Michelin has awarded its first batch of key awards to hotels in the UK and Ireland today, with the likes of Le Manoir, Gleneagles and the Connaught receiving accolades.
Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons in Oxfordshire, Gleneagles in Auchterarder and the Connaught in Mayfair are among the first cohort of hotels to receive Michelin keys in a presentation ceremony in London today.
Similar to Michelin stars, the keys are a three-tiered award designed to highlight the best places to stay across the globe. Hotels can be rated as one key (a special place to stay), two keys (an exceptional stay) or three keys (an extraordinary stay).
Michelin recognised 123 hotels in the UK and Ireland with keys, with 72 hotels receiving one key, 37 hotels receiving two keys and 14 hotels receiving the highest accolade of three keys.
Le Manoir aux Quat Saisons, Gleneagles and the Connaught hotel were among the recipients of three Michelin keys.
Read below for the full list.
The Newt in Somerset, Bruton
Lucknam Park, Colerne
Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, A Belmond Hotel, Oxfordshire
Bvlgari Hotel London
Claridge’s, London
Four Seasons Hotel London at Park Lane
Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London
Raffles London at the OWO
The Connaught, London
The Peninsula London, London
The Savoy, London
Adare Manor, Adare
Ballyfin Demesne, Ballyfin
The Gleneagles Hotel, Auchterarder
Coworth Park, Dorchester Collection, Ascot
The Royal Crescent Hotel & Spa, Bath
Gidleigh Park, Changford
Gravetye Manor, East Grinstead
Lympstone Manor, Exmouth
Hampton Manor, Hampton-in-Arden
Heckfield Place, Heckfield
Beaverbrook Surrey, Leatherhead
Thyme, Lechlade
45 Park Lane, Dorchester Collection, London
Brown’s Hotel, a Rocco Forte Hotel, London
Corinthia London
Covent Garden hotel, Firmdale Hotels, London
Ham Yard, Firmdale Hotels, London
Haymarket, Firmdale Hotels, London
Hotel Café Royal, London
Mandarin Oriental Mayfair, London
Rosewood London
The Beaumont, London
The Berkeley, London
The Cadogan, A Belmond Hotel, London
The Dorchester, Dorchester Collection, London
The Langham, London
The Twenty Two, London
Lime Wood hotel, Lyndhurst
Whatley Manor Hotel and Spa, Malmesbury
Chewton Glen hotel, New Milton
Grantley Hall, Ripon
Hambleton Hall, Rutland
Cliveden House, Taplow
Gilpin Hotel & Lake House, Windermere
The Samling Hotel, Windermere
Cashel Palace, Windermere
Sheen Falls Lodge, Windermere
The Merrion, Dublin
The Fife Arms, Braemar
The Balmoral, Edinburgh
Amberley Castle, Sussex
Bath Priory, Bath
Homewood, Bath
The Gainsborough Bath Spa, Bath
The Queensberry Hotel, Bath
The Yard, Bath
The Collective at Woolsery, Bideford
Farlam Hall Hotel & Restaurant, Brampton
Artist Residence Brighton
Artist Residence Bristol
Number 38 Clifton, Bristol
The Gallivant, Camber
Cowley Manor Experimental, Cheltenham
Foresters Hall, Cowes, Isle of Wight
Forest Side Hotel, Grasmere
Four Seasons Hotel Hampshire
The Old Rectory, Hastings
The Harper Langham, London
One Hotel Mayfair, London
Artist Residence London
Baglioni Hotel London
Beaverbrook Town House, London
Broadwick Soho London
Charlotte Street Hotel, London
Chiltern Firehouse, London
COMO the Halkin, London
Flemings Mayfair, London
Four Seasons hotel London
Knightsbridge hotel, London
L’oscar London
NoMad London
Number Sixteen, London
One Aldwych, London
Redchurch Townhouse, London
Shangri-La the Shard London
Sofitel London St James
The Emory
The Soho hotel, London
The Vineyard Hotel & Spa, Newbury
Estelle Manor, North Leigh
Artist Residence Oxfordshire
The Swan Southwold
The Idle Rocks, St Mawes
Hotel Tresanton, St. Mawes
Thornbury Castle, Thornbury
Artist Residence Cornwall
Linthwaite House Hotel, Windermere
Longueville Manor, Saint Helier, Jersey
Gregans Castle hotel, Ballyvaughan
Cliff House hotel, Ardmore
Castlemartyr Resort, Castlemartyr
Dylan, Dublin
Wilder Townhouse Dublin
The Killarney Park, Killarney
The Victoria, Killarney
No 1 Pery Square, Limerick
Dromoland Castle, Newmarket on Fergus
Glenapp Castle, Ballantrae
Dumfries House Lodge, Cumnock
Links House at Royal Dornoch, Dornoch
100 Princes Street, Edinburgh
Edinburgh: Gleneagles Townhouse, Edinburgh
Prestonfield Edinburgh
Foyers Lodge Loch Ness, Foyers
The Grandtully Hotel by Ballintaggart, Grandtully
Kinloch Lodge, Isle of Skye
Cromlix Hotel, Kinbuck
Newhall Mains Dingwall, Resolis
Glenmorangie House, Tain
Palé Hall, Bala
Penmaenuchaf, Dolgellau
The Grove of Narberth
Michelin announced the launch of the key rating in 2023 and awarded them to hotels in Japan, Italy, Spain, France and the US this year.
Much like Michelin stars, the keys are judged by anonymous inspectors visiting top hotels across the country. And similarly, there is no quota for the number of hotels that will win keys in a year – it’s down to the inspectors to decide who is worthy.
This isn’t the first new award that Michelin have released in recent years. In 2021 it released the names of the first UK restaurants to win the green Michelin star to recognise sustainable practice.