The bizarre ‘monkey hotel’ in Da Nang, Vietnam, where Xi, Trump, Putin are meeting on November 11

Whatever happens at November 11’s Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) Leaders’ meeting in Da Nang, Vietnam, there is sure to be some monkey business.

US President Donald Trump, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Xi Jinping are expected to attend meetings about free trade in the Asia-Pacific region, but the venue – the huge InterContinental Danang Sun Peninsula Resort – is better known for primates than politicians.

Take, for instance, its Cheeky Monkey nightclub. Not only does the dance floor feature ropes, swings and transparent floors, but there are karaoke rooms decked out with banana-shaped seating.

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There’s even a banana-themed cinema room. Move into the chill-out area and things get even odder.

Styled as a library that includes a bar, the entire area is styled as if it was the home of a fictional English monkey called Charles. On the wall is a painting of Winston Churchill as a chimp, while the bookshelves around the walls contain papier mâché heads of characters like Michael Jackson and Harry Potter, each with measured monkey features.

All of this simian strangeness is the brainchild of Bangkok-based architect Bill Bensley, who completed this resort inside the Son Tra Nature Reserve in 2012 as a tribute to the area’s native inhabitants.

The resort clings to the side of what US soldiers in the 1960s called Monkey Mountain for its population of beautiful red-shanked doucs.