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Nov 1 2006
Every year several hotels and restaurants are included in the AAA
(American Automobile Association) diamond rating which is the guarantee for
quality and high level of service. This year, the list of AAA five diamond
properties was supplemented with ten new lodgings as well as six new eating
places, which means that now there will be as many as 93 hotels and 58
restaurants in this list. Now these properties will be listed in the
association’s 2007 TourBook guides and on AAA official web site. The honor
of having AAA status is given only to the 60.000 properties on the territory of
the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean. Previously, several hotels
got the five diamond awards, including Ojai Valley Inn & Spa, Ojai,
California, Four Seasons Hotel Miami, The Ritz-Carlton Lodge, Reynolds
Plantation, Greensboro, Ga., Four Seasons Resort Jackson Hole - Teton Village in
Wyoming and others. Some of the lodgings managed to maintain their five-diamond
status for nearly 31 years (such as Camelback Inn in Scottsdale, Arizona and The
Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colorado) whereas the others lost this status and
got less diamonds (for instance, Mandarin Oriental in Miami). Chicago is the
leader as having the largest number of five-diamond hotels – there are seven of
them in the city. |
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