The Gallivanter’s Guide Luxury Hotel Awards

The Editor’s Choice Awards:
Luxury Hotel Awards That Matter

For more than three decades, The Gallivanter’s Guide has recognised the luxury hotels that truly matter. Not the loudest, not the most Instagrammed, not the ones waving around PR budgets — but the rare award-winning properties that rise above the ordinary and leave a mark long after checkout.

Independent Hotel Awards, Immune to Hype

Unlike the industry’s endless and meaningless “Top 100” lists, our luxury hotel awards are immune to hype. No advertising, no sponsorship, no bought placements — only the candid judgement of the Editor-in-Chief, distilled from a year spent testing, praising, and sometimes skewering the world’s so-called finest hotels.

An Exclusive Best Hotels List

The complete list of award-winning hotels remains exclusive to our subscribers. But the overall winner is always revealed — a title that has become one of the very few industry accolades worth mentioning, precisely because it cannot be bought.

Here, we’ve gathered a selection of winners from the past 15 years: from grand city luxury hotels to remote boutique retreats worldwide. Each one chosen not for noise or novelty, but for character, atmosphere, service, and substance.