The 9 Most Anticipated Hotels of 2025 in Africa & the Middle East

2025 is acceptable to go a landmark twelvemonth for luxury hotels and we commencement our planetary New Hotel and Resort Openings bid successful Africa and the Middle East. Poised to redefine luxury and architectural grandeur and harvester with sustainability and unsocial offerings, present is simply a look astatine 9 properties which person been confirmed to unfastened adjacent twelvemonth successful Africa and the Middle East.

Basecamp Samburu

Opening January 2025 Basecamp Samburu affords guests the accidental to observe Kenya’s wildlife successful the hidden bluish scenery of Samburu. Get disconnected the beaten way astatine this exclusive five-tented luxury safari campy featuring once-in-a-lifetime sleepout starbeds, including open-air jacuzzi for escapade lovers who privation to slumber retired nether the African sky. Basecamp Samburu is nestled successful a serene vale successful Kalama Conservancy with breathtaking views of the majestic Mt. Ololokwe is built with eco-friendly materials sourced locally and echoes the aboriginal safaris of the 1920s, with its under-canvas tented campy experience.

Mama Shelter Dubai

Scheduled to unfastened January 2025, Mama Shelter Dubai volition beryllium the brand’s 19th edifice and archetypal successful the Middle East. The spot volition unfastened with 197 rooms and 204 apartments, aggregate eating options, an outdoor Cine´Mama (which is their outdoor movie theater) and galore different amenities. Located successful Dubai’s thriving concern center, guests tin instrumentality vantage of the terrace with 4 pools, cozy interruption rooms for well-deserved pauses, a gym and a bold plan throughout.

Mbamba

The latest from Natural Selection, which offers singular experiences successful wild, untouched places, is acceptable to unfastened successful April 2025 successful Botswana’s Northern Okavango Delta. Situated connected a immense 220,000-acre concession, offering a mosaic of ecosystems, Mbamba is the companies newest tented campy acceptable to connection superb crippled viewing year-round. Comprising 12 canvas tents designed to exude vintage charm, they diagnostic en-suite bathrooms and backstage verandas acceptable connected raised woody decks nether the shadiness of leadwood trees. Guests volition beryllium immersed into quality of the surrounding Okavango Delta and on with exhilarating wildlife experiences, volition bask 2 lounges, an intimate room and a swimming excavation connected property.  

The Oberoi Melouk and Malekat, Luxury Nile Dahabeyas

Blending the humanities charm of past Egypt with the modern luxuries and unparalleled work that specify the Oberoi experience, The Oberoi Melouk and Malekat, Luxury Nile Dahabeya are acceptable to motorboat Q1 2025. Set to contiguous a caller modular for Nile cruising, the sanction of the vessel is derived from the Arabic connection "Dahabeya," meaning "the aureate one”, which has a affluent past of elegant sailing vessels dating backmost to the precocious 1800s. Powered and navigated by a tugboat and wind, the Dahabeya represents the pinnacle of sophistication and elegance successful Nile cruising offering an intimate sailing acquisition featuring 7 luxurious rooms. The itineraries are designed for leisurely exploration of Egypt's past history, offering six- and four-night cruises betwixt Luxor and Aswan. The Oberoi, Luxury Nile Dahabeyas volition besides connection exclusive authentic experiences connected board, specified arsenic workplace to array Egyptian and Nubian cooking classes arsenic good arsenic sportfishing with the locals and visits to section rootlike gardens and farms. One of The Oberoi, Dahabeyas volition beryllium the lone dahabeya sailing the Nile which is exclusively for afloat buyouts.

Kempinski Residences The Creek Dubai

Overlooking Ras Al Khor Wildlife Sanctuary, Kempinski Residences The Creek Dubai volition contiguous a postulation of 285 elegant apartments. Opening Spring 2025, the residences are acceptable successful 2 eye-catching buildings ranging from one-bedroom to four-bedroom duplexes and connection guests an accidental for mindful surviving successful Dubai. Situated successful Al Jaddaf connected the banks of Dubai Creek, the residences are surrounded by landscaped gardens, a swimming pool, padel tennis, formation volleyball and hoops tribunal arsenic good arsenic abundant abstraction for outdoor exercises. Owners volition besides person entree to a sizable gym and fittingness halfway with a presumption to the greenish gardens, a backstage cinema and a residents’ clubhouse that volition enactment arsenic a hub for the proprietor community.

Anantara Kafue River Tented Camp

Located successful the expansive Kafue National Park successful Zambia, the oldest and largest of the country’s nationalist parks, Anantara Kafue River Tented Camp volition unfastened successful Q2 of 2025. Set on the banks of the Kafue River, suspended 12 feet supra the ground, the campy volition connection 12 spacious tents, including a 6.500 sq. ft. Presidential Villa. Owned by Agro Safari and successful concern with Minor Hotels, the Camp volition immerse guests successful the bosom of a nationalist parkland populated with majestic wildlife. The campy volition besides accommodate a spa and wellness country with a swimming pool, a edifice and bar, a lounge and a accepted African boma. 

Six Senses Residences Dubai Marina

Also scheduled to unfastened the 2nd fractional of 2025, Six Senses Residences Dubai Marina volition emergence and beryllium the world’s tallest residential tower. Taking a holistic approach, wellness-centric and community-enhancing infrastructure elements and amenities, the residential offerings volition see Penthouses, Royal Penthouses, and duplex Sky Villas, unneurotic with 9 five-bedroom beachfront Signature Villas, each offering a backstage garden, infinity pool, and palm-framed views to the beach. Set to connection 251 residences including its five--bedroom triplex entity mansions and the Skydeck’s stunning 25-meter thigh excavation connected the 109th floor, what’s genuinely peculiar is the suite of wellness amenities. Spread crossed 4 levels, determination is 61,250 sq. ft. offering a scope of wellness offerings combining high-tech subject and diagnostics with high-touch services uniquely themed to beforehand well-being.

Six Senses Triple Bay, AMAALA

Opening the 2nd fractional of 2025, the beachfront residences, a hillside colony and villas embodies Saudi Arabia’s transformative Vision 2030 program. Derived from the Arabic connection for anticipation and the Sanskrit connection for purity, AMAALA blends the area’s earthy natural quality with elegance lining a backstage mangrove bay. The 64 rooms, six suites, 30 villas and 25 branded residences are inspired by the region’s accepted coastal villages. Offering panoramic views crossed the Hijaz Cove to the Red Sea and winding streets and paths starring to enchanting plazas, the spot volition beryllium a big of activities based connected AMAALA's 3 pillars of ‘wellness and sports’, ‘arts and culture’, and ‘sea, sun, and lifestyle’. 

The Red Sea EDITION

Set to beryllium the company’s 2nd edifice successful the Middle East, The Red Sea EDITION volition unfastened successful 2025 connected the main land of The Red Sea Project, Shura. EDITION’s 2nd edifice successful Saudi Arabia volition diagnostic 240 rooms, including one-, two- and three-bedroom suites, arsenic good arsenic 2 restaurants and aggregate bars on with a gym, swimming excavation and spa.

Two different properties which person been rumored to open, but not confirmed by JustLuxe, are Clinique La Prairie Health Resort Amaala and Fregate Island Private.