2018 Stella Awards Slideshow: Best Boutique Property

Northstar Meetings Group and its leading brands, Meetings & Conventions and Successful Meetings, have announced the winners of the 2nd Annual Stella Awards.

Nearly 10,000 votes were cast from around the world for the 532 destinations, hotels and service providers nominated in 18 categories in six regions in the United States and worldwide. To be a Stella winner indicates that a provider's product is the best of the best, a shining star in the meetings industry.  

Below is a slideshow of the Best Boutique Properties in the United States and abroad.

Small in size but big on personality, boutique hotels offer groups a one-of-a-kind guest experience with high style and service to match. Nestled within some of the world's choicest locales, these Stella Award winners capture the essence of their destinations, expertly catering to smaller groups to ensure their events are anything but ordinary.

To see a complete showcase of Stella Award winners, head here. 

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GOLD WINNER: BEST BOUTIQUE PROPERTY, NORTHEAST. Kimpton Hotel Monaco Baltimore Inner Harbor is a one-of-a-kind upscale boutique hotel in downtown Baltimore with 202 rooms, 41 suites and 10,000 square feet of function space. Housed in the former B&O Railroad headquarters, it features historic architectural elements like marble staircases and crystal chandeliers with bold design providing an experience that contrasts old and new, modern and romantic. B&O American Brasserie, the hotel’s restaurant that caters all events, has innovative and approachable brasserie menus and a bustling bar scene.

GOLD WINNER: BEST BOUTIQUE PROPERTY, MIDWEST. Ironworks Hotel Indy is a five-story hotel with 120 guest rooms and retail space on the first and second floor, which houses one of the city’s best restaurants. Turn-of-the-century-inspired industrial décor includes reclaimed barn wood and piping, metal gears made into the U.S. flag, vintage vehicle headlights, chicken wire encased in glass, historic ore carts used as planters, and cranes from WWII on the building’s exterior. The luxury boutique hotel has complimentary valets and a bell that matches the design of the hotel at the front desk.

GOLD WINNER: BEST BOUTIQUE PROPERTY, INTERNATIONAL AND U.S. TERRITORIES. UNICO 20˚87˚ Hotel Riviera Maya is an adults-only all-inclusive hotel for the sophisticated traveler featuring unlimited inclusions such as select spa and beauty treatments and excursions, three expansive pools, 448 ocean-view guest rooms with semi-private swim-up pools on all ground floor rooms and outdoor hydro spa tubs on all remaining rooms, in-room mini bar and 24-hour room service in addition to luxury amenities. Redefining all-inclusive means creating a new kind of immersive experience, that offers an unfiltered view of modern Mexico.

SILVER WINNER: BEST BOUTIQUE PROPERTY, MIDWEST. Built in 1893, the AAA Four Diamond Pfister Hotel has been a downtown Milwaukee icon for 125 years. The hotel has hosted countless dignitaries, celebrities and athletes, and the city's premier fundraising and business events. Recognized for impeccable service and luxury, The Pfister is internationally known for art, housing the largest collection of Victorian art of any hotel in the world and fostering a highly successful Artist-in-Residence program. Guests worldwide travel to witness the elegance of The Pfister and all it has to offer.

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