It’s inevitable: every spring when we pull together the Hot List, our annual collection of the world’s best new hotels, restaurants, and cruise ships, a staffer remarks that this latest iteration has got to be the best one ever. We've spent the last year travelling the globe – zip-lining to dinner in the Maldives, sleeping in an actual tree house in Kenya, and eating a truly memorable meal in a converted auto body shop in Mexico City. The through line of this year’s list is joy – something we could all use a little more of in our lives. These are the 2025 Hot List winners.
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The best new hotels in the world: 2025 Hot List
Our editors pick the best new hotel openings across the world over the past 12 months – from Sri Lanka to the Seychelles, New York to New South Wales.
The best new hotels in Europe: 2025 Hot List
Our European edit features hotels across the UK, Greece, Italy, Spain, France, Austria, Switzerland, the Czech Republic, Turkey, Portugal and Belgium – from blissed-out island boltholes to slick city hotels, and ski hotels in the Alps to palazzos in Rome.
The best new hotels in Asia: 2025 Hot List
Asia’s hotel scene welcomed an array of notable openings in the last year, luring our editors to a new address in Sri Lanka and a sleek Japanese property in the heart of Kyoto.
The best new hotels in North America and Mexico
Featuring a diverse mix of properties, from new addresses in New York, South Carolina to Cabo San Lucas.
The best new hotels in the Middle East and Africa 2025
Our editors discovered incredible new addresses in Saudi Arabia, Morocco, Dubai and more.
The best new hotels in Central and South America and the Caribbean
Resorts in Costa Rica, the British Virgin Islands and beyond.
The best new hotels in Australia and New Zealand
Our top picks from the year's openings in Australia.
The best new restaurants in the world: 2025 Hot List
It's not just the most charming new hotels our editors name in the annual Hot List – we also compile a list of the very best new restaurants, too. This year's tables to book include a Thai opening in London, a New Orleans Mexican joint and a spot celebrating Indian culinary heritage in Copenhagen.
The best new cruises in the world: 2025 Hot List
From superyachts to the world’s largest cruise ship.