The Mandarin Oriental Makati hotel is scheduled to open in Manila in November, twelve years after the brand left: 275 rooms, the Layara cocktail bar and a 25-metre pool, from €566 (PHP 40,000) a night before taxes.
The Mandarin Oriental, Hong Kong hotel opens a whisky lounge where 5 cl tops €2,000, and a pizza bar
In Hong Kong, the Mandarin Oriental hotel opens a whisky lounge where 5 cl of 25-year-old Yamazaki tops €2,000, and a set-menu pizza counter. A tea salon follows on 4 December.
Mandarin Oriental rents out four villas on Mykonos, Corfu and Lefkada in Greece, from €17,059 a week
Mandarin Oriental Exceptional Homes adds four private villas in Greece: Casa Gaia on Mykonos, VAYRA and Villa Alice on Corfu, SERENAOS on Lefkada, from €17,059 to 69,062 a week.
On 31 December 2026, the Mandarin Oriental Lutetia palace hotel in Paris serves a six-course dinner at €280, with jazz in the Salon Saint-Germain and a DJ at Bar Joséphine. Christmas, afternoon tea, brunch: all the prices.
The Winter Palace in Luxor and the Old Cataract in Aswan, two legendary Egyptian palaces, will reopen in 2027 as Mandarin Oriental hotels, each with six restaurants and bars and a spa, linked by a Nile cruise.
Mandarin Oriental and Globe-Trotter launch a collection of celadon green suitcases, handmade in England: from £165 for the charm to £2,295 for the Carry-On, with a Bangkok edition for the 150th anniversary.
In Dubai, the Mandarin Oriental Downtown serves a festive tea at 200 AED, about €49, from 7 December to 10 January, followed by a Christmas brunch and two New Year's Eve parties, up to 1,250 AED, about €303.
Mandarin Oriental, Marrakech is hosting Morocco's first Missoni Resort Club for at least a year, with a day pass at 2,000 dirhams per adult, a price that varies with the season.
Rosewood in 2027, Mandarin Oriental in 2030, Aman on a date yet to be announced, The Ritz-Carlton around 2031: Seoul is drawing the very top tier of luxury hotels, and Korean groups Lotte, Hanwha and Paradise are hitting back.
Closed since 2019, the Gellért hotel in Budapest will reopen in 2028 as the Mandarin Oriental Gellert: 143 rooms, a spa with seven areas and a pool beneath a retractable glass roof, next to a rooftop bar.
Malaysia has nine MICHELIN Key hotels in 2026. The Mandarin Oriental, Desaru Coast resort wins its first Key and the Four Seasons Resort Langkawi remains the only two-Key hotel: the full list.
Mandarin Oriental has broken ground on its return to Brickell Key in Miami: a 121-room hotel with 34 suites will open in 2030 on the site of the former hotel, closed in 2025 and imploded in April 2026.
