The editorial team at Condé Nast Traveler (US edition) have vetted hundreds of hotels across the globe to draw up this selection of what they think are the year’s top hotel openings
The hotel closed it's doors in 2020 and is now undergoing a full renovation of lobby, restaurants, rooms and rooftop, returning the luxury Manhattan property, slated to reopen in 2025, to its “original splendor.”
A restored Art Deco treasure in the Theater District, the Chatwal is as atmospheric as it is historic; the likes of Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin once supped, sipped and sung in its Lambs Club restaurant and bar.
If you're going to stay in New York, don't fanny about. Go to where the action is and stay in a hotel that could only be in New York. The Chatwal, slap bang in midtown, is as NYC as yellow cabs.
Storchen Zürich, a centuries-old establishment that melds traditional hospitality with polished design-led good looks, occupies an enviable perch on the river in central Zurich. Its pier lends exclusivity, a mood enhanced by the jazz-filled waterside bar.
Arosa, Switzerland, Swiss Alps. Opened: 1929, Rooms: 130 Get personal quote
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Loll in the hotel's Bergoase spa. Reached by a glass bridge, this cavernous space is sensational: glass roofs shaped like great sails slice through the hillside.
In the Swiss ski resort Arosa, Tschuggen Grand Hotel is a futuristic slice of five-stardom, and the spa its trump card - enclosed in a sail-shaped skylights of stained glass.
After a few years in the doldrums, Les Bains has been reborn as a hotel, with interiors by RDAI and Tristan Auer, and a restaurant headed up by Philippe Labbé and Michaël Riss. The famous baths have been turned into a pool and spa for hotel guests.
The editors of Condé Nast Traveler (US) have picked the 60 top hotel openings in the world after reviewing and vetting hundreds of new properties across the globe.
The people, places, and things that have demonstrated true design excellence according to Wallpaper*. We have included the winner of 'best new hotel' as well as the shortlisted hotels.