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Your favorite hotels in 2012

Old Sep 15, 2012, 4:52 pm
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Your favorite hotels in 2012

Now that the year is wrapping down, what are the top hotels you have stayed in this year?

I still like the Grand Hyatt Kauai. Maybe not the most luxurious, but a really fun place for surfing.

My top 5 (though I have RC Boston, RC Chicago, RC Laguna Nigeul and RC .5MB coming up).

1) Grand Hyatt Kauai
2) RC Philadelphia
3) MO Las Vegas
4) Cobblers Cove Barbados
5) RC Marina Del Ray
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Old Sep 15, 2012, 5:51 pm
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The Lenox - Boston, MA

Best hotel ever.
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Old Sep 15, 2012, 6:17 pm
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Originally Posted by UnitedFlyGuy
The Lenox - Boston, MA

Best hotel ever.
I'd politely disagree, but to each his own.

This year, I was most surprised by the Four Seasons St. Louis and FS Baltimore. Otherwise, I enjoyed the FS Austin a great deal, drank far too much at the Huntington Hotel in San Francisco, and had more enjoyable times at the Berkeley in London.


Looking forward to the re-opened Ritz in Montreal as well as the new Four Seasons in Toronto at some point in October.
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Old Sep 15, 2012, 7:12 pm
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For me:

MO Hyde Park
FS Park Lane
FS Lisbon
MO Barcelona
MO Paris
The Lowell
The Mark
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Old Sep 16, 2012, 2:57 am
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Originally Posted by luxury
For me:

MO Hyde Park
FS Park Lane
FS Lisbon
MO Barcelona
MO Paris
The Lowell
The Mark

Thank you for this non US centric rating .

For me it is:

Capella, Lord Howe, NSW, Australia
Saffire, Freycinet, TAS, Australia
Amanfayun, Hangzhou, China
Beau Rivage Palace (with its 2 Michelin Star restaurant Anne Sophie Pic), Lausanne, Switzerland
Riffelalp Resort, Zermatt, Switzerland

That's not the overall best places, but the best properties I actually staid this year.

Sorry, still fear traveling to the US not liking to be questioned and hassled .
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Old Sep 16, 2012, 8:07 am
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fear traveling to the US not liking to be questioned and hassled
one option would be extremely short private flight from canada/mexico/caribbean
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Old Sep 16, 2012, 1:50 pm
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FS London
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Old Sep 16, 2012, 4:45 pm
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. De l'Europe in Amsterdam
. Indonesian Amans (first stay with Aman Resorts, thanks to this board )
. Les Airelles in Courchevel
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Old Sep 16, 2012, 7:31 pm
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Taj Falaknuma Palace, Hyderabad
Taj Rambagh Palace, Jaipur
The Pierre NYC
Campton Place SFO

(Yes, yes I like Taj hotels! )
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Old Sep 17, 2012, 12:42 am
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Originally Posted by UnitedFlyGuy
The Lenox - Boston, MA

Best hotel ever.
You've got to be kidding. A long-time friend of mine owns the hotel and and while I love him dearly and I have been there countless times and while it is a nice hotel it is a far, far cry from being even a 5 star hotel. The Marriott Copley Place is better than The Lenox, for the views of The Charles River, alone, from any room above the 10th floor. The higher up even better.

As for my choice for best hotels of 2012:

Four Seasons @ Beverly Hills (especially the pool)
Four Seasons Maui
Four Seasons Denver
Four Seasons Pudong (new)
Love the views from the top floors corner rooms of Hilton Hawaiian Village, (especially since it has been completely renovated and since there is no FS on that island) but the whole Hilton Hawaiian Village scheme - and element - is trashy.

I'm a Four Seasons whore.

The Boston Four Seasons rooms are great (Best in Boston if in a room overlooking The Public Garden) but the dining there has gone down the toilet, as is evidenced not just by me but reviews on countless websites.

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Old Sep 17, 2012, 2:42 am
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My favorites so far this year:
  1. Tea Trails (Castlereigh Bungalow), Sri Lanka
  2. Villa Bentota, Bentota, Sri Lanka
  3. Ana Mandara Dalat, Vietnam
  4. Schoenburg Castle, Germany
  5. Mas de Peint, Camarque area of France
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Old Sep 17, 2012, 3:45 am
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Originally Posted by AJLondon
Taj Rambagh Palace, Jaipur
+1

Also for Udaipur with the Lake Palace.

Another Taj favorite this year is the Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai.
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Old Sep 17, 2012, 3:50 am
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Thumbs up Excellent taste

Originally Posted by SanDiego1K
My favorites so far this year:
  1. Tea Trails (Castlereigh Bungalow), Sri Lanka
  2. Villa Bentota, Bentota, Sri Lanka
  3. Ana Mandara Dalat, Vietnam
  4. Schoenburg Castle, Germany
  5. Mas de Peint, Camarque area of France
You have obviously an excellent taste for real boutique properties. ^ Castlereagh is really great (especially the Palmer room), have been there in 2010 and will be back in December.

Schnburg is really special and after having managed to park in their lot for which you have to cross a wooden bridge the real climb to the fortress begins. Some rooms are weird, others are perfect. The Httl family are among the friendliest people I met in Germany and their restaurant is great when overlooking the Rhine river.

Thank you for the Ana Mandara, will definitely go there!
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Old Sep 17, 2012, 4:05 am
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the great grand hyatt is my all time faveroite hotel.
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Old Sep 17, 2012, 6:24 am
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Originally Posted by laxconnorw
The Marriott Copley Place is better than The Lenox

+1

Originally Posted by laxconnorw
I'm a Four Seasons whore.
If you're going to be a whore, this is probably the type you want to be!
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