The latest from the world of boutique hotels. We cover new openings and emerging travel trends, with a focus on independent hotels, design-led properties and the people behind them.
George Davies built Next, George at ASDA and Per Una. Now he and his wife Arlene have opened a boutique hotel and serious restaurant in a 17th-century limestone building in one of the Cotswolds’ most visited villages.
The Promissory Hotel opened in downtown Roanoke on New Year’s Eve, turning the historic First National Exchange Bank into one of the more unusual hotel openings in recent American boutique hospitality.
The Grade II-listed manor house near Cheltenham and Stratford-upon-Avon has returned under new ownership with 34 individually designed rooms, wood-burning fires throughout and a kitchen led by Dean Westcar.
Set on the Umbria-Tuscany border near Orvieto, in a restored 19th-century rural residence, this is the kind of Italian hotel that makes it very difficult to leave.
Grain silos, cereal factories, champagne cellars, signal boxes. The appetite for adaptive reuse in boutique hospitality keeps growing. The best new examples are more specific about the original building than ever, and that specificity is what makes them worth the trip.
ENVI Lodges’ third Tanzania property takes one of the Indian Ocean’s best beaches and does something genuinely considered with it.
A 14-villa retreat in Canggu, a beachfront wellness lodge opening in Zanzibar this June, a restored 1890s building in Lyon. The quarterly portfolio drop from the world’s largest independent hotel brand has some good ones in it this time.
Rachel Gerstein’s debut hotel makes a case for a quieter kind of Los Angeles hospitality, in a neighbourhood that has never really needed more hotels, but did need one that felt like this.
A new independent aparthotel has opened in the City of London, occupying a former early-2000s office building on Fenchurch Street.
A new boutique hotel has opened on Ocean Drive that is worth paying attention to: not because Miami Beach lacks
