Raffles Hotels & Resorts’ philosophy of delivering emotional luxury through thoughtful, graceful and elegant service has put its hotels and resorts in the spotlight time and time again. Recent awards include:
2012 – Condé Nast Traveller (UK)
Gold List
Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris is recognized as one of the world’s Best Hotels for Ambience and Design in the magazine’s coveted Gold List featuring the magazine’s choice of best new hotels in the world.
2012 – Tatler Travel Awards
Best New Hotel 2012
Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris has been awarded Best New Hotel by the prestigious Tatler magazine in its 2012 Travel Guide. The hotel is credited as “quite possibly the most lovely place you have ever seen”.
2012 – Harpers Bazaar Travel Hot 100
Paris was named as the top destination for 2012, and Le Royal Monceau, Raffles Paris was named as one of the best hotels in the city.
2011 – Sunday Times Travel Magazine Awards
Worldwide City Hotel
Flagship Raffles Hotel Singapore has been voted by readers as runner-up in the ‘Worldwide City Hotel’ category. Raffles’ oldest hotel receives the award the same evening the group’s newest hotel Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris is honoured with Best New Hotel 2012 award at the Tatler Travel Awards.
2011 - Conde Nast Traveler (US Edition) and Conde Nast Traveller (UK Edition)
Readers’ Choice
Raffles Beijing Hotel has been recognised amongst the world’s Top 100 Hotels by readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine. Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Raffles Hotel Singapore and Raffles Beijing also make Asia’s Top 100 Hotels.
In the UK Edition, Raffles Hotel Singapore was also voted 7th among the world’s Top Business Hotels.
2011 – Condé Nast Traveller Hot List (UK) and Condé Nast Traveler Hot List (US Edition)
Raffles Paris, Le Royal Monceau scores a double hit, going onto the Condé Nast Travel(l)er Hot List - both sides of the Pond, after it re-opens following its makeover by über designer Philippe Starck – complete with a Long Bar. This is the third Hot List honour for the group as Raffles Beijing Hotel and Raffles Dubai similarly earned the Hot List accolade within a year of opening.
2011 Elite Traveler 101 Top Hotel Suites
Newly opened Raffles Praslin Seychelles’ Raffles Beachfront Villa Suite is selected by the leading private jet magazine as one of the world’s top luxury suites.
2011 - Pudlo Paris Guide
Il Carpaccio, the Italian restaurant at Raffles Paris, Le Royal Monceau has been named Best Foreign Restaurant in the French Capital.
2011 – Travel + Leisure IT List
Travel + Leisure magazine names Raffles Paris, Le Royal Monceau as one of its favourite new hotels of the year, referring to it as “the new epicenter of cool in Paris”.
2011 - Travel + Leisure
The Greatest 500 Hotels in The World
Three Raffles properties were honoured in Travel + Leisure’s Greatest 500 Hotels in The World - Raffles Hotel Singapore, Raffles Grand Hotel d’Angkor, Raffles Hotel Le Royal.
2011 Travel Trade Gazette (TTG) Asia
Best Luxury Hotel
Travel industry leaders and peers acknowledge Raffles Hotel Singapore’s unique charm and inimitable service by conferring the icon with the “Best Luxury Hotel” award for the ninth consecutive year.
2011 - Travel Trade Gazette China
Best Luxury Hotel in Beijing
Raffles Beijing Hotel was voted unanimously by readers of Asia’s leading travel trade publications TTG China, TTG Asia, TTG-BTmice China and TTGmice as the Best Luxury Hotel in Beijing for 2011.
2011 World Travel Awards
Raffles Makkah Palace beats off stiff competition, to be named “Middle East’s Leading Luxury Hotel”
2011 - Luxury Brand Status Index by Luxury Institute
Top Two Luxury Hotel Brands
Raffles Hotels & Resorts has been voted amongst the world’s top two luxury hotel brands for 2011 in survey of affluent consumers in the US.
2011 – Condé Nast Traveler Business Travel Awards
World’s Top Hotel Brands
Raffles Hotels & Resorts has been voted for the 6th time by well-travelled readers of Conde Nast Traveler magazine as one of the world’s top hotel brands in the magazine’s annual business travel poll.