The Hottest New Hotel Openings of Summer 2019
"Sophisticated French hoteliers Zannier are a rare breed—they can create safari lodges as easily as they build European urban retreats, while always maintaining a sense of the brand. For their second opening in Namibia, they ditched the earthen huts that helped land Omaanda on our Hot List this year, and went for a more traditional safari style. Inside the 10 one- and two-bedroom canvas tents, guests will find telescopes (perfect for spying onyxes by day and gazing into the vast, inky skies at night), and aside from the standard drives to spot hyena and desert-adapted lions, there’s morning yoga, an open-air cinema and hot air balloon rides over the valleys of arid Sossuvlei. In other words, though it may look the part, Sonop won’t be your typical game drive-style safari, but the engineer of a new breed of trip and access to this part of the world, from a hotel group confident enough to rewrite the rules."
