Hotels opening soon in United Kingdom

London, England

The Other House Covent Garden

Seven historic Wellington Street buildings, including a former rectory, become the second address for a residence-club hotel format

Upscale/Boutique (residence-club format) · 146 rooms

London, England

Cambridge House, Auberge Resorts Collection

Auberge's UK debut, inside the former In & Out military club overlooking Green Park

Luxury · 102 rooms

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.

Upscale apartment-hotel · 70 rooms

Cardiff, Wales

Spark by Hilton Cardiff

Hilton's value brand makes its first entry into Wales

Economy · 51 rooms

Coventry, England

Spark by Hilton Coventry

Hilton's value brand adds a third Coventry address, this one near the university hospital

Economy · 48 rooms

Derby, England

Spark by Hilton Derby

Derby's first Hilton-flagged hotel, next to the railway station

Economy · 100 rooms

Doncaster, England

Spark by Hilton Doncaster

A budget Hilton overlooking Doncaster Racecourse

Economy · 51 rooms

Hull, England

Spark by Hilton Hull

Hull's first Hilton-flagged hotel, near the Port of Hull

Economy · 51 rooms

Peterborough, England

Spark by Hilton Peterborough

Peterborough's first Hilton-flagged hotel, just off the A1(M)

Economy · 99 rooms

Runcorn, England

Spark by Hilton Runcorn

Runcorn's first Hilton-flagged hotel, next to the railway station

Economy · 53 rooms

Sunderland, England

Spark by Hilton Sunderland

A budget Hilton near the Stadium of Light

Economy · 63 rooms

Wakefield, England

Spark by Hilton Wakefield

Wakefield's first Hilton-flagged hotel, south of the centre

Economy · 77 rooms

Washington, England

Spark by Hilton Washington

Hilton's first hotel in Washington, Tyne and Wear, not the US capital

Economy · 79 rooms

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.

Luxury / Boutique · 75 rooms

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.

Boutique · 19 rooms

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

Luxury boutique · 82 rooms

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

Upscale (4-star) · 172 rooms

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

Upscale/Boutique · 49 rooms

London, England

Waldorf Astoria London, Admiralty Arch

Waldorf Astoria's UK debut restores a 1912 monument opposite Buckingham Palace.

Luxury · 114 rooms

From £660

London, England

The St. Regis London

St Regis makes its first UK entrance at the old Westbury site in Mayfair.

Luxury · 193 rooms

From £755

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.

Luxury lifestyle · 167 rooms

From £350

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.

Upscale / Lifestyle · 144 rooms

Belfast, Northern Ireland

YOTEL Belfast

A £17m cabin-style newcomer aimed at Shaftesbury Square, if a sewer-capacity dispute doesn't delay it first.

Boutique / Lifestyle · 165 rooms

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.

Upper-upscale · 401 rooms

Belfast, Northern Ireland

Lindsay House

Vacant 1950s office block reborn as a mid-century boutique hotel in Belfast

Boutique · 76 rooms

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.

Luxury / 5-star · 50 rooms

York, England

room2 York

Lamington Group's net-zero room2 brand makes its Northern England debut.

Upscale · 116 rooms

Manchester, England

W Manchester

Gary Neville's £400m St Michael's tower brings W Hotels, and its residences brand, to the north of England

Luxury lifestyle · 162 rooms

Edinburgh, Scotland

The Bindery

A historic book-bindery in Edinburgh's New Town, converted into Code Concepts' first boutique hotel

Design-led boutique · 84 rooms

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

Upscale lifestyle · 120 rooms

London, England

The Oberoi, Mayfair

Oberoi's first hotel outside Asia and the Middle East arrives in Mayfair with just 23 rooms

Luxury · 23 rooms

Manchester, England

Motto by Hilton Manchester Piccadilly

Manchester's first Motto by Hilton micro-hotel, rising 21 storeys in Piccadilly Basin

Upscale lifestyle (micro-hotel) · 154 rooms

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

Upscale boutique/lifestyle · 129 rooms

Manchester

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.

Luxury · 264 rooms

Inverness, Highland, Scotland

KIN

A £28 million conversion meets the Highlands' shortage of luxury rooms.

Luxury · 72 rooms

Birmingham, England

Radisson RED Edgbaston Stadium

A pitch-facing Radisson RED rising inside Edgbaston Stadium's £42m redevelopment, targeted for the 2027 Ashes

Upscale lifestyle (4-star) · 146 rooms

Windsor, England

Soho River House Windsor

A 400-year-old Thames-side mansion becomes Soho House's first racquet and rowing club

Boutique / lifestyle members' club · 93 rooms

London, England

Premier Inn Vauxhall

Whitbread converts a vacant 10-storey office tower opposite Vauxhall Underground station into a 180-room Premier Inn, leased from Lambeth Council.

Budget/Midscale · 180 rooms

Brighton, England

Premier Inn Brighton City Centre (Seafront)

Whitbread tops out its second Premier Inn in Brighton, a 187-room new build on West Street running down toward the seafront.

Budget/Midscale · 187 rooms

London, England

Wilde Aparthotels Vauxhall

Staycity's Wilde brand plans a 185-room, 11-storey aparthotel on the Vauxhall and Nine Elms edge of Lambeth.

Upscale · 185 rooms

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.

Boutique "hometel" — a hybrid format combining hotel service with studio and suite layouts built for both short stays and extended residency · 191 rooms

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.

Luxury · 171 rooms

London, England

hub by Premier Inn London Southwark

Whitbread's first hub by Premier Inn south of the Thames, in a nine-storey former office block on Stamford Street.

Budget/Compact · 421 rooms

London, England

Clayton Hotel London Tower 42

A 154-room Clayton rising at 20 Old Broad Street, at the foot of Tower 42, with planning consent granted in February 2026.

Upscale · 154 rooms

London, England

hub by Premier Inn 5 Strand

Whitbread breaks ground on a £200m, 693-room hub by Premier Inn at 5 Strand, metres from Trafalgar Square, set to be one of London's largest budget hotels.

Budget/Compact · 693 rooms

London, England

voco London, Waterloo

IHG's upscale voco brand takes one half of a new 14-storey tower opposite the Imperial War Museum

Upscale · 182 rooms

London, England

Hotel Indigo & Suites London, Waterloo

Europe's first Hotel Indigo & Suites shares a new Waterloo tower with a separately branded voco

Upscale/Boutique · 172 rooms

London, England

Radisson RED London Leman Street

The lifestyle brand's first hotel in central London, rising on Leman Street near Aldgate East

Upscale/Lifestyle

London, England

Maldron Hotel Kensington

Dalata's seventh London hotel: a 371-room, four-star Maldron on Hammersmith Road beside Olympia, with planning approval granted in July 2026 and opening set for 2029.

Upscale · 371 rooms

Manchester

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.

Luxury · 160 rooms

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.

Boutique/Lifestyle · 150 rooms

Nottingham, England

Hotel Indigo, The Island Quarter

155 boutique rooms anchoring a 17-storey dual-brand IHG tower in Nottingham's Island Quarter regeneration

Upscale · 155 rooms

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

Upscale extended-stay · 68 rooms

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

Premium · 128 rooms

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.

Boutique · 88 rooms

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.

Upscale · 158 rooms

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.

Luxury · 120 rooms

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.

Upscale (aparthotel) · 145 rooms

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.

Upscale lifestyle (Marriott soft brand) · 198 rooms

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.

Boutique · 45 rooms

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"

Boutique · 43 rooms

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

Uncertain — the conservation-led approach and heritage setting point toward a boutique/heritage positioning, but the small scale and suburban business-park location make the segment genuinely unclear · 24 rooms

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

Upscale (advertised 4-star) · 156 rooms

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

Luxury/Five-star (segment not yet confirmed by an operator) · 212 rooms

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

Luxury/Five-star (segment not yet confirmed by an operator)

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.

Independent boutique · 9 rooms

Birmingham, 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.

Positioning not yet disclosed — plans describe a hotel with co-working space, aimed at the site's central location rather than a stated brand tier · 179 rooms

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.

Hotel/aparthotel hybrid — roughly half the rooms include a kitchenette, pointing toward an extended-stay positioning rather than a conventional leisure-hotel brand · 40 rooms

Glasgow, Scotland

SWG3 Hotel

A music venue's own 'hotel for music lovers,' approved for construction next door but not yet under way.

Lifestyle/Boutique · 142 rooms

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.

Boutique

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.

Lifestyle / Upscale · 186 rooms

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.

Upscale / luxury · 140 rooms

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.

Upscale / lifestyle (adaptive reuse)

Oxford, England

Zedwell Oxford

Criterion Capital is converting a six-storey mixed-use building on Magdalen Street into Oxford's first capsule hotel, extending its tech-driven Zedwell concept beyond London.

Upscale / lifestyle (adaptive reuse) · 276 rooms

London, England

Zedwell Spitalfields

Criterion Capital is stacking a vertical extension onto a vacant Bell Lane office block to give Zedwell's windowless capsule format its first Spitalfields address, wedged between the market and Liverpool Street.

Budget (windowless capsule format) · 143 rooms

St Ives, Cornwall

Premier Inn St Ives

Whitbread won a planning appeal for a 90-bedroom hotel in St Ives, overturning a refusal that its own case officers had recommended against

Budget/Midscale · 90 rooms