We’ve spent the last 12 months sleeping, eating, and sailing our way around the globe in order to bring you the 29th edition of the Hot List, our carefully curated annual collection of the best new (and reborn) hotels, restaurants, and cruise ships in the world, and we had a ton of fun doing it. How could we not when it involved activities like zip-lining to dinner in the Maldives, sleeping in an actual tree house in Kenya, and eating a truly memorable meal in a converted auto body shop in Mexico City? The through line of this year’s list is joy—something we could all use a little more of in our lives. These are the 2025 Hot List winners for the best new hotels in the world.
Click here to see the entire Hot List for 2025.
AFRICA
BOTSWANA
Atzaro — Okavango Delta
KENYA
Great Plains Mara Toto Tree Camp — Masai Mara
MADAGASCAR
Voaara — Ambatorao
MOROCCO
Royal Mansour Casablanca
RWANDA
Wilderness Bisate Reserve — Ruhengeri
UGANDA
Volcanoes Safaris Kibale Lodge — Kasenda
SEYCHELLES
Cheval Blanc Seychelles — Quatre Bornes
SOUTH AFRICA
Gwe Gwe Beach Lodge — Cape Town
Details of the door
Sheesh Mahal inside the hotel
ASIA
CHINA
Mandarin Oriental Qianmen — Beijing
INDIA
The Oberoi Vindhyavilas Wildlife Resort — Bandhavgarh National Park
Raffles Jaipur
Ran Baas — Patiala
INDONESIA
Anantara Ubud Bali Resort
JAPAN
Janu Tokyo
Six Senses Kyoto
Yoruya — Okayama
MALDIVES
Soneva Secret, Maldives — Kulhudhuffushi
SINGAPORE
The Standard, Singapore
SRI LANKA
Uga Halloowella — Norwood
AUSTRALIA
Il Delfino — Yamba
Melbourne Place
Delano Dubai PenthouseNatelee Cocks
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MIDDLE EAST
UNITED ARAB EMIRATES
Delano Dubai
SAUDI ARABIA
Dar Tantora The House Hotel — AlUla
Nujuma, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve — Ummahat Islands
EUROPE
AUSTRIA
Eriro Alpine Hide — Ehrwald
Hoxton Vienna
Rosewood Schloss Fuschl — Salzburg
CZECH REPUBLIC
W Prague
BELGIUM
Corinthia Grand Hotel Astoria Brussels
FRANCE
Experimental Chalet Val d’Isère
Hôtel du Couvent — Nice
GREECE
Gundari Resort — Folegandros
One&Only Kéa Island
ITALY
Romeo Roma
Le Dune Piscinas — Costa Verde
Palazzo Durazzo — Genoa
Palazzo Talìa — Rome
PORTUGAL
Palacete Severo — Lisbon
SPAIN
Brach Madrid – Evok Collection
Casa de Las Artes, Member of Meliá Collection — Madrid
Dunas de Formentera — Balearic Islands
Fairmont La Hacienda Costa del Sol — Cádiz
TURKEY
Maxx Royal Bodrum
SWITZERLAND
The Brecon — Adelboden
UNITED KINGDOM
The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow
The Emory — London
Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London
The Pig – in the Cotswolds — Barnsley
MEXICO
Banyan Tree Valle de Guadalupe
Four Seasons Resort and Residences Cabo San Lucas at Cabo Del Sol
SOUTH AMERICA
COSTA RICA
Nekajui, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve — Liberia
THE CARIBBEAN
BAHAMAS
The Potlatch Club — Governor’s Harbour
BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS
Peter Island Resort
GRENADA
Six Senses La Sagesse Grenada
UNITED STATES
The Beach Club at Boca Raton
