Week #31: 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?.

Find out which Japanese hotel makes the medals, what the Soho House crew did to get on House & Garden’s wishlist and which stunning new hotel has just opened on a quaint American island. Forbes puts the spotlight on Piedmont and a luxury Parisian department store gets a new hotel as part of its €750 million makeover.

Nordelaia | Opens July 2021

ITALY: Taking us “Inside The Stylish New Hotels Putting The Spotlight On Piedmont” Forbes directs us to this beautiful boutique hotel with “sensitively crafted interiors”. In Italian wine country Piedmont, Nordelaia is one of “The most extraordinary new hotels opening in 2021”, writes Ianthe Butt in The Independent . Taking an 800-year-old farmhouse, These White Walls - the British design studio behind the “award-winning interiors” (Forbes ) of HIDE in Mayfair - have turned it into a 12-room boutique hotel “with a restaurant overseen by chef Andrea Ribaldone” (The Independent ). Set within “five hectares of gardens” (Forbes ), the hotel produces “its own wines” (Forbes ), has an outdoor pool, a spa in the vaults and glass-fronted relaxation rooms. A stay here is all “about connecting with nature” says Forbes , in an “informal but luxurious setting”, overlooking the vine-covered hills.

Our favourite feature: Lovely and lived-in interiors, in picture-perfect Piedmont.

Kimpton St Honoré Paris | Opening 23 August 2021

FRANCE: Kimpton, “the first true boutique hotel brand” in the United States (HospitalityNet ) is “set to make a big splash” (The Points Guy ) with its first property in France. Luxury Parisian department store, Samaritaine de Luxe, emerges from a “€750 million makeover” (Vogue ) and InterContinental Hotels Group’s boutique luxury brand will have a 149-room hotel within it. Behind the building’s original 1917 facade, "impossibly chic" (Travel Curator ) interiors by Charles Zana are inspired by 1930’s Art Deco and each room has “the feel of a chic Parisian apartment” (The Points Guy ), with balconies and floor-to-ceiling windows. Set “within the city’s culturally rich Opéra District” (Forbes ), it’s "Our Favorite Hotel in Paris" says Travel Curator . For added luxuries look to the California-inspired restaurant, spa, indoor swimming pool, “in-room yoga mats” (Forbes ) and 360-degree views from the rooftop bar and garden providing “beautiful vistas of the City of Light” (The Points Guy ). Kimpton is also opening hotels in Sydney, Bali and Mallorca, joining the brand’s 60 or so properties in the United States.

Our favourite feature: Parisian chic from the original American boutique hotel brand.

Fauchon Hotel Kyoto | Opened March 2021

JAPAN: With the Olympics in full swing, Conde Nast Traveler awards medals to “Japan’s New Hotels… Worth Traveling For” Among them, French hotel Fauchon Kyoto - from the group behind the famous French patisserie - stands out. Overlooking the Kamo River, Fauchon Kyoto “somehow bagged the best location in town” (Conde Nast Traveler ). Its “70 pink-hued rooms” (AFAR ) feature “magenta-colored furniture” (Conde Nast Traveler ) and come “decorated with washi paper” (Conde Nast Traveler ). “Most importantly”, says Forbes , there's “a Fauchon bakery” as well as a top floor cafe with “views across the city” (Forbes ). The hotel “marries the romance of Paris with the tranquillity of Kyoto” (AFAR ) with “traditional tea ceremonies” (Conde Nast Traveler ) and mixes French and Japanese flavours in pastries like matcha eclairs and “foie gras on gingerbread” (AFAR ).

Our favourite feature: Pink interiors and French pastries in Japan.

The Bradley Hare | Opened June 2021

UK: Local produce, zero waste and “a pocket-sized beauty salon” (The Telegraph ) in the ‘Potting Shed’ help put The Bradley Hare on House & Garden’s “travel editor’s wishlist this summer”. The Times notes the Soho House connection at this new “cool pub with rooms” on the Duke of Somerset’s Wiltshire estate. James Thurstan Waterworth, former design director at Soho House, has joined hospitality entrepreneur Andrew Kelly and has put Ben Jones, who spent “four years as restaurant manager at Babington House” (The Times ), in charge. All 12 rooms at this “super-smart country inn” (The Telegraph ) have “well-chosen antiques” (The Guardian ) and “cool, contemporary-classic interiors” (The Telegraph ). “Of all the new UK hotels to open this summer”, says The Boutique Handbook , “this is the one we’re most excited about”.

Our favourite feature: Swoon worthy interiors courtesy of Soho House alumni.

Faraway Nantucket | Opened June 2021

USA: The “delightfully offbeat” (Conde Nast Traveler ) Faraway Nantucket features in Conde Nast Traveler’s recent list of eight “New England Hotels Opened Just in Time for Summer”. This “stunning new hotel” is highlighted by Travel + Leisure under the heading, “Nantucket Is Back And Better Than Ever”. A “balmy stroll from Nantucket’s harbor” (New York Post ), the 62-room hotel is also name checked by Lonely Planet as a “quaint paradise”. Following a “ top-to-toe renovation” (New York Post ) of an 1800s former Quaker meeting house, the hotel marries “1920s Parisian salon” with “Massachusetts maritime” (Conde Nast Traveler ) to create a new aesthetic that “feels totally right” (Travel + Leisure ). Pen-and-ink drawings by artist Carly Berlin and the hotel’s indoor-outdoor restaurant mean this hotel is “certainly going to be the hot meeting place of the summer” (Travel + Leisure ).

Our favourite feature: Eclectic design on a quaint American island.

Previous New Hotel News editions:

Week #30: New Hotel News | The “world’s highest hotel”, an arty new hotel in Eastbourne and a luxury resort on the east coast of Sardinia. This week’s top five also puts the spotlight on a new hotel from the world’s wealthiest footballer and a new five-star hotel in Geneva.

Week #29: New Hotel News | The new St. Regis in Cairo comes with views over the Nile, one hotel in Australia makes it onto this year’s Conde Nast Traveler Hot List and an Italianate hotel opens in New Orleans. A colourful hotel bursts onto the Tokyo skyline and Naomi Campbell gives her verdict following a hard hat tour of the coolest hotel in Paris.

Week #28: New Hotel News | The group behind Claridge’s comes to the French Riviera, an eco lodge opens in Costa Rica’s rainforest and a converted vicarage welcomes foodies to Devon. A homely hotel welcomes visitors to Menorca and the first Hilton opens in Crete.

Week #27: New Hotel News | Discover the Dubai hotel Conde Nast Traveller dubbed the “ultra-cool new kid on the block”, an Art Nouveau hotel in Stockholm and an old orphanage given a new life in New Orleans. The Langham launches in a former bank in Boston and in Venice a historic palazzo is transformed into a hotel.

Week #26: New Hotel News | This week’s top five highlights an arty new hotel in Puglia, smart lodgings in Bath and the Ritz-Carlton making a splash in the Maldives. The all-American motel gets an upgrade and a boutique hotel with a minimalist design opens on Milos in Greece.

Week #25: New Hotel News | Andaz opens a new hotel in the Bali, Stockholm based Nobis Hospitality Group brings Scandi style to Spain and Mama Shelter comes to Bahrain. The former home of the Sex Pistols becomes a?rock’n’roll hotel and hip US group Life House transforms a railway terminal into a hotel.

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 Helsinki’s historic central station gets a new railway hotel. 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.