Luxury Hotel in Puebla, Mexico

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Vista Palazzo
Lago di Como, Italy
This intimate hotel will be the first five-
star property right in the city of Como,
combining stunning views of the lake
with easy access to restaurants and shops
when it opens in June. Housed in a for-
mer palazzo, it has 18 rooms and suites
and a spectacular rooftop "infinity bar"
with a counter overlooking the water.

Four Seasons Hotel

Megeve,France
A modern interpretation of an alpine
chalet, Four Seasons' first European
mountain hotel has 55 guest rooms and
suites, and five restaurants and lounges,
including a new incarnation of the Mi-
chelin two-star restaurant Le 1920. In
addition to 235 groomed snow runs in
winter, guests have preferred access to
the Mont d'Arbois Golf Club close by.

Around the
World in '18 Ways
From Bogota to Bali, the hottest new hotels and resorts for 2018.
BY ANN ABEL

Thanks to ambitious new hotels opening around the world, 2018 is shaping up to be
another great year to travel. Whether one-off boutiques or strategic brand expansions
that were years in the making, these hotels share a close attention to detail and design Royal Lancaster London
and a determination to redefine the meaning of luxury. Big brands are making big bets This midcentury icon in Hyde Park cel-
on up-and-coming cities like Warsaw and Bogota, while upstart indies are offering ebrated its 50th birthday with a $105
million renovation that was complet-
new takes on destinations we thought we knew. Here's what's on the map for 2018.
ed in November. All 411 rooms and
suites emerged with a new take on the
era in which the hotel was born-low
ASIA COMOUma February. The architecture
silhouettes, clean lines and the occasion-
Capella Shanghai, Canggu,Bali is modern Asian in style,
al groovy color. The fabulous views of the
}ian Ye Li and ground-floor rooms
Christina Ong's third hotel London skyline through the walls of win-
have direct access to the
Now in soft opening, the on the island will bring dows haven't changed.
sinuous swimming pool
latest hotel from the high- her understated approach from their terraces, while
luxury Capella brand is to luxury to Bali's les·s- upper floors have spar- Raffles Europejski
dripping with Shanghai- er-traveled south coast in kling sea views. Warsaw
in-the-'30s glamour. It oc- Some say eastern Europe is the new
cupies a 1930s estate built western Europe. The Asian brand Raf-
in the shikumen architec- fles seems to be making that bet, with a
tural style, with elaborately significant restoration of the Hotel Eu-
carved matou gable walls ropejski, once one of the most luxurious
and a series of narrow al- hotels in 19th-century Russia. Local con-
leyways, inner courtyards servationists were heavily involved with
and embellished stone the Polish architects and designers as
arches over the gates and they reimagined the 106 guest rooms and
doorways. French star suites. The restaurant will have an out-
chef Pierre Gagnaire is be- door terrace and modern Polish menu,
hind the restaurant and while the patisserie will evoke the past.
boulangerie.

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Anantara Tozeur, Tunisia TheNoMad

Los Angeles
Decades after rising to fame.as a lo­
cation for the original Star Wars, this The latest addition to DTLA'.s hotel
southwestern city�a hub for Saharan boom adapts its New York sibling's
adventures-is finally getting a lwm­ haute-cool vibe to the more laid-back
ry resort. Opening in the summer, the West Coast. Opening in January in
property will have 93 guest rooms and the historic Giannini building ( once
villas, some with private pools. There the Bank ofitaly), the NoMad has 241
will be a sophisticated spa, an all-day Jacques Garcia-designed rooms, casu-
dining room showcasing Tunisian cui­ al and formal restaurants, and an all-day
sine and a Thai restaurant, in honor of Anantara's origins in Southeast Asia. Italian-inspired
cafe-all run by
Daniel Humm
and Will Guida­
Hotel Cartesia­ ra of Eleven
no, with 78 rooms Madison Park
and suites in three and the NoMad
18th-century New York.
buildings a stone's
throw from the Perry Lane Hotel,
main city square Savannah, Georgia
and many histor­ Bridging the antebellum past with the dy­
ical sites. The de­ namic present, this hotel aims to offer
sign is woven with modern Southern hospitality at its best.
contemporary On the main thoroughfare of the historic
'-.J..°i',!t !-ME:,;tstJ and two globally inspired Mexican art and arresting
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restaurants. downtown, the Perry Lane will have 167
architectural elements like refined residential guest rooms when it
Silversands sections ofbeautif ully de­
Grenada Hotel Cartesiano, opens this spring. The development team
cayed original brickwork. spent five years studying Savannah, so
The first major resort Puebla, Mexico they've figured out how to transform all
to open on Grand This historic city has long Zadun, a Ritz­ that history into a 21st-century hotel.
Anse beach in 25 years, been esteemed for its rich Carlton Reserve
Los Cabos, Mexico
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Silversands will bring a
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history and colonial ar­
new level ofluxury to the chitecture but until now
southern island when it has been lacking in equal­
Cabo is getting a new in­
fusion of grown-up luxu­ Iii
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opens in March. Along ly charming places to stay. ry via the latest outpost of

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with 43 suites whose That changed in Novem­ Ritz-Carlton's"highest-of­ _'!!o--_

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of soothing natural ma­
terials, it will have a 100-
meter swimming pool, the
the coast of San Jose de!
Cabo, the resort has 115 ' �l' � I 7 � _·: i.
elegant villas that blend
longest in the Caribbean.
local culture and heri­
Guests and the eventual
tage-many with private
buyers of the nine
residential villas will share
pools-two championship Rosewood Miramar Beach
a spa retreat, a beach club
golf courses and a desert Montecito, California
botanical park.
The site of the former Miramar by the
Sea Hotel in Santa Barbara County-
a 100-year-old landmark in the local
community-will get new life this sum­
mer when Rosewood opens this proper­
Grand Hyatt Bogota ty. Spread over nearly 16 acres ofbeach­
Hyatt's first luxury hotel in one of South Amer­ front land, it will contain 124 guest
ica's new capitals of cool will bring Grand Hy­ rooms and 3 7 suites, many of them
att-brand hallmarks-thoughtful design, at­ in single-story bungalows, which will
tentive service-and reflect the vibrant energy make it one of the first resorts in the
ofthis budding metropolis. In the heart of the area to have accommodations right by
prestigious new Ciudad Empresarial Sarmien­ the sand. And everyone gets the view
to Angulo development, the hotel will have 373 from the oceanfront bar and restaurant
rooms with floor-to-ceiling windows, two signature restaurants and an expansive spa. and the private beach club.

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