Las Vegas Spot Among Best New Affordable Luxury Hotels
New hotels are the perfect way to switch up your usual travel plans. Several new hotels have opened nationwide, including the best new affordable luxury hotels. Travel + Leisure magazine recently released their 100 best new hotels of the year list. Its editors and contributors all visited and reviewed the hotels.
“Our annual guide to the most game-changing hotel openings (and reopenings) has taken Travel + Leisure editors and contributors to 39 countries on six continents,” they said. They started with a list of more than 200 soon-to-open hotels, and T+L editors and reporters visited nearly 130 of them over the last 12 months.
They divided their picks into six categories, including U.S. resorts, affordable luxury, on the water, “splurge” worthy stays, and others. Additionally, they noted, at the end of each entry, properties that have accessible rooms and common spaces that meet or exceed ADA or similar country-specific rules.
The Best New Affordable Luxury Hotels
Among places in Sumba, Indonesia, and Singapore, a Las Vegas hotel snagged a spot on the best new affordable luxury hotels list. Fontainebleau Las Vegas is in spot number 4. “Since Fontainebleau Las Vegas was first announced in 2005, there has been an infusion of more than $3.7 billion into this 67-story resort. And after walking through its cantilevered porte-cochere, I can say, as a Vegas local, that it’s been worth the wait,” said one of their editors.
According to Fontainebleau’s website, they have a dining collection of over 30 unique restaurants, lounges, and cafés. The nearby spa features a performance sauna where professional dancers use choreographed towel flicks to warm the guests, and the massive co-ed thermal area is the “city’s largest,” with hydrotherapy pools, cold plunges, a snow shower, a salt-mist cave, and an herbal inhalation room. Rooms start at a generous 488 square feet and feature views of the Strip and Las Vegas Valley.
Number one on their list is the 21c Museum Hotel in St. Louis, Missouri. It opened in August 2023 and is located in one of the city’s most historic neighborhoods. “Before the renovated, 10-story neo-Renaissance building found a second life as a hotel, it housed the downtown St. Louis chapter of the YMCA for nearly a century,” said the outlet.
According to the travel magazine, the hotel only showcases art from the 21st century, each piece hanging from an unexpected place, like on the walls lining the YMCA’’s former basketball court, gloss floors, suspended running track, and all. Even the hotel rooms act as mini-galleries, featuring unconventional layouts and exclusive artwork from artists with strong ties to Missouri.
Check out the full list of the best new affordable luxury hotels here.
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