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Minor Hotels is converting a Manhattan hotel into The Wolseley Hotel New York. Pictured here is the exterior rendering; below, the bar. The luxury hotel is slated to open in 2027.
Outside New York, one of Minor’ s most anticipated debuts is in Miami. In April, Minor announced Anantara Miami Resort & Residences, the luxury brand’ s first property in the U. S. The planned 50-story tower will feature 100 private branded residences and 120 resort residences with a slated opening date in 2030. Around the same time as the Miami announcement, Minor unveiled
plans for the debut of Anantara again, this time in the Caribbean, with the development of Anantara Turks and Caicos Resort & Residences, scheduled to open in 2029.
MINDING THE GAPS Anantara is stationed at the tip of Minor Hotels’ luxury offerings. The bulk of the hotels are in Thailand, where the brand was started in 2001. It’ s now blossomed into more than 50 properties in an array of settings, from beaches to countryside retreats, desert locales and city centers. Consider and contrast Anantara New York Palace in Budapest, along Erzsébet Körút Boulevard, to the jungle setting of Anantara Golden Triangle, where elephants are the backdrop, not Belle Époque architecture.
In 2025, Anantara was ranked number eight by Travel & Leisure in its list of“ 25 Favorite Hotel Brands,” besting the likes of Belmond and Six Senses. The overwhelming excitement over introducing Anantara on U. S. soil and in the Caribbean is readily evident on the face of Rajakarier, even if his comment is poised in its restraint.“ Bringing Anantara into the U. S. now allows more people to connect to the brand,” he said.
It’ s been a frenzied past 12 months for Minor Hotels. Launching four new brands will have that effect. Beyond The Wolseley Hotels, Minor introduced two new soft brands— Minor Reserve Collection in the luxury segment and Colbert Collection, a soft brand in the premium segment— along with the select-service brand iStay Hotels.
40 hotelsmag. com July / August 2026