As travel restrictions ease and wanderlust reaches fever pitch, a luxury city break might be the perfect way to celebrate your new-found freedom.

Many would argue that the best way to truly relax and unwind is to splash out on a five-star hotel, with all the accompanying grandeur, but which cities offer the most choice? And, more importantly, where should you go to get more bang for your buck?

To that end, the UK-based Luxury Hotel website (luxuryhotel.com) has published a handy survey listing the top cities around the world with the most five-star hotels per percentage of their total hotels, and the places with the lowest average prices for a slice of five-star luxury.

It’s probably no surprise that the glamorous Arabian Gulf city of Doha, Qatar tops the bill by a country mile, with more than 51% of its hotels being lavish five-star destinations – a staggering 22.5 percentage points above second-placed Shenzhen in China (28.95%). Close behind lies its neighbor in the UAE, Abu Dhabi (28.43%), ranked third, and Marrakech, Morocco in fourth (28.41%) – the only African listing in the top ten.

Further down the list in sixth, at 24.32% of the total hotels, lies the northern Greek city of Thessaloniki, famous for it’s UNESCO World Heritage-listed monuments. Interestingly, Thessaloniki is the only European entry of the list, most of the rest being in Asia.

Filling out the top ten is Shanghai, China ranked fifth (24.63%), Zhuhai, China, seventh (23.64%), Vancouver, Canada – the only listing in the Americas – ranked eighth (23.61%), Hong Kong, ninth (23.46%), and Beijing, China, tenth (23.42%).

It should be noted that you don’t have to “break the bank” to enjoy the five-star experience, with the global average being 201 British Pounds (GBP) per night. According to the top ten list of the cheapest cities in the world for the lowest prices (all under 99 GBP per night), Malaysia’s Kuala Lumpur comes top with an average price of 70 GBP, followed by Ho Chi Minh City in Vietnam (77 GBP), and Bangkok, Thailand (80 GBP).

Closer to home, Thessaloniki once again scores highly, ranking seventh on the list of the cheapest European cities for the price of a five-star hotel, at an average of 124 GBP per night. Further down the same list, at ninth, lies the Greek island of Rhodes, which has an average price of 136 GBP per night.

The top three cheapest European cities are Antalya in Turkey, at 80 GBP per night, Warsaw, Poland (107 euros), and Saint Petersburg (116 euros).

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