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The Best Hotels in Riyadh

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The best hotels in Riyadh, according to the experts: the Michelin Guide has weighed in, and their honors are what rank this list. Jareed Hotel Riyadh comes out on top.

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Kimpton KAFD Riyadh by IHG and Le Meridien Riyadh hold the next two places.

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  3. Floor-to-ceiling windows and curved suites that echo the building's own silhouette set the tone at this sleek city hotel, parked at the junction of King Abdullah Road and Olaya Street. The business district, the metro, and Tahlia Street's dining strip are all within reach, which makes the rooftop lounge feel less like a perk and more like a reasonable reward for a full day out. Deep tubs and in-bathroom screens in every suite, because apparently that's where we are now.

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  4. A Parisian-style facade pressed up against Salmani architectural lines sounds contradictory until you see it. This upscale hotel on King Fahad Road runs the full spectrum from rooms to penthouses to private villas, all done in oak, stone, and deep blues. The rooftop pool looks out over the Riyadh skyline, and the serviced apartments have real kitchens, which suits the business and government crowd that fills the floors.

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  5. Six restaurants under one roof, running from Italian to Lebanese to Arabian desserts, gives a sense of the scale this hotel is working at on King Fahad Road. The voco brand leans into warmth over grandeur, so while it isn't the flashiest address in Riyadh, it comes with a spa, health club, and outdoor pool, and its design reads as genuinely contemporary in a city where that still counts as a statement.

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  6. Soft coral tones and marble floors fill one of the northern district's tallest towers, and the floor-to-ceiling windows make the Riyadh skyline feel like a design choice rather than an accident. This is a full-service hotel with well-sized rooms, a spa, an outdoor pool, and enough dining options that you could easily stay several nights without repeating yourself, including a chocolate boutique that earns its square footage.

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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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      Four fifths of the score is the awards it's won, weighted by who gave them: a Michelin Key outweighs a listicle. The last fifth is where it is: the ranked places to eat and things to do around it, and how safe the country is. When you sort by what's nearby, distance from you changes the order, never the score.

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          The Best Place Score rates the area around a point, not any one place. The places are 60% of it: the best of what's within reach, weighed by distance. The setting is the other 40%: how life goes in that country (how people rate their own lives, how long and how well they live, how safe they are) and what it's like right there (the air, and the weather). If the score looks low, we probably haven't found enough critics out here yet.