The most luxurious new hotels to visit this year

New luxury properties across the globe worth having on your itinerary this year

Apr 30, 2016, 06:29 IST2 min

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Leeu House and Leeu Estates, South AfricaThe newest luxury lodgings in South African wine country, run by the people behind Mullineux & Leeu Family Wines, in partnership with the Indian entrepreneur Analjit Singh, are a 12-room boutique hotel (opened in December) that is minutes away from the restaurants and galleries of Franschhoek and a 17-room retreat coming this year in a 19th-century

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The Ritz ParisIn its 118-year history the Ritz rightly became one of the world’s grandest grand hotels. But amid a luxury hotel boom in Paris the Ritz faded and, in 2011, was left off the French tourism ministry’s list of palace hotels. That spurred a three-year, $200 million-plus renovation by architect-designer Thierry Despont. The Ritz is finally set to reopen this spring, with the 71

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Six Senses BhutanFollowing the model successfully pioneered by Aman resorts, Six Senses is opening five hotels in Bhutan—in Thimphu, Punakha, Gangtey, Bumthang and Paro—to give guests a seamless circuit experience. While the new Six Senses lodges will have just 82 rooms among them, the ‘happiest kingdom on earth’ is set to change soon: A paved ring road that can accommodate tour buses is

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