About Us and this Site

THE Best Green Hotels are lodging properties which take twenty-three or more environmental actions. These hotels have been selected from EnvironmentallyFriendlyHotels.com because they have taken extraordinary steps toward greening the hospitality industry, starting with themselves.

At EnvironmentallyFriendlyHotels.com we have collected as many environmentally friendly hotels, B&Bs, inns, lodges, and resorts as we can that act "green", even if in only one small way. The biggest challenge so far has been finding green lodging properties because they too often don't promote their environmental actions, making it hard to find them.

At TheBestGreenHotels.com we are celebrating the best of the green hotels we have found. We are focused on hotels that have taken more than a few basic steps in the greening of the hospitality industry. These hotels have gone the extra mile, or more, in being "green".

We also hope this site will encourage green hotels to become even greener and become part of the best green hotel collection.

If you know of a green hotel that we don't have listed here, go to the mother-ship of our green hotels -- EnvironmentallyFriendlyHotels.com to see if it's listed there. Submit it for itclusion if it's not there. Write a review if you have stayed there and want to share your green hotel experience with others.

There a couple of ways you can search this website. You can use the "Basic Search" by specifying either a property name or location to find a green hotel. With the "Advanced Search" you can search on specific green issues, along with a location or property name, in seeking a green hotel. The result of either search will be a list of the green hotels and their locations that satisfy your interests.

Once you have a list of the green hotels that fit your search criteria, click on a hotel name to get its Best Green summary page. That page shares ten of the green actions identified on EnvironmentallyFriendlyHotels.com (EFH). To see details for the property, click its "EFH" link -- or go straight to its website for more information about the property itself.

To learn about the green actions terminalogy we use, visit the EFH term definitions page. Each term has an article attached, expanding our logic in why that environmental issue is important. To help you understand how we are using each term, For information about the ratings, the EFH ratings defined page is available.

Do you want to submit an environmentally friendly hotel for inclusion in this database? We'd love to have you do so! Here's where you suggest or submit an environmentally friendly hotel for our review. It doesn't take us very long to add the suggested hotel, and we'll try to let you know when we have finished our work.

Everytime you stay at an environmentally friendly hotel, please write a review of it for inclusion with the green hotel's listing. Unless you request otherwise, your name and the date of your stay will be included in the review. Reviewing environmentally friendly hotels is easy. Write about not only the various aspects of your stay, but also any other environmental actions you see they take that aren't covered in the checklist. Also please correct any checklist items, like if they offer a towel/sheet reuse program but don't honor your request, we want to know. Or if they are a non-smoking property or offer organic and eco-friendly foods but don't promote that, we want to know that too. We want this database to be as up-to-date and accurate as possible. We can only do that with your help.

Enjoy The Best Green Hotels in the world. And take your green habits with you.