The Best New Hotels in the United States: 2025 Hot List
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.
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Mark Mediana/The Boca RatonhotelBeach Club at The Boca Raton — Florida
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Hot List 2025There is travel, and then there is the lazing bliss of vacation. And when you check into the Beach Club at The Boca Raton, you check out of reality. The sumptuous escapism is largely thanks to the butler-like service: The toughest decision you’ll face will be whether to lounge at the pool, beach, or spa. In December 2024, the Beach Club completed a $130 million renovation, including 210 redesigned guest rooms and suites, two new restaurants, and a completely refreshed lobby featuring a new bar and café. With natural marble, limewashed plaster walls, and cerused woods, the design emulates a serene coastal feel—sans in-your-face tropical embellishments. Pro tip: If there’s a place to splurge on an ocean view, it’s here. I stayed in a seventh-floor balcony room and in the morning, we would open the floor-to-ceiling windows to watch the sun rise over the water before we momentarily fell back asleep to the ocean breeze, as if floating on a cloud. From $1,090. —Hannah Towey
The Dunlin, Auberge CollectionhotelThe Dunlin, Auberge Resorts Collection — Johns Island, South Carolina
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Readers' Choice Awards 2025Auberge Collection’s Lowcountry debut centers the coastal charm of the sparkling South Carolina sea islands. Transformative wildlife immersion abounds over 2,000 acres that include a marshfront pool and dining, in-room soaking tubs overlooking the water, and an on-site farm fueling craving-worthy Southern food. There are dolphin and seabird safaris amid the towering piles of massive oysters that make up the meandering coastline (those bivalves will be fresh on your plate come dinnertime), and 72 summer-cottage-style rooms with coastal-grandma-chic design: Scalloped sun umbrellas, wicker furniture, and mint-hued gingham make every inch of the place feel like an ethereal yet timeless summer home. Aptly named for the region’s plover sandpiper, The Dunlin, Auberge Collection is the perfect marriage of Southern sophistication and nature’s bounty. From $550. —Shannon McMahon
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The HensonhotelThe Henson — Hensonville, New York
$$ | Hot List 2025In such close proximity to Manhattan, the Hudson Valley provides a necessary haven from the constant buzz of city life—one such haven is The Henson thanks to its elegance-meets-cozy-inn vibe and an atmosphere that’s at once quiet and chic. The rooms feature design-forward touches, and common areas are straight out of a design magazine, with a chunky bouclé sofa, only the coolest coffee-table books, and a crackling fireplace. The property’s restaurant, Matilda—from two notable New York City chefs—is a destination in and of itself too. While The Henson is well within driving distance to other pockets of the Catskills, you probably won’t feel any urge to stray far. From $279. —Emily Adler
Chris Mottalini/The MannerhotelThe Manner — New York City
$$$ | Hot List 2025Drenched in shades of ochre and warm reds, with varied textures of ceramic, cement, and tile throughout, The Manner in Manhattan’s SoHo is a “nostalgic utopia”—as its architect Hannes Peer puts it—combining Gio Ponti–esque Milanese midcentury modernism with glamorous New York flair. But what does that actually mean? It’s sexy. In the same way a really good jazz song is. And its guests play their roles accordingly. From 20-somethings attending Fashion Week parties to chic married couples reading by the fire, everyone here is either good-looking, interesting, or both. Or maybe it’s the hotel itself that instills its inhabitants with this mysterious cinematic aura. Whichever is the case, the sex appeal of this place isn’t one that’s intimidatingly aloof, or exclusive, or weirdly dark-lit. To quote the film Crazy, Stupid, Love, it’s the perfect combination of sexy and cute—a home base where you can rest your head after dancing late into the night or tuck in early with a burger and a book.
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The RanchhotelThe Ranch Hudson Valley — Sloatsburg, New York
$$$ | Hot List 2025 Readers' Choice Awards 2025It is five o’clock in the morning and a Tibetan chime is ringing just outside my door. The usual bleary nausea of such early rises is absent, shooed away by sobriety, exercises, and fruits and vegetables. By 5:30 I’m joining the group downstairs for a guided stretch, and as the sun rises I share breakfast around a long table before setting off to hike. This is the Ranch Hudson Valley, which opened its doors last spring in upstate New York, an East Coast outpost of the famed Malibu original. Housed in JP Morgan’s former slate-and-stone mansion, the retreat sits on 200 acres of wooded lakefront. The highly regimented five-day mind and body reset program is built around health treatments, plant-based eating, and extensive hiking—guests get about three hours of it each day. Ranchers work out together and suffer together, cold-plunging in a single file and schvitzing in a windowed sauna. I had expected to reward myself at the end with a burger and cigarette, but found I could not stomach them. My brain had been dipped in change, and I wanted to maintain what I’d started to build. From $2,255. —Charlie Hobbs
Jonathan Maloney / Inga Beckmann for What The Fox Studio / The SurreyhotelThe Surrey, a Corinthia Hotel — New York City
$$ | Hot List 2025 Readers' Choice Awards 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021Originally built in New York City in 1926, The Surrey is a historic Art Deco gem that was once a residential hotel frequented by celebrities like JFK and Bette Davis. It has since been completely renovated and now operates under the management of the global luxury hotel group Corinthia. But despite its new conglomerate boss, the hotel has retained its famous residential ambience. Guests are immediately welcomed by stylish doormen into what looks like the lobby of an elegant Manhattan townhouse (complete with a Museum Mile–worthy art collection). These Easter egg odes to The Surrey’s fabled past are in part thanks to interior designer Martin Brudnizki, mastermind behind The Beekman and the Fifth Avenue Hotel, among other properties. Instead of the colorful maximalism Brudnizki is best known for, The Surrey favors subtle geometric details and muted pastels, with a light touch of the designer’s signature patterns and textures sprinkled throughout. It all feels expensively zen and secretly high-taste, as is the Upper East Side way. From $1,000. —Hannah Towey
