Travel 4 minutes 29 April 2024

The First MICHELIN Key Hotels: All the Keys in Spain

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

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On April 29, 2024, the MICHELIN Guide revealed the brand new One, Two, and Three Key distinctions for the most outstanding hotels in Spain.

This announcement comes four years into a comprehensive refresh of our hotel selection. The MICHELIN Guide now includes over 5,000 hotels across the world, and not a single one is simply a room for the night. These are places that significantly add to your experience as a traveler, each vetted and judged excellent in five categories: architecture and interior design, quality and consistency of service, overall personality and character, value for the price, and a significant contribution to the guest experience in a particular setting.

Which brings us back to the Keys. The culmination of countless hours of evaluation by our team of experts, the Key hotels below represent the highlights of our broader selection. Like the MICHELIN Stars for restaurants, the MICHELIN Keys are our most outstanding hotels.

In total, the 2024 MICHELIN Guide hotel selection in Spain includes five Three Key hotels, 12 Two Key hotels, and 80 One Key hotels. Want to know more about the MICHELIN Key? Here’s everything you need to know. Or, head below to see all the Keys.

Cap Rocat — Mallorca

How To Look Through the List

Jump straight to the list or take a deeper dive into select Key hotels.

On this page, you’ll find every single one of our new Key distinctions, sorted by number of Keys and location in Spain. Click on any hotel to go straight to the hotel page to learn more about the nuts and bolts of each property. Alternatively, you can read any number of in-depth pieces about the aspects of the special craft that makes up a Key hotel over on our magazine. While our anonymous selection team spends every day scouring the world to vet favorite hotels and unearth hidden gems, our editorial team delves into the hotel craft by speaking directly to hoteliers.

Look inside the Sentinel Suite of Mallorca's 2-Key fortress hotel.

See what makes this 1-Key hotel among the best designed in the country.

Or take a look at all of Spain's 3-Key hotels, in photos.

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Highlights of the Spain 2024 Key Hotel List

Cristine Bedfor — Minorca

Remarkable Personality in the Balearic Islands

Between Mallorca, Minorca, and Ibiza, the Balearic Islands display some of greatest variety in Key hotel winners across any region in the country. Mallorca, in particular, finds a bevy of options: from the small and historic (Son Brull Hotel & Spa, Hotel Can Ferrereta, Nobis Hotel Palma) to the stylish hotspots (Es Princep and La Residencia). One jewel on the island that defies typical categorization: Cap Rocat, an ancient fortress expertly remade, where the top suites occupy former cannon dugouts.

On Minorca, check out Key hotels like Torralbenc, a tasteful, intimate, high-end hotel built from the bones of an old farm; or, in the capital of Mahón, look at Cristine Bedfor — one of the most creative, high-concept design hotels in our collection.

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Mandarin Oriental Ritz — Madrid

Radical and Renewed Design

In Madrid, you’ll find Key hotels largely in historic 19th or 20th century facades. Places like Santo Mauro, in a former Duke’s 1895 neoclassical mansion, or the Ritz, a Belle Époque palace that dates back to King Alfonso XIII.

These are remarkable, and mainstays of our Spanish collection — but we’re ecstatic too to celebrate grand departures from such a style. The pinnacle: Hotel Marques de Riscal, a state-of-the-art Frank Gehry building complete with titanium “hair” (Gehry’s words) swooping above its vineyards. See too the ultra-modern glass boxes at Vivood Landscape Hotel outside Alicante.

Akelarre — San Sebastián

Key Hotels with MICHELIN Star restaurants

The Key hotel distinction and the MICHELIN Star for restaurants are decided independently of one another, but it so happens that several hotels in Spain sport both. Among them: Akelarre in San Sebastián (restaurant: Akelarre), Atrio Restaurante Hotel in Cáceres (restaurant: Atrio), and Pepe Vieria Restaurant Hotel in Poio (restaurant: Pepe Vieira).

Not unrelated, we see too a strong crop of winery hotels. Places like Terra Dominicata (a 12th century monastery with its own vintage) and Torre del Marques (an 18th century tower with views of the olive groves) are two of our most fascinating.

Also read: The 5 Room Inn with 3 Keys and 3 Stars

VIVOOD Landscape Hotel & Spa - Adults Only — Benimantell

The Three Key Hotels

Torre del Marqués Hotel Spa & Winery — Teruel

Cáceres: Atrio Restaurante Hotel
Escaladei: Terra Dominicata - Hotel & Winery
Madrid: Mandarin Oriental Ritz, Madrid
Sardoncillo: Torre del Marqués Hotel Spa & Winery
Teruel: Abadía Retuerta LeDomaine

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The Two Key Hotels

Marbella Club Hotel — Marbella

A Coruña: Casa Beatnik Hotel
Barcelona: Mandarin Oriental Barcelona
Cala Blava: Cap Rocat
Deià-Mallorca: La Residencia, A Belmond Hotel, Mallorca
Madrid: Four Seasons Hotel Madrid
Madrid: Rosewood Villa Magna
Marbella: Marbella Club Hotel
Palma de Mallorca: Hotel Can Cera
Poio: Pepe Vieira Restaurant & Hotel
San Sebastián: Akelarre
Santanyí: Hotel Can Ferrereta
Torrent: Mas de Torrent Hotel & Spa

The One Key Hotels

Soho House — Barcelona

Hero Image: Marquès de Riscal — Elciego

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