We’ve spent the last 12 months sleeping, eating, and sailing our way around the globe in order to bring you the 29th edition of the Hot List, our carefully curated annual collection of the best new (and reborn) hotels, restaurants, and cruise ships in the world, and we had a ton of fun doing it. How could we not when it involved activities like 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 for the best new hotels in the world.

Click here to see the entire Hot List for 2025.

AFRICA

BOTSWANA

Atzaro — Okavango Delta

KENYA

Great Plains Mara Toto Tree Camp — Masai Mara

MADAGASCAR

Voaara — Ambatorao

MOROCCO

Royal Mansour Casablanca

RWANDA

Wilderness Bisate Reserve — Ruhengeri

UGANDA

Volcanoes Safaris Kibale Lodge — Kasenda

SEYCHELLES

Cheval Blanc Seychelles — Quatre Bornes

SOUTH AFRICA

Gwe Gwe Beach Lodge — Cape Town

ASIA

CHINA

Mandarin Oriental Qianmen — Beijing

INDIA

The Oberoi Vindhyavilas Wildlife Resort — Bandhavgarh National Park

Raffles Jaipur

Ran Baas — Patiala

INDONESIA

Anantara Ubud Bali Resort

JAPAN

Janu Tokyo

Six Senses Kyoto

Yoruya — Okayama

MALDIVES

Soneva Secret, Maldives — Kulhudhuffushi

SINGAPORE

The Standard, Singapore

SRI LANKA

Uga Halloowella — Norwood

AUSTRALIA

Il Delfino — Yamba

Melbourne Place

MIDDLE EAST

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

Delano Dubai

SAUDI ARABIA

Dar Tantora The House Hotel — AlUla

Nujuma, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve — Ummahat Islands

EUROPE

AUSTRIA

Eriro Alpine Hide — Ehrwald

Hoxton Vienna

Rosewood Schloss Fuschl — Salzburg

CZECH REPUBLIC

W Prague

BELGIUM

Corinthia Grand Hotel Astoria Brussels

FRANCE

Experimental Chalet Val d’Isère

Hôtel du Couvent — Nice

GREECE

Gundari Resort — Folegandros

One&Only Kéa Island

ITALY

Romeo Roma

Le Dune Piscinas — Costa Verde

Palazzo Durazzo — Genoa

Palazzo Talìa — Rome

PORTUGAL

Palacete Severo — Porto

SPAIN

Brach Madrid – Evok Collection

Casa de Las Artes, Member of Meliá Collection — Madrid

Dunas de Formentera — Balearic Islands

Fairmont La Hacienda Costa del Sol — Cádiz

TURKEY

Maxx Royal Bodrum

SWITZERLAND

The Brecon — Adelboden

UNITED KINGDOM

The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow

The Emory — London

Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London

The Pig – in the Cotswolds — Barnsley

MEXICO

Banyan Tree Valle de Guadalupe

Four Seasons Resort and Residences Cabo San Lucas at Cabo Del Sol

CENTRAL AMERICA

COSTA RICA

Nekajui, a Ritz-Carlton Reserve — Guanacaste Province

THE CARIBBEAN

BAHAMAS

The Potlatch Club — Governor’s Harbour

BRITISH VIRGIN ISLANDS

Peter Island Resort

GRENADA

Six Senses La Sagesse Grenada

UNITED STATES

The Beach Club at Boca Raton

The Dunlin, Auberge Resorts Collection — Johns Island, South Carolina

The Henson — Hensonville, New York

The Manner — New York City

The Ranch Hudson Valley — Sloatsburg, New York

The Surrey, a Corinthia Hotel — New York City

CRUISE SHIPS

Utopia of the Seas — Royal Caribbean

Galapagos Explorer — &Beyond

Queen Anne — Cunard

Explora II — Explora Journeys

Silver Ray — Silversea

Disney Treasure — Disney Cruise Line

Lilia — Amaway

Ilma — Ritz-Carlton

Vela — Viking Cruises

RESTAURANTS

View the best new restaurants of 2025 here.

This story appears in Condé Nast Traveler’s Hot List issue. Never miss an issue when you subscribe to Condé Nast Traveler.