Every year, travel mag Condé Nast Traveller publishes a list of the world’s best new hotels. This prestigious ranking names the cream of the crop when it comes to new places to stay around the world. We’re talking boutique city boltholes, luxe seaside resorts, ultra-premium safaris and some very bougie spa hotels.
CNT’s list was curated by the publication’s global editors and contributors, who spent the past 12 months staying at the top hotel openings around the world. For 2026, two hotels in the long list were in London.
The world’s best new hotels in London in 2026
Six Senses
The new Six Senses hotel London made the cut for 2026. The wellness behemoth with 27 hotels and resorts around the world opened its first UK outpost this year. Housed in the former Whiteleys department store in west London, the building underwent an eye-watering £1.5 billion redevelopment to create the glamorous 109-room hotel, as well as shops, restaurants and a cinema.
When Time Out reviewed the Bayswater hotel in April this year we rated it five stars. We thought the second-to-none spa was the main draw of a stay at Six Senses London. It offers a luxury but surprisingly laid back experience, where guests can try everything from a Finnish sauna, quartz crystal bed, and 20-metre swimming pool to a magnesium plunge pool and cryochamber. The cost of a stay here starts at £825 per night – see options on Booking.com here.
Chancery Rosewood
Also making the list was The Chancery Rosewood which opened its doors in the capital at the end of 2025. The Mayfair abode housed in the Grade II-listed former US Embassy was named the best hotel in the world in 2025, and now its come to claim more accolades. The bougie hotel is made up of 144 suites (there are no plain old rooms here), five restaurants – including one by sushi master Masayoshi Takayama – and a high-tech spa that is home to one of Mayfair’s biggest swimming pools. Suites start at a walloping £1,405 per night, find out more on Booking.com here.
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