Hyatt Centric Hanoi Centre Moves Into Final Pre-Opening Stretch as Vietnam Debut Nears

HANOI. Hyatt Centric Hanoi Centre, the first property under Hyatt’s lifestyle Centric brand in Vietnam, has entered the final stretch of its pre-opening programme, with the group’s corporate Leading Openings & Conversions team travelling to Hanoi this month to work alongside the property team on launch planning.

The hotel occupies Tien Bo Plaza at 175 Nguyen Thai Hoc in Ba Dinh district, a mixed-use complex combining offices, a five-floor retail mall and residential space in one of the capital’s most central administrative and cultural quarters. Hyatt lists the property as offering 184 guestrooms alongside 179 premium serviced apartments, a dual-inventory model aimed at both short-stay international travellers and the longer-stay corporate market that Ba Dinh’s diplomatic and government district generates year-round.

Pre-opening general manager Daniel Solombrino, who has led the property team since March 2025, marked the corporate visit publicly this week, describing the pre-opening phase as fundamentally a question of people and shared purpose.

A general manager who built his career in Vietnam

Solombrino is an unusually well-suited choice for the assignment. A Glion graduate whose career began in food and beverage at InterContinental Paris le Grand, he worked through Crowne Plaza Kuwait and InterContinental Regency Bahrain before arriving in Vietnam in 2013. He has stayed for the thirteen years since, which is rare among international general managers in the market. Those years span all three of the country’s major hospitality centres: food and beverage leadership at InterContinental Hanoi Westlake, close to five years as hotel and residence manager at InterContinental Saigon, and two years as general manager of voco Ma Belle Danang, itself a Vietnam debut for the IHG lifestyle brand. Hyatt Centric Hanoi Centre is therefore the second time he has introduced a new international brand to the Vietnamese market, and he does so in the city where his Vietnam career started.

That operational grounding matters for a property of this type. Hyatt Centric positions itself on local knowledge and neighbourhood connection rather than on scale, and the dual hotel and serviced residence inventory at Tien Bo Plaza calls for the mixed-use experience Solombrino accumulated in Ho Chi Minh City. Hospitality executives in Hanoi will also note that his F&B pedigree tends to signal an outlet programme worth watching, in a market where hotel restaurants and bars increasingly decide whether a lifestyle property becomes a local destination or simply a place to sleep.

A strategic return to Hanoi’s upscale market

For Hyatt, the opening carries strategic weight beyond a single property. The group’s Vietnam footprint expanded sharply in January 2026, when six operating Wink hotels joined the newly launched Unscripted by Hyatt collection under an agreement with Indochina Kajima, taking the portfolio from four hotels to ten. Hyatt Centric Hanoi Centre returns the group to the capital’s upscale hotel market with a brand built around neighbourhood exploration rather than the resort or luxury positioning that has defined much of its Vietnam presence to date.

The timing places the property in an increasingly competitive field. Hanoi’s upscale and lifestyle segment has absorbed several international entries in recent years, and international arrivals to Vietnam have continued to build through 2026, a demand backdrop that favours new inventory but also raises the bar on differentiation for any hotel opening into it.

Opening date still to come

An official opening date has not been announced. The property was originally slated for a second-quarter 2026 debut and is currently listed by Hyatt as coming soon.