What a wonderful discovery the Melia Vinpearl Của Sốt has been! We drove here from Hanoi, which took over 5 hours, so we were tired and probably a bit grumpy when we arrived. However, as soon as we arrived we began to relax. We were greeted at reception by Na, who showed us to comfy seats with refreshing drinks overlooking the swimming pool while she sorted out our check in. Having checked us in, Na then took us by golf buggy to our beautiful beach view family villa and made sure we were comfortably settled. And what a family villa it is! Our daughters (aged 15 and 12) were absolutely blown away, as were we! I would be very happy to live here full time! The villa comprises two huge bedrooms, one twin, one king, both with large en-suite bathrooms, a further WC, and then an open plan living area with a decent sized kitchen, six-seater dining table, and a beautiful living room with two three-seater sofas, an arm chair and a big TV. French windows lead from the living room (and also the main bedroom) to the private swimming pool. From there, it is less than a five minute walk to the beautiful beach, unoccupied by anyone other than hotel residents. If you are looking for total tranquility, this isn’t quite it, as there was loud music playing by the main hotel area, but as the hotel has a huge stretch of pristine beach all to itself, you don’t have to walk too far to leave the disco beats behind. As we are off the beaten track (for non-Western tourists), we were expecting the staff at the Melia to have very little English and sadly our Vietnamese is not very good. While most of the (fantastic!) staff do not have good English, there are a couple of members of staff who speak English very well indeed; Na and Bao, who met us at our arrival, and then provided us with outstanding customer service during our stay. No request was too much, and all the staff went above and beyond to make our stay truly relaxing.