The best ranked in 2026
The World's 50 Best Hotels is voted by more than 800 anonymous judges. Here are the top six of the list published in September 2026.
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Hotel comparison
Distinctions, indicative prices, rooms, highlights. Sort by nightly price, by place or by rating; filter by region, country or distinction.
See the comparison →Destinations
The same hotels grouped by region and country, from Paris and the Riviera to Macau, the Maldives or the Yucatán.
Browse destinations →Guides
Palace, Keys, Forbes, 50 Best: what each distinction measures. When to go, what rooms really cost, and Switzerland in detail.
Read the guides →The world map
Where the hotels are, from Geneva's quai Wilson to the islands of the Noonu Atoll. Markers cluster as you zoom out.
Open the map →How we choose
The four rankings we follow, what they measure, why prices are orders of magnitude and where our checking stops.
Read the methodology →Other worlds of luxury
Hotels are the starting point. Other luxury fields will follow, with the same demand for sources.
Learn more →Do you represent a property?
Report a correction, update a rate or ask to be included. The portal aims for accuracy above all, and a badly described hotel is quickly corrected.
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About this portal
Luxe Monde gathers the hotels that have earned the highest rating in at least one recognised ranking. The criterion is deliberately simple and checkable: three Michelin Keys, Forbes Five-Star, a French Palace, or a place in the World's 50 Best Hotels. These rankings overlap very little, and that is the point: none of them describes luxury on its own.
For each hotel we look for a nightly price, because the rate of a room remains the most direct way to place a hotel. It is also the most fragile figure: from one source to the next, the same room can be priced twice as high. The prices on this site are rounded orders of magnitude converted into Swiss francs, and only the hotel's own site is authoritative. Complete entries are still few: one short entry becomes a complete one every day.