Recognitions

Forbes Travel Guide 5-Star hotels

343 houses in 50 countries hold this distinction.

Who awards it

Forbes Travel Guide

Anonymous professional inspectors, paid by the guide, who stay at their own expense.

Up to 900 objective service and facility standards are tested over a multi-night incognito stay. Roughly 70 per cent of the score is service, 30 per cent facility. Ratings are Recommended, Four-Star and Five-Star, and are reissued annually.

What it does here

Five Stars is one of the two conditions for S Grade. A house that also holds three MICHELIN Keys is S; on its own, Five Stars makes a house A.

S Grade
S Grade
48
A GradeA
A Grade
295
B GradeB
B Grade
0

Every house 343