The MICHELIN Guide now includes over 7,000 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 traveller, each vetted by our hotel experts and judged as excellent across five categories: architecture and interior design; overall personality and character; quality and consistency of service; value between the level of the experience and the price paid; and the hotel's contribution within its particular locality.
Which brings us to the Keys. On 8th October 2025, The MICHELIN Guide Inspectors revealed their new Key distinctions, highlighting what they consider to be the most outstanding hotels in the UK and Ireland. Just like the MICHELIN Stars for restaurants, the MICHELIN Keys represent our most outstanding hotels. In total, The MICHELIN Guide hotel selection for Great Britain and Ireland includes 14 Three-Key hotels, 43 Two-Key hotels and 82 One-Key hotels, with 19 hotels newly awarded for 2025.
On this page, you’ll find all of our Key distinctions, sorted by the number of Keys and their location within the UK and Ireland. Click on any hotel to go straight to its homepage and learn more about its special qualities. Alternatively, head here to discover our newest Keys all in one place or explore our Magazine page for more in-depth Hotel and Travel inspiration.
Click Here to jump straight to each Key distinction:
Best-of-the-Best
14 properties hold our highest hotel honour, the exclusive Three Key distinction. Of these, one makes its home in the Scottish countryside (The Gleneagles Hotel), two in 19th-century country estates in the Republic of Ireland (Adare Manor and Ballyfin Demesne), three in the English countryside (Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, Lucknam Park and the Newt in Somerset), and the rest across some of the most impressive addresses in London. Among the latter, even first-time visitors will recognise the most iconic of British names, including Claridge's, The Connaught and The Savoy.
Take a deeper dive into our Three Key hotels in London here.
London Lodgings
You’ll find nearly a third of the hotels on this list in London, including eight of the Three-Keys, 17 of the Two-Keys and 20 One-Keys. You can expect a range of styles that includes sheer opulence (the Bvlgari Hotel London and the Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park), Georgian and Victorian inspiration (Flemings Mayfair, COMO The Halkin and The Langham) and more than a few designs from superlative hoteliers Tim and Kit Kemp (the Knightsbridge Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel and Ham Yard Hotel).
There’s no easy way to sum up the scene here in London, as this is one of the best cities in the world for both variety and creativity of hotels – the list below proves it. To really discover it for yourself, head over to our Complete Hotel Guide to London, where you'll find comprehensive guides according to price, style, neighbourhood and services, whether that's the best Cocktail Bars and Spas, the most Stunning Rooftops or top spots for Afternoon Tea.
Country and Coast
The big cities make their presence known in our Key selection, but the appeal of the country and the coast is undeniable too. It may come as a surprise, but it’s often in the UK's smaller towns and villages that we find the most eccentric hotel designs, as exemplified by the likes of Artist Residence Oxfordshire, BULL Burford and The Swan Southwold.
The Republic of Ireland, meanwhile, tends towards the more stately, typified by historic spots like Ashford Castle, Cashel Palace, Dromoland Castle and Park Hotel Kenmare.
The Three-Key Hotels
England
Bruton: The Newt in SomersetColerne: Lucknam Park
Great Milton: Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, A Belmond Hotel, Oxfordshire
London: Bvlgari Hotel London
London: Claridge's
London: Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane
London: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
London: Raffles London at The OWO
London: The Connaught
London: The Peninsula London
London: The Savoy
Scotland
Auchterarder, Scotland: The Gleneagles HotelRepublic of Ireland
Adare: Adare ManorBallyfin: Ballyfin Demesne
The Two-Key Hotels
England
Ascot: Coworth Park, Dorchester CollectionAughton: Moor Hall
Bath,: The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa
Chagford,: Gidleigh Park
East Grinstead: Gravetye Manor
Exmouth: Lympstone Manor
Hampton-in-Arden: Hampton Manor
Heckfield: Heckfield Place
Leatherhead: Beaverbrook Surrey
Lechlade: Thyme
London: Brown's Hotel, a Rocco Forte Hotel
London: Corinthia Hotel London
London: Covent Garden Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London: 45 Park Lane, Dorchester Collection
London: Ham Yard Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London: Haymarket Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London: Hotel Café Royal
London: Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London
London: Rosewood London
London: The Beaumont Hotel
London: The Berkeley
London: The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, London
London: The Dorchester, Dorchester Collection
London: The Lanesborough
London: The Langham, London
London: The Ritz London
London: The Twenty Two
Lyndhurst: Lime Wood Hotel
Malmesbury: Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa
New Milton: Chewton Glen Hotel
Ripon: Grantley Hall
Rutland: Hambleton Hall
Taplow: Cliveden House
Whitby: Saltmoore
Windermere: Gilpin Hotel & Lake House
Windermere: The Samling Hotel
Scotland
Braemar: The Fife ArmsEdinburgh: The Balmoral
Republic of Ireland
Cashel: Cashel PalaceCong: Ashford Castle
Kenmare: Park Hotel Kenmare
Kenmare: Sheen Falls Lodge
Dublin, Republic of Ireland: The Merrion
The One-Key Hotels
England
Amberley: Amberley Castle
Bakewell: The Cavendish Hotel at Baslow
Bath: Bath Priory
Bath: Homewood
Bath: The Gainsborough Bath Spa
Bath: The Queensberry Hotel
Bath: The Yard, Bath
Beadnell: Beadnell Towers Hotel
Bideford: The Collective at Woolsery
Brampton: Farlam Hall Hotel & Restaurant
Brighton: Artist Residence Brighton
Bristol: Artist Residence Bristol
Bristol: Number 38 Clifton
Burford: BULL Burford
Camber: The Gallivant
Cheltenham: Cowley Manor Experimental
Cowes (Isle of Wight): Foresters Hall
Egham: Great Fosters
Grasmere: Forest Side Hotel
Hampshire: Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire
Hastings: The Old Rectory
Horsham: Leonardslee House at Leonardslee Lakes & Gardens
Langham: The Harper Langham
London: ...At Sloane
London: Artist Residence London
London: Beaverbrook Town House
London: Broadwick Soho
London: Charlotte Street Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London: COMO The Halkin
London: Flemings Mayfair
London: Four Seasons Hotel London at Tower Bridge
London: Knightsbridge Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London: L'oscar London
London: NoMad London
London: Number Sixteen, Firmdale Hotels
London: One Aldwych
London: 1 Hotel Mayfair
London: Redchurch Townhouse
London: Shangri-La The Shard London
London: Sofitel London St James
London: The Adria
London: The Emory
London: The Soho Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
Newbury: The Vineyard Hotel & Spa
North Leigh: Estelle Manor
Oxford: Artist Residence Oxfordshire
Oxford: Old Parsonage Hotel
Padstow: Padstow Townhouse
Southwold: The Swan Southwold
St Mawes: The Idle Rocks
St Mawes: Hotel Tresanton
Thornbury: Thornbury Castle
West Cornwall: Artist Residence Cornwall
Willesborough: Boys Hall
Windermere: Linthwaite House Hotel
Woodstock: The Feathers Hotel at Woodstock
Channel Islands
St. Anne (Alderney): The Blonde HedgehogSt. Helier (Jersey): Longueville Manor
Scotland
Ballantrae: Glenapp Castle
Cumnock: Dumfries House Lodge
Dornoch: Links House at Royal Dornoch
Edinburgh: 100 Princes Street
Edinburgh: Gleneagles Townhouse
Edinburgh: Prestonfield Edinburgh
Foyers: Foyers Lodge
Grandtully: The Grandtully Hotel by Ballintaggart
Isle of Skye – Sleat: Kinloch Lodge
Resolis: Newhall Mains Dingwall
Stirlingshire: Cromlix Hotel
Tain: Glenmorangie House
Wales
Bala: Palé Hall
Dolgellau: Penmaenuchaf
Narberth: Grove of Narberth
Northern Ireland
Belfast: Regency House BelfastRepublic of Ireland
Ballyvaughan: Gregans Castle Hotel
Castlemartyr: Castlemartyr Resort
Dublin: Dylan Hotel
Dublin: Wilder Townhouse Dublin
Killarney: The Killarney Park
Killarney: The Victoria
Limerick: No. 1 Pery Square
Newmarket-on-Fergus: Dromoland Castle
Hero Image: One-Key Linthwaite House Hotel in Windermere, one of The MICHELIN Guide's 139 Key hotels announced on the 8th October 2025 (© Linthwaite House Hotel)
