The hospitality industry never stops expanding. We would know: we hear from brands constantly about noteworthy hotels that are opening their doors. Hundreds of them. All over the world. The industry is getting bigger, more expensive, and more extravagant—but also, frankly, better. That only makes it harder to figure out where to spend your money; luckily, if you’re reading this, you’ve got us working on your behalf. This year’s list of the best new hotels in the world features 43 incredible properties, from Kenya to Paris to California wine country, with a dash of Southern hospitality down in Georgia. You can find your next destination below.
—Krista Jones, senior director, commerce and partnerships
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After a year of traveling the globe, our editors are confident these are the 43 most outstanding new places you can stay this year.
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There’s a conundrum at the heart of modern hospitality. How do you make sure a person is taken care of at every moment of their day while still allowing them to be on a journey? Can comfort weigh down a person trying to achieve the promise of travel—ascending to an improved version of themselves? Hotels today pour millions of dollars into crafting authentic experiences to envelop guests from the moment they arrive to the moment they leave. But do you see the tension there, between crafting and authentic? It rhymes with what we all experience when we travel. We want to be on an adventure. We also want to be accommodated.
For the past year, our editors have been on a mission to visit as many new hotels and stunning renovations as they could to create this, Esquire’s Best New Hotels 2026. We skied near Yellowstone and woke to fog in California’s wine country and appraised a ten-figure remodel in New York City. We traipsed arrondissements in Paris and palazzos in Italy. We even briefly got stranded in Puerto Rico by a certain U.S. military maneuver.
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The Wisconsin Supreme Court race is looking to skew towards a liberal majority. This is a remarkable change in an important battleground state—to say nothing of its being the birthplace of 20th-century progressive politics. The plagued legacy of Governor Scott Walker is largely in shambles, as is the state’s Republican party. The state legislature is gradually climbing out of a decade of preposterously gerrymandered district maps. The GOP candidate, Maria Lazar, describes herself as an “independent,” which is something of a tell.
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This is a bit of a strange year for Netflix. The streamer earned Oscar nominations in March for Frankenstein and Train Dreams, but the only major trophies came from KPop: Demon Hunters—a surprise success that Netflix only really championed after it blew up. Meanwhile, on the TV side, the streamer is now without its moneymaker, Stranger Things, which bowed on New Years’ Eve. As HBO preps Harry Potter’s return and Amazon continues to tease a new James Bond on the horizon, Netflix needs a big new tentpole to call its own.
So far, the streamer’s biggest hit came early in the year with The Rip. The crime thriller, helmed by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon, is a tense film that really put its stars to good use during a time when major studios are usually cold with new releases. Netflix got Steven Knight on board to reboot Peaky Blinders for a new generation, and it even won what must have been a highly competitive bidding war for the BTS documentary. We’ll see how the rest of the year plays out for the streamer as it looks to refocus following the failed Warner Bros. merger. But for now, these are the best original Netflix films of 2026 so far.
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