Mandarin Oriental ranked world's top luxury hotel brand

Mandarin Oriental has been named the world's most luxurious hotel brand in a new ranking by Luxury Travel Intelligence (LTI), a members-only website that advises on high-end hotels and holiday destinations. Over the past year, LTI tracked 20 luxury brands and assessed them on 134 touch points, covering how well each upheld its ethos, values and commitments, along with the quality of its management and staff. Each metric was weighted individually, with a maximum score of 4792, and the totals were converted into percentages.

Mandarin Oriental finished first for the fourth year in a row, scoring 81.1 percent. It runs 47 hotels worldwide, including two in London: one in Knightsbridge overlooking Hyde Park and another in Mayfair. The brand's design and philosophy draw on east Asia. The Mayfair hotel has two restaurants led by Korean-American chef Akira Back and a spa with signature treatments inspired by Chinese medicine. The Knightsbridge hotel offers the two-Michelin-star Dinner by Heston Blumenthal, the Japanese izakaya The Aubrey and a large wellness centre.

Standard rooms at both hotels cost roughly £650 to £980 a night, while larger suites can reach £5,645. The top-floor penthouse in Mayfair costs £40,000 for a night.

Every brand on the list has at least eight properties worldwide. Oetker Collection, which operates the Lanesborough at Hyde Park Corner, came second with 80.6 percent. Bulgari, which has one London hotel, was third with 80.2 percent. Four Seasons, Rosewood, Dorchester Collection, Belmond, Capella, Aman and Airelles completed the top 10, with scores from 78.7 down to 75.2 percent.