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    Hottest of the hot hotels

    Sparkling downtown Dallas hotel claims coveted spot on new Conde Nast Traveler Hot List

    Stephanie Allmon Merry
    May 6, 2021 | 4:40 pm

    A luxe downtown Dallas hotel has captured a coveted spot on Conde Nast Traveler's Hot List for 2021: Thompson Dallas was the city's only hotel to make the prestigious list of 69 best new hotels from around the world. Two Austin properties round out a Texas trio: Commodore Perry Estate and Hotel Magdalena.

     

    Part of the lifestyle hospitality brand Thompson Hotels, the Dallas hotel opened in November 2020 in the historic George Dahl-designed building now known as The National on Akard Street. Developed by award-winning firm Todd Interests, Thompson Dallas was a $460 million preservation project that involved restoration and reuse of salvaged materials.

     

    To curate this year's Hot List, released May 6, the publication's editors tested hundreds of new hotels across the globe, eventually narrowing it down to an unranked list of 69 — only 24 of which are in the United States and Canada. It is the 25th anniversary edition of the magazine's highly respected roundup.

     

    As for what merits Thompson Dallas' place, Conde Nast Traveler writes:

     
     

    As the brand’s first foray into Texas, everything is bigger — except for the lobby, a bookshelf-lined, flower-covered extended corridor of sorts that pushes you off the street and into the elevator bank to whisk you up and away. You’ll find the most amenities on the sprawling 9th and 10th floors, which seem designed for social distancing and have two acres of all-weather outdoor space between them — a rarity downtown, and at the city’s hotels overall — with cozy outdoor fireplaces, a terrace attached to its loungey Catbird bar, and a lap pool complete with resort-style cabanas. Spacious room interiors nod to the building’s origins in the 1960s with Mad Men-meets-urban cowboy decor that mixes brass accents with cow print and leather.

     

     

    Thompson Dallas exists alongside The National Residences, 324 luxury high-rise apartments. And an opulent spa offers gorgeous downtown views.

     

    The Austin properties that made the Hot List are no strangers to raves from national travel publications. In fact, both Commodore Perry Estate and Hotel Magdalena just earned Texas' only spots on Travel + Leisure's list of the world’s best new hotels.

     

    Commodore Perry is a 10-acre lavish estate originally built in 1928 as the country home of Nannie Lewette “Lutie” and Commodore Edgar Perry. It is now part of the Auberge Resorts Collection hotel portfolio, which upgraded the historic Austin property with an additional three-story building and reopened last year.

     

     Conde Nast Traveler lauds the property's setting as much as its design, saying, "The drive in can feel as though you’ve entered a European retreat far from Central Austin’s Hyde Park neighborhood ... It’s easy to forget the surging tech-opolis of downtown is just 10 minutes away."

     

    Hotel Magdalena, which opened last fall, is the South Congress Avenue beauty from Austin-based hospitality biz Bunkhouse Group. Its founder, Liz Lambert, is behind other such beloved hotel brands as Austin’s Hotel San Jose and Hotel Saint Cecilia, as well as El Cosmico, the funky Marfa property featuring yurts, teepees, and quirky trailers.

     

    The magazine notes that the hotel's furnishings pay homage to the neighborhood's roots and its pool draws on the area's swimming hole culture. "Conceived and executed largely by women, Magdalena is welcoming and intuitive, a fitting nod to its namesake, the patron saint of the ladies," it says.

     

    The Hot List has existed for 25 years, but editors admit that releasing this year's edition after a year-long global pandemic saw some challenges. It also, however, allowed them to present a story of resilience.

     

    "Despite enormous hardship in the travel industry, exceptional properties have continued to open across the globe (nearly a thousand last year in the U.S. alone)," they say. "In spite of it all, the following pages are full of successes."

    The Thompson Dallas was the only Dallas hotel to make the list.

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    Photo by Gus Schmiege
    The Thompson Dallas was the only Dallas hotel to make the list.
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    Dallas' Southwest Airlines to add Virgin Islands as a new destination

    Teresa Gubbins
    Jul 14, 2025 | 9:36 am
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    Dallas-based Southwest Airlines is adding a tropical new destination: The Caribbean. According to a release, the carrier intends to add new service at Cyril E. King International Airport (STT) on St. Thomas, in U.S. Virgin Islands, with service expected to begin in early 2026, subject to governmental approvals, and available for purchase soon.

    Southwest Airlines president and CEO Bob Jordan says in a statement that the new service is in response to customer demand.

    "We are listening closely to what our Customers want—from new products and loyalty benefits to new destinations," Jordan says. "We want to make Southwest Airlines the easy and obvious choice every time, and this is another meaningful step in our ongoing transformation."

    About 40 miles east of Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands comprise a U.S. territory in the northeastern Caribbean Sea. The three islands are St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas, where the capital of Charlotte Amalie is located. The U.S. Virgin Islands, which is on Eastern Standard Time, features world-renowned beaches, an international marine industry, European architecture, and a burgeoning restaurant industry.

    Perhaps best of all, no passports are required from U.S. citizens traveling from the U.S. or Puerto Rico.

    There are currently flights to St. Thomas from DFW Airport, flown by American Airlines, Delta, and Spirit. A nonstop flight from DFW to St. Thomas is a little under 5 hours.

    St. Thomas is the first of three new destinations for 2026 the carrier expects to announce this summer. It will be the ninth island destination served by Southwest in the Atlantic Basin – joining Aruba, The Bahamas, Cayman Islands, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Jamaica, Puerto Rico, and Turks and Caicos Islands.

    Southwest also offers international service to Belize, two destinations in Costa Rica, and three destinations in Mexico.

    In addition to offering new destinations, Southwest also is set to begin selling assigned and premium seating in the third quarter of this year and plans to operate with its new fare bundles and a reconfigured fleet, including extra legroom seating, in the first quarter of 2026.

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