Awards
Montage Palmetto Bluff
Travel + Leisure World’s 500 Best Hotels List (2025)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Rating (2025)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Spa Rating (2025)
U.S. News & World Report Best Hotels (2025)
• Best USA Hotels (Ranked #12)
• Best USA Resorts (Ranked #8)
• Best Hilton Head Hotels (Ranked #1)
• Best Hilton Head Resorts (Ranked #1)
• Best South Carolina Hotels (Ranked #1)
• Best South Carolina Resorts (Ranked #1)
MICHELIN Guide Two Key Hotel (2024)
Wine Spectator’s Restaurant Awards Best of Award of Excellence (2024)
Modern Luxury Travel Awards Best Hospitality (2024)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Rating (2024)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Spa Rating (2024)
U.S. News & World Report Best Hotels (2024)
• Best USA Hotels (Ranked #21)
• Best USA Resorts (Ranked #11)
• Best Hilton Head Hotels (Ranked #1)
• Best Hilton Head Resorts (Ranked #1)
• Best South Carolina Hotels (Ranked #1)
• Best South Carolina Resorts (Ranked #1)
Wine Spectator’s Restaurant Awards (2023)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Rating (2023)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Spa Rating (2023)
Forbes Travel Guide’s 2023 Hospitality Stars Spa Employee of the Year: Nancy Russo, spa desk agent, Spa Montage Palmetto Bluff (2023)
U.S. News & World Report Best Hotels (2023)
• Best USA Hotels (Ranked #42)
• Best USA Resorts (Ranked #19)
• Best Hilton Head Hotels (Ranked #2)
• Best Hilton Head Resorts (Ranked #2)
• Best South Carolina Hotels (Ranked #4)
• Best South Carolina Resorts (Ranked #3)
AAA Five Diamond Awards: Five Diamond Hotel (2023)
AAA Four Diamond Awards: Four Diamond Restaurant, River House (2023)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Rating (2022)
Forbes Travel Guide Five-Star Spa Rating (2022)
U.S. News & World Report Best Hotels (2022)
• Best USA Resorts (Ranked #21)
• Best Hilton Head Resorts (Ranked #2)
• Best South Carolina Resorts (Ranked #3)
AAA Five Diamond Awards: Five Diamond Hotel (2023)
AAA Four Diamond Awards: Four Diamond Restaurant, River House (2023)
World Spa Awards Hotel Spa in South Carolina (Ranked #1) (2022)
Golf Digest Golf Digest Editors’ Choice: Best Golf Resorts in The Carolina (2022)
May River Golf Club
Golfweek Best 2020
• Top Modern Courses (Ranked #150)
• Top 100 Best Courses You Can Play in the U.S. (Ranked #53)
• The Best Courses You Can Play By State (Ranked #4)
GOLF Magazine Best Golf Resorts (2019)
• Top 100 Resorts in North America
• Top 25 Best Luxury Resorts
