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Fodors Travel today announced on Fodors.com the Fodors Choice Gold Awards 2010 honoring the best of the best in US hotels. One hundred hotels were ranked as the top 10 winners in each of 10 categories; Best Destination Wedding Hotel, Best Hotel Design, Best Hotel for Kids and Families, Best Hotel Pool, Best Hotel Restaurant, Best Hotel Service, Best Resort or Destination Spa, Best Sense of Place Hotel, Best Urban Escape Hotel, Most Romantic Hotel.

Since 1988, Fodors Travel has been awarding the annual Fodors Choice distinction to the very top hotels, restaurants and attractions around the worldthose that offer travelers a not-to-be-missed experience and a value that transcends their price range. These choices represent only the best 15% of the thousands of hotels, restaurants and attractions Fodors writers and editors experience, examine, and evaluate every year.

For the first time ever, Fodors has narrowed the field even further and selected one hundred Fodors Choice Gold Award winners. These properties embody the 10 best US Fodors Choice hotels, including Puerto Rico and USVI, in each of 10 categories. For a full review of each hotel and description of why it was chosen, visit Fodors.com at http://www.fodors.com/fodors-choice/gold-awards/2010/.

As travelers weve all discovered a place so wonderful that its worthiness should be shared and valued. The Fodors Choice Gold Award is reserved for US hotels so exemplary in their category that words dont do them justice you just have to experience them to know says Fodors Publisher Tim Jarrell.

Unlike the many “best-of” lists top-heavy with the expensive and familiar, the Fodors Choice Gold Award 2010 caters to travelers with a range of budgets, experiences and interests. See the lists and read each hotels description and bio at: http://www.fodors.com/fodors-choice/gold-awards/2010/.

Best Hotels for Kids and Families

U.S. hotels offering the best amenities and services for families traveling with children.

Acqualine Resort & Spa on the Beach (Miami Beach, FL)

All-Star Sports, All-Star Music, and All-Star Movie Resorts (Orlando, FL)

Arizona Gran Resort (Phoenix, AZ)

Grand Hyatt Kauai Resort and Spa (Kauai, HI)

Hotel Del Sol (San Francisco, CA)

Loews Coronado Bay Resort (San Diego, CA)

Mohonk Mountain House (New Paltz, NY)

Mount Washington Hotel (Bretton Woods, NH)

Ritz-Carlton, St. Thomas (St. Thomas, US Virgin Islands)

Winnetu Oceanside Resort (Marthas Vineyard, MA)

Most Romantic Hotels

Top places in the U.S. to stay for an intimate getaway.

Claiborne Mansion (New Orleans, LA)

Dana Hotel and Spa (Chicago, IL)

Encore Las Vegas (Las Vegas, NV)

Halekulani (Waikiki, HI)

Horned Dorset Primavera (Ronc