Announced, not open. Here is what 2028 is shaping up to hold.
One filter, applied hard. A project earns a place only if the hotel or its parent group has publicly named a 2028 target, and we link that source. We leave out rumored sites, undated plans and "by the end of the decade" lines. Because none of these hotels exists yet, we do not score them; you cannot rate a stay that has not happened. Instead we give the verifiable shape of each, room counts, location and the honest risk that a date slips. This guide sits in our openings coverage, under the new hotel openings hub, alongside the new luxury hotels in Asia for 2027 and the brand-by-brand Waldorf Astoria pipeline and Mandarin Oriental pipeline. Our method is on the methodology page.
Read it as a watch-list. Each date is a target, not a confirmed opening.
| Hotel | Location | Brand | Shape | Target |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mandarin Oriental Bankside | London, UK | Mandarin Oriental | 171 rooms + 70 residences | 2028 |
| Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami | Miami, USA | Waldorf Astoria | Hotel + residences, Biscayne Bay | Late 2028 |
| Rosewood Exuma | Exuma, Bahamas | Rosewood | 33 suites, private island | 2028 |
| Waldorf Astoria Deer Valley | Deer Valley, USA | Waldorf Astoria | Ski-in/ski-out resort + residences | 2028 |
| Rosewood Barbuda | Barbuda | Rosewood | 50 suites + 35 residences | 2028 |
| Rosewood Shanghai | Shanghai, China | Rosewood | Newbuild city hotel | 2028 |
Targets per each brand's and developer's own announcements, re-confirmed June 2026. Opening years for projects of this scale routinely move; we treat 2028 as a target.
The biggest city debut on the list. A 171-room flagship on the South Bank.
What is announced: Mandarin Oriental's third London hotel, set within the Bankside Yards development between Tate Modern and Blackfriars, in a 33-storey tower with 171 rooms and 70 residences, a 25-metre pool and a top-floor destination restaurant. The brand and the developer both name a 2028 opening.
Why it matters: A new big-city flagship from a top-tier brand is rarer than another resort, and the St Paul's views give it a real address. Honest caveat: it sits inside a large mixed-use scheme, the kind most prone to phasing, so 2028 is a target to watch rather than a date to bank. More in our London hotel guide.
Sources: Bankside Yards (Mandarin Oriental, 2028); Business Traveller (third London hotel, 2028).
A Biscayne Bay tower carrying the Waldorf Astoria name back to Miami.
What is announced: A hotel-and-residences project on Biscayne Bay under the Waldorf Astoria brand, reported as slated for a late-2028 opening. It pairs hotel keys with private residences in a single landmark tower in the city's core.
Why it matters: Miami's luxury pipeline is deep, and a Waldorf Astoria adds a heritage brand to a skyline led lately by newer names. Honest caveat: residence-led towers often open the homes first and the hotel second, so the hotel date is the one to confirm, not the tower's topping-out. See our Miami hotel guide.
Sources: TopHotel News (Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami); Hilton Waldorf Astoria development announcements, 2026.
A 33-suite private island. The smallest and most exclusive name here.
What is announced: Rosewood's Bahamas debut, on a 124-acre private island in the Exuma chain, with just 33 suites, developed with the Yntegra Group and targeting 2028. It joins Rosewood's wider Caribbean push.
Why it matters: Private-island resorts at this size are scarce, and a single-digit-hundred key count points to genuine seclusion rather than scale. Honest caveat: remote island builds are among the slowest to finish, and access logistics, not just the build, shape the real opening; confirm both before planning travel. See our most exclusive hotels.
Sources: Rosewood Exuma (33 suites, private island, 2028); Rosewood (Caribbean expansion).
A ski-in, ski-out resort at the base of new Deer Valley terrain.
What is announced: A Waldorf Astoria resort and residences at Deer Valley East Village, announced in early 2026, sited by the base of new terrain near the resort's longest run, with an anticipated 2028 opening.
Why it matters: Branded ski real estate is in short supply, and a Waldorf Astoria at a major Utah resort is a clear statement in that market. Honest caveat: mountain construction seasons are short, which makes ski-resort dates especially prone to a year's slip; treat 2028 as the optimistic end. More in our best ski luxury hotels.
Rosewood's other Caribbean island debut, larger than Exuma.
What is announced: A Barbuda resort developed by Murbee Resorts, with 50 resort suites and 35 Rosewood Residences, built around the brand's "sense of place" approach and targeting 2028.
Why it matters: It gives Rosewood two distinct Caribbean openings in the same year, one intimate (Exuma) and one a touch larger (Barbuda), letting you choose seclusion or a fuller resort. Honest caveat: Barbuda's small scale and storm exposure make timelines and access the real questions; the brand promise is clear, the calendar less so. See our new hotel openings hub.
Sources: Luxury Travel Advisor (Rosewood Barbuda, 50 suites, 2028).
The list's major Asian city entry, a newbuild for China's largest city.
What is announced: Rosewood has been appointed by the Shanghai developer Lonsen Land Group to manage a newbuild hotel in the city, expected to open in 2028. It would be Rosewood's first in Shanghai.
Why it matters: A new ultra-luxury flagship in Shanghai is a meaningful gap-filler for the brand in mainland China's commercial capital. Honest caveat: the announcement names a manager and a year but little public detail on rooms or design yet, so this is the least specified entry here; expect the picture to fill in closer to the date. More in our Shanghai hotel guide.
A target year is a statement of intent, not a reservation. Large hotels move dates for ordinary reasons: financing, permitting, a hard winter on a mountain, a storm season on an island. The projects most likely to hold are simple builds by experienced operators; the ones most likely to slip are the big mixed-use towers and the remote resorts, which is most of this list. Read the year as "watch from here," not "book around."
If 2028 is your horizon, save the one or two that fit your kind of trip, a city flagship or an island, and check the brand's newsroom each quarter for a firmed-up date and a reservation-open window. We refresh this page as confirmations land, and we move any project that drops out of 2028 rather than leave a date standing. For what is opening sooner, our year-by-year openings pages carry hotels you can actually book this year and next.
Among the firmly announced projects with a stated 2028 target: Mandarin Oriental Bankside in London (171 rooms at Bankside Yards), the Waldorf Astoria Hotel & Residences Miami on Biscayne Bay, Rosewood Exuma in the Bahamas (33 suites on a private island), Waldorf Astoria Deer Valley in Utah, Rosewood Barbuda (50 suites) and Rosewood Shanghai. All are announced, none has opened, and any date can move.
No. Every property on this page is still in development, so there are no bookable rooms and no real nightly rates yet. Reservations typically open a few months before a confirmed opening. Treat 2028 as a planning signal, not a date to hold travel against, and confirm directly with the brand before you commit anything around a stay.
Soft. Construction, financing and permitting routinely push luxury openings back by a year or more, and brands often announce a year before anything is certain. We only list projects that carry a sourced 2028 target from the hotel or its parent group, we flag the ones tied to large mixed-use developments, and we re-verify the dates on each update rather than repeat an old announcement.
For a major city, Mandarin Oriental Bankside is the headline: a 171-room flagship on London's South Bank with views toward St Paul's, the group's third in the city. For resorts, Rosewood's run stands out, with Exuma, Barbuda and Shanghai all targeting the same year. Significance depends on whether you want a city landmark or a remote island debut.
Several are both. Mandarin Oriental Bankside pairs 171 hotel rooms with 70 residences; the Waldorf Astoria projects in Miami and Deer Valley and Rosewood Barbuda all combine a hotel with private residences. That matters because residence-led schemes can open in phases, and the hotel portion sometimes follows the homes. We note the hotel component specifically rather than the headline tower.
Watch the brand newsrooms and the developer updates: Mandarin Oriental, Hilton's Waldorf Astoria and Rosewood each post opening confirmations and reservation-open dates ahead of launch. We track those and roll this page forward, correcting any project that slips out of 2028 rather than leaving a stale date in place.
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