Condé Nast Traveler 2022 Hot List

Each year, luxury and lifestyle travel magazine Condé Nast Traveler index the most exciting new openings in travel, from the fresh-faced hotels worth planning a trip around to boundary-pushing restaurants, cultural draw cards and the destinations that are reinventing themselves. Taking a deep dive this year, editors at all seven worldwide editions had a hand in scouting and selecting the entries for the 26th edition. This may be the hottest Hot List yet.

 “You won’t be blinded by marble or shiny surfaces here. Instead, each of the 40 rooms across six categories have been designed to smoothly blend into the landscape with smooth timber and floor-to-ceiling windows that open to private decks looking over the river or rainforest. Some rooms have outdoor fireplaces, al fresco free-standing baths, and large decks, and all are airy, modern, and deeply comfortable. If you want your jaw to drop, book the lofty two-bedroom Daintree Pavilion with its own infinity pool and spa, surrounded by unspoiled rainforest every which way. It feels like you’re suspended in a secluded treetop home. For something more modest but equally special, book a Treehouse Retreat—if only for the outdoor stone tub. There is nothing quite like a moonlit bath with the living jungle as a backdrop.” – Chloe Sachdev, Condé Nast Traveler.

Set in the world’s oldest living rainforest, the newly reopened luxury lodge from seasoned hoteliers, Baillie Lodges, Silky Oaks Lodge offers access to Australia’s most treasured ecosystems, The Daintree rainforest and the Great Barrier Reef.