Two of the top 10 bars in the US are located inside Peninsula hotels, according to Forbes Travel Guide.
- Forbes releases worldwide critic-curated travel recommendations every year, from best destinations to restaurants and even hotel bars.
- This year, of the 44 hotel bars Forbes Travel Guide included in its worldwide roundup, only 10 were in the United States.
- Those 10 bars were all located inside luxury hotels and most were noted for having a classic, cozy feel.
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Many hotels boast receiving stars from Forbes. Sea Island, a private luxury resort on the coast of Georgia, even has the designation featured front and center on its homepage: "The only resort in the world to achieve four Forbes Five-Stars 11 years in a row."
Sea Island is regularly celebrated by Forbes for its hotel and spa, but this year it was celebrated for something else - its bar.
Forbes Travel Guide released a list of 44 noteworthy hotel bars worldwide - and Sea Island's bar, The Oak Room, was one of only 10 picks located in the United States.
Winners are decided by Forbes Travel Guide critics who stayed at over 1,000 hotels anonymously, the publication notes. The properties are evaluated based on 900 different criteria delineated by an entire standards advisory committee of hospitality and luxury industry leaders.
As far as hotel bars were concerned, the specific, extremely granular criteria for ranking (beyond facilities and service) included whether cocktails were served at the right temperature and if the napkins were linen or cotton.
Keep reading for a look at the swanky bars that made the cut. The bars are listed in ascending order of price, based on the hotel's nightly starting rate sourced from luxury travel website Skylark or the hotel's individual website.