W Hotels has announced plans to open their very first Paris property by 2011. It will be close to Place Vendome, in the Opéra area of the city.

W Paris-Opéra will feature 90 stylish guest rooms, a world-class contemporary restaurant and destination bar, a state-of-the-art fitness facility with spa treatment rooms, and W Hotels’ signature lounge experience where guests are invited to mix, mingle and relax in a chic social atmosphere.

The hotel will be inside a “quintessentially Parisian” 1870s Haussmann-era building, close to the Galleries Lafayette.

In late 2009, visitors flying into Barcelona will see what looks to be a giant windsail on the coast right next to the entrance to the Port of Barcelona.

Except this windsail is actually the W Hotel Barcelona scheduled to open on October 1, 2009.

The W Hotel Barcelona will be the second W to open in Europe (W Istanbul was the first). But like all Ws it will debut with a bang due to its location right at the foot of the Mediterranean Sea in a building designed by Spain’s most famous architect Ricardo Bofill.

The W Hong Kong, the first W in Greater China, has been up and running for a couple of weeks, and the hardware looks absolutely spectacular! All 393 guestrooms have stunning Hong Kong skyline views thanks to its prominent location on a small peninsula adjacent to the epicenter of high end Kowloon shopping and entertainment.

The area is right on the commercial waterfront, so instead of luxury yachts you are more likely to look out onto imposingly large freight and cargo ships.

W Hotels, the fastest growing luxury hotel brand in the world, is set to open the region’s first W hotel in Doha in March 2009.

Designed by UK-based firm United Designers The W Doha is owned by J&A Jaidah, principals of J&A Jaidah Holdings, one of the most well known and well respected private companies in the Middle East.

The luxury hotel is located in the West Bay area of Doha, and features 291 guest rooms and suites, 154 residences, several restaurants including La Maison du Caviar and Spice Market, a poolside shisha lounge, champagne bar, 1,000sqm of meeting and events space, and luxury retail outlets.