Take inspiration for journeys ahead with our pick of the most exciting hotel openings for 2025. From cutting-edge urban crash pads to secluded rural retreats, these are the addresses we can’t wait to check into this yearount.
Count ’em: 8,760 hours, 365 days, 52 weeks... The length and breadth of 2025 is stretching out ahead of us, so it's time to start hatching travel plans. Take inspiration for journeys to come with our pick of the most exciting hotels opening their doors this year.
Selected for their beautiful looks and enticing offerings, many of this year’s most eagerly awaited properties have one theme in common: transformation. From former hospitals to presidential residences and dilapidated motels emerge stylish city-centre hideaways, lavish safari lodges and sleek new rural retreats. A new build is almost nowhere to be found on our list, signalling that the future of travel is about reinvention and reimagination.
We’ve featured soon-to-open gems alongside a couple of recently unveiled addresses – because, let’s be honest, every hotel needs a little time to settle in, right? Here are the properties we can’t wait to check into in 2025.
Amyth of Nicosia, Cyprus
Cyprus has been languishing among the ranks of underrated Mediterranean destinations for a while, but its understated charm is now catching the eye of discerning travellers – and hoteliers. The family-owned Thanos group is launching its third property in 2025, following two addresses in Mykonos. Amyth of Nicosia, located within the Venetian walls of the capital’s old town, is slated to be an intimate, seven-bedroom, three-suite stay, with restaurant, bar, library and al fresco terrace. Historic elements from the building's past will be preserved in the design, including decorative ceilings, tiled floors and a dramatic grand staircase. For intellectually curious first-timers in Nicosia, the address couldn’t be better located: the Ethnological Museum, Museum of Byzantine Art and Archbishopric of Cyprus are all on the doorstep. Oh, and you’re just moments from the 16th-century Hamam Omerye bathhouse, too.
Opening March 2025; amythhotels.com
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