I love this idea - could be a fun exercise for this particular group of luxury hotel nerds, and ultimately quite helpful for those lost in the years-old threads about certain regions or hotels (love FT but that is definitely a thing!). I would love to jumpstart this if people are interested! I could create a survey that allows folks to nominate and rate hotels they've stayed at, let's say, in the last two years. The ratings could be a weighted sum of multiple categories (service, room, common areas, check-in, location, F&B, hard product, etc. - I can even have blank spaces for people to suggest rating categories that may have been missed). All responses/data, of course, would remain completely anonymous (even to me).

Then I'll do some data magic, come up with the "top" hotels from ratings, and we could release the results as a LHT "Best Of" list. If enough people do it, we could even create tiers (a la Michelin - 1, 2, 3 etc). Or open to suggestions as to data viz and reporting!

Anyway - if any moderators think this could be a fun exercise, let me know, and I'll start a dedicated thread for discussion before launching a survey! And if not, no worries