Mobil Travel Guide Unveils Its Top Luxury Picks

1/29/2008 at 5:10 PM
Tags: Luxury Hotels, Hotel News, Hotel Awards

Outside the Boston Harbor Hotel, one of our Best Hotel WiFi Spots.

The Mobil Travel Guide has put out there haughty list of the best four and five-star hotels, restaurants and spas for 2008.

Four new US properties made the five-star list: Sanctuary at Kiawah Island in South Carolina, The Boston Harbor Hotel, The Four Seasons Jackson Hole in Wyoming and the Stein-Eriksen Lodge in Utah. Here's the complete list of Five Star Hotels. And you can even watch a video.

In other news:
· A scammer pretending to be Heath Ledger's father asked for rooms at the Carlyle Hotel. [NY Post]

· American Lodging and Investment Summit (ALIS) is in full effect today and we are sure that there will be some interesting information coming out of here (cough, NYLO, cough.) [Official Site]

· A 175-room Four Seasons hotel will open in downtown NYC near the World Trade Center. [Bloomgberg]

· Foxwoods Resort and Casino has its own fire drama. [Newsday]

· TravelLodge UK, ever feisty, accused Ryanair and easyJet for stealing valuable UK business. [Guardian]