On 1st October 2024, The MICHELIN Guide revealed the brand new One, Two and Three Key distinctions for the most outstanding hotels in the UK and Ireland.
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 traveller, each vetted by our hotel experts 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 MICHELIN Guide Inspectors, 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 for Great Britain and Ireland includes 14 Three Key hotels, 37 Two Key hotels and 72 One Key hotels. Head below to discover all the new awards.
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Highlights of the UK and Ireland 2024 Hotel Key List
Jump straight to the list or take a deeper dive into select Key hotels.
On this page, you’ll find all of our Key distinctions, sorted by number of Keys and their location within the UK and Ireland. Click on any hotel to go straight to the hotel page and learn more about the special qualities of each property. Alternatively, you can read any number of in-depth pieces about the aspects of the special craft that make up a Key hotel over on our magazine page. Scroll down for more insights into the British and Irish hotel Key of 2024.
The Three Key Club Across the UK and Republic of Ireland
14 properties earned our our highest hotel honour in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, the exclusive Three Key distinction. Of these, one makes its home in the Scottish countryside (The Gleneagles Hotel), two in 19th-century country estates (Adare Manor and Ballyfin Demesne) in the Republic of Ireland, 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 some of these most iconic British names, including Claridge's, The Connaught and The Savoy.
London Has It All: 44 Keys of Every Variety
You’ll find nearly a third of the hotels on this list in London, including eight Three Key hotels and dozens in the One and Two Key categories. You can expect a range of styles that includes sheer opulence (Bvlgari Hotel London, Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park), Georgian and Victorian inspiration (Flemings Mayfair, COMO The Halkin, The Langham), and more than a few designs from superlative hoteliers Tim and Kit Kemp (Knightsbridge Hotel, Charlotte Street Hotel, Ham Yard Hotel).
There’s no real way to sum up the scene here in London. This is one of the best cities in the world for both variety and creativity of hotels. The selections in the list below prove it.
Big Splendour Outside the Big Cities
London, Edinburgh and Dublin all make their presence known in this first release of Key hotels in the UK and Ireland. But the appeal of the countryside, the seaside, and smaller towns and villages is undeniable, too. It may come as a surprise, but it’s in these farther-flung destinations that we often find the most eccentric and irreverent hotel designs. See Key hotels like the Artist Residence Oxfordshire or The Swan Southwold for proof of concept.
In the Republic of Ireland, meanwhile, you’ll find a collection of countryside Key hotels that tend towards the stately, typified by historic spots like Cashel Palace and Dromoland Castle.
Click below to jump to each distinction:
The Three Key Hotels
Bruton, England: The Newt in Somerset
Colerne, England: Lucknam Park
Great Milton, England: Le Manoir aux Quat'Saisons, A Belmond Hotel, Oxfordshire
London, England: Bvlgari Hotel London
London, England: Claridge's
London, England: Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane
London, England: Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park
London, England: Raffles London at The OWO
London, England: The Connaught
London, England: The Peninsula London
London, England: The Savoy
Adare, Republic of Ireland: Adare Manor
Ballyfin, Republic of Ireland: Ballyfin Demesne
Auchterarder, Scotland: The Gleneagles Hotel
The Two Key Hotels
Ascot, England: Coworth Park, Dorchester Collection
Bath, England: The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa
Chagford, England: Gidleigh Park
East Grinstead, England: Gravetye Manor
Exmouth, England: Lympstone Manor
Hampton-in-Arden, England: Hampton Manor
Heckfield, England: Heckfield Place
Leatherhead, England: Beaverbrook Surrey
Lechlade, England: Thyme
London, England: 45 Park Lane, Dorchester Collection
London, England: Brown's Hotel, a Rocco Forte Hotel
London, England: Corinthia Hotel London
London, England: Covent Garden Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London, England: Ham Yard Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London, England: Haymarket Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London, England: Hotel Café Royal
London, England: Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London
London, England: Rosewood London
London, England: The Beaumont Hotel
London, England: The Berkeley
London, England: The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, London
London, England: The Dorchester, Dorchester Collection
London, England: The Langham, London
London, England: The Twenty Two
Lyndhurst, England: Lime Wood Hotel
Malmesbury, England: Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa
New Milton, England: Chewton Glen Hotel
Ripon, England: Grantley Hall
Rutland, England: Hambleton Hall
Taplow, England: Cliveden House
Windermere, England: Gilpin Hotel & Lake House
Windermere, England: The Samling Hotel
Cashel, Republic of Ireland: Cashel Palace
Kenmare, Republic of Ireland: Sheen Falls Lodge
Dublin, Republic of Ireland: The Merrion
Braemar, Scotland: The Fife Arms
Edinburgh, Scotland: The Balmoral
The One Key Hotels
England
Amberley: Amberley Castle
Bath: Bath Priory
Bath: Homewood
Bath: The Gainsborough Bath Spa
Bath: The Queensberry Hotel
Bath: The Yard, Bath
Bideford: The Collective at Woolsery
Brampton: Farlam Hall Hotel & Restaurant
Brighton: Artist Residence Brighton
Bristol: Artist Residence Bristol
Bristol: Number 38 Clifton
Camber: The Gallivant
Cheltenham: Cowley Manor Experimental
Cowes (Isle of Wight): Foresters Hall
Grasmere: Forest Side Hotel
Hampshire: Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire
Hastings: The Old Rectory
Langham: The Harper Langham
London: 1 Hotel Mayfair
London: Artist Residence London
London: Baglioni Hotel London
London: Beaverbrook Town House
London: Broadwick Soho
London: Charlotte Street Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London: Chiltern Firehouse
London: COMO The Halkin
London: Flemings Mayfair
London: Four Seasons Hotel London
London: Knightsbridge Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
London: L'oscar London
London: NoMad London
London: Number Sixteen, Firmdale Hotels
London: One Aldwych
London: Redchurch Townhouse
London: Shangri-La The Shard London
London: Sofitel London St James
London: The Emory
London: The Soho Hotel, Firmdale Hotels
Newbury: The Vineyard Hotel & Spa
North Leigh: Estelle Manor
Oxford: Artist Residence Oxfordshire
Southwold: The Swan Southwold
St Mawes: The Idle Rocks
St. Mawes: Hotel Tresanton
Thornbury: Thornbury Castle
West Cornwall: Artist Residence Cornwall
Windermere: Linthwaite House Hotel
Channel Islands
Saint Helier (Jersey): Longueville ManorRepublic of Ireland
Ballyvaughan: Gregans Castle Hotel
Ardmore: Cliff House Hotel
Castlemartyr: Castlemartyr Resort
Dublin: Dylan
Dublin: Wilder Townhouse Dublin
Killarney: The Killarney Park
Killarney: The Victoria
Limerick: No. 1 Pery Square
Newmarket on Fergus: Dromoland Castle
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 Loch Ness
Grandtully: The Grandtully Hotel by Ballintaggart
Isle of Skye – Sleat: Kinloch Lodge
Kinbuck: Cromlix Hotel
Resolis: Newhall Mains Dingwall
Tain: Glenmorangie House
Wales
Bala: Palé Hall
Dolgellau: Penmaenuchaf
Narberth: The Grove - Narberth
