Originally Posted by GetSetJetSet

Please list which properties you visited, and grade them. Feel free to add as much or as little details to flesh out the rating as you would like.

My 2019 Luxury Hotel Stays:

- Ritz-Carlton, Koh Samui: A-, wonderful hotel only thing holding it back is lack of a good beach and too many families with small, loud children.
- The Peninsula, Bangkok: B, property is in need of a refresh.
- InterCon, Johannesburg : B, it's an airport hotel.
- Kempinski, Accra: B+, solid if unspectacular rooms. Nice common spaces, as good as it gets in Accra, more business hotel than true luxury.
- Omali, Sao Tome: B, as good as it gets in Sao Tome. Spacious rooms, pool, gym, tennis courts.
- The Strand, Swakopmund: B+, lovely property, nice location.
- Little Kulala, Sossusvlei: A, wonderful, flawless experience.
- Le Mount Stephen, Montreal: A- great common space, excellent bar, modern minimalist yet comfortable rooms. Top location.
- Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans: C, while the Maison d'Orleans is (or was) great, the non-club portion of this hotel is in shabby shape. Terrible service as well.
- Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco: B, this RC is as "blah" as it gets. Room furnishings remind me of a Marriott but at 2x the cost.
- Hotel St. Louis, Saint Louis: B, very solid option in downtown St. Louis.
- Grand Hotel, Stockholm: B+, hotel has been on an upward trend. Wonderful bar, gym and location.
- Ritz-Carlton, Budapest: A-, excellent club, great location and nice rooms. Surprisingly good RC property.
- Palazzo Belmonte, Santa Maria di Castellebate: B+, wonderful old building, charming town.
- Sofitel, Algiers: F. Sofitels are bad, this is perhaps the worst one in the world. No choice in Algiers, but WOW, just atrocious.
- 1 Hotel West Hollywood, Los Angeles: A-, new property, love the location and views. Very comfortable rooms. A bit too much "eco focus" but nice.
- Melia Gran Fenix, Madrid: B+, solid if unspectacular hotel, very good value pick.
- St. Regis, Moscow: B+, points deducted for the location, too close to Metro stop and shopping, very crowded. Rooms are close to needing a refresh.
- Hotel Kamp, Helsinki: A+, multiple stays, wonderful rooms, great staff, nearly 100% upgrade success to my preferred room. Always a joy.
- Ritz-Carlton, Singapore: A, my favorite hotel in Singapore Huge spacious rooms with great views and excellent bathtubs.
- Four Seasons, Mexico City: A, another nearly flawless stay in a wonderful room. Extra points to the concierge staff for getting me a table at Pujol on short notice.
- Grand Hotel National, Lucerne: B+, spacious rooms and wonderful lake views, but tired common area and braindead, lazy staff.
- Dolder Grand, Zurich: B, great hotel but on this recent visit the noise was unacceptable. Service recovery will bring me back, to see if issues fixed.
- Fairmont, Monte Carlo: F, ghastly property. Never again, tough to trust Fairmont as a brand again after this.
- Le Negresco, Nice: B, quirky but nice hotel. Not real luxury, beautiful old historic building, top location.
- Ritz-Carlton, Moscow: A-, great views, comfortable rooms, nice bar, great breakfast. Just lacks that it factor to be a true "A."
- Elounda Bay Palace, Crete: C, very tired rooms from the 80's and overrun with package tourists and crying babies, never again.
- Elounda Gulf Villas, Crete: B+, nice property, but voluntarily downgraded as the spa suites are inferior to lower cat rooms, odd.
- Le Zebra, Tulum: B+, great plunge pool rooms and excellent on site restaurant. Staff keep the beach clear of seaweed, nice bar as well.
- The Pottinger, Hong Kong: B+, no upgrade this time, lack of onsite gym is a minus as is terrible breakfast. Great location though.
- Ritz-Carlton, Hong Kong: A, beautiful harbor view suite, excellent RC club, one of the better ones. Only negative is impossible to walk from isolated location.
- Four Seasons, Kuwait City: A, flawless stay, beautiful room.
- Ritz-Carlton, Bahrain: D-, one of the worst RC properties I have ever stayed at. Tired rooms and beyond awful, incompetent staff.
- JW Marriott, Baku: B+, low end for "luxury" but big, comfortable rooms, nice views and overall my pick for best in Baku.
- Four Seasons, Baku: C, one of the shabbier FS I've seen. Dark common spaces, mediocre rooms, nonsensical layout.
- Ritz-Carlton Al-Bustan Palace, Muscat: A, flawless stay, unbelievable staff, best RC in the MENA region by leaps and bounds.
- Ritz-Carlton, Abu Dhabi: D, another disgraceful failure for the RC chain. Terrible hotel on all levels, never again.
- The Savoy, London: B-, nice historical hotel, but a bit tired. Good staff and some beautiful common spaces.
- Ritz-Carlton, Chicago: B+, good but not great hotel, nothing in particular to nitpick.
- InterCon Marine Drive, Mumbai: B, it's an intercon, solid but unspectacular. Enjoyed the location.
- Taj Green Cove, Kovalam: A, flawless stay, great views, sea view plunge pool rooms are the way to go.
- Gritti Palace, Venice: A, was upgraded to a canal view room (#111), perfect location, great views, wonderful staff.
- The Hazelton, Toronto: A, beautiful hotel, wonderful bathrooms with deep soaking tubs. My new go to in Toronto.
- JW Marriot, Phu Quoc: TBD, check-in Dec. 28.