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Home / Hotel / Hotel News / Alma Resort to Usher in Year of The Wood Snake With Host of Festivities

Alma Resort to Usher in Year of The Wood Snake With Host of Festivities

January 20, 2025 by StrawberrY Gal

 Family resort Alma will ring in the biggest event on the Vietnamese calendar, the Lunar New Year, with a six-day program filled with traditional games and competitions, live entertainment, floating champagne breakfasts and more.

From Lunar New Year’s Eve, Tuesday Jan. 28, until Sunday Feb. 2, 2025, Alma’s Tet program will feature chung cake, egg cake and ginger jam making classes, as well as kite flying, dragon dances, making lucky envelopes, Tet movies at Alma Cinema, and afternoon tea for two.

Overlooking Long Beach, one of Vietnam’s most stunning stretches of sand, the resort starts its Tet program on Jan. 28 with a floating champagne breakfast for guests staying in pavilions with private pools. At Alma Food Court, guests are encouraged to try their hand at crafting the quintessential Tet staple “Banh Chung” (Chung cake), wrapping sticky rice and mung bean inside dong leaves from 8.30-10.30am, as well as egg cake and ginger jam making from 3-5pm. A complimentary kite flying competition will be held on Alma Hill from 4-5pm.

On the first day of Tet, Tuesday Jan. 29, the lush 30-hectare resort’s Tet festivities kick off with dragon dancing in the lobby and Alma Garden from 8am.

Alma will host the following Tet festivities daily from Jan. 29 until Feb 2:

●       Floating Tet breakfast at private pool pavilions with Vietnamese “Banh Mi”, beef or chicken noodle soup, Vietnamese cold cuts and fish sauce, “Banh Beo” steamed rice cake, two farm eggs any style with choice of bacon, pork or chicken sausage, yogurt and fruit, and a selection of freshly squeezed juices.

●       A Tet Corner affording traditional Vietnamese fruit candies at Alma Food Court from 11am-5pm.

●       An exquisite Vietnamese Afternoon Tea for two brimming with savoury and sweet treats, including Banh Chung and traditional candies, served at both Alma Food Court and Alma Lounge from 2-5pm. Live entertainment including Alma’s resident pianist Ben playing a grand piano from 2.30-3.15pm and 3.30-4.15pm at Alma Lounge.

●       Bartenders crafting special Vietnamese cocktails from 6-9.30pm at Alma Lounge. The cocktail list includes ‘Sampan Sour’ comprising Vietnamese Sampan White Rhum, Cointreau, chili, salt, Chinese coriander, lime, and sugar syrup, and ‘Moc Chau Plateau’ made up of Ruddy Face Apricot Liqueur, D.O.M Benedictine, honey, ginger syrup, lime juice and Peychaud’s Bitters.

●       Movies and popcorn at Alma’s 75-seat cinema.

On Wednesday Jan. 30, the Kids Club will help children make lucky envelopes for “li xi”, which translates to “lucky money” traditionally given during the Lunar New Year to bestow blessings of good luck and happiness upon recipients. On Jan. 30 and Friday Jan. 31 the Kids Club will host smash lucky balloons games from 3-4pm before kite flying is held on Alma Hill from 4-5pm. The young and the young at heart will also blow giant rainbow bubbles on Alma Hill on Jan. 31 from 3-5pm.

To a backdrop of sweeping views of Long Beach aquamarine waters and buttermilk sands, with islands strewn offshore, a picnic package will be on offer at Alma Hill from 7-9am and 3-5pm on Sunday Feb. 2.

Beachfront restaurant Atlantis, Italian trattoria La Casa and Asiana, which serves Thai, Korean, Japanese and vegan fare, will offer a la carte dining throughout Tet.

“There’s plenty to see and do at Alma during such an extraordinary time of the year celebrating with family and friends,” said Alma’s managing director Herbert Laubichler-Pichler.

“As we welcome the Year of the Wood Snake, at Alma we will look to apply the snake’s keen insight and the wood’s ability to grow and adapt in 2025 as we embrace all sorts of new possibilities ranging from offering exciting new guest experiences such as welcoming local artists to sketch portraits of our guests to protecting the environment with the rollout of what is believed to be Vietnam’s most ambitious solar power project for a hotel.”

Featuring 13 separate treatment villas sprinkled onto the landscape, Alma’s Le Spa is offering a variety of indulgent treatments including ‘Lunar Renewal Therapy’, ‘New Year Radiance Ritual’, and ‘Double Happiness’. Lunar Renewal Therapy is a 70-minute customised aromatherapy massage with a choice of traditional Vietnamese, Balinese or deep tissue massage techniques to release muscle tension, promote deep relaxation and restore energy. The 110-minute New Year Radiance Ritual starts with an aromatic herbal steam and sauna, followed by a 30-minute body scrub, 50-minute massage and 30-minute facial treatment. The 60-minute Double Happiness treatment for couples offers a choice of Balinese, Vietnamese or deep tissue massage.

To contact Alma or to make a booking, please visit alma-resort.com, call +84 258 399 1666 or email i[email protected]

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