Burj Al Arab named world’s most beautiful five-star hotel – The National

Burj Al Arab named world’s most beautiful five-star hotel – The National

Its futuristic architecture, gilded lifts and flamboyant chandeliers have all contributed to Burj Al Arab being named the world’s most beautiful and Insta-worthy five-star hotel. The list was compiled by Money.co.uk based purely on the number of Instagram hashtags a hotel has garnered over the years, with the team analysing more than 10 million hashtags associated with high-end hotels.

Of these, Burj Al Arab has been tagged nearly 2.5 million times, and two million times more than the second name on the list, Soneva Jani in the Maldives that has 415,461 hashtags.

A villa at Soneva Jani in the Maldives. Photo: Richard Waite