The World’s Best Boutique Hotels are Announced by Boutique Hotel Club

From over 550 of the world’s finest boutique hotels, the Boutique Hotel Club’s panel of experts have hand-picked an exquisite selection of destinations to guide even the most discerning of travellers to rare and unique delight. Hailed as the Michelin of boutique hotels, the club quality tests over 400 gold standards of hospitality excellence to find stays with unrivalled character and calibre. London, United Kingdom, November 7, 2023 - The Boutique Hotel Club independently tests for quality, style and emotional impact using a proprietary Quality Assessment. This system comprises gold standards of facilities and service execution covering every aspect of guest experience. In this way, an incredibly diverse set of nominees can be sifted through and inspected to identify the finest luxury boutique hotels in the world. World’s Best Boutique Hotel - San Ysidro Ranch, Santa Barbara, California World’s Best Beach Hotel - Velaa Private Island, Maldives World’s Best Chic Hotel - Hotel TwentySeven, Amsterdam, Netherlands World’s Best City Hotel - Casa Polanco, Polanco, Mexico World’s Best Classic Hotel - Akademie Street Boutique Hotel, South Africa World’s Best Design Hotel - Hotel Motto, Vienna World's Best Eco Hotel - Cielo Lodge, Golfito, Costa Rica World's Best Family Hotel - ASTER Natur & Idylle im Zillertal, Tyrol, Austria World's Best Honeymoon Hotel - San Ysidro Ranch, Santa Barbara, California World’s Best New Hotel - Casa Silencio, Oaxaca, Mexico World's Best Romantic Hotel - The Carlin Hotel, Queenstown, New Zealand World's Best Spa Hotel - Green Spa Resort Stanglwirt, Going am Wilden Kaiser, Austria World's Best Hotel with a View - Athina Luxury Suites, Santorini, Greece World's Best Nature Hotel - The Crocodile Hunter Lodge, Australia BACKGROUND For 14 years the Boutique Hotel Club has carefully selected the world’s best boutique hotels, accepting nominations and conducting on-site reviews to quality-test the true guest experience of each nominee. The Club independently tests for quality, style and emotional impact using a proprietary Boutique Hotel Club Quality Assessment. This system comprises 400 gold standards of facilities and service execution covering every aspect of guest experience. Though all the Club’s properties are one-of-a-kind some threads run through them, connecting proudly different hotels in shared ideals. Hotels making the cut possess these five characteristics that form the pillars of the brand: Sharing wholeheartedly - A state of mind where the joy of living in a place spills over into a desire to connect and share that wonderful something with a guest. Connection to the region - Through a passion for celebrating the local culture, Boutique Hotel Club-selected properties give guests the true wonder of travel: exploration of lands unknown. This can be through experiences, cuisine or simply through people firmly rooted in the country and region. The hotels find and keep staff with their finger on the pulse of the region's cultural heart. Emotional impact - True hospitality goes beyond delivering fastidious service and material luxury. From the creators to the day-to-day staff, extraordinary hotels possess the emotional intelligence to heighten the internal experience of their guests. Unique sense of place - Each property should possess a creative design flair that afford it a unique place in the memory of each traveller who walks through its doors. Alchemy - The real magic comes in the balance between the good ingredients chosen. In the finest hotels design, location, personalities, history and character come together in harmony to achieve an overarching immersive experience. About Boutique Hotel Awards The Boutique Hotel Awards is the first and only international awards organisation exclusively dedicated to showcasing the finest luxury boutique hotels to travel lovers all over the globe. Dreaming of travelling to the hidden gems of this earth soon became a reality when in 2011, Boutique Hotel Awards was born. A decade on, Boutique Hotel Awards boasts an extraordinary collection, with only the most exclusive and unique hotels for your wandering hearts to enjoy.