So what currently are the top hotels, resorts and spas?
It’s a question sure to inspire much debate, but Travel + Leisure has just come out with a book containing its second annual compilation of top picks. About 450 properties around the world made the grade, including some that are not yet household names. Among them are the Nine Zero hotel in Boston; the 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville; The James Chicago; the Alden in Houston; and the revamped Sunset Tower Hotel in West Hollywood. I peeked into the Sunset Tower recently; its restaurant is a hotspot for celebs including Jennifer Aniston.
In Asia, Thailand’s Chiva-Som health resort, voted top destination spa by T+L readers, is clearly a rising star, too.
The Best of 2007 book is sold in softcover for $19.95 and hardcover for $34.95 at bookstores and via the T+L website.
Meanwhile, Small Luxury Hotels of the World (members include the fabulous Post Ranch Inn in California) was just rated the most prestigious hotel brand in a survey of about 1,600 Americans with an average net worth of $3.3 million done for the Luxury Institute. Ritz-Carlton was second and Peninsula was third. What do readers think of this finding?
