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Marriott hotels

Greatrooms bring work, conversation and cocktails together within the familiar full-service hotel.

Marriott Hotels is the original full-service hotel brand of the family company J. Willard and Alice Marriott began in Washington, D.C. The business grew from a nine-stool root beer stand in 1927 into restaurants and then the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel in 1957, establishing the hospitality tradition behind its city hotels and resorts.

63 Marriott hotels in 26 countries on the Luxury Hotels Atlas, each placed on the six LHA Tiers.

Owned by Marriott International
Worldwide: 619 open Marriott Hotels properties at year-end 2025; the wider Marriott International system spans many separate brands. Marriott 2025 Form 10-K
On the atlas: 1 High Luxury, 5 Core Luxury, 36 Accessible Luxury, 21 Near Luxury

History

The Marriott family’s restaurant beginnings established an interest in people and service that carried into hotels. Bill Marriott remained closely involved over decades as the collection grew through managed hotels and conversions. In the Atlas, buildings such as a Cairo palace and a former Paris workshop show how individual histories continue beneath the shared name.

Timeline

1927 — J. Willard and Alice Sheets Marriott open a nine-seat A&W root beer franchise in Washington, D.C., with partner Hugh Colton.
1929 — The food business, now serving hot meals as The Hot Shoppes, is incorporated as Hot Shoppes, Inc.
1957 — Hot Shoppes opens its first hotel, the Twin Bridges Motor Hotel in Arlington, and Bill Marriott, Jr. is appointed to lead lodging.
1967 — Hot Shoppes changes its corporate name to Marriott Corporation, folding the growing hotel business into the parent name for the first time.
1985 — J. Willard Marriott Sr. dies. By then the company is a restaurant chain and a hotel company with houses around the world.
1993 — Marriott Corporation splits into two companies: Host Marriott, which keeps most of the real estate, and Marriott International, which takes the management contracts and the lodging brands, a structural move that let Marriott grow hotels without owning the buildings under them.
1995 — Marriott International acquires a controlling stake in The Ritz-Carlton Hotel Company, its first entry into true luxury hospitality, decades after the original Twin Bridges motor inn.
2016 — Marriott International completes its $13 billion acquisition of Starwood Hotels & Resorts, bringing Sheraton, Westin, and The Luxury Collection into the same family as the original Marriott flag and roughly doubling the company's global room count overnight.

The houses to know

Marriott Mena House, Cairo, Giza, Egypt — Khedive Ismail's 1869 rest house beside the Pyramids Road, a hotel since 1886.
Taipei Marriott Hotel, Taipei, Taiwan — Marriott's first hotel in Taiwan, opened in 2015, with a Forbes Four-Star for 2026.
Chiang Mai Marriott Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand — A 421-room house that spent 17 years as Le Méridien, then reopened under Marriott in 2024.
Mulu Marriott Resort & Spa, Mulu, Malaysia — The hotel provides a base near the entrance to Gunung Mulu National Park.
VEA Newport Beach, A Marriott Resort & Spa, Newport Beach, United States — The former Newport Beach Marriott reopened in 2022 under the VEA name.
Wailea Beach Resort, Marriott, Maui, Wailea, United States — Wailea's first hotel, opened in 1976 on 22 acres of beach, between Four Seasons and Grand Wailea.
Boston Marriott Long Wharf, Boston, United States — Araldo Cossutta's 1982 hotel at the head of Boston's oldest wharf.
Fort Lauderdale Marriott Harbor Beach Resort & Spa, Fort Lauderdale, United States — A 650-room house from 1984 on about 1,100 feet of private beach.
Fiji Marriott Resort Momi Bay, Momi Bay, Fiji — A 2017 resort of 250 keys on a man-made lagoon, with overwater bures.
Moscow Marriott Imperial Plaza, Moscow, Russia — The hotel gives Marriott a city address within Moscow’s Krasnoselsky district.

Newest openings

Algarve Marriott Salgados Golf Resort & Spa, Albufeira, Portugal, reopened in May 2025. For years it was the NAU Salgados Palace. Highgate moved it under Marriott in September 2024, renovated through the winter, and brought back 228 rooms over the beach and the golf course, with an auditorium seating 1,598. The Salgados lagoon sits out past the fairways.
Chiang Mai Marriott Hotel, Chiang Mai, Thailand, reopened in 2024. It had spent 17 years as Le Méridien Chiang Mai. Marriott closed it, renovated it, and put the flagship name on 421 rooms. In 2025 it was named Thailand's Leading Conference Hotel at the World Travel Awards, and in 2026 it appeared on Travel + Leisure's World's Best Hotels list.
Penang Marriott Hotel, George Town, Malaysia, opened in 2024 on Gurney Drive, the island's waterfront promenade. Three hundred and one rooms. It is the Marriott Hotels flag's own debut on Penang.

Opening next

No forthcoming Marriott Hotels openings were confirmed for the Atlas selection in the sources reviewed. The wider brand continues to add hotels around the world.