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Best New Hotels and Resorts Hot List 2017 OUR BEEN-THERE, SLEPT-THERE GUIDE TO THE 75 BEST NEW H TELS AND RESORTS Turn and open the page for all of the winners...followed by reviews and photos that’ll have you booking rooms now. lettering by DIRK FOWLER Condé Nast Traveler / 05.17 67 0517-TR-HLMY01 AMERICA WHERE NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN 21 CARIBBEAN & 22 MEXICO 18 23. Chablé Resort, 14 Yucatán, Mexico 7 3 24. Hotel Le Toiny, St. Barts 25. Le Barthélemy Hotel & Spa, St. Barts Y U’LL 26. Mar Adentro, Cabo San Lucas, Mexico 27. The Other Side, 26 10 Bahamas UNITED STATES & 28. The Shore Club CANADA Turks and Caicos 29. Villa Marie Saint- 1. 11 Howard, Barth, St. Barts New York, N.Y. 11. Greydon House, 30. Zemi Beach House, 2. Ace Hotel New Nantucket, Mass. Anguilla Orleans, La. 12. Hotel Saint George, FIND 3. Andaz Scottsdale Marfa, Tex. Resort & Spa, Ariz. 13. Hôtel William Gray, CENTRAL & 4. The Beekman, Montreal, Canada SOUTH AMERICA A Thompson Hotel, 14. Malibu Beach New York, N.Y. Inn, Calif. 31. Atemporal-Hotelito 5. Brentwood, 15. The Peninsula in Lima, Peru Saratoga Springs, N.Y. Chicago, Ill. 32. Nekupe Sporting 6. Casa Grande at 16. The Robey, Resort and Retreat, Vermejo Park Ranch, N.M. Chicago, Ill. Nandaime, Nicaragua 7. Casa Laguna Hotel & 17. Scribner’s Catskill Spa, Laguna Beach, Calif. Lodge, Hunter, N.Y. 8. The Dewberry 18. SingleThread Charleston, S.C. Farm-Restaurant-Inn, 9. EAST, Miami, Fla. Sonoma, Calif. 10. Four Seasons 19. Taylor River Lodge, Resort Lanai, Hawaii Crested Butte, Colo. 20. Thompson SOUTH PACIFIC OCEAN Nashville, Tenn. 21. Thompson Seattle, Wash. 22. Timber Cove Resort, Sonoma, Calif. 69 Condé Nast Traveler / 05.17 0517-TR-HLMY02 38 NORTH 44 AMERICA 45 46 36 EUROPE $30,263 47 35 40 51 Nightly rate of the 42 13 37 Suite Impériale, a replica 34 43 5 16 of Marie Antoinette’s 50 17 15 Versailles bedroom 1 11 33 49 41 19 preserved as a national 4 monument, at the 39 Ritz Paris. 6 20 54 48 60 3 8 59 12 2 NORTH ATLANTIC OCEAN 9 27 26 28 23 25 30 29 AFRICA 24 32 PARIS IS FOR (HOTEL) LOVERS Paris has six (count ’em— six!) properties on the list this year, only the second time this has happened. OFF THE BEACH Properties in traditional sand-and-surf destinations like Miami, Sicily, Sri Lanka, 31 St. Barts, Oman, and the SOUTH Yucatán are opening AMERICA nowhere near the shore. 11% 53 Portion of properties we scouted that made the cut, making this our most selective SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN Hot List ever. 58 map by DIRK FOWLER illustration BY PAULA CASTRO 0517-TR-HLMY03 ABOUT NEXT YEAR This is the first time London did not have a single prop- erty on our Hot List. Expect it to come back in a big way (we’re already gaga for The Ned). ASIA EUROPE THINK SMALL More than half of the hotels on the list this year have fewer than 50 rooms. 68 66 63 57 62 55 52 74 800 Years in age of the ikeniwa (pond garden) at the Four ARABIAN SEA Seasons Hotel Kyoto. 70 64 65 67 71 73 56 61 72 69 INDIAN OCEAN 53 86 AUSTRALIA Number of times our smallest hotels (28 Kothi, L’Hôtel Marrakech, SingleThread, Thanda Island) could fit into our largest (Jumeirah Al Naseem), based on room count (5:430). 0517-TR-HLMY04 AFRICA & THE MIDDLE EAST 52. Anantara Al Jabal Al Akhdar Resort, Nizwa, Oman 53. andBeyond Matetsi River Lodge, Zimbabwe 54. Banyan Tree Tamouda Bay, NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN Fnideq, Morocco 55. Four Seasons Hotel Abu Dhabi at Al Maryah Island, U.A.E. 56. The Highlands, Ngorongoro, Tanzania THE 57. Jumeirah Al Naseem, EUROPE Dubai, U.A.E. 58. Leeu Estates, Franschhoek, South Africa 33. Casa Bonay, 59. L’Hôtel Barcelona, Spain Marrakech, Morocco 34. Ha(a)ïtza, 60. Sofitel Tamuda Bay Pyla-sur-Mer, France Beach and Spa Hotel, 35. Hôtel Panache, M’diq, Morocco Paris, France 61. Thanda Island, Tanzania 36. Hôtel Saint-Marc, H T Paris, France 37. Il Sereno, Lake Como, Italy ASIA 38. Killiehuntly Farmhouse & Cottage, Scotland 62. 28 Kothi, Jaipur, India 39. La Granja 63. Amanemu, Ibiza, Spain Shima, Japan 40. Le Saint, 64. Anantara Peace Paris, France Haven Tangalle 41. Masseria Le Resort, Sri Lanka 75 Carrube, Ostuni, Italy 65. Chena Huts, 42. Nolinski Paris, Sri Lanka France 66. Four Seasons 43. Palazzo Venart, Hotel Kyoto, Japan 70. KK Beach, Venice, Italy 67. Four Seasons Habaraduwa, Sri Lanka 44. Palé Hall, Private Island Maldives 71. Santani Wellness Gwynedd, Wales at Voavah, Baa Atoll, Resort & Spa, Kandy 45. The PIG at Combe, Maldives District, Sri Lanka Devon, England 68. Hoshinoya Tokyo, 72. Six Senses Zil 46. Ritz Paris, France Japan Pasyon, Seychelles 47. Roch Hôtel & Spa, 69. Katamama, 73. The St. Regis Paris, France Bali, Indonesia Maldives Vommuli 48. Sikelia, Resort, Maldives Pantelleria, Italy 74. Villa Mahabhirom, 49. Soho House Chiang Mai, Thailand Barcelona, Spain 50. Villa La Coste, Provence, France 51. Villa Pliniana, AUSTRALIA & THE Lake Como, Italy SOUTH PACIFIC 75. Helena Bay Lodge, Northland, New Zealand 75 Condé Nast Traveler / 05.17 72 0517-TR-HLMY05 THE NEWH Te day afer we put last year’s Hot List to bed, H T LIST we began casting a net for this year’s favorites. We flew a collective 529,500 miles, sausaged in coach, slept in roughly 200 beds, and had passports stamped in more than 50 countries beteen our team of 60 reporters, editors, and TELS photographers. And yes, we had our share of knock-down, drag-out debates that got us from the 675 contenders we started with to the 75 you see before you. Te 2017 Hot List is longer (by about 25 percent) than in years past, and contains an arguably wider range of hotels; yet all passed the ultimate litmus test of whether they made us giddy. Not just because they have onsen big enough to swim laps in, the piano where Rossini composed Tancredi, or Louise Bourgeois sculptures, but because they helped us become the kind of travelers we want to be. Tey let us explore remote parts of New Zealand’s Bay of Islands and Nicaragua’s cloud forests, places that unless you were up for biv- ouacking were previously hard to access. Tey THAT WILL SHAPE showed us a side of the Middle East that had nothing to do with boardrooms or sweating WHERE YOU’RE out a layover on the way to the Maldives, and they placed us in the middle of the Parisian G ING neighborhoods that made us feel like we actu- ally lived there. Tese 75 are our new go-tos, AND HOW YOU’RE recommended to colleagues and friends, and now to you. We stand behind every single one TRAVELING of them, and we think you will too. Adentro Mar of Fletcher/courtesy Joe Photographby 74 Condé Nast Traveler / 05.17 0517-TR-HLMY06 THE YEAR OF THE HEAVYWEIGHT DESIGNER Both legends and icons- in-the-making created some of the most vision- ary spaces we’ve seen— and suddenly architecture nerds everywhere are reshufing their hotel bucket list (sorry, Hotel Lautner). Ha(a)ïtza, Pyla-sur-Mer Philippe Starck does puckish comfort (blond wood and gummy bear– colored stained glass) at this seaside escape. Il Sereno, Lake Como Spanish architect Patricia Urquiola reimagines what a vacation on Italy’s most cinematic lake should look like with vertical gardens, geometric armchairs, and a floating staircase. L’Hôtel Marrakech British luminary Jasper Conran’s take on the riad— with four-poster beds and bold patterns everywhere. Mar Adentro, Cabo San Lucas (left) Not a trace of stucco at this hyper-futuristic resort where designer Miguel Ángel Aragonés makes you feel as if you’re walking on water. Villa La Coste, Provence A light-filled food-and-wine hotel alongside a Tadao Ando– designed art gallery and a 500-acre sculpture park. For more photos and full details on all our Hot List properties, visit cntraveler.com/hotlist. 0517-TR-HLMY07 H T LIST what’s better than a hotel with amazing food? One that’s also SingleThread in the middle of Farm-Restaurant-Inn, wine country. Sonoma, California Go with: owner- Leeu Estates, chef Kyle Franschhoek, South Connaughton’s Africa hyperlocal Still dreaming about: 11-course Japan– tempura langous- meets–No Cal tines with smoked tasting menu with leeks, wild garlic, and a pinot from parsley, and that Hirsch Vineyards. bottle of Mullineux & Leeu chenin blanc. A TASTE OF TAKING THE Killiehuntly Farmhouse & Cottage, Cairngorms (JAPANESE) WATERS National Park, Scotland home Danish owners mix Three hydro-heavy Orkney chairs with shaggy sheepskin and spas to cure any mid-century touches shochu hangover: Take A 4:1 staf-to-guest 28 Kothi, Jaipur, India cruising around, at this centuries-old this converted Tudor farmhouse. And a dip in Hoshinoya ratio will make you The formality of India’s grand hotels can be is move-in ready. Highland hygge is born. Tokyo’s hot spring–fed feel you’ve escaped a bit much. This cheer- ful “Rajasthani riad” Casa Laguna Hotel The PIG at Combe, pool, steep in a sake everyday life, but an & Spa, Laguna Beach, England (above) intimate sit by the eschews local design bath at Four Seasons clichés, swapping in California Loaner wellies, an fire and help yourself sunlit minimalism for While relaxing with a always-stoked fire, a Hotel Kyoto, and glass of white in the pint of ale when you to a drink hotel can expected dazzle.
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