Now Open: The Best New Hotels of Fall 2024

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This is our fourth installment of the world’s best new hotels from 2024. (In case you missed it, here’s what opened in winter, spring, and summer.) Although maybe a better description than “best” — a term that gets far too overused these days — would be “most interesting,” “most fun,” and “most noteworthy” since that’s what moves us. 

This time around, we’re clocking:

• tiny boutique boltholes that go big on style
• gorgeous (painstaking!) adaptive reuse
• amenities as personality traits (radio station, vinyl lounge, champagne grotto)
• and newsy bits that will thrill hotel junkies

The United States

The Manner
New York, New York
Standard Hotels launched its new brand, The Manner, in what used to be Sixty Soho and before that 60 Thompson. If Standard hotels aim to be playful and whimsical, The Manner is going for a more sophisticated feel and much higher rates. It looks pretty amazing: The Apartment, the guest-only lounge on the second floor, oozes 1960s and ‘70s cool — low couches, golden light fixtures, big fireplace in the center. The rooms shine with polished mustard walls, velvet seating, and full-sized Costa Brazil amenities (an exclusive to the hotel). The F&B is by Alex Stupak — The Otter on the ground floor serves creative and tasty seafood (parsley root agnolotti with crab and crushed Ritz crackers is a winner); Sloane’s is the discreet and handsome cocktail lounge. 

The Surrey, A Corinthia Hotel
New York, New York
The Upper East Side newcomer is the latest incarnation of a hotel that’s been a beloved neighborhood standby since 1926. This is the first North American outpost for Malta-based Corinthia Hotels, and they did quite the top-to-bottom glow-up. The room count dropped from 198 to 100 rooms (with 14 residences coming soon); the designer is superstar Martin Brudnizki (the most subtle Brudnizki we’ve ever seen); the spa uses Sisley products and has steam, sauna, and a pink salt room; the impressive gym has an outdoor yoga terrace; the full-sized amenities by Antica Farmacista have a custom scent; and the restaurant and lounge are outposts of Miami resto-club Casa Tua (and it’s already an uptown scene). There’s more! The four suites launching in December are named for and inspired by the four bridges of Central Park. 

The Beachside
Nantucket, Massachusetts
Blue Flag Capital, the founders of Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard Faraway Hotels, debuted a full renovation of The Beachside Hotel. Rooted in the nostalgia of a true American summer, the property caters its experiences and programming to wholesome fun in the sun, with an all-day poolside restaurant and kids’ club alongside local art studio and toy store, Barnaby’s, with daily classes, workshops, and island excursions. Its prime location in strollable downtown Nantucket makes for a short jaunt to Jetties Beach for sunset and scoops at the Juice Bar on one of many perfect summer evenings. 

The Abner Hotel
Litchfield, Connecticut
Salt Hotels lovingly transformed Litchfield’s historic courthouse (circa 1890) into a 20-room hotel with a restaurant in the original courtroom (the restored judge’s benches are now banquette seating). Rooms are outfitted with vintage knick-knacks and antiques, along with modern comforts of bluetooth Tivoli radios and handcrafted African robes from Tensira. Verdict is the seasonal rooftop bar with countryside views. The original courthouse jail has been transformed into an event space, aptly named The Lock Up.

Graduate by Hilton Princeton
Princeton, New Jersey 
Graduate, the college town hotel chain recently acquired by Hilton, has given Princeton the cool, wallet-friendly hotel it so desperately needed. The 1918 Colonial Revival-style building in the middle of town has 180 rooms and is decorated with nods to the university: The names of Princeton Eating Clubs are painted in the spacious lobby-library; the floor tiles are school colors orange and black. Graduate will be a boon for visiting Ivy League parents, who might be charmed to learn the building was once a student dorm. 

Pendry Natirar
Natirar, New Jersey
Hold your Jersey jokes. The Garden State earns its nickname in Somerset Country, with all its bucolic hills, pristine woodlands, and stately homes. Pendry Hotels is betting that New Yorkers will make the trek an hour from the city to the top of a hill on 500 conserved acres for its elegant new 66-room resort in the Tudor mansion that was once the home of the King of Morocco (weren’t expecting that one, were you?). Guests can spend hours on Natirar’s hiking and riding trails, settle into the Great Room in the mansion by the big fireplace, and enjoy dinner at Ninety Acres, a sustainable restaurant featuring produce from the farm out back. And, yes, they also launched a members-only Natirar Club.

Trailborn Highlands
Highlands, North Carolina
Head for the hills, or, more accurately, to Nantahala National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, where the second outpost of the emerging Trailborn brand sits on just under five acres of land. The 63-room inn has all the right mountain-lodge touches — outdoor firepits and indoor fireplaces, wood and stone furnishings and an earth-toned decor, a log cabin dining room, and bikes to go exploring. 

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