By David Ng, founder of World Mate Travel and a licensed Vietnam tour guide for 25 years. Published 13 November 2026. Facts checked against the property's own website and booking-platform listings on 13 November 2026.
La Dolce Vita is a 53-room hotel at 53 Hang Bo Street, inside Hanoi's Old Quarter and about 600 m from Hoan Kiem Lake. It has nine floors, a Vietnamese restaurant serving breakfast, lunch and dinner, a bar, a garden, a gym and a 24-hour business centre. Breakfast is included in the room rate.
La Dolce Vita at a glance
| Star rating | Not published |
| Rooms | 53, over 9 floors |
| Address | 53 Hang Bo Street, Hoan Kiem Ward, Hanoi |
| Room categories | 4 on the hotel's own site; at least 6 sold through OTAs |
| Dining | La Dolce Vita Restaurant (Vietnamese), bar, coffee shop |
| Breakfast | Included, local cuisine |
| Leisure | Gym, garden |
| Swimming pool | None |
| Business | 24-hour business centre, meeting facilities |
| Check-in / check-out | 14:00 / 12:00 |
| Parking | On site, charges apply |
| Airport transfer | USD 25 per vehicle one way |
| Hoan Kiem Lake | About 600 m, 6–8 minutes on foot |
| Noi Bai airport | About 45 minutes |
Where is La Dolce Vita Hotel?
La Dolce Vita sits at 53 Hang Bo Street, one of the Old Quarter's original trade streets, a block north of Hang Bo's junction with Thuoc Bac. You are inside the Old Quarter grid here, not on its edge: Dong Xuan Market is about 600 m north, Hoan Kiem Lake about 600 m south, and the night market runs past the end of the street at weekends.
Since Vietnam's administrative reform took effect on 1 July 2025, Hanoi's district tier no longer exists. The old Hang Bo ward was merged, along with Hang Bac, Hang Buom, Hang Dao, Hang Gai, Hang Ma, Ly Thai To and most of Dong Xuan, Trang Tien, Cua Dong, Hang Bong and Hang Trong, into a single new Hoan Kiem ward under Resolution 1656/NQ-UBTVQH15 of 16 June 2025. So the correct current address is Hoan Kiem Ward, Hanoi — not "Hoan Kiem District", which the hotel's own site and every OTA still write.
This puts La Dolce Vita in the same new ward as three other Old Quarter hotels we write up: Champton on Hang Bong, Golden Silk Boutique on Hang Gai and MK Premier on Hang Buom. All four are within a ten-minute walk of each other.
What room types does La Dolce Vita have?
The hotel's own website lists four categories — Superior Twins, Superior Double, Deluxe and Suite — and publishes no sizes, bed sizes, occupancy or room counts for any of them. OTAs sell at least two further categories under different names, which means the website is not a reliable basis for a booking.
| Category | Where it is listed | Size | Beds |
|---|---|---|---|
| Superior Twins | Hotel's own site | — | — |
| Superior Double | Hotel's own site | — | — |
| Deluxe | Hotel's own site | — | — |
| Suite | Hotel's own site | — | — |
| Executive Double, balcony, city view | OTA inventory only | — | 1 queen |
| Premium Suite, terrace, city view | OTA inventory only | — | 1 king |
One OTA room card gives 301 sq ft (about 28 sqm) sleeping three with one queen bed, but does not say which of the categories above it belongs to.
This is the single biggest gap on this property. A 53-room Old Quarter hotel selling six or more room names with no published size, no bed configuration and no inventory split cannot be quoted accurately for a group, and the "Superior" rooms in an Old Quarter building are exactly where windowless and light-well rooms usually hide.
Is breakfast included at La Dolce Vita?
Yes. Breakfast is included in the room rate and is described as local cuisine, served in La Dolce Vita Restaurant. The hotel publishes no service times and does not say whether it is a buffet or ordered from a menu.
Where can you eat and drink at La Dolce Vita?
The hotel has La Dolce Vita Restaurant, serving Vietnamese food at breakfast, lunch and dinner, plus a bar and lounge, a coffee shop and a small garden. There is no rooftop restaurant and no pool bar.
What facilities does La Dolce Vita have?
La Dolce Vita has a gym, free Wi-Fi, a 24-hour business centre, meeting facilities, a garden, room service, laundry and on-site parking for a charge. It does not have a swimming pool or a spa of its own.
For an Old Quarter hotel in this size bracket, a 24-hour business centre and parking are genuinely unusual — parking in particular, since most Hang Bo-area hotels have none and send cars to a paid lot several streets away.
How far is La Dolce Vita from Hanoi's main sights?
Everything in the Old Quarter is on foot from here, and the lake is under ten minutes. Walking times below are as published by Expedia and Hotels.com property data, checked November 2026; where two sources disagree, both figures are shown.
| Destination | Distance | On foot | By road |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hanoi Old Town Night Market | 0.3–0.5 km | 3–5 min | — |
| Hoan Kiem Lake | 0.6 km | 6–8 min | — |
| St Joseph's Cathedral | — | 7 min | — |
| Thang Long Water Puppet Theatre | 0.7 km | 8–10 min | — |
| Dong Xuan Market | 0.6 km | 7 min | — |
| Temple of Literature | 1.9 km | — | — |
| Ta Hien beer street | — | — | — |
| Hanoi Opera House | — | — | — |
| Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum | — | — | — |
| Noi Bai International Airport | — | — | About 45 min |
Does La Dolce Vita sell its own tours?
Yes, and you should know that before you arrive. The hotel's own website sells a Ha Long Bay full-day trip, Hoa Lu–Tam Coc, Hoa Lu–Trang An, a Hanoi city tour, a Vietnamese street food tour and Perfume Pagoda.
If you have already booked a Vietnam itinerary, expect the front desk to offer you a second one. That is not dishonest of them — plenty of Old Quarter hotels run a tour desk — but guests on a pre-arranged tour sometimes end up paying twice for the same day out. Clients travelling with us are told this in advance.
How should you get from Noi Bai Airport to La Dolce Vita?
Noi Bai is about 45 minutes away in normal traffic. The hotel offers an airport shuttle at USD 25 per vehicle one way, per OTA listings, which is close to the Hanoi market rate for a private car and is reasonable if you are booking the room on its own.
The practical complication is the last 200 m. Hang Bo is narrow, two-way and busy with trade deliveries all morning, and a 16-seat vehicle cannot always stop outside the door. For groups we set the drop-off at a nominated corner and walk the luggage in.
Who does La Dolce Vita suit?
It suits travellers who want to be inside the Old Quarter at a mid-range price, with breakfast included, and who value having a garden and a quiet-ish side street rather than a rooftop bar. It also suits a traveller arriving with a car, because of the on-site parking.
It is the wrong choice if you want a pool, a spa or a rooftop; if you need a guaranteed room size and window in writing before booking; or if you want a 5-star standard of finish.
What should you check before booking La Dolce Vita?
Three things, and the first two are unusual enough to be worth spelling out.
The published phone number is in an obsolete format. The hotel's site gives "+84 4 39233757". Hanoi's area code changed from 4 to 24 in 2017, so dialled from abroad in that form the call will not connect. The number to try is +84 24 3923 3757. The site also lists a mobile hotline, +84 961 001 853, which does work.
Several widely syndicated OTA details about this hotel are plainly wrong. The listing data describes rooms with fireplaces, calls it a "lakefront hotel" that is "located on a lake", says rooms are reached by exterior corridors, and specifies 21-inch LCD televisions. 53 Hang Bo is not on a lake, and Hanoi hotel rooms do not have fireplaces. This is template data, not a description of the property, and we have not reproduced it above.
Get the room category in writing. Because the hotel publishes no sizes and the OTA names do not match the website names, the only safe booking is one that names the category, the bed configuration and whether the room has an exterior window.
Other Old Quarter and central Hanoi hotels we write up
| Hotel | Street | Rooms | Why consider it instead |
|---|---|---|---|
| Champton Hanoi Hotel | 128–130 Hang Bong | 91 | 5-star standard with a pool |
| Golden Silk Boutique Hotel | 109–111 Hang Gai | 55 | Rooftop restaurant and bar, every room size published |
| MK Premier Boutique Hotel | 72–74 Hang Buom | 52 | Genuine triple rooms, rooftop bar |
| Sunway Hotel Hanoi | 19 Pham Dinh Ho | 143 | Quieter French Quarter address, larger rooms |
| Silk Path Boutique Hanoi | Old Quarter | — | Higher finish, same neighbourhood |
Frequently asked questions
53 rooms over nine floors. The hotel's own website lists four room categories and publishes no room sizes, bed configurations or per-category counts, while OTAs sell at least two additional category names. Ask for the category and bed type in writing before you book.
No. La Dolce Vita has a gym and a garden but no swimming pool and no spa of its own. If a pool is important for your Hanoi stay, Champton Hanoi Hotel in the same ward has one.
Yes. It is at 53 Hang Bo Street, inside the Old Quarter street grid, about 600 m from both Hoan Kiem Lake and Dong Xuan Market. Some booking sites describe it as a lakefront hotel "located on a lake", which is template error, not a description of this address.
Check-in is from 14:00 and check-out is at 12:00. Late check-out is available for a fee, subject to availability. Guests arriving on an overnight flight should expect to store luggage rather than get an early room, unless early check-in is pre-arranged.
Yes, on-site self parking is available and a charge applies. That is uncommon for a Hang Bo address, where most hotels use a paid lot several streets away. Whether the parking accepts a minibus rather than only cars still needs confirming with the hotel.
Yes, an airport shuttle is listed at USD 25 per vehicle one way, which is about the Hanoi market rate for a private car. The drive from Noi Bai takes roughly 45 minutes. Note that Hang Bo is narrow, so a larger vehicle may need to drop you at the corner.
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