Leading Hotels of the World
Leaders Club / Virtuoso
Four hundred independent hotels, and a five per cent acceptance rate for the ones that apply.
What comes with your stay
- An upgrade on arrival, subject to availability.
- Daily breakfast for up to two guests per bedroom, served in the restaurant.
- A hotel or resort credit. The amount is set by the property.
- Early check-in and late check-out, subject to availability.
- Complimentary Wi-Fi.
Set by the property.
Where you can stay
400+ independent hotels across six continents: Europe 99, North America 17, Asia 14, South America 10, Caribbean 5, Africa 2, Central America 2, Middle East 2.
Leading Hotels of the World is not a hotel company. It is a marketing and standards body for independently owned hotels, which is why its collection reads like a list of the last great family-run houses in Europe: the Gritti Palace, Hotel Sacher, Badrutt's Palace. Roughly ninety-nine of the four hundred are European, which tells you where the tradition is concentrated.
The independence is the appeal and also the caveat. There is no group-wide service standard the way Four Seasons has one, so the collection is a filter rather than a guarantee, and which specific house you choose matters more than it does elsewhere.