The $ecret $auce to Getting on the World’s 50 Best Hotels
It’s one thing to recognize spectacular properties. It’s another thing when only the richest can compete.
The tea lounge at Capella Bangkok, currently ranked No. 1 hotel in the world.
Source: Capella Bangkok
Hey, jet-setters, Nikki Ekstein here, with the World’s 50 Best Hotels on the brain. Last week the same group that anoints restaurants and bars convened in London’s Guildhall to pronounce what they have determined to be the 50 most impeccable places to stay around the world. It’s a challenge that necessitates comparing apples and oranges.
Take the winner: the Capella Bangkok. It’s a boxy building on the Chao Phraya River where all the rooms and suites have panoramic windows facing the water—an actual urban oasis. But how do you compare it to the last-ranked hotel on the list, Kokomo Private Island in Fiji, where guests get to bounce on ocean trampolines and participate in coral restoration projects on an otherwise uninhabited island that’s only accessible by helicopter or seaplane?