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Top Luxury Hotels: Editor's Top 10

Our Editor's Top 10 list for Top Luxury Hotels helps you decide where you want to go. Editor's Top 10 lists offer selections from our editors that help you plan your travel based on your lifestyle, entertainment, sightseeing, or recreation options.

There are no set standards for luxury. Depending on the traveler, luxury can be synonymous with elegance, with comfort, or with an unusual and exotic ambience
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1. Bellevue Club Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$165-$1,500 
Built: 1994 
11200 SE 6th St, Bellevue, WA
Set on 15 acres in a corporate park setting, up against the freeway, this hotel is an oasis of style, luxury and service. It has been a consistent award winner for its outstanding array of amenities and 24-hour personal service. Similar to but more service-oriented than the lavish Sorrento in downto... Read Entire Review »
2. Grand Hotel Villa Medici, A SINA Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$384-$1,586 
Built: 1760 
Renovated: 2001 
Via II Prato 42, Florence, Italy
This three-story neoclassical villa-hotel is close to the action but maintains a relaxing garden and pool to set it apart from the competition. This is part of the SINA Hotels Group, which includes some of the best-run hotels in the country. Service is excellent, and conscientious upgrading bolsters... Read Entire Review »
3. Hesperia Madrid Add to eGuidebook
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$240-$3,503 
Built: 2001 
Paseo De La Castellana, 57, Madrid, Spain
This hotel is a short stroll north from its closest competitor, the Castellana InterContinental. It is, however, a more imaginative operation, with excellent dining, notable service and rooms that are more spacious than the norm. In essence, this is a fine deluxe hotel, worth considering for its wel... Read Entire Review »
4. Hotel Monaco Salt Lake City Add to eGuidebook
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$159-$800 
Built: 1926 
Renovated: 1999 
15 West 200 South, Salt Lake City, UT
Located across from the Capitol Theatre and along the light-rail tracks, this hotel breaks Salt Lake City's traditional mold with its hip, innovative decor and youthful, attentive, service-oriented staff. Harbored in a slender 14-story bank building dating from 1926, this Northwest transplant combin... Read Entire Review »
5. Le Royal Meridien King Edward Add to eGuidebook
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$216-$441 
Built: 1903 
Renovated: 2002 
37 King St East, Toronto, ON
This hotel sets the benchmark for traditional elegance, its only competition being the Fairmont Royal York and possibly the Four Seasons. The 17-story carved-stone building with quoin edges dates from 1903, during the reign of King Edward VII. Arriving guests enter a classic 80-ft marble lobby that... Read Entire Review »
6. Palazzo Versace Add to eGuidebook
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$1,239-$3,311 
Built: 2000 
Sea World Drive, Main Beach, Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia
Adjacent to the marina and opposite the more conservative Sheraton Mirage, this property has proven itself to be more than just a fleeting fashion accessory for its predominately wealthy and worldly clientele. This hotel oozes glamour and color with everything seemingly culled from, or bound for, th... Read Entire Review »
7. Renaissance Orlando Resort at Seaworld Add to eGuidebook
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$159-$779 
Built: 1984 
Renovated: 2007 
6677 Sea Harbor Dr, Orlando, FL
Located across the road from Sea World, this Shamu-size hotel continues to prove one of a handful of true-blue luxury hotels serving Disney World. On the same scale as the Hyatt Regency Orlando and the newer JW Marriott, this giant pleases individuals as well as conferees; it ranks No. 4 on the conv... Read Entire Review »
8. The Ritz-Carlton, San Juan, Spa & Casino Add to eGuidebook
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$299-$5,000 
Built: 1997 
6961 Ave of the Governors, Isla Verde, Carolina, Puerto Rico
Though this is one of the closest hotels to the airport-almost under the glide path-it remains the only truly deluxe oasis in San Juan (it is located in the city's eastern suburb, Carolina). A tropically influenced version of the classic Ritz-Carlton design, it offers Ritz service, style, comfort an... Read Entire Review »
9. The Shilla Seoul Add to eGuidebook
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$235-$444 
Built: 1979 
Renovated: 1999 
202, Jangchungdong 2-ga, Jung-gu, Seoul, Korea, Republic of
The grandeur of arrival at the Shilla is unparalleled elsewhere among the capitol's hotels. Guests proceed through a 23-acre park landscaped to appear natural and rustic despite its central location near the city's main business district. Yeong Bin Gwan, a Korean-style building that was formerly the... Read Entire Review »
10. Yokohama Royal Park Hotel Add to eGuidebook
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$306-$4,373 
Built: 1993 
Renovated: 2005 
2-2-1-3 Minatomirai, Nishi-ku, Yokohama, Japan
Facing the Yokohama Maritime Museum, this hotel is 400 m north of Sakuragi-cho Station. This is a luxury hotel with guest rooms occupying the rarified upper limits of the Landmark Tower, Japan's tallest building. Views obviously astound. Guests, about 20% of whom are foreigners, enter the hotel at g... Read Entire Review »