Look for AAA Diamonds to find great accommodations and restaurants

Published: Jan/Feb 2003

To find the best hotels and restaurants across the country, look for the sparkle of AAA Diamonds.

Each year, AAA’s full-time professional field representatives conduct unannounced visits and evaluate accommodations and restaurants throughout North America. Those facilities that qualify are assigned an overall rating of one to five diamonds.

Four Diamond lodgings offer a variety of upscale facilities and extensive services. Guest rooms are spacious and well-appointed, with superior furnishings and amenities.

Likewise, Four Diamond-rated restaurants feature creative cuisine, refined service and upscale ambiance that combine to create a memorable dining experience. Menus reflect a high degree of creativity and complexity, and a professional staff demonstrate a profound desire to exceed guest expectations.

Only an estimated 3 percent of the nearly 28,000 AAA-rated properties and 4 percent of the more than 13,000 AAA-approved restaurants achieve this status. AAA is proud to salute the following 2003 Four Diamond Award recipients in our area:

Arkansas

• Eureka Springs hotel: Angel at Rose Hall.
• Little Rock hotels: The Peabody Little Rock; The Empress of Little Rock Bed & Breakfast; and The Capital Hotel.
• Little Rock restaurant: Ashley’s at The Capital.
• Johnson restaurant: James at the Mill.

Louisiana

• New Orleans hotels: W New Orleans; Wyndham New Orleans at Canal Place; Le Meridien Hotel New Orleans; Windsor Court Hotel; Omni Royal Orleans Hotel; Hotel Monaco; Le Pavillon; The Iberville Suites; The Maison Orleans; and Renaissance Pere Marquette Hotel.
• New Orleans restaurants: The Grill Room; Emeril’s Delmonico Restaurant & Bar; Cobalt; Zoe Bistrot; and Begue’s.
Mississippi
• Biloxi hotels: Beau Rivage Resort & Casino; and Casino Magic Biloxi Hotel.
• Jackson hotels: Fairview Inn; Millsaps Buie House.
• Natchez hotel: Monmouth Plantation.
• Cleveland restaurant: K.C.’s.

And congratulations to Victor’s restaurant for achieving a Five Diamond rating, the highest, for 2003. Victor’s is located in The Ritz-Carlton, New Orleans, which also received a AAA Five Diamond award.

To find other AAA Four Diamond hotels and restaurants across the country, simply visit AAA’s Web site at www.aaa.com and click on the TourBook section or for a national list of Five Diamond winners, visit the Five Diamond Section.


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