Readers' Choice Platinum List

Haute hotels. Great golf. Superb spas. Chic cruises. Divine destinations. We enlisted your help in selecting the best of the best in the world for our Readers' Choice Platinum List. Your enthusiastic response was impressive, and enlightening.

For our first-ever Readers' Choice Platinum List survey, nearly 67,000 of you logged on and weighed in during the voting period (November 15, 2003, through February 23, 2004). Indeed, the prize was alluring - a chance to win your share of 1 million AAdvantage® Miles - but so was the opportunity to demonstrate your enviable and extensive travel expertise.

Congratulations to our grand prize winner of 500,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles, M.Shen of Wilmette, IL. Ten second prize winners, who each received 50,000 American Airlines AAdvantage miles are: C. Weilmuenster of Thornton, CO, M. Belue of The Colony, TX, G. Lyon of St. Louis, MO, L. Carrara of Cedar Rapids, IA, S. Rinehart of Wilmington, NC, K. Follansbee of Frisco, TX, L. Medina of Miami, FL, K. McFarlane of Frisco, TX, J. Gamble of New Hope, PA, R. Sutton of Sunnyvale, CA.

The Platinum List is not only a useful reference tool, but also a sort of escapist's to-do list. How many have you experienced personally? Read on for the world's best reader-rated hotels, golf courses, spas, cruise lines, and destinations, and expand your own world as well.



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