Temecula is Home of One of the Best U.S. Hotels: TripAdvisor

TEMECULA, CA- There are no top hotels in Beverly Hills or Los Angeles, but there’s one in Riverside County.

That’s the conclusion of TripAdvisor.com as the travel website Thursday issued its list of the “Top 25 Hotels -- United States.”

Beverly Hills Hotel? Nope. Hotel Bel-Air? Forget about it.

The top hotel according to TripAdvisor.com? The Sherry-Netherland Hotel in New York.

Only one Southern California hotel made the list, ranking number 6. Riverside’s Mission Inn? Not a chance. It’s the the Ponte Vineyard Inn in the Riverside County wine country town of Temecula.

In addition to the hotel in Temecula, there were three other hotels listed in the Golden State.

The other three are all in the Northern California wine country around the tourist-centric Napa Valley. They are:

• Bardessono in Yountville at number 2.
• Auberge du Soleil in Rutherford at number 13.
• Hotel Yountville in Yountville t number 19.

Some travel professionals may disagree with the website’s conclusions that ignores dozens of famed, expensive hotels. But as is the case with all TripAdvisor rankings, the list is based on assessments by visitors to the website from around the nation and around the world, not the opinions of “experts.”

Some other top hotels included in the list were the Nantucket Hotel & Resort in Natucket, the French Quarter Inn in Charleston, South Carolina, the Oxford Hotel in Bend, Oregon, the Icona Diamond Beach in Wildwood Crest, New Jersey, the Talbott Hotel in Chicago, the Belamere Suites in Perrysburg, Ohio and the Casablanca Hotel Times Square in New York.

The entire list may be viewed at www.tripadvisor.com.

– By City News Service. Image courtesy of Ponte Winery.