Featured Hotels 2026

Every year our editors research thousands of properties for the Hotelier's Choice guides. The 4133 hotels listed here — across 393 destinations — earned Featured Hotel recognition for 2026. Selection is editorial and cannot be purchased.

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• Aberdeenshire (9)
• Abu Dhabi (10)
• Accra (9)
• Agadir (9)
• Agra (10)
• Aix en Provence (10)
• Alicante (8)
• Alula (8)
• Amalfi Coast (9)
• Amman (10)
• Amsterdam (24)
• Annapolis (10)
• Antalya (10)
• Antibes (10)
• Antigua (10)
• Antwerp (10)
• Arequipa (9)
• Aruba (9)
• Asheville (8)
• Aspen (9)
• Athens (13)
• Atlanta (10)
• Auckland (10)
• Austin (10)
• Azores (9)
• Bahamas (9)
• Bahrain (7)
• Bali (34)
• Banff (10)
• Bangkok (22)
• Barbados (10)
• Barcelona (25)
• Bath (11)
• Batumi (7)
• Beijing (9)
• Belfast (10)
• Belgrade (9)
• Berat (8)
• Bergen (10)
• Berlin (20)
• Biarritz (10)
• Big Sky (9)
• Bilbao (10)
• Bodrum (8)
• Bogota (10)
• Bolzano (9)
• Bora Bora (7)
• Boracay (9)
• Bordeaux (6)
• Boston (11)
• Bournemouth (7)
• Brecon Beacons (10)
• Brighton (10)
• Bristol (9)
• Bruges (10)
• Bucharest (9)
• Budapest (17)
• Budva (7)
• Buenos Aires (10)
• Busan (10)
• Cadiz (10)
• Calgary (10)
• Cambridge (10)
• Cancun (19)
• Cannes (10)
• Canterbury (10)
• Cape Cod (10)
• Cape Town (9)
• Cape Verde (9)
• Capri (10)
• Cardiff (6)
• Carmel By the Sea (10)
• Cartagena (9)
• Catania (10)
• Causeway Coast (10)
• Cebu (9)
• Chamonix (10)
• Charleston (10)
• Charlotte (10)
• Chengdu (10)
• Chester (8)
• Chiang Mai (10)
• Chiang Rai (9)
• Chicago (11)
• Cinque Terre (10)
• Colombo (10)
• Comporta (9)
• Connemara (10)
• Copenhagen (15)
• Corfu (10)
• Cork (10)
• Cornwall (10)
• Corsica (10)
• Costa Brava (10)
• Cotswolds (11)
• Crete (10)
• Cusco (9)
• Da Nang (10)
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• Dhaka (9)
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• Donegal (10)
• Dorset (9)
• Dubai (30)
• Dublin (22)
• Dubrovnik (9)
• Dundee (8)
• Edinburgh (20)
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• Fez (10)
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• Fort Lauderdale (10)
• Fort Walton Beach (10)
• Fort William (9)
• Fukuoka (1)
• Galle (9)
• Galveston (10)
• Galway (7)
• Gatlinburg (10)
• Gdansk (10)
• Ghent (10)
• Girona (10)
• Glasgow (6)
• Goa (10)
• Gold Coast (10)
• Gothenburg (10)
• Granada (8)
• Graz (9)
• Guadalajara (9)
• Guangzhou (10)
• Hakone (13)
• Halifax (9)
• Hallstatt (10)
• Hamburg (11)
• Hangzhou (10)
• Hanoi (10)
• Harrogate (7)
• Helsinki (9)
• Hilton Head (10)
• Hiroshima (10)
• Ho Chi Minh City (10)
• Hobart (10)
• Hoi an (9)
• Hong Kong (10)
• Honolulu (10)
• Houston (10)
• Hua Hin (9)
• Hurghada (9)
• Hvar (10)
• Ibiza (10)
• Interlaken (10)
• Inverness (7)
• Isle of Skye (9)
• Istanbul (23)
• Jackson Hole (10)
• Jaipur (10)
• Jasper (10)
• Jeddah (8)
• Kanazawa (9)
• Kansas City (8)
• Kaohsiung (10)
• Kathmandu (10)
• Kauai (10)
• Kerala (10)
• Key West (10)
• Kilkenny (9)
• Killarney (10)
• Koh Samui (9)
• Kotor (9)
• Krabi (9)
• Krakow (8)
• Kruger (10)
• Kuala Lumpur (10)
• Kyoto (28)
• Lagos (10)
• Lake Bled (10)
• Lake Como (11)
• Lake District (10)
• Lake Garda (10)
• Lake Tahoe (10)
• Langkawi (9)
• Lanzarote (10)
• Las Vegas (11)
• Lecce (10)
• Leeds (7)
• Leh Ladakh (9)
• Lima (9)
• Limerick (8)
• Lisbon (23)
• Liverpool (10)
• Ljubljana (8)
• Lombok (10)
• London (36)
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• Luang Prabang (9)
• Lucca (10)
• Lucerne (10)
• Lyon (6)
• Macau (10)
• Madeira (9)
• Madrid (11)
• Malaga (10)
• Maldives (17)
• Mallorca (10)
• Manchester (12)
• Manila (10)
• Marbella (11)
• Marrakech (10)
• Marseille (5)
• Maui (10)
• Mauritius (9)
• Medellin (6)
• Melbourne (10)
• Memphis (10)
• Menorca (10)
• Mexico City (9)
• Miami (25)
• Milan (11)
• Minneapolis (10)
• Monaco (10)
• Monopoli (8)
• Montego Bay (10)
• Montevideo (10)
• Montpellier (10)
• Montreal (9)
• Mostar (8)
• Mumbai (10)
• Munich (10)
• Musandam (10)
• Muscat (16)
• Mykonos (21)
• Myrtle Beach (10)
• Nairobi (10)
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• Napa Valley (11)
• Naples (10)
• Nara (9)
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• Naxos (10)
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• New York City (24)
• Newcastle (6)
• Nha Trang (9)
• Niagara Falls (10)
• Nice (7)
• Niseko (15)
• Nottingham (8)
• Oaxaca (10)
• Ohrid (9)
• Okinawa (18)
• Opatija (10)
• Orlando (10)
• Osaka (9)
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• Phnom Penh (9)
• Phoenix (10)
• Phu Quoc (10)
• Phuket (14)
• Pittsburgh (10)
• Plovdiv (10)
• Polignano A Mare (7)
• Portland Oregon (10)
• Porto (9)
• Positano (10)
• Prague (22)
• Puerto Escondido (10)
• Quebec City (10)
• Queenstown (10)
• Rabat (10)
• Reims (9)
• Reykjavik (10)
• Rhodes (10)
• Riga (10)
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• Riyadh (5)
• Rome (27)
• Rovinj (10)
• Sa Pa (9)
• Saint Tropez (10)
• Salamanca (9)
• Salzburg (10)
• Samoa (8)
• San Antonio (10)
• San Diego (10)
• San Francisco (10)
• San Gimignano (10)
• San Juan (10)
• San Miguel de Allende (10)
• San Sebastian (8)
• Santa Barbara (10)
• Santa Fe (10)
• Santorini (24)
• Sapporo (9)
• Sarasota (10)
• Sardinia (9)
• Savannah (10)
• Scottsdale (10)
• Seattle (11)
• Sedona (10)
• Seoul (10)
• Seville (7)
• Seychelles (10)
• Shanghai (9)
• Sharm el Sheikh (7)
• Siargao (9)
• Siem Reap (9)
• Siena (9)
• Singapore (19)
• Sintra (10)
• Skopje (8)
• Snowdonia (9)
• Sofia (9)
• Sorrento (10)
• Split (10)
• St Andrews (9)
• St. Augustine (10)
• St. Lucia (10)
• Stockholm (9)
• Stowe (10)
• Strasbourg (9)
• Stratford Upon Avon (10)
• Sydney (11)
• Taipei (10)
• Tallinn (8)
• Tampa (10)
• Taormina (10)
• Tashkent (9)
• Tbilisi (11)
• Tel Aviv (9)
• Telluride (10)
• Tenby (7)
• Tenerife (10)
• Thessaloniki (10)
• Tirana (9)
• Tivat (9)
• Tokyo (28)
• Toronto (10)
• Toulouse (9)
• Trieste (9)
• Tulum (15)
• Turin (10)
• Turks And Caicos (12)
• Ucluelet (10)
• Udaipur (10)
• Umbria (9)
• Valencia (10)
• Valletta (10)
• Vancouver (10)
• Venice (11)
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• Victoria Falls (6)
• Victoria, BC (10)
• Vienna (12)
• Vilnius (10)
• Virginia Beach (10)
• Warsaw (10)
• Washington, D.C. (11)
• Waterford (10)
• Wellington (10)
• Whistler (10)
• Winchester (9)
• Xian (10)
• Yogyakarta (9)
• York (10)
• Zadar (10)
• Zanzibar (10)
• Zermatt (10)
• Zurich (10)
• the Norfolk Broads (10)
• the Scottish Highlands (11)