St. Regis Dubai, The Palm reopens on 1 November 2026 after six months of renovations: 264 rooms, 26 suites, 24-hour butler service and six restaurants on the St. Regis Gardens rooftop.
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During TIFF 2026, from 10 to 20 September, The Hazelton hotel becomes a cinema headquarters in Yorkville: 77 keys, a terrace on Yorkville Avenue, and its own screening room, the Norman Jewison Cinema.
Biological age, genetic assessments, stays of seven to fourteen days: seven properties in Switzerland, Germany, Austria and Spain have moved wellness hospitality over to the medical side.
From 3 to 5 September 2026, Four Seasons Resort Megève, a palace hotel since June, hosted the fifth edition of its Pro-Am on the par 72 Golf du Mont d'Arbois course at 1,320 metres altitude. 23 teams, 92 players, gross victory for Nicolas Wrona and net for Maxime Radureau, under the patronage of Raphaël Jacquelin.
According to Savills, £2.1bn worth of hotels changed hands in the UK in the first half of 2026, up £500m on the previous year and accounting for 24% of European transaction volumes. London concentrated £1.4bn, almost exclusively in standalone assets, while Marlow, Reading, Oxford and Edinburgh drove regional activity.
In New Harmony, near Tyler in East Texas, designer Trey Dillon has built a habitable, 7.60-metre-tall cereal box set within a hectare of pine trees. It features four berths, a sauna concealed inside a milk carton, a 2.40-metre bowl hammock, a spilled milk puddle terrace, and an all-you-can-eat cereal bar. A winner of the Airbnb OMG! Fund in 2023, it opened in April 2026 and holds a 5-out-of-5 rating from its first guests. Here is a look inside and what this address reveals about the unusual accommodation market.
Since 1 September 2026, chef Masaharu Morimoto's sole European table, located at Mondrian Bordeaux Les Carmes, is offering "Le Lunch by Morimoto": two starters, sushi of the day, main course and coffee for 33 euros, served in 45 minutes between 12:15 pm and 1:45 pm, alongside a new midday menu.
RIU Hotels & Resorts is opening its first hotel in Thailand in September 2026, the Hotel Riu Palace Phuket: 504 rooms including 49 Elite Club, 24-hour all-inclusive, six restaurants, seven bars, and four pools on Mai Khao beach, 16 km from the airport.
The Elysium Collection is set to open Elysium Windermere in early 2027 in Bowness-on-Windermere, in the Lake District, featuring a rooftop spa, informal luxury and cuisine led by Stephane Delourme, former chef of Rick Stein.
The 5th edition of the Hotel Warszawa Art Fair runs from 4 to 6 September 2026: the rooms and suites of the Prudential are transformed into booths for galleries from Poland, Berlin, Miami, The Hague and Tartu.
The Bulle institution in Gruyère is set to reopen on 10 September 2026 following a major renovation. Michelin-starred chef Kaiichi Arimoto will combine Fribourg terroir with Japanese precision.
Thirty-two keys in a 15th-century villa and five hectares of parkland, Florence's largest hotel estate, opening on 1 September 2026.
