Innholdsfortegnelse for August 2015 i Travel + Leisure Southeast Asia, Hong Kong & Macau

PHUKET E-GUIDE The definitive guide to Thailand’s most popular island has finally landed. tandl.asia/phuketguide SNOW COUNTRY Niigata is now much easier to visit, thanks to a new Shinkansen bullet train route. Find out why you should go now. WHAT THE TRUCK? A four-wheeled trend is fueling the urban dining scene across Southeast Asia. Check out some of the latest food trucks that have rolled into town. DOWNLOAD US T+L Tablet Editions Available on iOS, Android, Win 8 and Zinio Desktop Reader. Get the August issue now. VISIT US traveland leisureasia.com Now on our site: Ways to liven up your trip to Laos; tricks to salvage your airline mishaps; the latest travel deals and more. KEEP UP WITH US Sign up for our newsletter for monthly highlights and offers from T+L…

Q&A The dirtiest little secret of the frequent-flyer industry is that earning a reward ticket is much easier than actually redeeming one. No laws govern this process, and if you don’t have a week to read all your program’s fine print, there’s a good chance that you’ll end up in an endless wormhole of award-ticket requests and rejections. Some airlines are far superior to others on this front. On the two top carriers, Airberlin and the U.S.-based Southwest, in this year’s Switchfly Reward Seat Availability Survey, a ticket was granted for every single request, a phenomenal rate. Close on their heels, though, was Virgin Australia, with 96.4 percent availability, and, happily, it’s one of four airlines tested in our region with seats open for at least eight out of 10…

Imagine cowboy hats, leather lassos, bucking broncos. Now set that scene on a powder-white beach in the Philippines. It may seem a strange pairing, but that’s the outlook at Ticao island. This brushstroke of emerald thickets and white sand is ringed by intense open blue. It’s one of Masbate Province’s three offthe-beaten path islands floating between the more famous shores of southern Luzon and Cebu. You’ll find snorkeling and diving here, but the region is most famous for the Rodeo Masbateño held every April. Besides cowpokes and cattle, Ticao Pass’s constant currents and plankton-rich waters lure manta rays, and hammerhead, thresher and whale sharks. The island’s only claim to tourism fame is the Manta Bowl, an underwater atoll offering five different dive sites ranging up to 29 meters deep. Divers…

IN RECENT YEARS, Napa Valley had settled into a comfy rut. Wineries were turning out upscale but often predictable Cabernets, and the hotels felt reliably, if not excitingly, luxe—the kind of complacency that comes from being at the top of the heap. But the area’s affluent, increasingly younger clientele wants something different—innovation, clean design, a casual vibe—and Napa has responded in the form of new projects, reboots and renovations all across the valley. This isn’t your parents’ Napa, but they’ll like it too. Leading the charge is Odette Estate (odetteestate.com), a nextgeneration winery in the Stags Leap District from philanthropist Gordon Getty, California lieutenant governor Gavin Newsom and Napa veteran John Conover. Instead of building the faux-Tuscan villa with the bluechip art collection that used to pass for a bold statement,…

WHAT DOES IT TAKE TO BE NO. 1 on the World’s Best list for 20 years in a row? For starters, a commitment to service and the ability to stay ahead of the curve—both of which are hallmarks of Singapore Airlines and Crystal Cruises. Here’s a closer look at how they have stayed on top for so long. Singapore Airlines is known for setting the industry standard. Among its groundbreaking achievements: it was the first commercial airline to offer free drinks and meal choices in economy as well as free headsets. And the airline has continued to innovate ever since. It flew the world’s largest passenger plane, the Airbus A380, before any other commercial carrier, in 2007. And it’s poured millions of dollars into ongoing initiatives: a low-air-pressure tasting room,…

TOP 10 OVERALL 1 Kyoto Japan 91.22 2 Charleston South Carolina 89.84 3 Siem Reap Cambodia 89.57 4 Florence 89.43 H 5 Rome 88.99 H 6 Bangkok 88.91 7 Kraków Poland 88.69 8 Barcelona 88.59 9 Cape Town 88.27 10 Jerusalem 88.18 ASIA 1 Kyoto Japan 91.22 H 2 Siem Reap Cambodia 89.57 3 Bangkok 88.91 S 4 Tokyo 85.25 5 Hong Kong 83.98 H 6 Singapore 82.46 7 Hanoi Vietnam 82.26 8 Shanghai 81.91 9 Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam 80.48 10 New Delhi 80.10 AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1 Sydney 87.48 S 2 Melbourne 85.13 H 3 Auckland New Zealand 80.35 UNITED STATES & CANADA 1 Charleston South Carolina 89.84 H 2 New Orleans 88.11 3 Savannah Georgia 87.02 4 Santa Fe New Mexico 86.10…

FROM OUR READERS “ NOW WE KNOW WHAT ALL THE FUSS IS ABOUT. DISNEY IS INCREDIBLE AT SEA. THE KIDS’ PROGRAMS WERE FANTASTIC, THE FOOD WAS EXCELLENT AND THE SERVICE WAS MIND-BLOWING” MEGA-SHIP OCEAN 1 Disney Cruise Line 88.03 H 2 Princess Cruises 84.79 H 3 Celebrity Cruises 83.79 S 4 Cunard 82.15 S 5 Royal Caribbean International 79.51 LARGE-SHIP OCEAN 1 Crystal Cruises 89.98 S 2 Regent Seven Seas Cruises 89.28 H 3 Azamara Club Cruises 88.78 4 Oceania Cruises 87.23 H 5 Cunard 84.79 S 6 Princess Cruises 83.96 H 7 Holland America Line 83.57 S 8 Celebrity Cruises 80.16 S 9 Royal Caribbean International 79.55 10 Norwegian Cruise Line 75.99 SMALL-SHIP OCEAN 1 Seabourn 93.57 S 2 Paul Gauguin Cruises 92.90 3 Windstar Cruises 90.18 4 Regent…

ASIA CITY HOTELS 1 The Peninsula Shanghai 96.00 2 The Peninsula Bangkok 95.11 H 3 The Peninsula Hong Kong 94.22 S 4 The Peninsula Tokyo 94.00 5 Mandarin Oriental Hong Kong 93.75 6 Sofitel Legend Metropole Hanoi, Vietnam 93.09 7 Park Hyatt Saigon Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam 92.71 8 The Peninsula Beijing 92.60 9 The Oberoi New Delhi 92.19 10 Four Seasons Hotel Singapore 92.00 11 Mandarin Oriental Bangkok 91.89 S 12 Taj Mahal Palace Mumbai 91.83 13 Shangri-La Hotel Bangkok 91.10 14 JW Marriott Hotel Bangkok 89.75 15 Belmond La Résidence d’Angkor Siem Reap, Cambodia 89.18 16 Grand Hyatt Hong Kong 88.94 16 Mandarin Oriental Singapore 88.94 18 Regent Beijing 88.44 19 Westin Bund Center Shanghai 88.17 20 Kowloon Shangri-La Hong Kong 88.15 21 Dwarika’s Hotel Kathmandu, Nepal…

CONTINENTAL U.S. LARGE CITY HOTELS (100 Rooms or More) 1 Ritz-Carlton New York, Central Park 94.73 H 2 The Hay-Adams Washington, D.C. 93.33 2 St. Regis New York City 93.33 4 Four Seasons Hotel Seattle 92.84 5 The Peninsula Beverly Hills, California 92.44 H 6 Four Seasons Hotel Chicago 92.14 7 The Langham Chicago 92.00 8 Montage Beverly Hills, California 91.82 9 Michelangelo Hotel New York City 91.73 10 The Peninsula New York City 91.60 11 Waldorf Astoria Chicago 91.54 12 Mandarin Oriental New York City 91.53 13 The Peninsula Chicago 91.43 H 14 The Langham Boston 91.24 15 Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas 91.04 16 St. Regis San Francisco 90.90 17 Fairmont Olympic Hotel Seattle 90.84 18 Hotel 1000 Seattle 90.75 19 Grand Bohemian Hotel Asheville, North Carolina 90.53…

CENTRAL & SOUTH AMERICA RESORTS 1 Nayara Hotel, Spa & Gardens Arenal Volcano National Park, Costa Rica 89.22 2 Four Seasons Resort Costa Rica at Peninsula Papagayo Guanacaste, Costa Rica 89.17 H 3 Inkaterra Machu Picchu Pueblo Hotel Peru 86.67 4 Belmond Sanctuary Lodge Machu Picchu, Peru 82.93 5 JW Marriott Resort & Spa Guanacaste, Costa Rica 80.76 CITY HOTELS 1 Belmond Miraflores Park Lima, Peru 93.25 2 Four Seasons Hotel Buenos Aires 93.14 3 Palacio Duhau–Park Hyatt Buenos Aires 93.07 4 Alvear Palace Hotel Buenos Aires 91.70 H 5 JW Marriott Lima, Peru 90.96 6 Belmond Hotel Monasterio Cuzco, Peru 90.67 H 7 Belmond Copacabana Palace Rio de Janeiro 89.50 8 Ritz-Carlton Santiago, Chile 86.78 H 9 JW Marriott Hotel Quito, Ecuador 85.33 10 Park Hyatt Mendoza Hotel, Casino…

A SMART CAR DANGLING from a helicopter 300 meters above buzzing St. Kilda Beach is not just the kind of stuff of which teenage boys’ dreams are made. It’s also how the hip, Melbournebased Art Series Hotel Group celebrated the addition of 35 tiny, trendy Smart roadsters to the fleet of private jets, choppers and limos already available for its guests. Access to Smart cars is “not your average perk,” as the company rightly claims, and this was not your average PR stunt. As I learned checking into the newest property in the Art Series portfolio, “average” was a concept even I, as a guest, would be pitted against. “Would you like to opt in to our reverse review process?” asked Ben, the man behind the counter at The Larwill…

Navigating traffic in a foreign city could one day be your rental sedan’s problem. Audi in March sent an autonomous Q5 SUV on a 5,700-kilometer trip from San Francisco to New York, and followed it up with the May reveal of its R8 E-tron sports car tooling the streets of Shanghai solo at Asia’s first Consumer Electronics Show. Baidu has announced it will debut one in Beijing by the end of this year; naturally Google and BMW are in the race, as is Uber. Technological triumph or the stuff of sci-fi nightmares? Here’s what the geeks are saying. “IN THE FUTURE, SELFDRIVING CARS WILL BE FORCED TO DECIDE WHO LIVES AND WHO DIES. I feel like we don’t talk about this enough.” —CHRISTOPHER MIMS, TECHNOLOGY COLUMNIST AT THE WALL STREET…

Whether you’re a Thai architecture buff or just enjoy ogling gorgeous resorts you may one day visit, the photography in A Tradition of Serenity: The Tropical Houses of Ong-ard Satrabhandhu (Rizzoli New York; Bt2,500), showcasing the work of lauded Thai designer and architect Ong-ard Satrabhandhu, will set you daydreaming. François Halard, who has been a regular contributing photographer for Vogue, Vanity Fair, GQ and House & Garden for 30 years, shot the 250 color photographs in the glossy volume. Ong-ard channels his Lanna background in all of his designs. Many of his residences are set in beautifully restored heritage buildings, use reclaimed materials from ancient edifices, or leverage old-style construction techniques like Tamarind Village in Chiang Mai with its bamboo archway, timber beams and thin clay roof tiles. Flipping through…

AS FAR AS ARTS ENCLAVES GO, Caochangdi is a work in progress. As such, it might just be the perfect microcosm of present-day Beijing, a city pinned between its rich history and a modern façade. Veer down one lane in Caochangdi instead of making an abrupt left, and you’re more likely to come across a wizened Chinese grandmother perched on a wooden stool than a cutting-edge art space. While a handful of artists first moved to the village in 2000, not until the past few years has there been a concerted artistic bent to the area through public art installations and live events. Today, that shows. The village comes with pedigree: this is where artist and architect Ai Weiwei has set up shop, both in his own gallery and in…

I WAS IN THE YINGGE CERAMICS district in New Taipei City, about half an hour by train from central Taipei, where I was hoping to find a thousand-year-old Chinese bowl. The area has a quietly beautiful cobblestoned main street, lined with unexpected palm trees with iron cages around their trunks. You can see the mountains beyond the low, graceful buildings, until you turn onto one of the narrow alleys packed with one- to three-story shops, where cords of lights hang from the windows overhead and a sense of frenetic intimacy replaces the calm. If it’s made of clay, you can buy it here. It is to the ceramics enthusiast what the Tsukiji Fish Market in Tokyo is to the sushi lover. Unfortunately, I didn’t have much of a plan. My…

MACBOOK It was always the standard-bearer for powerful processing, but at just half an inch thick and less than a kilogram, Apple’s latest 12-inch MacBook is now as portable as the MacBook Air. A top-of-theline Core M processor packs lightning-fast speeds, and it runs both OS X Yosemite and Windows. One caveat: the only port is a USB-C (smaller than the usual USB), meaning you’ll need an adapter to connect your accessories. From US$1,299, apple.com. SURFACE 3 With a magnetized keyboard that connects effortlessly, this tablet hybrid feels like a laptop but can be used during takeoff and landing. Among the new features: hardware that stays cool and quiet and a free oneyear subscription to Microsoft Office. From US$499, microsoft.com. RHA T10 EARBUDS They’re impressively customizable: each pair comes with…

SUPER SAVER Cosmopolitan Hotel, Hong Kong Turn the tot over to the nanny with a complimentary two-hour babysitting service, and take your older kids out for some splash-happy fun at marine-themed Ocean Park. The Deal Stay4Fun: a night in a Premier room, from HK$1,000 for two adults and a child, through August 31. Save 50%. cosmopolitanhotel.com.hk. BEACH BALI Kayumanis Ubud Private Villa & Spa Get away from it all at this spa resort, where a butler tends to your every need around the clock; the minibar is restocked daily with drinks and homemade cookies; and a delicious tea set is served every afternoon in your villa. Bonus: a two-hour Relaxing Massage or Relaxing Ritual; a 30-minute back-and-shoulder massage; and a candlelit dinner for two. The Deal Perfect Escape; three nights…

TIMELINE, FROM LEFT: T+L ARCHIVES; COURTESY OF RITZ-CARLTON LAGUNA NIGUEL; MAURIZIO SIANI/GETTY IMAGES; ©S1001/DREAMSTIME.COM; ©PAVLOS REKAS/DREAMSTIME.COM 1996 The historic Oriental in Bangkok was crowned the best hotel in the world—12 years before officially changing its name to the Mandarin Oriental. It repeated its win in 1999 and 2000. 1999 The West was the best—at least according to the U.S. and Canada winners. Seven of the top 10 hotels were in that region; the Ritz-Carlton Laguna Niguel in California was No. 1. 2001 Six of the 10 best cities were in Europe—the highest concentration ever. On the list: Paris, Venice, London, Florence, Rome and Vienna. 2002 We embraced that little thing called the Internet—which we noted “has become an important part of our readers’ lives”—and did away with paper surveys. The…

TOP 10 OVERALL 1 Galápagos Islands Ecuador 90.82 H 2 Bali Indonesia 88.98 H 3 Maldives 88.53 4 Tasmania Australia 88.32 5 Santorini Greece 87.93 6 Moorea French Polynesia 87.90 7 Maui Hawaii 87.89 S 8 Kauai Hawaii 87.88 S 9 Great Barrier Reef Australia 87.31 10 Malta 86.90 ASIA 1 Bali Indonesia 88.98 H 2 Maldives 88.53 3 Phuket Thailand 79.22 AUSTRALIA, NEW ZEALAND & THE SOUTH PACIFIC 1 Tasmania Australia 88.32 2 Moorea French Polynesia 87.90 3 Great Barrier Reef Australia 87.31 H 4 Bora-Bora French Polynesia 86.11 H 5 Fiji 84.78 CONTINENTAL U.S. & CANADA 1 Vancouver Island British Columbia 86.22 2 Hilton Head South Carolina 85.00 3 Golden Isles (Jekyll Island, Little St. Simons Island, Sea Island, St. Simons Island) Georgia 84.49 4 San Juan Islands…

TOP DESTINATION SPAS OVERALL 1 Golden Door San Marcos, California 98.33 2 Rancho La Puerta Tecate, Mexico 94.69 H 3 Ten Thousand Waves Japanese Spa & Resort Santa Fe, New Mexico 93.09 4 Lake Austin Spa Resort Texas 92.64 H 5 Miraval Resort & Spa Tucson, Arizona 92.53 H 6 Mii Amo, a Destination Spa Sedona, Arizona 92.00 H 6 Westglow Resort & Spa Blowing Rock, North Carolina 92.00 8 Canyon Ranch Tucson, Arizona 88.40 9 Lodge at Woodloch Hawley, Pennsylvania 87.13 10 Red Mountain Resort Ivins, Utah 86.77 TOUR OPERATORS 1 Butterfield & Robinson 97.76 2 VBT Bicycling & Walking Vacations 95.88 3 Classic Journeys 95.68 4 Wilderness Travel 95.42 5 Kensington Tours 94.07 SAFARI OUTFITTERS 1 Ker & Downey 98.44 2 Micato Safaris 96.95 S 3 Africa Adventure…

EUROPE LARGE CITY HOTELS ( 100 Rooms or More) 1 Le Meurice Paris 95.71 2 Four Seasons Hotel, Gresham Palace Budapest 95.61 3 Le Bristol Paris 94.51 4 Hotel Alfonso XIII, a Luxury Collection Hotel Seville, Spain 94.35 5 Park Hyatt Paris-Vendôme 93.93 6 Hotel Vier Jahreszeiten Kempinski Munich 93.60 7 Four Seasons Hotel Prague 93.47 8 Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at the Bosphorus 92.67 9 Four Seasons Hotel George V Paris 92.48 H 10 Hôtel Plaza Athénée Paris 92.20 11 Four Seasons Hotel Ritz Lisbon 91.60 12 Merrion Hotel Dublin 91.13 13 Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane 90.72 14 Chesterfield Mayfair London 90.67 15 Hotel de Russie Rome 90.67 SMALL CITY HOTELS (Fewer Than 100 Rooms) 1 Four Seasons Hotel Istanbul at Sultanahmet 96.57 2 41 London…

A questionnaire developed by the editors of Travel + Leisure, in association with Wylei, was made available to Travel + Leisure readers at tlworldsbest.com and at tlworldsbest.com/intl from November 3, 2014, to March 2, 2015. Readers were invited to participate through Travel + Leisure magazine (December, January, February and March issues), T+L tablet editions, newsletters, social media and online at travelandleisure.com. To protect the integrity of the data, after March 2, 2015, respondents were screened by Travel + Leisure and responses from any identified travel-industry professionals who completed the survey were eliminated from the final tally. The survey website, tlworldsbest.com, was maintained, monitored and kept secure by Wylei, which collected and tabulated the responses and kept them confidential. The scores are indexed averages of responses concerning applicable characteristics. Respondents were…

Kyoto. Like his city, Daisaku Kadokawa is easygoing, interesting and fun. He is also proud that Kyoto was rated No. 1 by Travel+Leisure readers in our 2014 World’s Best Awards, a feat that it has repeated this year. Yet what struck me was when he mentioned that, despite its top ranking, Kyoto still aims to improve. One example: as of this writing, the city of temples and shrines has more than 1,400 Wi-Fi hot spots—double the total from our conversation a few months ago. It’s that continual upgrading that defines our repeat winners. T+L Southeast Asia is now nine years old, but this year marks the 20th anniversary of the awards, which started with our parent publication in the U.S. Aside from the prominence of Asia-based winners—six of the top…

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FOODIES DOWN UNDER can’t get enough of celebrity chef Sean Connolly’s bold, earthy style. He calls himself a “purveyor of damn fine food,” and the critics agree: kitchens he’s helmed have pulled in a total of three Chef Hats, the Aussie equivalent of Michelin Stars, and his five restaurants spread across Sydney, Adelaide and Auckland are always packed. He’s even the host of his own TV show, Sean’s Kitchen. Yet, his food philosophy is refreshingly minimalist. After 15 years prepping molecular dishes at Sydney’s perpetually hatted Astral (The Grill by Sean Connolly in Auckland is his other ever-awarded eatery), Connolly decided he was fed up with foam and wanted to pursue a more produce-driven approach. The result: meat on the bone or in the shell, charred or grilled, and served…

“GET LOST,” KEOTA THAMNUVONG tells me. “Allow the city to reveal itself.” The proprietor of Salana Boutique Hotel (salanaboutique.com; doubles from K899,855) pours tea for me in the posh lobby before ushering me out the door. It is spring in Vientiane. I stroll the stately Lane Xang between the Presidential Palace and Patuxai, marvel at the 500-year-old temple erected by King Setthathirat atop Hindu and Khmer ruins and admire the city’s beaux arts façade inherited from the French. One of Southeast Asia’s smallest capitals, Vientiane has strugged with its reputation as a backwater, a sleepy hamlet lost in time. In 1975, when the communist Pathet Lao took over the country, Vientiane slipped into hibernation. Now, the city is showing new signs of life. On street corners, men grill salted river…

AT HOME __ Get fast-tracked. Sign up for APEC Business Travel Card (travel.apec.org) to skip the queues in 19 countries around Asia Pacific, including Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand. Plans for an ASEAN Business Travel Card are still in the works, but for now ASEAN passportholders can make a bee line for recently launched ASEAN lanes at Kuala Lumpur International Airport and KLIA2 for expedited immigration clearance. __ Buy some peace of mind. AIG’s Travel Guard protection (from S$26; aig.com) will reimburse you S$100 for every six consecutive hours of delay, S$200 if you miss a connection because of a delay, and up to S$8,000 if your bag goes missing. If you book your tickets with AirAsia, add on Tune Insure (from S$6 airsasiainsure.com), which offers similar coverage. Pricings for both…

FOR FULL LISTINGS OF ALL OF THIS YEAR’S WINNERS—INCLUDING THE BEST HOTELS AND CRUISE LINES FOR FAMILIES— VISIT TANDL.ME/WORLDSBEST2015. Survey methodology is on page 109. 20th Anniversary Special WHEN THE WORLD’S BEST Awards launched, in 1996, it was a way for Travel + Leisure to hear from you, our readers, about the hotels you loved, the airlines you were loyal to, the destinations that most excited you. Back then, the world felt much bigger—airlines didn’t have websites, translation apps didn’t exist—and only the coolest of cities had boutique hotels. Our first World’s Best Awards reflected many of these differences. Most of the top-rated hotels were grande-dame properties, like the Oriental Bangkok (No. 1 overall) and Peninsula Hong Kong (No. 3). And the top 10 cities indicated a preference for more…

INTERNATIONAL AIRLINES 1 Singapore Airlines 90.94 S 2 Emirates 87.59 H 3 Qatar Airways 85.00 4 Cathay Pacific Airways 84.90 S 5 Air New Zealand 84.73 6 Virgin Atlantic Airways 84.30 S 7 Thai Airways International 83.93 H 8 Korean Air 83.86 9 All Nippon Airways (ANA) 82.83 10 Qantas Airways 82.72 INTERNATIONAL AIRPORTS 1 Singapore Changi Airport 89.55 2 Hong Kong International Airport 85.07 3 Amsterdam Airport Schiphol 79.20 * 4 Zurich Airport Switzerland 77.19 5 Munich Airport Germany 75.62 * CAR-RENTAL AGENCIES 1 National Car Rental 79.52 S 2 Enterprise Rent-A-Car 77.77 H 3 Alamo 77.15 4 Avis Car Rental 75.84 S 5 Hertz 74.64 S LEGEND * World’s Best Awards Debut H Hall of Fame (on the list for 10 years in a row) | S Super…

FROM OUR READERS “THE SERVICE AT TRIPLE CREEK IS THE BEST I’VE EVER EXPERIENCED. THEY THINK OF EVERYTHING, AND NO REQUEST WAS TOO LARGE OR TOO SMALL IT WAS PERFECTION” CONTINENTAL U.S. RESORTS (40 Rooms or More) 1 Sunset Key Guest Cottages, a Luxury Collection Resort Key West, Florida 96.00 2 Inn at Palmetto Bluff, a Montage Resort Bluffton, South Carolina 95.64 3 Ocean House Watch Hill, Rhode Island 95.43 4 Allison Inn & Spa Newberg, Oregon 95.25 5 Primland Meadows of Dan, Virginia 95.06 6 Little Nell Aspen, Colorado 94.67 H 7 Hotel Terra Jackson Hole Teton Village, Wyoming 94.50 8 The Cloister Sea Island, Georgia 94.49 9 Cavallo Point Lodge Sausalito, California 94.15 10 Lodge at Sea Island Georgia 93.78 11 Calistoga Ranch California 93.66 12 Sebastian Vail—A…

CANADA RESORTS 1 Wickaninnish Inn Tofino, British Columbia 95.81 H 2 Four Seasons Resort & Residences Whistler, British Columbia 91.52 3 Fairmont Chateau Whistler British Columbia 89.68 4 Fairmont Banff Springs Alberta 87.00 5 Post Hotel & Spa Lake Louise, Alberta 85.65 CANADA CITY HOTELS 1 Ritz-Carlton Montreal 90.88 2 Auberge Saint-Antoine Quebec City 90.60 3 Fairmont Waterfront Vancouver 89.33 4 Fairmont Pacific Rim Vancouver 89.19 5 Wedgewood Hotel & Spa Vancouver 88.80 6 Fairmont Le Château Frontenac Quebec City 88.05 7 Fairmont Château Laurier Ottawa 88.00 7 Ritz-Carlton Toronto 88.00 9 Fairmont Empress Victoria, British Columbia 86.94 10 Four Seasons Hotel Toronto 86.91 HAWAII RESORTS 1 Four Seasons Resort Maui at Wailea 92.25 S 2 Four Seasons Resort Hualalai Hawaii, the Big Island 92.10 H 3 Halekulani Oahu 91.69…