The 2026 hot list: the 56 best new hotels in France, Greece, Italy, Portugal and Spain

Montmartre gets the Touriste treatment at Hôtel Luxia, a 44-room address at the foot of the Butte, between Marché Saint-Pierre and the streets below Sacré-Cœur. Founded by Adrien Gloaguen in 2008, the Paris group is known for turning small hotels into design-led addresses with distinct decorators, from Luke Edward Hall’s Hôtel Les Deux Gares to Beata Heuman’s Hôtel de La Boétie and Dorothée Meilichzon’s Hôtel Panache. Here, Necchi Architecture and Savvy Studio, the agency of Mexico City designer Rafael Prieto, lean into 1990s references, checkerboard motifs, cork-covered rooms and a spa with a cinematic Montmartre pulse.

Pigalle’s old rock club now has room keys, which is exactly the kind of Paris excess worth taking seriously. Hôtel Bus Palladium turns the 1965 nightlife landmark into a five-star, 35-room hotel by Chapitre Six Hotels, with Studio KO pushing the building into cork walls, raw concrete, red velvet, microphone-stem door handles and vintage ‘On-Air’ sliders. Caroline de Maigret handles the artistic direction, from amber scent to playlists and denim-corduroy uniforms. Book the Dalí Suite for 70 square metres, a balcony, red neon view, Murphy bed and retro-futurist furniture; stay downstairs for Valentin Raffali’s restaurant-bar and the revived Bus Palladium club.

Opposite the Sorbonne in Paris’s fifth arrondissement, Hôtel Salvia Paris is for days when you want the Latin Quarter outside, then a quiet reset inside. Rooms are compact and honest: Cocoon starts at nine square metres, Prestige goes up to twenty-three, with a top-floor option that looks towards the Panthéon and the university rooftops. Smart TVs come with Chromecast, there’s Nespresso in-room and the higher categories add reversible air conditioning. Pets under ten kilos are welcome, which says a lot about the vibe.

In Paris’s 16th arrondissement near the Arc de Triomphe, L’Aventure is a Beaumarly mash-up of five-star hotel, restaurant and private club, designed to keep you in the building all night. Public spaces by Martin Brudnizki Design Studio riff on Victor Hugo’s The Legend of the Ages, with Art Deco mood, polished marble, velvet and mythological mosaics, plus digital scenography and lighting by Isometrix. Upstairs, the 15-room hotel is Vincent Darré’s playground, with hand-painted surrealist frescoes and scavenged furniture that swings between Haussmannian and 1970s.