As the new year approaches, many travelers are looking for inspiration on where to head in 2015.
This list might help.
Global hotel booking site Agoda.com has just released the results of its Travel Smarts study, which looks at destinations with the highest-rated hotels in the world based on nearly 7 million customer reviews.
Overall, the site says Cape Town, South Africa, is number one, scoring an average of 8.43 out of a possible 10.
The Maldives came in second with an 8.33 average hotel review score.
Zermatt, the skiing village in the Swiss Alps at the base of the Matterhorn, grabbed the number three spot with an average of 8.29.
After every stay Agoda.com users can submit reviews and are asked to score hotels on a scale of 0 to 10 in six categories.
A hotel's total score is an average of those numbers, which the site used to compile its recent list.
Only destinations with more than 100 hotels were included.
Here are the top 25 destinations:
1. Cape Town, South Africa
2. Maldives
3. Zermatt, Switzerland
4. Queenstown, New Zealand
5. Seychelles
6. Budapest, Hungary
7. Santorini, Greece
8. Bruges, Belgium
9. Gdansk, Poland
10. Hoi An, Vietnam
11. Sofia, Bulgaria
12. Crete, Greece
13. Verona, Italy
14. Rotorua, New Zealand
15. Khao Lak, Thailand
16. Hualien, Taiwan
17. Sunshine Coast, Australia
18. Edinburgh, Scotland
19. Cuzco, Peru
20. Chicago
21. Krakow, Poland
22. Nagano, Japan
23. Durban, South Africa
24. Granada, Spain
25. Marrakech, Morocco
The top destinations by review category and their scores:
Value for money: Budapest, Hungary (8.5).
Location: Sunshine Coast, Australia (8.75).
Staff performance: Cape Town, South Africa (8.6).
Hotel condition/cleanliness: Zermatt, Switzerland (8.79).
Room comfort/standard: Cape Town, South Africa (8.54).
Food/dining: Bruges, Belgium (7.87).