ZAGAT 2005 TOP INTERNATIONAL HOTELS, RESORTS & SPAS rates and reviews more than 875 of the foremost hotels, resorts and spas worldwide. Candid, no-punches-pulled appraisals are based on the opinions of the people who know best: nearly 12,000 fellow travellers who have been to these places and are happy to share their unbiased reports on what they found. Over 12,000 people have participated in this survey. The average participant spends approximately 30 nights per year in hotels basing this survey on 365,000 hotel room nights per year, or 1000 visits per night. For each of the places listed in this book there were, on average, 165 surveyors.