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SAIGON SQUARE 3With all the malls going up these days, it’s easy to forget about the little guys. But Saigon Square, with a bazaar-like model halfway between a shopping mall and traditional market, has just opened a third market on Hai Ba Trung, of the calibre of the Nam Ky Khoi Nghia branch. In the face of the Vincom-isation of the Vietnamese retail experience, it’s good to know you can still get a work shirt for VND150,000 somewhere. If you can bargain, that is.

Saigon Square 3 is at 179-185 Hai Ba Trung, Q1, HCMC

just in Ho Chi Minh City

ALBA SPA HOTEL OPENS IN HUEWhen you’re staying in the imperial capital of Vietnam, you need somewhere �t for an emperor. Enter Alba Spa Hotel, now open to rank and �le minions like ourselves, but with no shortage of opportunities to get treated like nobility.

In addition to treatments designed in collaboration with renowned spa guru

ECLECTIC ACCESSORIES FROM ATTAYAThe seed for Attaya Collective was �rst planted in a small West African village circa 2010, where New York City-based artist Adina Weinland spent her summer. Her later travels in Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, Malaysia and East Asia resulted in a mountainous collection of colourful textiles.

After partnering with Mia Nguyen in 2014 they decided to found Attaya Collective, an accessories line designed to “create quality, versatile and responsibly-made handcrafted products” with the textiles sourced throughout their travels.

Every product is made by hand in Ho Chi Minh City under the direction of Han Nguyen, their master leather worker. Each piece features a different leather, string colour and textile — hand-matched to best �t the design and colour of the textile. No two are alike.

You can �nd Attaya accessories at Mayhem Saigon, 136/10 Le Thanh Ton, Q1, HCMC. For more info, visit attayacollective.com

AIR 360 SKY BARChill and OMG, watch out — you’ve got a new neighbour on your �ight level, and they’ve got a giant light-up balloon on their summit. Air 360 is so-named because it’s the only rooftop bar with a fully-panoramic outlook on the city. While that might sound like a dubious

honour, they’ve also got a swimming pool, �sh tanks built into some tables and cheaper prices than their rooftop competitors.

Check out Air 360 at Floor 21, Ben Thanh Tower, 136-138 Le Thi Hong Gam, Q1 — air360skybar.com

Florence Jaffre (founder of the Thai spa brand Ytsara), the 58-room boutique property on Tran Quang Khai will offer a 16.5sqm Jacuzzi �lled with natural mineral water sourced from nearby hot springs. So the hardest thing you have to do is get there — sounds pretty royal to us.

For more info, check out albavietnam.com