Dry season · Nov 2025 — Apr 2026 10°21'N · 107°05'E

Find the perfect place to stay in Vũng Tàu.

Six architect-built houses on the headlands of Vũng Tàu — once Cap Saint-Jacques, the seaside resort of French Indochina. 125 km south of Saigon by Highway 51, an hour and three-quarters by Greenlines DP from Bạch Đằng pier. Reserve the whole house, leave the city by lunch, eat bánh khọt by sundown.

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A private villa with infinity pool at golden hour above the bay of Vũng Tàu, with the silhouette of the Christ the King statue visible on the distant headland Cap Saint-Jacques · live
Maison du Cap
Headland 04 — Bãi Trước
4 BR · sleeps 9
From 6,200,000 ₫ / night
Vũng Tàu, Vietnam
07 May
12 May
2 adults · 1 child
On Vũng Tàu

A peninsula of three beaches and two mountains.

Vũng Tàu is a thumb of land that pushes south into the East Vietnam Sea, squeezed between Núi Lớn and Núi Nhỏ. The French called it Cap Saint-Jacques and built a governor's villa above Bãi Trước in 1898. The Vietnamese kept the lighthouse, traded the colonials for a quieter kind of weekend, and call it home. Three beaches: Bãi Trước for the evening promenade, Bãi Sau for the long swim, Bãi Dứa for the cove no one talks about. Our houses sit on the quieter sides.

  • Door-to-door car from District 1, Highway 51, around two hours in normal traffic.
  • Or Greenlines DP fast ferry from Bạch Đằng pier — 1h 45 on the water, no traffic.
  • No franchises, no shared lobbies. Each house is one key, one party, the whole stay.
See the six houses
Front Beach Vũng Tàu at dawn with the lighthouse on Núi Nhỏ
Villa above the rocks of Cap Saint-Jacques
Terrace overlooking Long Hải bay
Field notes

Twelve minutes
from the gate.

EIGHT THINGS YOU DO ANYWAY
Compiled by the desk · 2026

Christ the King (Tượng Chúa Kitô Vua)

Núi Nhỏ · 12 min by car · 133 steps inside

Thirty-two metres of reinforced concrete with arms outstretched towards the sea. Begun in 1974, finished in 1994. The largest Christ statue in Asia. Time the climb for the half-hour before sunset and bring more water than you think you need.

01

Vung Tau Lighthouse (Hải đăng)

Núi Nhỏ summit · 14 min · est. 1862

Built by the French in 1862, the oldest standing lighthouse in Vietnam. White, slim, eighteen metres tall, perched at 170 m above the sea. The walk up the Hải Đăng road is the postcard most people don't know to take.

02

Bạch Dinh (White Palace)

6 Trần Phú · Núi Lớn · 8 min

Governor-General Paul Doumer's summer residence, built 1898–1902 in a neoclassical French style on the bones of an old Nguyễn-dynasty fortress. Now a small museum of porcelain salvaged from shipwrecks off the cape. 15,000 ₫ to enter.

03

Bãi Dứa (Pineapple Beach)

South of Núi Nhỏ · 6 min · 30 steps down

A small cove on the seaward side of Núi Nhỏ — the calmest, clearest water in town and almost no one knows about it. Park on the road above, descend the stone steps, bring a snorkel for the rocks at the south end.

04

Hoàng Hoa Thám street

Bãi Sau · 10 min · the bánh khọt strip

Vũng Tàu's signature dish: small crispy rice-flour and coconut-milk pancakes, fresh shrimp on top, wrapped in mustard leaf and dipped in sweet chilli fish sauce. Cô Ba at no. 1, Cây Sung at no. 19. Locals will fight you over which is best.

05

Bến Đá fish market

Front Beach docks · 11 min · open 04:30

Where the night-boats land their catch at dawn. Blue crab, prawn the size of your hand, mantis shrimp, scallops still clenching. If you book a chef, this is where they'll be at six-thirty in the morning while you're still asleep.

06

Mũi Nghinh Phong (Windy Cape)

Southern tip of the peninsula · 16 min

Where the coast turns. Two beaches, jagged rocks, and the strongest sea wind on the cape — locals come at sunrise; very few foreigners do. Walk the path along the cliff for the view back across the bay.

07

Long Hải & Hồ Tràm

35 — 60 min south by car · wild beaches

When the city beaches feel busy, drive south. Long Hải gives you a long flat stretch backed by casuarina trees and quiet seafood shacks; Hồ Tràm, twenty-five minutes further, is twelve thousand hectares of nature reserve and almost no one.

08
Notes from the guest book

What people actually
say after they leave.

VERIFIED · 318 STAYS
Updated April 2026

“We took the 9:30 ferry from Bạch Đằng. By 11:20 we were on the terrace with cold beer. Châu had left phở on the stove and the keys to a scooter on the kitchen counter.”

NH
Nguyễn Hà Linh SAIGON · MAR 2026 · MAISON DU CAP

“The chef was at Bến Đá at six in the morning. By eight there was crab on the kitchen island and a bowl of mantis shrimp on ice. Twelve of us, one long table, the bay below. The easiest birthday we've ever thrown.”

TQ
Tobias Quỳnh-Marchand HANOI · FEB 2026 · RÉSIDENCE PHƯỢNG

“I came to write for ten days. The rocks below the cliff make a sound at high tide that I will be chasing for a long time. I never made it past the lighthouse on the third afternoon.”

EM
Elise Mercader PARIS · JAN 2026 · MAISON DU CAP

“They moved my driver by 90 minutes the morning of and re-booked our seafood table at Gành Hào without me asking. The little things are what these people are good at.”

RP
Rajiv Patel-Trần SINGAPORE · DEC 2025 · BLEACHED CORAL

“Tây Sơn is a piece of Đà Nẵng architecture transplanted onto a cliff above Bãi Sau. Watching the November monsoon roll in over the South China Sea from that pool is something I think about often.”

MS
Marisol Esteva-Rồng BARCELONA · NOV 2025 · VILLA TÂY SƠN
Concierge desk

Reserve your dates.
Arrive. The rest is ours.

One contact, from the moment you book to the moment you leave. The driver from Saigon, the chef at Bến Đá, the boat at the cape, the masseuse on the back deck — and a table at Gành Hào on your last night, if you want one.

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