Hotels opening soon in United Kingdom
Announced and confirmed — next opening first.
London, England
Cambridge House, Auberge Resorts Collection
Auberge's UK debut, inside the former In & Out military club overlooking Green Park
Announced · Spring 2026
London, England
The Webster Covent Garden
A new Italian-inflected lifestyle hotel brand is launching its debut UK property on Lincoln's Inn Fields, with three separate dining and nightlife concepts — but as of August 2026, reservation pages show stays starting only in October, later than the brand's own July announcement.
Announced · 2026
Glasgow, Scotland
Cheval Maison – West Regent
Cheval Collection's first Glasgow property, a conservation-area serviced-apartment scheme that has already slipped its opening twice.
Announced · 2026
Inverness, Highland, Scotland
10 Huntly Street Boutique Hotel
Inverness's former Royal British Legion club is becoming a 19-room boutique hotel for about £1 million.
Announced · Summer 2026
Bristol, England
Hotel Gotham Bristol
Bristol's Guildhall and former law courts, shut since 2010, is being reborn as a maximalist Gotham hotel with a rooftop bar.
Announced · Late Summer 2026
London, England
The Shepherd Mayfair
A six-floor boutique hotel rising on the plot of Mayfair's oldest house, timed to open 1 September 2026
Announced · September 1, 2026
Edinburgh, Scotland
Clayton Hotel Edinburgh, St Andrew Square
Dalata's zero-carbon flagship, restoring a vacant Category A-listed bank building on St Andrew Square
Announced · H2 2026
Bath, England
Parade Hotel
Three Grade I listed Georgian townhouses on North Parade, restored by Providence Hotels into a 49-room boutique hotel with its own Courtyard Spa
Announced · September 2026
London, England
Waldorf Astoria London – Admiralty Arch
Waldorf Astoria's UK debut restores a 1912 monument opposite Buckingham Palace.
Announced · Autumn 2026
London, England
The St. Regis London
St Regis makes its first UK entrance at the old Westbury site in Mayfair.
Announced · Autumn 2026
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Lindsay House
Vacant 1950s office block reborn as a mid-century boutique hotel in Belfast
Announced · Late 2026
Belfast, Northern Ireland
YOTEL Belfast
A £17m cabin-style newcomer aimed at Shaftesbury Square — if a sewer-capacity dispute doesn't delay it first.
Announced · Late 2026
Manchester
The Medlock, a Radisson Blu Hotel
A 401-room Radisson Blu built into Manchester City's Etihad Stadium, with ten pitch-side suites that double as hospitality boxes on match days.
Announced · Late 2026
Belfast, Northern Ireland
Tempo by Hilton Belfast City Centre
Hilton's fitness-focused Tempo brand makes its international debut in a converted 1970s office block.
Announced · Late 2026
London, England
The WestDill Mayfair Hotel London, Colbert Collection
Minor Hotels is converting a Grade II-listed former NatWest bank on Piccadilly into a 50-room five-star hotel, the UK debut of its new Colbert Collection soft brand.
Announced · Q4 2026
Manchester, England
W Manchester
W Hotels makes its first move outside London inside Gary Neville and Salboy's 41-storey St Michael's tower, with 162 rooms due in early 2027.
Announced · Q1 2027
York, England
room2 York
Lamington Group's net-zero room2 brand makes its Northern England debut.
Announced · Early 2027
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Bindery
A historic book-bindery in Edinburgh's New Town, converted into Code Concepts' first boutique hotel
Announced · Q1 2027
Plymouth, England
New Continental Plymouth, Tapestry Collection by Hilton
One of Plymouth's oldest hotels, built in 1865, rejoins Hilton's regional lifestyle roster as a Tapestry Collection conversion
Announced · Spring 2027 (announced target)
Edinburgh, Scotland
The Colourist, Tribute Portfolio
A carbon-net-zero hotel rising from seven derelict West End buildings, Marriott's first Tribute Portfolio in Scotland
Announced · 2027Manchester
InterContinental Manchester – Deansgate
IHG is converting the top floors of Manchester's 47-storey Beetham Tower from a two-decade-old Hilton into its fifth InterContinental in the UK and Ireland.
Announced · 2027
Manchester, England
Motto by Hilton Manchester Piccadilly
Manchester's first Motto by Hilton micro-hotel, rising 21 storeys in Piccadilly Basin
Announced · 2027 (announced target)
London, England
The Oberoi, Mayfair
Oberoi's first hotel outside Asia and the Middle East will have just 23 rooms behind a Grade-II-listed Mayfair facade.
Announced · 2027-2028
Inverness, Highland, Scotland
KIN
A £28 million conversion meets the Highlands' shortage of luxury rooms.
Announced · Summer 2027
Birmingham, England
Radisson RED Edgbaston Stadium
A pitch-facing Radisson RED rising inside Edgbaston Stadium's £42m redevelopment, targeted for the 2027 Ashes
Announced · Summer 2027
Leeds, England
room2 Leeds
A 16-storey hometel is rising on the site of Leeds' old international swimming pool, due in 2028 under a brand that may not carry the same name by the time it opens.
Announced · Targeted for spring 2028
London, England
Mandarin Oriental Bankside, London
Mandarin Oriental's third London hotel is planned for 2028 within the Bankside Yards development on the South Bank, a PLP Architecture-designed tower with 171 rooms, 70 branded residences and views over St Paul's Cathedral.
Announced · 2028Manchester
Nobu Hotel Manchester
A 76-storey, 246-metre tower set to become the UK's tallest building outside London will carry a 160-room Nobu hotel above restored Victorian viaduct arches.
Announced · 2031
Inverness, Highland, Scotland
Royal Northern Infirmary Hotel
Highland Council approved a 45-room hotel inside Inverness's B-listed former infirmary building over 67 letters of local objection.
Announced · TBC
Nottingham, England
Staybridge Suites, The Island Quarter
68 extended-stay suites sharing a 17-storey IHG tower with Hotel Indigo in the Island Quarter regeneration
Announced · NC
Southampton, England
THE NICI, Southampton
A nine-storey waterfront hotel with a rooftop helipad, approved as the flagship of Southampton's £200m+ Town Quay regeneration
Announced · NC
Cardiff, Wales
Courtyard by Marriott Cardiff
A 158-room, four-star Courtyard by Marriott approved for a Queen Street retail building, adding a rooftop pavilion restaurant and sky-bar.
Announced · NC
Norwich, England
St James Mill
A Grade I-listed 1839 yarn mill proposed for conversion into an 88-bed hotel — Norwich's first — still awaiting planning approval.
Announced · NC
Nottingham, England
Hotel Indigo, The Island Quarter
155 boutique rooms anchoring a 17-storey dual-brand IHG tower in Nottingham's Island Quarter regeneration
Announced · NC
Cardiff, Wales
Floating Hotel, Cardiff Bay
A proposed 120-room floating hotel for Cardiff Bay's Roath Basin, still in planning consultation with no approval secured yet.
Announced · TBC
Oxford, England
Wilde Aparthotel Oxford
A shuttered George Street cinema is being demolished to make way for Oxford's first purpose-built aparthotel, with a community hub built into the ground floor.
Announced · TBC
Birmingham, England
59-65 John Bright Street Aparthotel
A long-vacant former sexual health clinic on John Bright Street has already won planning permission to become a 40-room aparthotel.
Announced · TBC
Edinburgh, Scotland
Rose Theatre Hotel
A former chapel-turned-theatre on Rose Street cleared for a 43-room hotel, after an earlier plan was rejected as "cultural vandalism"
Announced · TBC
Edinburgh, Scotland
Brewhouse Bridge Hotel
A 24-bed hotel inside the last intact 19th-century brewery in the area, part of a wider Craigmillar regeneration
Announced · TBC
Birmingham, England
Murdoch & Pitman Chambers Hotel
A Grade II*-listed Corporation Street landmark that hosted Gandhi as a vegetarian hotel in the 1930s, restored back into one after 70-odd years as offices
Announced · TBC
Liverpool, England
King Edward Triangle five-star hotel tower — operator not yet announced
A five-star hotel is planned within a £1 billion, near-3,000-home waterfront masterplan on Liverpool's northern docks
Announced · TBC
Glasgow, Scotland
Watt Brothers Hotel
A B-listed 1914 department store on Sauchiehall Street, empty since 2019, cleared planning for a rooftop-extended hotel conversion in March 2026 with no operator yet named.
Announced · NC
York, England
Zedwell York
A Grade II-listed 1907 department store on Coney Street, empty since TK Maxx left in 2022, is being converted into York's first windowless capsule hotel by Asif Aziz's Zedwell chain.
Announced · TBC
Glasgow, Scotland
Motto by Hilton Glasgow
Hilton's lifestyle brand announced its UK debut on the Clyde in 2022 — four years on, the site is still an empty plot behind a construction fence.
Announced · TBC
York, England
Dakota York
A 140-room Dakota is rising on the site of a demolished 1960s office block, steps from York railway station, after councillors approved the scheme despite Historic England's objections over buried Roman remains.
Announced · TBC
Birmingham, England
The Dean Birmingham
Birmingham's century-old Methodist hall, slated to become the city's most theatrical hotel — if the scaffolding ever comes down.
Announced · TBC
Newcastle, England
Newcastle Helix, a Tribute Portfolio Hotel
A 198-room Marriott soft-brand hotel on the former Scottish & Newcastle Brewery site, rebranded from Moxy to Tribute Portfolio before it was even built.
Announced · TBC
Liverpool, England
Kings Waterfront Tower — five-star hotel, operator not yet announced
A planned 727-foot tower designed to become Liverpool's tallest building would pair a 212-room five-star hotel with 563 luxury residences
Announced · TBCBirmingham, England
The Borough Buildings
A 1909 motor-trade showroom on John Bright Street could gain three storeys and 179 hotel rooms, if planners say yes.
Announced · TBC
Bristol, England
Mary Le Port Hotel
A nine-room hotel promised for a long-empty High Street building whose most recent occupants were squatters, not guests.
Announced · TBC
Glasgow, Scotland
SWG3 Hotel
A music venue's own 'hotel for music lovers,' approved for construction next door but not yet under way.
Announced · TBCUpcoming hotel openings in United Kingdom
Openings listed here are either announced by the operator or confirmed by our editorial team. Dates move — we update them as they do, and we say so when they slip.