Friday, September 4, 2026

  1. A private island resort on a 1,000-acre cay in the Turks and Caicos, Parrot Cay is the kind of place people go specifically to be unreachable. The COMO Shambala spa runs Eastern-inspired therapies and yoga camps, the beaches are white and uncrowded, and the villas are buried deep enough in tropical foliage that even the famous can pretend they don't exist for a week.

    Two honors, in evidence:

    The record strongest first

    One number, weighted & current 88

    How we score

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Eat Score

The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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    Drink Score

    The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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      Stay Score

      The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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        Do Score

        The score comes from the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin star outweighs a listicle. When you sort by what's nearby, distance changes the order, never the score.

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          Best Place Score

          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. Most of it is the record: the scored places within reach, weighed by distance, so more good stuff nearby means a higher score. The rest is how life is in that country: how people there rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are, and what they breathe. If it looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.