Three hotels in Greece are featuring among the 25 Best Hotels in Europe in the list drawn up by the Australian edition of Business Insider after having aggregated rankings from world reputable travel sources, including Travel + Leisure’s World’s Best Hotel Awards, Condé Nast Traveller’s Top 100 Hotels & Resorts (part of its annual Reader’s Choice Awards), TripAdvisor’s Top 25 Hotels In The World (part of its annual Travellers’ Choice Awards), and the Fodor’s 100 Hotel Awards.
The three Greek hotels are Perivolas on Santorini, Blue Palace Resort in Elounda on Crete and Lindos Blu in Lindos on Rhodes.
According to the list, the 25 Best Hotels In Europe are:
1. Four Seasons Hotel Gresham Palace – Budapest, Hungary
2 Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet – Istanbul, Turkey
2 Four Seasons Hotel Firenze – Florence, Italy
4 Four Seasons Hotel George V – Paris, France
4 Grand Hotel Timeo – Sicily, Italy
6. Perivolas – Santorini, Greece
7. Le Meurice – Paris, France
8. Hotel Plaza Athenee – Paris, France
9. Castello di Casole – A Timbers Resort – Tuscany, Italy
10. Villa San Michele – Fiesole, Italy
11. Trump International Golf Links & Hotel Ireland – County Clare, Ireland
12. Parador Santiago de Compostela – A Coruna, Spain
13. Ciragan Palace Kempinski – Kempinski, Istanbul
14. Four Seasons Milano – Milan, Italy
15. The Grand Hotel Kronenhof – Pontresina, Switzerland
16 Gleneagles Hotel – Pertshire, Scotland
16 Blue Palace Resort – Crete, Greece
16 St. Regis Florence – Italy
19. Mandarin Oriental Prague – Czech Republic
20. The Ritz Paris – France
21. Four Seasons Hotel- Prague, Czech Republic
22. Lindos Blu – Lindos, Rhodes, Greece
23. The Connaught – London, UK
24 Hotel Villa Magna – Madrid, Spain
24 La Sirenuse – Positano, Italy
25. Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at the Bosphorus – Istanbul, Turkey
Christos Kalloniatis (Professor of the Department of Cultural Technology and Communication at the University of the Aegean), Iris Kritikou (Archaeologist-Historian of Art), Konstantinos Maniatopoulos (Director of the Stratis Eleftheriadis-Tériade Museum – Library, Visual Artist-Historian of Art), Irine Vasilopoulou