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A bevy of historic country retreats made their presence felt among Italy's first-ever Key hotels.

Styria's wealth of Bib Gourmands

MICHELIN Guide Inspectors share their most exciting recent discoveries. Check back each month for a new batch of spectacular accommodations.

In April 2024, the MICHELIN Guide debuted a brand new distinction: the MICHELIN Key. While the MICHELIN Star recognizes the most outstanding restaurants in the world, the MICHELIN Key does the same for outstanding hotels. Here’s everything you need to know about the new distinction.

Frisian Farmhouse Hotels on the Isle of Sylt

Rarely has a hotel served as many different functions as Jaskółka Dom i Spa, from a Soviet retreat to a Franciscan convent to a high-design boutique getaway in Poland’s Giant Mountains.

There doesn’t exist a hotel on earth that can match the majesty of a Yellowstone or Banff or Kruger or Komodo. Or does there?

In the trendy neighborhood of Pigalle, this unique and welcoming hotel puts the well-being of its guests front and center.

Our Inspectors find hotels for every budget—but you don’t open a list like this expecting a bargain. These are among the most interesting, appealing and, yes, expensive rooms in our selection.

In our Signature Spaces series, we take an inside look at some of the most iconic rooms in MICHELIN Key hotels. Join us in the top suite at Casa Kimberly in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, where Elizabeth Taylor built a peculiar bathtub—by accident.

If you take one trip this winter, make it Vals. In the 1990s, the remote Swiss town enlisted a master architect to carve a spa into its mountainside. Today, it's a pilgrimage destination with a Two-Star restaurant and a Two-Key hotel. Below, a MICHELIN editor shares the inside scoop.

Seven hotels earned at least one MICHELIN Key in Washington D.C.

A brief guide to all the MICHELIN Key hotels in Chicago.

A stay at the One Key Wilmina Hotel in Berlin. And a story about the masterful transformation that gave the former women's prison a new lease on life.

The smallest Key hotels in Switzerland make their homes largely amidst in the mountains, with a handful of MICHELIN restaurants behind their doors.

The ins and outs of the most outstanding hotels in the country.

The MICHELIN Guide announces top honors for Swiss hotels in 2024.

The ins and outs of the most outstanding hotels in the country.