Hotel Openings

🍴 Executive chef Yoshi Okai, known for Austin's Otoko, leads Hai Sí, a new izakaya in Aspen, Colorado. The restaurant is a collaboration between New Waterloo and Infinite Hospitality, showcasing a fusion of Japanese and Spanish cuisines. Located below Sway, it features a dining room, sushi bar, cocktail bar, and listening room. The menu includes nigiri sushi, A5 wagyu, and pan con tomate. The ambiance is enhanced by creative cocktails like the Dirty Dashi Tooni.

🍽 FORT MYERS, Florida—In line with its upcoming five-year anniversary, Luminary Hotel & Co. rebrands its signature restaurant to The Silver King Coastal Kitchen, offering new Mediterranean-inspired dishes and a five-course tasting menu. Key events include monthly King’s Table themed menus and Workshop Dinner Series, with upcoming dates like Sake (Sept. 25), Scotland (Oct. 23), Oktoberfest (Sept. 10), and Veteran’s Day (Nov. 11). Chef Zach Geerson emphasizes innovation and excellence.

🏨 Everhome Suites opened 7 new properties in 2025, with locations in Bozeman, Ontario, San Bernardino, Yuma, Newington, Rochester, and Somerset, bringing the total to 17 open, 16 under construction, and 45 planned. The Bozeman location opened in May, while others opened in July. Two sites in Rochester and Somerset are scheduled for August. The brand targets diverse markets, supported by Paladin Equity Capital, emphasizing Southern California's challenging development environment due to high land costs and complex planning.

🏝️ Barbados, September 2025: Marriott International launches its Luxury Collection with the reopening of Colony Club on the Platinum Coast. Originally a 1930s residence, it now features redesigned rooms, expanded wellness areas, and new dining experiences. Highlights include 150+ rums in The Rum Vault, lagoon-style pools, and local cuisine at Laguna. The resort offers water sports and a unique wellness program. Reservations available from September 1. Part of Marriott Bonvoy, enhancing global travel connections.

🏨 L’Auberge de Sedona completed a $30 million expansion, introducing The Cliffs with 70 new guestrooms, totaling 158 accommodations. Located in Sedona, managed by Aimbridge Hospitality, and owned by DiamondRock Hospitality Company, the resort features a new Duck Pond Pool, redesigned Cress on Oak Creek restaurant, and expanded L’Apothecary Spa. Event spaces include the new Vista Overlook terrace. The resort is now part of Small Luxury Hotels of the World, bookable via Hilton.com.

🏨 Hilton's Signia brand expands in Texas as La Cantera Resort & Spa in San Antonio transitions to Signia by Hilton on October 1, 2025. The Ohana Real Estate-owned and Hilton-managed hotel features 496 rooms, including 34 villas, following a $40 million renovation. Dining includes nine options, with Signature Restaurant in the Michelin Guide Texas 2024. Guests enjoy wellness services, golf, five pools, and 115,000 sq ft for events. This addition joins other Signia locations globally.

🏨 Travelodge opened its 600th UK hotel in Skegness, with 80 rooms including 12 SuperRooms, located 400 meters from the Blue Flag beach. This new site created 22 jobs and features the chain's first top-floor bar café. It has achieved a BREEAM Excellent sustainability rating, and an EPC rating of A, using air source heat pumps and low-energy lighting. Nearby attractions include Skegness Pier and Natureland Seal Sanctuary.

🏠 Home Farm House, a three-bedroom cottage in the Cotswolds, opened near The Pig in the Cotswolds and The Village Pub. Just two minutes away, it features a farmhouse kitchen, sitting room, dining room, games room, and private garden. The Village Pub offers traditional British dishes, and The Pig in the Cotswolds provides a 25-mile menu with local produce. Desserts include Cotswold dairy cheesecake and roasted Victoria plums with sorbet.

🏨 Classic British Hotels has added Barnett Hill and Langshott Manor from The Alexander Hotel Collection. 🏨 Barnett Hill, located in Surrey Hills, offers 56 rooms and nine meeting spaces, led by Chef Steven Newton. Langshott Manor, also in Surrey, features 22 rooms and the two AA Rosette Mulberry Restaurant. 📅 These additions enhance Classic British Hotels' country house offerings near London, aligning with a shared focus on exceptional guest experiences.

🏨 Danish designer Julie Cloos Mølsgaard transformed a 14th-century townhouse in Lagrasse, South of France, into Vipp's 12th guesthouse. The project features a red marble shower, sculptural staircase, and an aluminium kitchen. Lagrasse is known as one of France's prettiest villages. The townhouse was reorganized across three floors, with the kitchen and dining area on the first floor and a bedroom suite on the uppermost floor, showcasing a custom timber bed and marble shower tray.