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The only thing better than travelling the world is travelling the world in the lap of luxury! New research has revealed the cities with the most five-star hotels and where you can get 5* luxury for the cheapest price.

LuxuryHotel.com has analysed Euromonitor’s Top 100 City Destinations using Booking.com to discover how many hotels there are in each city, and of those how many are five-star hotels.
You can view the research in full here: https://luxuryhotel.com/guides/five-star-index/
The cities with the most five-star hotels:

Rank

City

Five star hotels as % of total

1

Abu Dhabi, UAE

32.19%

2

Shenzhen, China

23.61%

3

Beijing, China

21.88%

4

Shanghai, China

21.11%

5

Zhuhai, China

20.63%

6

Mecca, Saudi Arabia

20.48%

7

Singapore, Singapore

15.89%

8

Guangzhou, China

13.05%

9

Guilin, China

12.50%

10

Vancouver, Canada

12.41%

Abu Dhabi comes out on top with more than 32% of hotels in the city being five-star destinations while China dominates the rankings with 6 of the top ten most luxurious cities.
The cities with the cheapest five-star hotels:

Rank

City

Average price of one night stay

1

Chennai, India

A$64

2

Johor Bahru, Malaysia

A$77

2

Bangalore, India

A$77

4

Agra, India

A$79

5

Kolkata, India

A$94

5

New Deli, India

A$94

7

Mumbai, India

A$97

8

Jaipur, India

A$105

9

Phuket, Thailand

A$107

9

Cebu, Philippines

A$107

Thankfully, you don’t always have to spend exorbitant amounts to get the five-star treatment with hotels in India’s city of Chennai costing an average of just A$64 a night.
The cheapest five-star hotels in Europe:

Rank

City

Average price of one night stay

1

Heraklion, Greece

A$148

2

Istanbul, Turkey

A$156

3

Antalya, Turkey

A$157

4

Krakow, Poland

A$171

5

Warsaw, Poland

A$197

6

St Petersburg, Russia

A$201

7

Moscow, Russia

A$217

8

Porto, Portugal

A$234

9

Rhodes, Greece

A$259

10

Berlin, Germany

A$285

Looking at Europe, Greece’s island city of Heraklion offers the cheapest five-star prices, for an average cost of A$148 for one night of luxury.