World's Best Cities

[ttaaee]

As mentioned on 2b mainpage, here is the list of top 10 cities in 2005 by Travel and Leisure Magazine (http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest/results.cfm?cat=cities).

2005 Top 10 Cities
Rank-Last Year-Name-Score
1-1-Sydney-88.30
2-4-Bangkok-87.08
3-2-Rome-86.26
4-3-Florence-86.20
5-n/a-Chiang Mai, Thailand-84.93
6-6-New York-84.82
7-8-Istanbul-84.78
8-5-Cape Town-84.51
9-7-Oaxaca, Mexico-84.41
10-n/a-San Francisco-N/A

[ttaaee]

Top 5 Asia 2005 by Travel and Leisure Magazine (http://www.travelandleisure.com/worldsbest/results.cfm?cat=citiesasia).
Rank-Last Year-Name-Score
1-1-Bangkok-87.08
2-n/a-Chiang Mai, Thailand-84.93
3-3-Hong Kong-82.52
4-2-Kyoto-82.50
5-4-Hanoi-82.19

[jpatokal]

And even more surprisingly, Phuket rates as #2 of Asia's Best Islands. I would hardly have given it that label even before the tsunami... :confused:

But maybe the fewer people that know about the Perhentians (http://jpatokal.iki.fi/photo/travel/Malaysia/Perhentian/index.html), the better :cool:

[mrtfreak]

May I ask, top in what? F&B? Service? Accomodations? :confused: