On April 29, 2024, the MICHELIN Guide revealed the brand new One, Two, and Three Key distinctions for the most outstanding hotels in Spain.
This announcement comes four years into a comprehensive refresh of our hotel selection. The MICHELIN Guide now includes over 5,000 hotels across the world, and not a single one is simply a room for the night. These are places that significantly add to your experience as a traveler, each vetted and judged excellent in five categories: architecture and interior design, quality and consistency of service, overall personality and character, value for the price, and a significant contribution to the guest experience in a particular setting.
Which brings us back to the Keys. The culmination of countless hours of evaluation by our team of experts, the Key hotels below represent the highlights of our broader selection. Like the MICHELIN Stars for restaurants, the MICHELIN Keys are our most outstanding hotels.
In total, the 2024 MICHELIN Guide hotel selection in Spain includes five Three Key hotels, 12 Two Key hotels, and 80 One Key hotels. Want to know more about the MICHELIN Key? Here’s everything you need to know. Or, head below to see all the Keys.
How To Look Through the List
Jump straight to the list or take a deeper dive into select Key hotels.
On this page, you’ll find every single one of our new Key distinctions, sorted by number of Keys and location in Spain. Click on any hotel to go straight to the hotel page to learn more about the nuts and bolts of each property. Alternatively, you can read any number of in-depth pieces about the aspects of the special craft that makes up a Key hotel over on our magazine. While our anonymous selection team spends every day scouring the world to vet favorite hotels and unearth hidden gems, our editorial team delves into the hotel craft by speaking directly to hoteliers.
Cristine Bedfor — Minorca
Remarkable Personality in the Balearic Islands
Between Mallorca, Minorca, and Ibiza, the Balearic Islands display some of greatest variety in Key hotel winners across any region in the country. Mallorca, in particular, finds a bevy of options: from the small and historic (Son Brull Hotel & Spa, Hotel Can Ferrereta, Nobis Hotel Palma) to the stylish hotspots (Es Princep and La Residencia). One jewel on the island that defies typical categorization: Cap Rocat, an ancient fortress expertly remade, where the top suites occupy former cannon dugouts.
On Minorca, check out Key hotels like Torralbenc, a tasteful, intimate, high-end hotel built from the bones of an old farm; or, in the capital of Mahón, look at Cristine Bedfor — one of the most creative, high-concept design hotels in our collection.
Also read: Every Three Key Hotel in Paris
Mandarin Oriental Ritz — Madrid
Radical and Renewed Design
In Madrid, you’ll find Key hotels largely in historic 19th or 20th century facades. Places like Santo Mauro, in a former Duke’s 1895 neoclassical mansion, or the Ritz, a Belle Époque palace that dates back to King Alfonso XIII.
These are remarkable, and mainstays of our Spanish collection — but we’re ecstatic too to celebrate grand departures from such a style. The pinnacle: Hotel Marques de Riscal, a state-of-the-art Frank Gehry building complete with titanium “hair” (Gehry’s words) swooping above its vineyards. See too the ultra-modern glass boxes at Vivood Landscape Hotel outside Alicante.
Akelarre — San Sebastián
VIVOOD Landscape Hotel & Spa – Adults Only — Benimantell
Torre del Marqués Hotel Spa & Winery — Teruel
Marbella Club Hotel — Marbella
Hero Image: Marquès de Riscal — Elciego
