he Lake Placid Lodge is proud to have received the following prestigious awards.

Relais & Chateaux
Lake Placid Lodge is proud to have been awarded the distinction of being a Gold Shield member of the prestigious, Paris-based Relais & Chateaux organization, positioning it as one of the best small luxury hotels in the world.

Departures Magazine
Based on surveys completed by American Express Platinum members across the globe, Departures Magazine announced recently that the Lake Placid Lodge was chosen as the 6th best Country Hotel in the United States and Canada.

Travel & Leisure
We are excited to announce that the Lake Placid Lodge was recently named to the 'Top Best Hotels in the World' list for 2004

Travel & Leisure also named Lake Placid Lodge one of the 10 great places to spend Christmas, where you can 'snuggle under goose down in a rustic cottage at the divine Lake Placid Lodge.' For Christmas dinner 'Reserve a table in the birch-bark-walled wine cellar at Lake Placid Lodge and ask Celtic harpist Martha Gallagher to pluck holiday tunes as you dine on oyster "cappuccino," duck prociutto, seared venison lion, and chocolate-pecan bourbon cake.'

Zagat Survey
Top 20 U.S. Small Hotels and Resorts (#2 in New York State).
"Gore-Tex meets Dom Perignon" inside this Relais & Chateaux "rustic deluxe" Adirondack inn where a staff "caters with finesse and skill"; "fabulous lake views", "individually decorated" rooms and "big cabins" with "great fireplaces" combine with "fantastic" food.

Wine Spectator
The Restaurant Awards 2004 issue of The Wine Spectator gives Lake Placid Lodge the prestigious 'Best of Excellence'.

Andrew Harper's Hideaway Report
A connoisseur's worldwide guide to peaceful and unspoiled places rates Lake Placid Lodge in the top 15U.S. resort hideaways.

Condé Nast Traveler
The Lake Placid Lodge was recently selected as one of the three best lakeshore hotels in North America by Condé Nast Traveler Magazine. Here's what this prestigious magazine had to say about the Lodge:

"One of only two world sites to have hosted the Olympics twice (in 1932 and again in 1980), Lake Placid was the exclusive purview of Rockefeller-style Great Camps before Lake Placid Lodge opened its doors in 1994. With it, owners David and Christie Garrett, who founded the lodge's more exclusive sister property, The Point, have re-created the communal feel of a Great Camp ~ minus the blue-blood airs.

"Set into a hillside that rises gently from the shore, the main lodge has elevated views at every turn of both the lake and the layered, low-lying Adirondacks. Even the staff aren't immune to the setting: There haven't been workers this spirited since the seven dwarves set off in Snow White. Twig-canopied feather beds and massive stone fireplaces complete the effect (every scrap of furniture and artwork was made by one of 26 area artisans).

"A guided cruise of Placid shoves off every evening at four; otherwise, sign out a canoe just about anytime and explore the lake on your own--if you're smart, with libations and a picnic lunch in tow."

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