For the accommodation-avid among us, a hotel isn’t just a hotel — it’s the entire reason to travel. Whether you’re most excited by luxe interiors or singular landscapes, faultless service or Michelin-standard food, let your travel plans be led by the hottest new openings of the year. There are new outposts and stunning renovations throwing open their doors everywhere from the lush wilds of to iconic cities.
Paris’s 1st arrondissement might be packed with illustrious sights — the Louvre, Rue de Rivoli, Palais Royal — but until recently it was almost devoid of chic stays. That changed with the openings of whimsical and ultra-exclusive in 2021, and now this January, the Barrière Group builds on the scene with its intimate suite hotel set between the Tuileries and Place Vendôme. The 26-room mansion is designed like an extravagant private home, with rooms awash in onyx marble, carmine velvet, terrazzo and parquet.
Each is named after an iconic French woman (George Sand, Sarah Bernhardt). Bar-restaurant Frida spills out onto a secluded veranda, and will dispense delicious South American-inflected bites — that is, if you don’t fancy having a private chef cook dinner in your suite instead. From £1,413.
Hot on the heels of Rome’s sexy 2023 openings — including , and — the first Orient Express hotel lands in the Italian capital this spring. Architect Hugo Toro has re-envisioned landmark 17th-century palazzo property La Minerva in a golden age light, combini.
