The Gold List 2025 is curated by the global editors of CN Traveller across four continents, sharing their favourite places to stay and ships to sail.
Each year The Gold List is the answer to the question the magazine editors get asked more than any other: What are your favourite places to stay?
This collection of resorts and hotels represents hundreds of hours of researching, scouting, and impassioned debating by the team of CN Traveller editors in seven cities across the globe. Inspirational, aspirational and passionately argued, the CN Traveller Gold List is an insider’s take on the very best places to stay all over the world.
Adare Manor is described on The Gold List 2025 in the current issue of CN Traveller thus: “Few country escapes can beat this 19th-century neo-Gothic castle in Ireland’s County Limerick. First built for the Second Earl of Dunraven on an 842-acre estate, it features stained-glass windows, gold-leaf ceilings, and towering fireplaces, all restored to their original glory. The signature suite’s classic contemporary bedroom and bathroom overlook the boundless sprawl of gardens and the Ryder Cup golf course. Guests can lord it in horse-and-buggy rides, go on clay-shooting and archery sessions, take padel tennis classes, eat Michelin-star suppers at the Oak Room, and afterwards descend to the Tack Room cellar-lounge to sample its rare Irish whiskey collection. Rural breaks have never felt so ennobling.”
“In a year that has been very rewarding for us, we are genuinely delighted to be included on The Gold List 2025 by Condé Nast Traveller,” said Brendan O’Connor, General Manager of Adare Manor.
“Being chosen as one of their absolute favourite destinations by editors who have experienced the very best, all over the world, is really gratifying. This year, we were awarded Best Resort in Europe by the CN Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards for the third year in a row, and were honoured with three Michelin Keys for the first time, and now making The Gold List is a lovely way to round out a very successful year.
“Our commitment is to make sure every experience at Adare Manor is truly special. I would like to sincerely thank every member of our team at Adare Manor, across all departments at the resort. I know that the professionalism and passion of each team member has contributed to this wonderful listing.”
Adare Manor offers guests a unique experience, from Michelin-star dining in The Oak Room to playing the Tom Fazio-designed championship golf course, from the only 111SKIN Spa in Ireland to the exclusive Harry Lowes Chocolate experience, from the stylish Boutique to the lush 840-acre estate with its bounty of outdoor activities.
Since reopening its doors at the end of 2017, following an impressive multi-year renovation, Adare Manor has regularly won major industry recognition for its outstanding hospitality experience.
Condé Nast Traveller awarded Adare Manor a spot on their Hot List in 2018 as one of the best new hotels in the world, and on the exclusive Gold List 2020 for the first time as one of the editors’ most loved properties.
In 2022, Adare Manor won Best Resort in the World and Best Resort in Europe at the Condé Nast Traveler Readers’ Choice Awards, an award they also won the following year and again this year, for the third year in a row, as well as receiving a five-star rating by Forbes Travel Guide in 2023 and 2024.
This year, the resort was awarded three Michelin Keys, a prestigious new recognition reserved for hotels that offer truly outstanding stays. In 2019, The Oak Room at Adare Manor received a Michelin star, the first ever awarded in Limerick, which it has retained ever since, and in 2027, the Resort will be host venue to The Ryder Cup.
