Thirty-six NTA Members Among Travel + Leisure Magazine’s 500 Greatest Hotels

January 7, 2003

Thirty-six NTA Members Among Travel + Leisure Magazine’s 500 Greatest Hotels
Thirty-six NTA member hotels were named to Travel + Leisure magazine’s first T+L 500, a guide to the best hotels in the world.

The list, published in the magazine’s January issue, was started with the 500 properties that received the highest ratings from the magazine’s readers in its World’s Best Awards survey. Editors and reporters considered essentials such as location, decor, restaurants, facilities and cost, then added their own opinions and advice.

Hotels holding individual NTA memberships that made the list are:

Alyeska Prince Hotel – Girdwood, Alaska
Jekyll Island Club – Jekyll Island, Ga.
Grand Hotel – Mackinac Island, Mich.
Beau Rivage – Biloxi, Miss.
Monmouth Plantation – Natchez, Miss.
The Greenbrier – White Sulphur Springs, W.Va.
Rimrock Resort Hotel – Banff, Alberta

 

The following multiple and corporate NTA members also had properties recognized on the list:

Darien Hospitality Group: Hotel Del Coronado – Coronado, Calif.

Fairmont Hotels & Resorts: Fairmont Banff Springs – Banff, Alberta; Fairmont Jasper Park Lodge – Jasper, Alberta; Fairmont Chateau Lake Louise – Lake Louise, Alberta; Fairmont Chateau Laurier – Ottawa, Ontario; Fairmont Royal York – Toronto, Ontario; Fairmont Tremblant – Mont Tremblant, Quebec; Fairmont Le Chateau Frontenac – Quebec City, Quebec

Hilton Hotels Corporation: Sunset Key Guest Cottages at Hilton Key West – Key West, Fla.; Embassy Vacation Resort Poipu Point – Kauai, Hawaii; Hilton Waikoloa Villlage – Waikoloa, Hawaii; The Drake – Chicago; Boston Harbor Hotel – Boston; Paris – Las Vegas; Waldorf Towers – New York, N.Y.

Kimpton Hotel Group: Prescott Hotel – San Francisco; Hotel Monaco – Denver; 5th Avenue Suites – Portland, Ore.; Hotel Monaco – Seattle

Marriott International: Renaissance Esmeralda – Indian Wells, Calif.; Renaissance Vinoy – St. Petersburg, Fla.; Renaissance Wailea – Maui, Hawaii

Meristar Hotels & Resorts: Hotel Maison de Ville – New Orleans

Metropolitan Hotel: Metropolitan Hotel – Vancouver, British Columbia

Omni Hotels: Omni Berkshire Place – New York, N.Y.

Starwood Hotels & Resorts : Westin La Paloma – Tuscon, Ariz.; St. Regis – Aspen, Colo.; Orchid at Mauna Lani – Kohala Coast, Hawaii; St. Regis – New York, N.Y.