Recognitions

Forbes Travel Guide 4-Star hotels

706 houses in 75 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

Four Stars is one of the two ways into this index at all. It makes a house B, unless three MICHELIN Keys lift it to A.

S Grade
S Grade
0
A GradeA
A Grade
37
B GradeB
B Grade
669

Every house 706