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Here Are the 10 Best Hotels in the World, According to La Liste
It's impossible to name a best hotel in the world, but you can declare a 10-way tie. That's according to La Liste, a company that publishes hotel and restaurant rankings by synthesizing vast troves of press coverage rather than judging properties independently. Its top 10 list, released exclusive to Bloomberg ahead of wider distribution on June 3, consists entirely of tied scores for the top prize. The winners include the beloved London icon the Connaught, with its feted bar and three-Michelin-starred restaurant (an eponymous spot by French chef Hélène Darroze), and J.K. Place Capri, a stark-white, 22-room cliffside hotel where airy seafront rooms will go for around $2,000 a night this summer.
When determining its rankings, La Liste considers reviews from 400 sources such as the Telegraph, Forbes travel guide and Bloomberg's own travel reporting. The content gets pushed through a proprietary algorithm to generate a score on a 100-point scale, similar to the methodology used for the company's global restaurant rankings. That's how 10 hotels ended up in a tie for first place—and how 47 hotels received 99 points in a tie for second, including previous winner Belmond Hotel Cipriani in Venice.
