September 2026
Six Senses The Palm
Palm Jumeirah · 61, and 162 residences
Sized small on purpose. If it opened on time, it does not need a wounded market to fill it.
The caveatA residence is not a room night.
Openings
What opened, and the caveat
The year produces palaces. The openings that matter are the ones that refused a seventeenth room. Every announcement here carries the sentence the press release left out.
2027
Aman Dubai
Not yet a room · 80 suites
The Office's example of value sized small. It will not open cheap to teach you the price.
The caveatDo not wait for it. The negotiable city is the one already built.
2027
MGM The Island
Dubai · About 1,400
The pipeline sized big. The Office says houses that open into 2027's indigestion discount for years.
The caveatA discount here, if it comes, is not a discount at Aman.
Reopens · October 2026
Fregate Island
A private island · 14 villas and 3 estates
Five years of rebuilding. Seven beaches, three thousand five hundred tortoises. Buy the opening months. Do not learn the price from them.
The caveatIntroductory rates will not survive the first festive season.
December 2026
La Réserve
Praslin · Reybier's first resort outside Europe
It may not keep the name. It will move the floor of the ultra segment on Praslin, under Cheval Blanc's new ceiling.
The caveatA name that is still moving is not a rate file.
Open · 1 December 2024
Cheval Blanc Seychelles
Anse Intendance, Mahé · 52 villas
Gathy, on the old Banyan Tree ground. The maison that let Mahé be compared with a private island.
The caveatAlready open. It is the ceiling, not a pipeline rumour.
Not open
Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
The museum mile · The repricing
The date the Office will not invent, and the event that moves every flag when it arrives. It is a crane.
The caveatDo not book it. Go before it.
Open · 3 December 2025
Zayed National Museum
The museum mile · About 1,500 objects on view
Opened to the public on 3 December 2025. Foster's five feather towers. A morning, not a crane.
The caveatThe Guggenheim is the museum that is still not a ticket.
Open · 2025
teamLab Phenomena
Saadiyat · A museum, not a hotel
The demand layer that is already real. Give it its own morning. It is not the hour before the flight.
The caveatNo new hotel arrives with it. The 2027 hotel book is empty on purpose.
2026
Banyan Tree AlUla · phase two
Ashar Valley · A second villa cluster
The opening that attaches new keys to a house already taking guests since 2022. Among the most forward-booked inventory in the Kingdom.
The caveatStill a canyon brand, still fifteen kilometres from the tombs. A second cluster is not a new idea.
No date
Sharaan by Jean Nouvel
Sharaan Nature Reserve · 38 suites, carved
Designs in 2020. First cut of rock in March 2024. The completion year passed. No guest has stayed.
The caveatA drawing. The Library admits it. We do not book it.
2027
Aman AlUla
The oasis edge · A tented camp, still in review
Forty-odd canvas suites and a spa. In design review for two years. When it opens it will hold the ceiling. It has not opened.
The caveatThere is no rate file. Leave it.
2027
Six Senses AlUla
A palm grove in the oasis · Announced
The first wellness-first flag drawn for the oasis. Sleep, silence, the date groves. Not a night you can buy.
The caveatSame instruction as Aman. Wait for a door.
Reopened · 2026
Shebara
Sheybarah Island · 73 villas · 38 steel pods
The steel pods are this house. They are not Six Senses, and they are not Kuma. The island took guests again in 2026.
The caveatA seaplane or a boat. Do not book it as a night on Shura.
Opened · 8 July 2026
Six Senses AMAALA
Triple Bay · 100 pool suites
The wellness floor is three thousand square metres. A second destination, a hundred kilometres north of Ummahat — not a suburb of it.
The caveatFirst season. Book the house that is open, not the six logos still on the slide.
Opened · June 2026
Miraval The Red Sea
Shura Island · 180 keys
The brand's first house outside the United States. Hyatt chose this coast for the debut. Wellness is the demand story, not silence.
The caveatShura is a bridge and a cluster. If you wanted not to see another hotel, this is the wrong island.
Opening · 2026
Rosewood Red Sea
Shura Island · 110 rooms and villas
Asaya on the marina, beside the Four Seasons on purpose. Critical mass, not a scattering.
The caveatA debut on a hub island is a social stay. Do not book it as a Reserve.
2027
Aman Red Sea
Outer archipelago · The small key count
Aman's second Saudi house, after AlUla. The test is whether the coast can hold two Aman-rate properties.
The caveatThere is no rate file. Leave it until there is.
Moved · 2027
Bulgari Ranfushi
Raa Atoll · 54 villas
The July file said October 2026. On 23 September Bulgari's own page moved Ranfushi to 2027. The date has already moved twice.
The caveatDo not book a month until reservations open.
Opening · 2026/27
Mandarin Oriental Bolidhuffaru
South Malé Atoll · three islands · 120 villas
A flagship twenty minutes by boat. The seaplane is priced out of the stay. That is the point.
The caveatSouth Malé is not Baa. Book it for the transfer, not for remoteness.
Aimed at 2026
Mondrian Maldives
Noonu Atoll · 105 pool villas, a reflag
Ennismore is taking Mövenpick Kuredhivaru in Noonu: 72 overwater, 30 beach, three residences. A social house on an island that already had a flag.
The caveatOctober was the old file. The September note only says 2026.
Opened · early 2026
Rah Gili · Six & Six
South Malé Atoll · 74 villas
The first local luxury brand. A debut that does not arrive as a loaned logo.
The caveatFirst local does not mean first among equals. Read the rate file.
Opened · June 2026
Casa delle Dodici
Ortigia, Sicily · 12 keys
A family palazzo that has admitted the rest of us, on terms. Courtyard, fountain, no spa.
The caveatYou will hear the courtyard. That is the stay.
Reopens · October 2026
Fregate Island
Seychelles · Private island
Closed, recapitalised, opening the gate again. First season will tell us if the promise held.
The caveatThe airstrip still decides your day.
Confirmed · August 2026
Cheval Blanc · seventh maison
Asia · first of the house · Still a maison
Twenty years, seven houses. The model did not flinch. The risk is that the name becomes a request.
The caveatA seventh house is how methods become categories.
Opening · Spring 2027
The Quay Rooms
Villefranche-sur-Mer · 18 keys
A conversion above the harbour, facing the bay rather than the road. Slow port, on purpose.
The caveatNot Nice, and it should not try to be.