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Although you won't find any hotel bargains in this Mobil Five Star collection, as a guest you should experience the very best a hotel can offer: Immaculate and well-designed accommodations, service that anticipates your needs, the privacy you deserve, and top-rate facilities that may even coax you from your hotel quarters.

While many hotels succeed in attaining this prestigious award year after year, there have been a few changes since 2003: The Mandarin Oriental Hotel San Francisco was demoted to Four-Star status, while Hotel Bel-Air in Los Angeles, a longtime celebrity favorite, moved up a notch, to Five Stars. Vermont's Tall Timbers slid off the Five-Star list and doesn't show up on the 2004 Four-Star list, either. And South Carolina gained its first Five-Star winner, Woodlands Inn & Resort. In New York, Trump International Hotel & Tower slumped from Five Stars to Four, while The Ritz-Carlton, New York, Central Park ascended to the top of the list.

Kudos to all the hotel winners of Mobil's coveted 2004 Five-Star Award:

CALIFORNIA
The Beverly Hills Hotel
Château du Sureau - Oakhurst
Four Seasons Hotel, San Francisco
Hotel Bel-Air, Los Angeles
The Peninsula Beverly Hills
Raffles L'Ermitage Beverly Hills
The Ritz-Carlton, San Francisco

COLORADO
The Broadmoor - Colorado Springs
The Little Nell - Aspen

CONNECTICUT

The Mayflower Inn - Washington

FLORIDA
Four Seasons Resort Palm Beach
The Ritz-Carlton, Naples
The Ritz-Carlton, Palm Beach

GEORGIA
Four Seasons Hotel Atlanta
The Lodge at Sea Island Golf Club - St. Simons Island

ILLINOIS
Four Seasons Hotel Chicago
The Peninsula Chicago
The Ritz-Carlton, a Four Seasons Hotel Chicago

MASSACHUSETTS
Blantyre - Lenox
Four Seasons Hotel Boston

NEW YORK
Four Seasons Hotel New York
The St. Regis New York
The Ritz-Carlton, New York, Central Park
The Point - Saranac Lake

NORTH CAROLINA
The Fearrington House Inn - Chapel Hill

SOUTH CAROLINA
Woodlands Resort & Inn - Summerville

TEXAS
The Mansion on Turtle Creek - Dallas

VERMONT
Twin Farms - Woodstock

VIRGINIA
The Jefferson Hotel - Richmond

The Inn at Little Washington - Washington

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