Week #25: New Hotel News

What’s happening in the world of super cool new hotels? Check out our latest five most noteworthy openings of 2021 as featured by the editors at HotelMap? & Roomcard?.

Andaz opens a new hotel in the Balinese village where Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall got married, Stockholm based Nobis Hospitality Group brings Scandi style to Spain and Mama Shelter adds a dash of colour and a trademark rooftop pool to Bahrain. The former home of the Sex Pistols becomes a?rock’n’roll hotel and a railway terminal is transformed into a hotel by Rami Zeidan’s hip US hotel group Life House.

Andaz Bali | Opened April 2021

INDONESIA: On 19th April 2021 Conde Nast Traveller chose Andaz Bali as its ‘Hotel of the week’, highlighting the hotel’s “contemporary take on the traditional Balinese village”. Located in the Balinese village where Mick Jagger and Jerry Hall were married, this latest launch from Andaz has the benefit of “direct beach access” (Conde Nast Traveller) from where guests can enjoy the “fabulous moonrise that Sanur is famous for” (The Yak). Among palm trees and three swimming pools are 149 guestrooms including villas in a series of courtyards. “Cycle along the promenade of Sanur”, advises Sophie Digby in The Yak magazine, and watch the boats by “the jewel in the Andaz crown - The Fisherman’s Club”, one of four restaurants at the beachside hotel.

Our favourite feature: By the beach in Bali with three swimming pools.

Concepció by Nobis | Opens June 2021

SPAIN: “Tucked down a backstreet” (The Telegraph) in Palma, a new Scandinavian-Mediterranean style hotel turned up in The Telegraph’s ‘25 hot new hotels in Europe for sun-drenched summer holidays’ before it even opened. The “small boutique hotel with 31 rooms” (Scandinavian MIND) is by Stockholm based Nobis Hospitality Group which “owns some of the trendiest restaurants and nightspots in the Swedish capital” (Black Book). A former “soap factory” (Scandinavian MIND) is being turned into “the hottest new hotel in the Mallorcan capital” (The Telegraph) by renowned Swedish architecture firm, Wing?rdhs. Its “custom made tiles” and “beamed ceilings” which “date back to 1576”, (Black Book), are given a touch of the “jolly warmth and spot-on mix of vintage and modern” (The Telegraph) that Nobis does so well and there’s a pool on the roof.

Our favourite feature: Sleek design and a rooftop pool in Mallorca’s Old Town.

Mama Shelter, Bahrain | Opens July 2021

BAHRAIN: With a “trademark rooftop pool” (Country & Town House) offering “stunning sea views” (Time Out Bahrain) Mama Shelter is set to become a new city hot spot for drinks and shisha when it opens in Bahrain this year. Overlooking the marina in the capital city of Manama, Mama Bahrain is “in the prime waterfront district” (Country & Town House) of the Kingdom’s Financial Harbour area. Fun and colourful, all 160 rooms are designed by “MAMA’s Design Studio, led by Benjamin El Dogha?li” (Country & Town House). One of five new hotels to join the “fast-growing Mama Shelter clan” (The Telegraph) from summer 2021, further new properties are forthcoming in Rome, Lisbon, Dubai and Paris. Make a beeline for Mama Shelter if you like “cosiness, colour and fun in abundance” (Conde Nast Traveller).

Our favourite feature: Colour, clashing patterns plus a rooftop pool = fun.

Chateau Denmark | Opens late Summer 2021

UK: Once home to the Sex Pistols, “the wild days of the punk and rock music scenes” (Globetrender) make their mark on the mews house at No. 6 Denmark Street. Part of a development that’s “worth somewhere in the region of ￡1bn” (British GQ), new hotel Chateau Denmark features drawings left on the walls by Johnny Rotten. Guests can “channel their inner rock god” (Globetrender) at the hotel run by former Firmdale boss Carrie Wicks. Inspired by Denmark Street’s reputation as the birthplace of the British music scene, interiors feature psychedelic 60s and 70s aesthetics while “signature rooms will have maxi-bars... so you can party properly” (London On The Inside). With 55 suites, apartments and “session rooms” set across 16 properties, it’s a rocking hotel fit for a street that’s “home to a dizzying array of guitar and music shops” (British GQ).

Our favourite feature: Rock’n’roll hotel rooted in the past, updated with a dash of anarchy.

Life House, Chattanooga | Opens Winter 2021

USA: Described as a “high-design group” by Vogue, Life House takes over Chattanooga’s historic, beaux-arts train terminal, turning it into a boutique hotel. One of ‘18 of the Most Anticipated High-Design Hotel Openings of 2021’ chosen by Architectural Digest, travel writer Laura Itzkowitz draws our attention to the “40-seat cinema” and “recording studio”. “Quite possibly the coolest location for a hotel ever” (Fathom), the hotel also includes a 1970s-style lounge and restaurant but the best part is that “suites are to be housed in old-school Pullman train cars” (Vogue). This is one of three new hotels from Life House for 2021 with more to come in Miami and Bali - the first international hotel from the group which “has been turning heads Stateside” (Harpers Bazaar).

Our favourite feature: Train carriages as hotel suites recalls a romantic era of slow travel.

Previous New Hotel News editions:

Week #24: New Hotel News | Southern Thailand gets a new eco hotel with a farm-to-table philosophy, a clifftop hideaway comes to Santorini while Wild Rice Retreat brings a centre for arts and wellness to Wisconsin. A luxury hotel launches in Jackson Hole, Wyoming, and in Paris’ business district a playful hotel invites guests to relax in pink marble bathrooms.

Week #23: New Hotel News | A romantic new hotel near Bali’s famous Tanah Lot temple, a tropical hotel in Sri Lanka and a new railway hotel in Helsinki’s historic central station. One family revives historic buildings in Transylvania and in North America a new hotel sets up a vast Roman-style spa.

Week #22: New Hotel News | Waterfront bungalows in Mozambique, new nature-inspired cabanas from Habitas in Mexico and an ultra-glamorous Six Senses hotel in Ibiza. A grand dame hotel revived in artsy Santa Fe and a boutique hotel on a bridge overlooking one of Africa’s largest game reserves - they’re all in this week’s top five new hotels.

Week #21: New Hotel News | Sustainable and stylish, a luxury hotel opens in the Maldives, the world’s first 3D-printed resort becomes a reality and a beachside hotel launches on Lombok. Opera inspires a new hotel in Hanoi and a 17th-century inn is given a top-to-toe makeover by mother-and-daughter duo Olga and Alex Polizzi.

Week #20: New Hotel News | Catherine Deneuve’s former French retreat, a buzzing new hotel in downtown Manhattan and a 17th-century wisteria-clad coaching inn in the Cotswolds. See the Cretian beach retreat Conde Nast Traveler recommends for sundown this summer and discover a secluded luxury hotel in California’s Wine Country.

Week #19: New Hotel News | A restored colonial-style villa on Mexico’s west coast, the Caribbean debut by Soho House and the Dubai hotel with two world records. This week’s five eye-catching new hotels also reveal a luxury riverside hotel in southern China and a trendy aparthotel in Dalston, London’s answer to Brooklyn.

Week #18: New Hotel News | Discover the hotel group giving all-inclusive holidays a high-end makeover, a minimalist hotel with a private beach in Oman and a villa in Croatia surrounded by a thousand olive trees. The best five new hotels this week also reveals a new wellness centre in Italy and one of the biggest UK hotel openings outside the capital.

Week #17: New Hotel News | An off-the-grid Indonesian retreat adds a new private island, a labour of love revives an Italianate-style mansion in North Carolina and Six Senses sets its first foot in Brazil. This week’s top five also includes a wellness retreat on an unspoilt Greek island and a curvaceous brick-built boutique hotel on Mexico’s southern coast.

Week #16: New Hotel News | Sleek newcomer The Londoner sets up the deepest habitable hotel in the UK capital, trendy London brand The Hoxton launches a new hotel in Rome and a secluded countryside hotel settles into a picture-postcard Spanish island.

Week #15: New Hotel News | A new Colonial-era hotel in Puerto Rico’s capital, Japan’s first ‘castle hotel’ and the most hotly anticipated hotel to launch in Los Angeles this year are highlighted in this week’s top five new hotels to open in 2021 across the globe.

Week #14: New Hotel News | This week’s five alluring new hotels include the first of a new brand by the founder of the Aman group, one of the world’s highest infinity pools atop a towering new hotel in Dubai and a cool coastal retreat in Santa Barbara.

Week #13: New Hotel News | Japan’s latest hotel taps into the health benefits of volcanic hot springs, an iconic Italian hotel is given a Parisian makeover and Ibiza’s little sister gets a grown up hotel by Pacha. New Yorkers can escape to a riverside retreat and a former boot factory in Bristol becomes a new arty hotel.

Week #12: New Hotel News | Raise a glass to the new Four Seasons set within a Napa Valley vineyard, enjoy laidback and soulful luxury in Ibiza, and explore a hotel set within the cactus-studded desert landscapes of Mexico. Our five top hotels this week also invite you to discover the vertical garden at the Rosewood in S?o Paulo and a meticulously restored medieval castle in Umbria.

Week #11: New Hotel News | Basketball courts become luxury suites in L.A, an oasis of peace arrives on a Greek party island and a new desert camp is set up in Saudi Arabia. Our five favourite new hotels this week also include a glamorous, grand palazzo in Palermo from Rocco Forte and the first hotel outside America by the buzzy NoMad brand.

Week #10: New Hotel News | Across the globe, from the Maldives to Montenegro, the Israeli desert to the African bush, we explore five stunning new hotels launching in 2021. Book your own private island, sleep under the stars in a baobab-shaped treehouse, dive into the One&Only’s luxury spa, stay overnight in the Negev Desert and see the revamp of the Spanish hotel Cesar Ritz set up over 100 years ago.

Week #9: New Hotel News | This week we look at five of the best new hotels (including one owned by Pharrell Williams) opening across the globe this year. There may be a global pandemic but that hasn’t stopped these new hotels from rising up. From a long list of over 120 new hotels set to open in 2021, we’ve chosen five hip new places to stay in New York, Paris, Nago and Miami – and reveal what the experts say about them.