5 New Hotels

PRECISE TALE POGGIO ALLA SALA

Montepulciano, Italy

Neither a typical Tuscan villa nor an iconoclastic experiment, Precise Tale Poggio Alla Sala is just unique enough: perfectly capable of delivering the classic experience that makes Tuscany a perennially desirable destination, but with a point of view that makes its version a particularly memorable one.

AMERON MÜNCHEN MOTORWORLD

Munich, Germany

Munich’s Motorworld is difficult to classify — it’s got museum exhibits, vehicle and accessory retailers, specialty workshops, and, in the Ameron, a luxury boutique hotel full of tributes to automotive culture; some studios even allow you to park your own car or motorcycle in a glass-walled garage adjacent to your room.

WYLDER HOTEL WINDHAM

Catskills, NY, USA

This stately clapboard inn has stood on this site in the Catskill Mountains since 1880, and accumulated a handful of outbuildings along the way; today, after a thorough 21st-century renovation, Wylder Windham is part boutique hotel, part mountain resort, and a fine introduction to the modern Catskills lifestyle.

THE AGORA HOTEL

Pano Lefkara, Cyprus

Agora’s Danish owners were also its designers. It would be reductive to call the resulting style a Danish-Mediterranean hybrid, but it also wouldn’t be far from the truth — what elevates it from this formulaic description is the uniqueness of the design decisions, and the care taken with every detail.

LAKE NONA WAVE HOTEL

Orlando, FL, USA

Orlando’s Lake Nona Wave Hotel is known for its technology, and we’re not just talking about its gently curving silhouettes; it’s among the first to feature smart windows, which dim automatically in response to bright sunlight, as well as Toto toilets and, in selected rooms, high-tech beds and sleep-quality apps.