These are the best new hotels that opened in 2024

18.12.2024 - 13:51 / thepointsguy.com

Here at TPG, our team of travel experts and global contributors begins the year by examining the most exciting hotels scheduled to open. Then, we make it our mission to visit as many of those hotels as possible — whether they're just down the street from TPG's HQ in New York City or on the opposite side of the globe — to determine if they're worthy of your hard-earned points and dollars.

But this year wasn't quite like other years: 2024 was a year of hotel shake-ups. While we had reporters and editors first on the scene of major hotel openings (check out our exclusive first look at the Park Hyatt London River Thames), our team was also quick to report major partnership and acquisition announcements from some of our favorite brands that, in some ways, changed the landscape of hotel loyalty: Marriott won big in Las Vegas with a partnership with MGM Resorts; Hilton added Small Luxury Hotels of the World, Graduate Hotels and AutoCamp to the family; and Hyatt acquired Standard International's hip hotel brands while also integrating Mr & Mrs Smith into World of Hyatt.

Nearly every day this year, a highly anticipated hotel started welcoming guests, or a much-loved independent hotel joined a loyalty program (here's looking at you, Turtle Bay). Over the course of the year, our hotel experts slept in dozens of hotel beds, ate hundreds of meals, traveled thousands of miles and took countless pictures of stunning destinations to narrow our list down to the best of the best, taking into account hotel location, amenities, service, design, food and beverage programs, innovation, accessibility, and value.

From a new Hyatt ski resort out west to a Marriott near the entrance of a Komodo dragon-filled Indonesian national park, our list of the best new hotels of 2024 takes into account different types of travel styles, a range of budgets and even an all-inclusive resort and boutique hotel or two. Plus, each entry gives you the "CliffsNotes" version of how to spend the perfect day in and around each exciting property.

We hope this list inspires your next year of adventures, and know we're already booking flights for the next batch of incredible hotels opening when the calendars flip to 2025. — Tanner Saunders, senior hotels reporter

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