2020: it's the year of hotels
Next year hotels will open medium, small, large, rural, urban, shy, social, remote and connected. This is a selection of them which is far from being encyclopedic . it's just a traveling candy so that we start thinking about the next trip. Thinking is also traveling.
In 2020 there are great openings. They all have in common that they are long awaited and that alter the place where they are.
One of the most intriguing is the new Ritz which, under the Mandarin Oriental brand, will be inaugurated throughout the year in Madrid. Little is known about this hotel, only that will return light to your large central space , which will have a high end spa , as Mandarin knows how to do.
Another expected opening is that of the Four Seasons , which aims to modify the entire block in which it is located and the life of that Madrid area . It will be a large hotel in size and ambition with high-end gastronomy: it will be installed there Danny Garcia . will have shop gallery, terrace, swimming pool and, again, a spa . How much good wellness centers are appreciated here. Both hotels will raise (more) the level of the city.
Another hotel that hopes to alter the neighborhood in which it settles in Villa Copenhagen (Preferred Hotels and Resorts). Open in spring, this hotel is located in the **old Post and Telegraph Office of the capital of Denmark**, an imposing building.
With its green spaces, its swimming pool heated with the heat left over from the building and its various bars and restaurants, it looks like it is going to make it. Propose the call conscious luxury . Your brand manager, Nini Andersen declared in the latest edition of L.E. Miami : “ you can't be a Copenhagen hotel without being sustainable ”.
Details and Nordic design in Villa Copenhagen
When Villa Copenhagen opens it will still be almost smelling of paint The Audio , another of the most unique recent openings in Europe. It's about a hybrid space that integrates hotel, concept store, event space, library, bar and restaurant .And all drenched in good Scandinavian design.
love , one of the most revered hotel brands, **opens in New York**. It will be at the end of 2020 and will be installed in the Crown Building , a Beaux-Arts building located on Calle 57 and Quita Avenida. Will include the first urban residences of the group and one 20 meter indoor pool . Since Aman doesn't make any false moves, you don't need much information (there isn't more) to guess that it will be a sensational hotel. And the mystery increases desire.
In the antipodes of the urban and the lights of the city is ** Xigera Safari Lodge , in Botswana ** ; this resort, located in the okavango delta stands out from the offer of luxury _ lodges _ with a very strong commitment to design. It brings together the largest collection of pieces from southern Africa concentrated in the same space and designed ad hoc by 30 African artists What Andile Dyalvane, Dokter and Misses, Dylan Lewis, Porky Hefer and Ardmore Ceramics.
It has 12 suites and the jewel in the crown is a family suite located between two islands joined by a bridge. It is accessed by plane and is entered by an elevated bridge. This jewel is 100% powered by solar energy.
The future jewel of Copenhagen
The search for the remote remains a obsession in the contemporary nomad . Places like Bhutan's new **Six Senses, Bumthang**, are for those who appreciate that travel requires time and commitment. We say “new” because Six Senses already has four lodges in the country , Thimphu, Punakha, Paro and Gangtey. The proposal is that the lucky traveler travels all five of them. The last one, which opens in spring, It's a forest within a forest . Remote squared.
The remote attracts, the close also. That's how contradictory we are. Less than an hour from Madrid this Aldealana Farm , a small hotel that opens in spring with decoration of Isabel Lopez-Quesada . The main house of the farm has a Caruncho's garden . A beautiful garden and interior justify a trip. Or several.
Simpler, but looking for the same sensation of enjoyment and authenticity, is Can Ferrereta . This hotel, located in the south of Mallorca, in Santanyí , promises to be one of the most interesting new hotels in Spain. It is a historic mansion that has been rehabilitated by Bastidas Architecture and WIT , the Sant Francesc team from Palma. The idea is reproduce the summer house of a lover of art and good living . Can Ferrereta joins the long list of exquisite hotels on the island.
A small hotel that will open in the spring of 2020 less than an hour from Madrid
The Brilliant It is one of the most curious novelties of the year. Opens in December this year and it will be the **first contemporary hotel in the medina of Marrakech**. Until now we could not imagine a hotel there that was not in a riad. This rarity has four rooms and two suites that overlook the patio, a classic space that remains, as well as the hammam and the presence of water. There is respect for the Arab tradition , but La Brillante looks more to the future than to the past. This hotel breaks the pack.
Another place that defies convention is the Bom Sucesso Resort, which has just opened north of Lisbon. The premise is as follows: sleep in a villa designed by some rock star of architecture. We can choose between names like Alvaro Siza Vieira, Eduardo Souto de Moura, David Chipperfield, Gonçalo Byrne or Carrilho da Graça, among others.
It has 108 semi-detached villas, 216 private and an 18-hole golf course conceived by Donald Steel. Located in Óbidos, it is a project with an unusual ambition in Portugal.
The first contemporary hotel in the medina of Marrakech
Simpler but also with vision is Hotel Hotel, in Lisbon . The name alone gives us a clue. The idea is that people be the center , more important than the building or the design. Hotel Hotel wants guests to interact with each other and with the people of Lisbon. The hotel promises immersive rooms, hundreds of plants and live music . It will open throughout the year.
HOTELS WITH A MISSION WILL CONTINUE TO BE OPENING IN 2020
Purposeful travel continues to grow, and hotels are keeping pace with it. The ** Life House Hotels **, founded by Rami Zeidan, are called hotels with narrative and substance ”. He wants to differentiate himself from all the hotels that dictate experiences by proposing something simpler: a balance between the familiar and the new.
He has two hotels in Miami, one in Little Havana and another in Collins Park, and in 2020 he will open another one in the city, in ocean drive and others in ** Brooklyn , Nantucket and Denver .** It is a simple way of doing hospitality, very close and connected to the place it hosts.
Mansion Haus It is another hotel that you want to be aware of. open in Goan in 2020 in the former 18th century private residence of Kezya de Bragança . It is a private club open for international clients. His idea is to build a community based on sharing all the messages and actions that surround the conscious journey. Guests can collaborate with local artists or participate in talks ranging from neuroscience to politics, economics, philanthropy, technology, and wellness. Consciousness, in this case, is given by the exchange.
The future opening of Life House Hotels will be in Bushwick
Next year we will also confirm that the wellness is an urgency which takes different forms. The traditional spa is surpassed and complicated. Many hotels want us to feel better, inside and out, when we check out than when we checked in.
Sleep, food and meditation are basic to them. They are not retreats or hotels with a powerful spa, but a new way of understanding accommodation and travel . If, in addition, they are like the Arctic Bath, in the middle of nature, the bet goes up.
Located in Swedish Lapland is a floating hotel that opens all year . It seeks for guests to immerse themselves in the four elements while leaving as little footprint as possible on their surroundings. Opens in January 2020 and we must hurry to reserve: it only has six, to call them in some way, cabins.
That well-being provided by extreme contact with Nature is also behind the Hilton Garden Inn , the first in the Faroe Islands. It will be the first hotel of an international brand that opens in that place; will do it in May.
Sha Wellness Clinic , this hotel/clinic/wellness center, plans to open two more Sha in the next three years after its great success in Alicante. It will be the first foreign incursion of the Bataller project (the first will take place in 2021 in Isla Mujeres, Quintana Roo; the next one will be in the Emirates ) .
This year we will also welcome ** Amrit , a resort in Palm Beach ** with five pillars: mindfulness, nutrition, fitness, relaxation and sleep. It has an interesting figure: personal wellness assistant . we want it
LONDON, EVERYTHING HAPPENS HERE
There are hotel brands that are born with the premise of well-being tattooed in their DNA . One of them is ** Inhabit Hotels **, After opening in Paddington, London, last year, next year it will open in Bayswater . These hotels seek to provide a restorative experience.
In London it will also open Zedwell , a 700-room hotel focused on sleep . Everything here is meant to eliminate distractions and promote rest. To measure his strength, he settles in piccadilly, not a quiet area. If it works there it will work anywhere else.
** London continues unstoppable.** A report from London and Partners Organization states that between this year and 2020 they will open 65 new hotels in London . These two brands, Inhabit and Zedwell are just two examples of the city's hotel business.
Everything is thought of in Zedwell hotels for you to sleep and dream
In spring it will open The Londoner ( Preferred Hotels and Resorts ), one of the most anticipated places of the season. Situated in leicester square wants to add a touch of luxury to the West End. It will be a super boutique hotel, large in size (350 rooms and 15 suites) and it will have cinemas, an urban spa and a large terrace with its corresponding bar and views. It has cost half a million pounds to build.
Hotels as diverse as ** The Guardsman ,** a hotel with the air of a private club, in which the restaurant will not be open to the public or Ruby Lucy, a reasonably priced hotel (thank you) inspired by carnival.
On November 1 it opened in Marylebone Treehouse , a hotel with sustainability very much in mind. This year we also expect a ** nhow , a Pan Pacific and a Nobu **, the second in the city; we will have to wait for 2023 to find out what it does Rosewood in Eero Saarinem's fabulous 1960 US Embassy building in Grosvenor Square.
ROME, PARIS, NEW YORK
London does not stop and Rome reactivates . open a Soho House in San Lorenzo , a Iberostar, a W and an ** Edition .** Hardly anything.
We always like to know what new hotels will be in the big cities, to which we always return. In Paris, Cour des Vosges, from Evôk Hotels Collection, has just opened . has also done French Theory , a curious hotel that is also musical laboratory and concept store . You will have to visit it to see what it is.
In December will open a Mama Shelter with design and architecture by Jean-Michel Wilmotte and Michel Gaugain at Porte de Versailles. In 2020 they will open a Bulgarian and a **Soho House in Pigalle** and is expected to make it a long-awaited project as well. It's about the rehabilitation and conversion in hotel by the japanese Sejima and Nishizawo of the warehouses The Samaritaine . It will be a **Cheval Blanc (LVMH)** and it promises everything: luxury, services, culture, gastronomy and views of the Seine.
Near Paris, in Versailles, opens in spring ** Le Grand Contrôle, de Airelles **. When we say that it opens in Versailles we do it literally. The hotel will have 16 rooms and apartments, an indoor pool and an Alain Ducasse restaurant.
The musical laboratory that also accommodates you
Another great city (and always present in traveling lists) is New York ; Besides of love will receive new openings. Exactly sixty one according to trend report Lodging Econometrics.
They range from moderately priced, like those at **Moxy or CitizenM hotels to a Six Senses **. This will be the group's first project in America and is located in two towers in the city.
BARCELONA, MADRID AND SEVILLE
Hotels continue to open in Madrid . The last to do so was the Riu Plaza of Spain and the The First One , located in an unpredictable street, precious , and decorated by Lorenzo Castillo. Besides of Ritz and the Four Seasons will open in 2020 a Iberostar that promises (it will be at the Teatro Albéniz, a mythical building in the center that has been closed for a few years). Madrid raises and improves the offer with an OD, a Hard Rock Hotel, an OD and another hotel on Gran Vía , a Room Mate Rex .
The brand Pestana CR7 Lifestyles Hotels settles in the capital of Spain in an intense expansion that also leads him to inaugurate this year in Marrakesh and in New York.
Barcelona improves its already powerful offer with the opening of the ** Kimpton Vividora in the Gothic Quarter ** ; It will be the first hotel of this brand in Spain. Seville it also continues to receive new hotels. After the arrival of H10 Silver House they will a Marriott at San Francisco Plaza and a **Radisson** in La Magdalena. Seville is infallible.
JAPAN AND HOTEL LUXURY
Tokyo will host this year, from July 24 to August 9, the Olympic Games and is expected to receive 40 million people. The Edition will open not one, but two hotels. one will be in Ginza and another in Toranomon .
Four Seasons settles in Otemachi , between the financial district and the Imperial Palace. These openings will cheer up the segment of the 5 star country which, despite what it may seem, only has 32 hotels. All of Japan will benefit from this celebration.
There are also interesting openings in **Kyoto, like Mitsui's . This hotel has a 1,000 square meter Japanese spa, two onsen and gardens. It is a contemporary and larger (160 rooms) version of a ryokan. Another unique place is the ** Trunk Hotel, that has opened this year in Tokyo and that only welcomes 4 people. We understand that you are already busy for the Olympic days.
Kyoto is one of those “secondary” destinations that are increasingly at the top of the travel list.
Hotel Mitsui in Kyoto
THE EXOTISM OF SMALL TREND CAPITAL
When we already know Paris, London, New York and Rome well, we want to look on the map new names and explore them.
Cities like warsaw benefit from this trend. The ** PURE ** hotels, native to Poland contribute to your interest. They do not stop opening, the last ones, in Katowice and Warsaw . Nobu will also open in the latter city. Montenegrin receives a great hotel, the One & Only by Portonovi , in Hercej Novi.
South Korea continues to climb places on the list of interesting destinations. In Seoul he has opened an **Andaz** and on the **Island of Jeju,** the country's other big claim, he will open a Four Seasons.
Budapest, somewhat asleep in hotel terms will open in June Malid Palace , belonging to A Luxury Collection by Marriott.
From the same group is ** Alaia **, a resort that will open in Belize , destination that gets more and more interesting. Israel will also receive in 2020 new and good hotels. Also opening this year is **Ray Caye**, a 14-room resort on a private island in Placencia, in Belize. Opening a hotel is very good; open an island, is better.
After the stunning arrival of Jaffa (A Luxury Collection Hotel), will open a Nobu in Tel Aviv and a Six Senses in Shaharut , south of the Negev desert. It promises to be a place of total immersion in the culture of the desert ; It even has camel stables.
In Malaga , quite an orphan of hotels with charisma, opens the ** Palacio Solecio ** on December 2 and in the Ampurdán, to continue in Spain, a new **Mercer, the Torre del Remei **, will do so in winter. You will be in a modernist palace and it promises to be a great hotel.
The group Only You opens in Valencia , at the classic Astoria Palace hotel . The idea is to reproduce what has worked so well in Madrid: lively common spaces and attractive interior design.
Mandarin Oriental will manage and rebrand a 1906 hotel from Lucerne, the Palace Hotel .
Traveling to the other side of the ocean and searching for destinations and curious openings, we found the Dive hotel , in Palm Springs. This inspired by the 60's on the French Riviera and that's not bad inspiration for a hotel in an area of total hedonism. In the United States, several hotels of the attractive group have opened this year Palisociety and in 2020 it will be the last, in Portland. also just renewed Hope Mansion , a historic hotel located on the edge of a lake in upstate New York. This really is for well-traveled travelers.
Classic vacation destinations and big hotel labels keep the energy going. **The Riviera Maya welcomes a great hotel (850 rooms): the Barceló Maya **.
Ibiza, which already boasts of his own W, will be the fate of a new OD (hotel that will also put the pin on the Côte d'Azur). In Bali they open a W and a Raffles. Shangri-La will also open in Bali , which seems to have no limits when it comes to hosting good hotels. Meliá plans 51 openings, including destinations such as Dominican Republic, Maldives and Dubai, where it will inaugurate an ME.
Kimpton Vividora in the Gothic Quarter
RENEWED OR DIE
In 2020 there will not only be openings, but also renovations and reopenings. A long-awaited one is Eden Rock in St Barts , after two years closed. The Mandarin Oriental from Barcelona will welcome new residences and the EME Cathedral of Seville , after becoming part of the Mercer, will complete its aesthetic and gastronomic renovation.
Another important hotel in Spain that will be renovated is ** Mas de Torrent , in Empordà **. In this case, the renovation, carried out by the Unico group that has acquired the hotel, will be almost an opening. We look forward to it.
The one in ** Islas Secas, in Panama,** is also something important. December 20 this hotel located in a private archipelago of fourteen islands will reopen . The public areas, restaurants, the four existing casitas have been redesigned and a spa has been added. In March 2020 there will also be other three cabins in tents so that the immersion in the environment is total. This place is 33 miles off the coast of Chiriquí and is very unique.
** Mukul , the great hotel project in Nicaragua ** plans to reopen, after being taken over by Hostel , in 2020. The opening will depend on the political situation in the country.
AND TEMPORARY CLOSURES
In 2020 there will be many openings and the occasional temporary closure. The most important is that of ** La Mamounia **, which will close its wonderful doors from May 25 to September 1, 2020 . The hotel in Marrakech will renovate its gastronomic spaces and will modify the common areas. Let no one fear: the hotel will maintain the charm and heritage of its 95 years . Please let him arrive on September 2. For this and for all the previous openings, let the future come.
Dry Islands, in Panama