Diamanté Laiva, a British influencer and former Love Island contestant, lives in a five-star hotel in Southeast Asia for just $500 a month (around €420). Her Instagram video tour of the suite went viral, sparking a wave of followers ready to pack their bags and do the same.
The formula sounds almost too good to be true. A private suite with a kitchen, a lounge area, and city views. Access to 4 saunas, a spa with infrared lights, a cold room, massage rooms, a nail salon, a rooftop pool, a casino, and even a strip club and convenience store, all included in the monthly rent. Weekly housekeeping provided. Cooking optional.
Diamanté Laiva, who presents herself as an "entrepreneur" on her @diamantelv Instagram account, left the UK last year and documented her new life in a reel that quickly drew thousands of reactions. With 30,000 followers, she is not a mega-influencer, but her video landed at exactly the right moment, when audiences are increasingly curious about slow travel, wellness-driven lifestyles, and the real cost of living abroad.
Living in a five-star hotel for less than a studio apartment
The numbers are striking. In most Western European capitals, €420 a month does not cover a room in a shared flat, let alone a furnished suite in a luxury property. But Diamanté's setup in what followers widely believe to be Da Nang, Vietnam, flips that equation entirely.
Her suite comes with a full kitchen and a living area overlooking the city. But as she explains in her video, she rarely uses the kitchen. "I have my room cleaned every week, so I don't have to cook or do the housekeeping," she says. The Sky Lounge, the hotel's rooftop restaurant, is where she dines almost every evening. The Sky Bar sits directly opposite the pool, which closes at 11 PM, giving guests most of the day to swim.
per month for a five-star hotel suite in Southeast Asia, all services included
A wellness setup that rivals dedicated spas
The spa access alone would justify the price for many. Diamanté walks viewers through four saunas, including what she calls the "golden sauna": "This is the golden sauna, much hotter than the others. The walls are gold." There is also a cold room, multiple massage rooms, and a nail salon. The infrared lights in the spa space get a specific mention: "There are infrared lights here. It's good for the skin," she notes.
For anyone interested in skin-boosting wellness routines, the combination of heat therapy, cold exposure, and infrared light represents a recovery and beauty protocol that high-end spas in London or Paris charge hundreds per session to replicate. Here, it is part of the monthly package.
The convenience factor that changes daily life
Beyond wellness, the practical side of hotel living removes most of the friction that comes with renting a standard apartment abroad. No utility bills to manage, no furniture to buy, no landlord negotiations. The convenience store on-site closes at midnight, which covers most late-night needs. Weekly cleaning is included. And as Diamanté puts it: "I can enjoy all these services, they are included in the rent."
Diamanté has not publicly confirmed the exact name or address of the hotel. Internet users widely believe it is located in Da Nang, Vietnam, based on the visual clues in her video.
Da Nang as a destination for affordable luxury living
Da Nang has been quietly building a reputation among digital nomads and lifestyle travelers as one of Southeast Asia's most livable cities. The coastal Vietnamese city offers a combination of modern infrastructure, warm climate, low cost of living, and a growing hospitality sector with properties that would be considered ultra-premium anywhere in Europe.
The reaction to Diamanté's video confirms the appetite for this kind of lifestyle. Comments flooded in from viewers expressing genuine intent to relocate. "I'm ready to move," wrote one follower. Another replied, "Girl, you're tempting me." A third added, "Great, I have to go there next time I'm in Vietnam." The video did not just generate views — it generated desire.
This mirrors a broader shift in how people think about wellness travel and long-term stays in Asia. Just as walking 30 minutes a day has become a gateway into low-effort, high-impact health routines, the idea of outsourcing your entire domestic life to a five-star property for under €500 a month represents a similar logic: maximum benefit, minimum friction.
The beauty and wellness angle that resonates beyond the lifestyle content
What makes Diamanté's content particularly effective in a beauty-adjacent niche is the emphasis on physical self-care built into her daily routine. The infrared sauna sessions, the cold room exposure, the regular access to massage and nail care — these are not luxuries she treats as extras. They are part of how she structures her days.
Infrared therapy has been gaining traction in skincare and anti-aging conversations for its reported ability to stimulate collagen production and improve circulation. Combined with contrast therapy (alternating between hot saunas and the cold room), it represents a wellness stack that aestheticians and dermatologists increasingly recommend. Ancient beauty techniques from across Asia have long incorporated heat and pressure-based methods for exactly these reasons.
- All services included for €420/month
- Daily spa, sauna, and cold room access
- No housekeeping or cooking required
- Rooftop pool and restaurant on-site
- Nail salon and massage rooms included
- Exact location not publicly confirmed
- Long-term visa requirements vary for foreign residents
- Lifestyle depends entirely on the hotel’s continued offering
Diamanté's account does not frame her content as a wellness guide. But the daily habits she describes — consistent heat therapy, cold exposure, professional nail care, and a relaxed routine largely free of domestic stress — align closely with what beauty and longevity researchers point to as key factors in skin health and overall physical condition. The right nail care habits and regular self-care rituals, accessible on demand, are embedded in her setup without any extra effort or cost.
Whether the hotel-living model she has found is replicable at scale remains an open question. But the formula she has stumbled onto — combining affordable Southeast Asian real estate economics with five-star amenities and a built-in wellness infrastructure — is clearly striking a nerve. And for a growing number of people watching from their overpriced Western rentals, the math is hard to argue with.
