You might already be familiar with, because we have fought with them before, The World’s 50 Best Restaurants awards, a list that leaves no room for the imagination and rewards those who the organization, made up of chefs, journalists and influencers gastronomic They consider the best restaurants in the world.
However, the list has another pair of sisters like The World’s 50 Best Hotels —whose translation we believe is not necessary—and The World’s 50 Best Bars, thus becoming a hospitality and hotel review for the best in the world.
Recently published in its first edition, The World’s 50 Best Hotels list has dropped a small stone in Spain, including among the fifty hotels two references in our country.
One in Ibiza and another in Madrid, which is not bad seeing that the list has a profile—just like that of the restaurants—very focused on an American and Central European clientele and that they make a tourism very based on loyalty to the hotel chain It is not usually so worthy of Spanish hotels.
In any case, it is good to know that the best hotel in the world according to this ranking is the Italian Passalacqua, an imposing five stars in the heart of Lake Como with some of the most spectacular views in the region and, as is evident, has service to match.
As we said, although most of the hotels on the list are in the United States or Europe, The reality of the top 10 is that Asia takes the cake, taking up half of the positions among the ten best placed. Where there are also a couple of Italian hotels, a Mexican hotel and an African hotel. The tenth in contention is a hotel that we could also consider Asian, although it has a little more complexity, since it is located in the Maldives.
Which are the best hotels in Spain, according to The World’s 50 Best Hotels
To find the first Spanish hotel we must go down to position number 24, where the Four Seasons of Madrid. Opened in 2020 in the heart of the capital—in the intensely renovated Canalejas Building—it is the first Spanish stop in this ranking with a five-star luxury hotel with two hundred rooms available, distributed in twelve different categories (six of them are suite style), in addition to offering five different examples of special category suites such as the royal suite or the presidential suite.
The other Spanish hotel on the list is also relatively young. This is the Six Senses Ibiza complex, which opened its doors in 2021 in the middle of Xarraca Bay, in the municipality of Portinatx, in the north of the island. It has 137 rooms, suites with pools, residences and beachside caves and is also a five-star luxury hotel and has stunning sea views, offering some of the best sunsets in the Balearic Islands, as The World’s voters have attested. 50 Best Hotels.
Images | Four Seasons / Six Senses
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