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Top 49 Hotels in the World
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Rank 01
The Oberoi Udaivilas
Udaipur, India · est. 2002
Built to resemble a maharaja’s palace on the shore of Lake Pichola, with domestic staff-to-guest ratios high enough that requests are frequently anticipated before they are made. Consistently rated the best hotel in the world by multiple independent guest-survey rankings, and the operational polish backs it up.
97.2/100 Top 49 scoreRank 02
Amangiri
Canyon Point, Utah, USA · est. 2009
A concrete structure built directly into a sandstone mesa in a remote stretch of southern Utah, with a design philosophy that treats the desert as the primary luxury and the architecture as deliberately secondary to it. Thirty-four rooms and no visible neighbours for miles in any direction.
95.7/100 Top 49 scoreRank 03
Hôtel Ritz Paris
Paris, France · est. 1898
Coco Chanel lived here for over three decades, Hemingway drank in the bar that now bears his name, and a multi-year renovation in the 2010s modernised the infrastructure without stripping out what made the building famous in the first place. Still arguably the reference point for what a grand European hotel is supposed to be.
94.6/100 Top 49 score
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