Sheraton Phu Quoc Long Beach

Location & getting around — the name says Long Beach, the map says north

Start with the correction. The name contains “Long Beach”, but the resort is not on Long Beach. It sits on the Bai Dai coast in the Ganh Dau area at the northern tip of the island, listed at around 27km from town, with the airport 25.3km straight-line away and a drive of roughly 45 minutes. The southern Long Beach resorts are 4 to 6km from that same airport. These are not neighbours.

What is close tells you the real story: 750m to the VinWonders aquarium, 4.5km to the Vinpearl safari, 4km to Vung Bau Beach and 770m to an international hospital. This is the theme-park corner of the island, a short hop from the Vinpearl resort.

Everything else is far. The nearest listed transport node is the Hon Thom cable car at 38.5km — effectively the other end of Phu Quoc. That is why Agoda’s location score of 8.3 runs below the 8.8 overall, the only property in our Phu Quoc set where location is the weakest component. Within the north, though, reviews describe free resort shuttles to VinWonders and Grand World, with the Grand World service running hourly according to one account.

Rooms & occupancy — Deluxe guest rooms up to four-bedroom pool villas

Built in 2022 and renovated in 2023. Check-in is 3pm, check-out noon.

The base category is the Deluxe Guest Room — one king or two twins, garden or ocean view, with a balcony — stepping up to a Senior Suite Ocean, a one-bedroom suite with a king and ocean view. Family options run wide: a two-bedroom family room with a king in one bedroom and two twins in the other, a three-bedroom garden-view villa where one bedroom holds a king plus twins, and a four-bedroom garden-view villa with a private pool. Floor areas are not published, so check them at booking.

Rates are quoted for everyone in the room or villa, so enter the children too; an extra bed is 500,000 VND plus tax and service per person per night. Booking records and reviews include a family of four with secondary-school children, and a group taking two three-bedroom villas together. Above about six people, the villas usually work out more sensibly than a stack of rooms.

Two things to weigh. Reviews mention loud wind through the window frames of ocean-view rooms on breezy days, and rusty water from the shower, with one review suggesting bringing replacement filters. One villa was described as musty. The same set of reviews rates room size and cleanliness highly.

Facilities — outdoor pool, private beach, spa and gym

There is an outdoor pool, beach frontage, a spa, a gym, restaurants and bars, gardens, a shop and function rooms. The property lists the beach at 100m, currency exchange and an airport transfer service.

The pool and the beach carry the property. Reviews describe the pool as large and uncrowded, the beach as quiet with calm water, and the sea as clearer than in the south. This is the west coast, so sunset happens over the water — several reviews say the easiest place to watch it was from the resort itself. One review describes being taken by boat toward the neighbouring Vinpearl side and returning by buggy.

Dining is split across outlets. Reviews mention an Italian restaurant open until 11pm, which saved a late arrival, separate Korean and Vietnamese restaurants, and a breakfast buffet that held up across a four-day stay. If your rate excludes breakfast, an adult surcharge of 499,500 VND is published.

Budget for eating in. One review puts the evening dinner buffet at close to a million dong per person. With nothing walkable outside the gate, meals default to the property, and over several nights that becomes a real line in the total. Indoor facilities draw praise — the gym, a pool table and table tennis — while one review notes Netflix is not supported.

Compared & alternatives — within the north, and whether the north is right

In the same corner, Vinpearl Resort & Spa Phu Quoc sits 860m from the aquarium and 4.7km from the safari — essentially the same distances. What differs is character: Vinpearl runs on 636 rooms and a free shuttle network through the theme-park complex, while this one offers a 2022 building and three- and four-bedroom pool villas. Pick Vinpearl for park access, this for room condition and villa layouts.

If anything southern is on the itinerary, the north is the wrong base. JW Marriott Phu Quoc Emerald Bay is 2.4km from the cable car and InterContinental Phu Quoc Long Beach is 5.9km from the airport. To have somewhere to walk to after dark, Seashells Phu Quoc sits 230m from the night market.

How the five areas differ on airport distance, walkability and beach orientation is set out in Where to Stay in Phu Quoc.

Bottom line — book the coordinates, not the name

750m to VinWonders and 25.3km to the airport in the same sentence is the whole proposition. For two or more theme-park days it minimises driving, and the three- and four-bedroom villas handle group sizes that most of this island’s hotels cannot.

If the night market and the cable car are also on your list, every one of those days crosses the island lengthways. The words “Long Beach” in the name tell you nothing about where you will wake up — read the distances instead.