Eight hotels and two spas in Taiwan were among this year’s Forbes Travel Guide Star Award winners, including the Mandarin Oriental Taipei (文華東方酒店), the only resort in the country to receive a five-star rating.
Forbes Travel Guide on Tuesday published online a list of the winners, with 1,830 hotels, restaurants and spas worldwide given five stars, four stars or a “recommended” rating.
The guide’s inspectors stayed at candidate accommodations for three days and two nights, posing as ordinary guests, to assess up to 900 objective criteria such as decor quality and staff courtesy, it said on its Web site.
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Taipei, April 28 (CNA) Eight hotels and two spas in Taiwan were among this year's Forbes Travel Guide Star Award winners, including the Mandarin Oriental in Taipei, the only resort in the country to receive a five-star rating for the sixth consecutive year.