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Two Vancouver hotels rank in new top 10 list of Canadian city stays

The prestigious annual awards help travellers choose their next adventures.
Lindsay William-Ross
Lindsay William-Ross
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Two luxury hotels in Vancouver have been ranked by travellers as top stays in the 2025 Travel + Leisure World's Best Awards, with Fairmont Pacific Rim (pictured) landing in 7th place.Photo via Fairmont Pacific RIm

Two prominent Vancouver hotels have just been named among the top city stays in Canada, according to a respected annual ranking.

With an aim to draw on their readership's expertise, Travel + Leisure complies votes from travellers around the world for its World’s Best Awards, honouring top hotels, resorts, destinations, and travel experiences around the globe.

For the 2025 awards, nearly 180,000 people took part, casting over 657,000 votes to determine the top spots in multiple categories. 

Here's how the voting works: Hotels were classified as either resort hotel, city hotel, inn, or safari lodge based on their location and amenities, and they were specifically rated on the following criteria: rooms/facilities; location; service; food; and value.

For each characteristic, respondents could choose a rating of excellent, above average, average, below average, or poor. The final scores are averages of these responses, according to Travel + Leisure.

When it comes to hotel stays in Canadian cities, the Fairmont brand dominates, with its historic Empress in Victoria nabbing the number one slot with a reader score of 94.44. 

And it was also the Fairmont family that took the honours for Vancouver, with its Pacific Rim ranking 7th (92.19 reader score) and the classic Hotel Vancouver ranking 9th (90.12 reader score). 

Here are the top 10 hotels in Canadian cities, according to Travel + Leisure's World's Best Awards:

  1. Fairmont Empress: Victoria, B.C. Reader Score: 94.44
  2. The Ritz-Carlton, Montreal: Montreal, Quebec. Reader Score: 93.78
  3. Four Seasons Hotel Montreal: Montreal, Quebec. Reader Score: 93.66
  4. The St. Regis Toronto: Toronto, Ontario. Reader Score: 93.50
  5. Four Seasons Hotel Toronto: Toronto, Ontario. Reader Score: 92.70
  6. Auberge Saint-Antoine: Quebec City, Quebec. Reader Score: 92.51
  7. Fairmont Pacific Rim: Vancouver, British Columbia. Reader Score: 92.19
  8. The Ritz-Carlton, Toronto: Toronto, Ontario. Reader Score: 92.00
  9. The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver: Vancouver, British Columbia. Reader Score: 90.12
  10. Fairmont Le Château Frontenac: Quebec City, Quebec. Reader Score: 89.82

When it comes to resorts in Canada, B.C. takes the top three handily, with the Four Seasons in Whistler nabbing first place, the Fairmont Chateau Whistler in second, and Tofino's Wickanninish Inn in third.

Looking to do some travelling?

The world's top hotel, with a reader score of 100, is AndBeyond Bateleur Camp in Kenya, with Raffles Istanbul in Turkey coming in just behind with an impressive score of 99.91. 

The top city in the world to explore is San Miguel de Allende in Mexico, according to T+L voters, while the best luxury train trip in North America is the Rocky Mountaineer, which offers sweeping views with stops in bucket list destinations in B.C. and Alberta. 

If trips to Victoria, Montreal, or Toronto sound appealing, we have some curated guides to help you make the most of your stay: