5 Alabama hotels selected for prestigious Michelin Guide 2026
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The Michelin Guide 2026 selected a total of five hotels from Alabama to add to their nationwide list of best hotels! Of the Alabama hotels that made the list, one is in Mobile, one is in Florence, one is in Auburn and two are in Birmingham.
Here’s the full list:
- The Admiral Hotel – Mobile
- The Laurel Hotel & Spa – Auburn
- The Painted Lady – Birmingham
- Elyton Hotel – Birmingham
- GunRunner – Florence
Keep reading to learn more about the Alabama hotels that were chosen + why!
The Admiral Hotel in Mobile
- Location: 251 Government St, Mobile, AL 36602
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“The rooms and suites are as comfortable as many a more conventional luxury hotel, and quite a bit more memorable; the same can be said of the hotel’s café, cocktail bar, and its restaurant, Le Moyne’s Chophouse.”
~ Michelin Guide 2026 on The Admiral Hotel
To learn more about The Admiral Hotel in Mobile, check out Mobile Bay Now’s article here!
The Laurel Hotel & Spa in Auburn
- Location: 130 E Thach Ave, Auburn, AL 36830
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“It’s not often a hotel prides itself on education as much as hospitality, but then The Laurel Hotel & Spa does sit within one of America’s most historic college towns. In what it claims is a first of its kind, the hotel has teamed up with the Horst Schulze School of Hospitality Management at Auburn University to train the next generation of hoteliers and chefs outside of the limits of the classroom.”
~ Michelin Guide 2026 on The Laurel Hotel and Spa
The Painted Lady in Birmingham
- Location: 2143 2nd Ave S, Birmingham, AL 35233
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“Birmingham, Alabama’s Painted Lady is named not for its colorful exterior — this historic 19th-century structure, handsome as it is, is finished in sandstone brick — but for the colorful life of one of the building’s former tenants, the madam-turned-cholera-nurse Louise C. Wooster. Its 22 rooms are colorful in a more literal sense, and happily add vivid colors, modern furniture, and bold graphics to the building’s well-preserved historical architecture.”
~ Michelin Guide 2026 on The Painted Lady
Elyton Hotel in Birmingham
- Location: 1928 1st Ave N, Birmingham, AL 35203
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“Originally known as the Empire Building, the tower is a classical-revival stunner, its 117 rooms and suites supplied with plentiful light and a sense of spaciousness.”
~ Michelin Guide 2026 on The Elyton Hotel
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- Location: 310 E Tennessee St, Florence, AL 35630
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“Ten suites in downtown Florence honor the Shoals’ eclectic heritage, from Muscle Shoals Sound Studio legends to fashion designer Billy Reid to outlaw Tom Clark, who murdered 19 people during the Civil War and was buried beneath Tennessee Street to spite his own boast that ‘nobody would ever run over Tom Clark.’ Seven suites have balconies overlooking historic Florence, all with walk-in showers and Peacock Alley bedding.”
~ Michelin Guide 2026 on GunRunner Boutique Hotel
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