The celebrated Forbes Journey Information, a world ranking system for luxurious accommodations, eating places, spas, and ocean cruises, has acknowledged 28 Texas properties on its 2025 awards checklist, together with seven in Houston.
The 67th annual checklist spans practically 2,200 properties all over the world, with three ranges of scores: 5-Star, 4-Star, and Really useful. To find out the scores, inspectors go to each resort, restaurant, spa, and cruise ship in individual, visiting anonymously as a typical visitor to overview the standard and situation of every property and its total visitor expertise. Contributors pay a charge to be thought of, however nobody should purchase a ranking.
Two Houston properties earned 5 stars this 12 months: The Publish Oak Resort at Uptown Houston and the Publish Oak’s luxurious spa.
The opposite Houston honorees embody:
Inns:
- 4 Seasons Resort Houston, 4-star
- Resort Granduca Houston: 4-star
- The Houstonian Resort Membership & Spa: 4-star
- The St. Regis Houston: 4-star
Spas:
- Trellis Spa on the Houstonian Resort, Houston: 4-star
New for 2025, Forbes Journey Information unveiled its inaugural cruise restaurant scores.
“Behind each Forbes Journey Information Star Award lies a thousand small gestures: the concierge who tracks down a hidden café beloved by locals, the chef who sources substances from a generations-old farm, the spa therapist who crafts customized aromatherapy blends from native flowers,” the report mentioned.
The 2025 checklist has many repeat honorees from 2024.
The Ritz-Carlton Dallas resort was the one different five-star Texas property, and the singular new Texas property on this 12 months’s information is The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas in Irving, which earned a Really useful ranking.
Congrats go to the Ritz-Carlton Dallas.
Ritz-Carlton, Dallas
Different (non-Houston) Texas properties that made the 2025 checklist, by class:
Eating places:
- Garrison, Austin: 4-star
- Fearing’s, Dallas: 4-star
- The Mansion, Dallas: 4-star
Inns:
- Archer Resort, Austin: 4-star
- Austin Correct Resort, Austin: 4-star
- Commodore Perry Property Auberge Resorts Assortment, Austin: 4-star
- Fairmont Austin, 4-star
- 4 Seasons Resort Austin, 4-star
- The Ritz-Carlton Dallas: 5-star
- The Joule, Dallas: 4-star
- Corridor Arts Resort Dallas, Curio Assortment by Hilton: Really useful
- Rosewood Mansion on Turtle Creek, Dallas: Really useful
- The Ritz-Carlton Dallas, Las Colinas: Really useful (new)
- Resort Emma, San Antonio: Really useful
- Mokara Resort & Spa, San Antonio: 4-star
Spas:
- Fairmont Spa Austin: 4-star
- The Spa at 4 Seasons Austin: 4-star
- Verbena Spa at Austin Correct Resort: 4-star
- The Ritz Carlton Spa, Dallas: 4-star
- The Spa on the Joule, Dallas: 4-star
- Mokara Spa, San Antonio: 4-star
The Forbes Journey information began in 1958 as Mobil Journey Information, a guidebook for US motorists. They created the unique 5-Star ranking system for hospitality within the US.
