NEW: 10 RI Hotels Receive High Honors From AAA

NEW: 10 RI Hotels Receive High Honors From AAA

AAA has selected ten Rhode Island hotels to receive the 2016 AAA Five or Four Diamond Award, an award recognizing quality and service, AAA Northeast has announced. 

The Ocean House in Watch Hill, has received the highest honor, a five diamond award. The Ocean House has received the honor every year since 2011. 

The awards will be presented at a luncheon in March at the Ocean House.

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The Rhode Island hotels are to receive a four diamond rating include: 

• Point Pleasant Inn & Resort (First honored in 2003)
• Cliffside Inn (2003)
• Hydrangea House Inn (2005)
• The Chanler at Cliff Walk (2004)
• The Vanderbilt Grace (2011)
•  Hotel Providence (2005)
• Omni Providence Hotel (2003)
• Renaissance Providence Downtown Hotel (2008)
• The Weekapaug Inn (2013)
• Historic Jacob Hill Inn (2001)

Four and Five Diamond Awards

The awards are determined by AAA's professional trained inspectors who are sent though out North America to conduct the 80 year tradition of unannounced hotel evaluations, rating the properties on a scale of one to five. 

This year, AAA rated 28,000 hotels in North America. Of the 28,000, only 118 of the hotels receive AAA's Five Diamond Award. 

AAA's rating system covers the United States, Canada, Mexico and the Caribbean.