Originally Posted by
59Impala
I disagree with you... PH: yes, is luxury. ANdAZ is a defined as a lifestyle hotel. And there are many more GH with touch of luxury than ANdAZ. I've stayed at WeHo, London, San Diego ANdAZ...and all 3 of them I for sure would not define as luxury! GH H.K., Singapore, and others have much more of a luxury touch.
We could make a
very long list of GH that are classic convention hotels and zero luxury.
There are a small handful that provide unusually high quality and service levels, the one in particular I can think of is HKG. SIN, by contrast, is a nice business hotel with typically gracious Asian service. I would by no means describe it as a luxury property (any more than I would describe HR TST that way).
I think part of the problem here is that some of our posters are not clear on what true 5* standards are.