Condé Nast Traveler‘s May “Hot List” issue is the magazine’s annual guide to the newest and hottest hotels, restaurants, spas, and nightclubs opened all over the world in the past year. The editors scour the globe to check out hundreds of new properties to produce this list of exciting new establishments destined to become instant classics. The 2009 Hot List features 140 new hotels and resorts, 50 new restaurants, 35 new nightclubs, and 50 new spas.
The hotel findings range in size from a three-pavilion hideaway outside of Sydney to a 2,034-room high-rise on the Vegas Strip, and in price from $89 at a Palm Springs hot spot to $2,050 for a sprawling safari tent in northern Botswana. The 140 hotels and resorts on this year’s Hot List span 53 countries and include new-to-the-list destinations Israel, Mongolia, Peru, Slovenia, and Zimbabwe.
You can find this year’s list by clicking here.