New Study Finds San Francisco, Orlando Lead Nation In Best-Liked Hotels

PALO ALTO, CALIF. (March 28, 2005) – A new study reveals that San Francisco has the highest number of well-liked hotels of any major American city. The study was conducted by HotelShark.com, which National Geographic Traveler magazine called one of the five best travel websites in the world.

HotelShark.com identified eighteen San Francisco properties that travelers generally review positively. The second best-reviewed city is Orlando, with eight highly-liked hotels. The third is Miami, with seven.

The results are somewhat ironic in that San Francisco remains plagued by a six-month old dispute between a labor union and fourteen prominent hotels.

The study was conducted by tallying the number of finned hotels in each of twenty-one major American travel destinations. Fins are awarded by HotelShark.com to hotels that are reviewed, on the whole, positively by guests. A fin appears as a small, gray icon to the left of a hotel’s name within a given city index on www.hotelshark.com.

The eighteen well-liked San Francisco hotels include the Cartwright Hotel, the Commodore Hotel, the Courtyard San Francisco Downtown, Grosvenor Suites, the Halcyon Hotel, Hotel Bijou, Hotel Del Sol, Hotel Drisco, Hotel Metropolis, Hotel Monaco, Hotel Palomar, Inter-Continental Mark Hopkins San Francisco, the Inn at the Opera, the Nob Hill Lambourne, Omni Hotel San Francisco, the Pan Pacific San Francisco, the Phoenix Hotel, and the Tuscan Inn Fisherman's Wharf.

The eight well-liked Orlando properties are the Best Western Lake Buena Vista Resort Hotel, Disney's Polynesian Resort, Disney's Port Orleans Resort, the Holiday Inn Express Orlando Airport West, Portofino Bay Hotel, Sheraton Suites Orlando Airport, Universal's Royal Pacific Resort, and the Villas at Disney's Wilderness Lodge.

Miami’s seven top properties include the Alexander All-Suite Oceanfront Resort, the Beach House in Miami Beach, the Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables, the Carlton Hotel, the Days Inn in North Miami Beach, the Holiday Inn Coral Gables, and the
Ritz-Carlton Key Biscayne.

Neither HotelShark.com nor its parent SharkPage is affiliated with any of the aforementioned properties, their parent companies, or any labor union.

About HotelShark.com

HotelShark.com, the site that Consumer Reports calls one of “the tricks to booking online,” is the world’s most-trusted Internet lodging guide. The site collects, screens, and publishes unbiased hotel reviews written by real travelers. HotelShark.com was named one of the five best travel websites by National Geographic Traveler magazine, and has been praised by the Independent (UK), US News & World Report, and USA Today. Founded in March 2001, HotelShark.com is available free of charge at the www.hotelshark.com Internet address. HotelShark.com is owned by SharkPage, a privately-held company based in Palo Alto, California. HotelShark.com and SharkPage are trademarks of SharkPage. Further press information on HotelShark.com is available at http://www.hotelshark.com/media.htm .

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