2 resort in Asia and No 9 resort worldwide in this year’s Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Awards.

The US-based publication announced the winners of its World’s Best Awards on July 9, with Alma scoring 99.2 on the awards’ 100-point survey. The World’s Best Awards are widely considered to be one of the two most important awards in the worldwide hospitality industry.

Alma Amore is valid for stays until March 2025. – TradeArabia News Service