The most anticipated small luxury hotel openings for 2020

 

 

Ten new small luxury hotels to discover this year. 10 of the hottest openings to look forward to this year…

Open in February 2020

The Celino South Beach, Miami, USA

Rooms start from £376 per night including breakfast.

Miami is welcoming a new luxury boutique hotel in the heart of the city’s Ocean Drive. The Celino South Beach has transformed three art deco buildings, including the landmark Park Central Hotel, into one luxurious boutique hotel with eclectic custom furniture, pop colours, and a rooftop pool featuring a peekaboo glass bottom that is visible from the Atrium below. Park Central Hotel, a favourite of silver screen stars like Bogart and Hayworth, was allegedly the birthplace of the conga line so guests should keep an eye out for conga-line kits with how-to guides, drums and cigars in their rooms.

KASA Hotel Riviera Maya, Puerto Aventuras, Mexico

Rooms start from £103 per night including breakfast.

KASA Hotel Riviera Maya sits in the exclusive beach, marine and golf community of Puerto Aventuras. Thisprivate gated community is an emerging area on the Riviera Maya, away from the crowds in an area of lushtropical foliage, with a smart sailing community, full-service marina, golf course and uncrowded beach. Theconcierge at KASA Hotel Riviera Maya is skilled at arranging local adventures in the Riviera Maya includingcenote diving, biking explorations of the area’s Mayan ruins, Mexican cooking classes and diving alongsidesea turtles in Akumal.

Opening April 2020

Torre Del Marques, Matarraña, Spain

Matarraña is reminiscent of Tuscany’s countryside but unlike its Italian counterpart, this remote corner of Aragon is blissfully away from the tourist crowds and remains one of Spain’s undiscovered regions. Torre Del Marques is a 15th-century farmhouse turned exclusive boutique hideaway with solar panels and sustainable architecture maximising its energy efficiency. The light-filled restaurant strives to embrace an organic ‘zero-kilometre’ approach to dining, serving only food that is produced in the immediate local area including olive oil, black truffle and honey. Rooms start from £320 per night including breakfast.

Opening May 2020

Panoptis Escape, Mykonos, Greece

On top of the hill overlooking the idyllic Elia Beach in Mykonos, Panoptis Escape is the latest addition to the Myconian Collection family. Bound by imaginative contemporary architecture, minimalist styling and artisan craftsmanship, everything about Panoptis Escape is the definition of ‘less is more’. 19 villa suites comprise the new property, each featuring their own outdoor spa Jacuzzi or private infinity pool.  Rooms start from £617 per night including breakfast.

Opening June 2020

Can Ferrereta, Mallorca, Spain

Located in the quaint rural town of Santanyí in the southeast of Mallorca, Can Ferrereta will be one of Europe’s most exciting new hotel openings in summer 2020. The team behind Sant Francesc Hotel Singular has meticulously restored a historic 17th-century building, comprising 32 individually designed rooms and suites, surrounded by verdant gardens. Over the years, Santanyí has attracted many international artists and today art plays a central role. Guests will stumble upon various galleries and workshops in the narrow alleys of this quiet country town. The hotel will also display one of the region’s
most exciting collections of contemporary art including works from the likes of Guillem Nadal, Dominica Sanchez, Miquel Planas, Manolo Ballesteros, Riera i Aragó, Jordi Alcaraz and Jaume Plensa.

 

Les Sources de Cheverny, Loire Valley, France

Located among the beautiful vineyards of Cheverny, renowned for producing white wine such as ‘Sauvignon’ and ‘Cabernet Blanc’, Les Sources de Cheverny will open its doors with 26 rooms and 23 suites. The hotel’s spa will offer the same range of vineyard based treatments and skincare products as its Bordeaux sister property, Les Sources de Caudalie, also owned by Alice and Jerome Tourbier. The quintessential French château will host two restaurants, an organic vegetable garden as well as seven hectares of vineyards planted around the property. The wine experience will not be limited to the property’s
ideal location as a real wine route will be devised to allow guests to discover the hidden wonders of the region. Close to the hotel, guests will find The Château of Cheverny which was used as a model by Hergé for Marlinspike Hall (Château de Moulinsart in French), which is featured in several Tintin stories. The château has a permanent exhibition dedicated to the most famous of cartoon reporters. Rooms start from £168 per night.

Opening July 2020

Castello Di Reschio, Umbria, Italy

Castello di Reschio is a new boutique hotel located within a 3,700-acre pastoral estate in the Umbrian hills on Italy’s Umbria-Tuscany border. Propelling a spotlight on Italy’s forgotten heartland, the hotel houses 36 rooms and suites, a restaurant, spa, bar, library, pool and an organic farm including 5,000 olive trees. Riding lessons and excursions are available for guests and a weekly dressage event in the summer months brings equestrians together. Other activities include hiking, tennis and wild swimming in the estate lake which is available for private use, cooking lessons, olive oil making, clay pigeon shooting, truffle hunting and painting classes. Rooms start from £676 per night.

 

Opening August 2020

Living Berna by Stara, Mexico City, Mexico

Living Berna by Stara is located in Mexico City’s up-and-coming Colonia Juárez neighborhood, home to chefs, artists and designers that have brought new energy into this district,. The boutique hotel will feature fully automated luxury suites equipped with state-of-the-art technology as well as a library, theatre, gym, sky bar and a rooftop garden restaurant. Close to the hotel, Café La Habana, one of Colonia Juárez’s most iconic coffee shops having first opened in 1952, is alleged tobe the place where Che Guevara and Fidel Castro masterminded the Cuban Revolution.

 

Opening December 2020

Lost Horizons Resort & Spa Begnas, Pokhara, Nepal

Based on James Hilton’s classic novel Lost Horizon, Lost Horizon Resort & Spa Begnas in The Himalayas boasts a uniqueperspective of Begnas lake and some of the highest mountain peaks of the world. The 38-suite hotel also features a 7000sq.-foot spa offering spa treatments inspired by old traditions, a pool designed to be used in all seasons, a grand bar and library lounge that overlooks Mount Manasalu. Five years after the catastrophic earthquakes where nearly 9,000 people lost their lives, the country is gearing up to celebrate 2020 as the ‘Visit Nepal’ year.