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The Four Seasons Paris: Georges V has been awarded Three MICHELIN Hotel Keys by the MICHELIN Guide<br />
189 hotels in France are the first to be<br />
awarded MICHELIN Hotel Keys<br />
The new distinction awards MICHELIN Hotel<br />
Keys to hotels with rankings, like the MICHELIN<br />
restaurant star system.<br />
On <strong>April</strong> 8, <strong>2024</strong>, the MICHELIN Guide<br />
revealed a new list of One, Two, and Three<br />
Key distinctions for what it has determined<br />
are the best hotels in France. The new Key<br />
distinction is designed to award MICHELIN<br />
Guide hotels with rankings, like the<br />
MICHELIN restaurant star system.<br />
This announcement comes four years into a<br />
comprehensive refresh of MICHELIN’s hotel<br />
selection, which includes more than 5,000<br />
hotels around the world in 120 countries.<br />
Over the last four years, MICHELIN’s<br />
selection team of independent experts has<br />
vetted these remarkable hotels for inclusion<br />
in the collection.<br />
“Each has been selected for its remarkable<br />
quality. Out of these thousands of hotels,<br />
those offering the most outstanding stays<br />
will be awarded the special MICHELIN<br />
Key distinction.”<br />
According to MICHELIN, the chosen hotels<br />
are selections that “significantly add to<br />
your experience as a traveler, each vetted<br />
and judged excellent in five categories:<br />
architecture and interior design, quality and<br />
consistency of service, overall personality<br />
and character, value for the price, and<br />
a significant contribution to the guest<br />
experience in a particular setting.”<br />
The hotels don’t just fulfill the criteria, but are<br />
“the best of the best in all categories.”<br />
“There are lively hotels and quiet hotels.<br />
Hotels in metropolises and hotels in the<br />
middle of nowhere. Hotels at the leading<br />
edge of modern design and hotels that<br />
celebrate the achievements of the past.<br />
There are castles, hostels, tents, and ryokans,<br />
places with two hundred rooms atop a city<br />
skyscraper, and with two rooms tucked inside<br />
an ancient watchtower.”<br />
The guide has awarded 189 hotels in<br />
France with Keys, including 24 Three Key<br />
hotels, 38 Two Key hotels, and 127 One<br />
Key hotels.<br />
The MICHELIN Hotel Keys will soon be<br />
announced for hotels in other locations,<br />
including the United States (Atlanta,<br />
California, Chicago, Colorado, Florida, New<br />
York, Washington DC) on <strong>April</strong> 24, in <strong>Spa</strong>in<br />
on <strong>April</strong> 29, in Italy on May 7, and in Tokyo<br />
on July 4, <strong>2024</strong>. Other destinations will<br />
follow throughout the year, according<br />
to Forbes.<br />
MICHELIN’s 24 Three Key hotels<br />
in France:<br />
Antibes: Hôtel du Cap-Eden-Roc<br />
Bordeaux: Les Sources de Caudalie<br />
Champillon: Le Royal Champagne<br />
Courchevel: Cheval Blanc Courchevel<br />
Courchevel: Le K2 Palace<br />
Gordes: La Bastide de Gordes<br />
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