From the best address in London to the Whitsundays in Australia, here are the top six hotels opening around the world in 2014. Three McLaren customers are on the list – Sofitel Shanghai Jing ‘An will open with HotSOS, One & Only Hayman Island will open also with HotSOS and already enjoys McLaren’s HSIA and fluide solution . Sea Sentosa Echo Beach Bali will open with HotSOS and Intelity ICE.
SOFITEL SHANGHAI JING’AN, CHINA. Shanghai’s already fabulous hotel scene gets a new player when the city’s third Sofitel opens just off the iconic shopping strip of Nanjing Road. In keeping with most Chinese hotels, it’s big: we’re talking 503 rooms, with a cocktail bar at the top of the 68-storey art deco-inspired building and French-meets-Chinese cuisine being talked up. There’s already been a two-year delay in its launch but the group is planning a grand opening of what will become the city’s new flagship Sofitel in September 2014. .
ONE&ONLY HAYMAN ISLAND, AUSTRALIA. It was the talk of the town when it was announced that the uber-luxe hoteliers of One&Only Resorts, who play in all the best addresses including the Bahamas, Maldives and Dubai, are taking over the iconic Great Barrier Reef resort. Thankfully, the pool wing will be carved into new all-suite accommodation including private pool terraces; that much-photographed Hayman pool will be hit with cabanas and daybeds. And forget foreign backpackers spinning up fishy tales, your guides to the reef will be dive experts and marine biologists. The new Hayman opens July 2014, from $730 a night.
SEA SENTOSA ECHO BEACH, INDONESIA. It hasn’t even opened yet and already this Balinese beachfront resort has won world’s best apartment at London’s International Property Awards. Located just north of Seminyak on Canggu’s legendary surf beach, the 68-apartment resort features “living walls” or vertical gardens by French botanist-designer Patrick Blanc, a lagoon for your front yard and views straight out onto the Indian Ocean. If looks are anything to go on, its two beach restaurants, complete with sand beneath your feet, are set to rival those of Ku De Ta and Potato Head when the resort opens come July 2014. From $175 for a garden studio.
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