Holiday star ratings explained

There is no standard method of rating hotel and apartment accommodation across the world. Many countries have differing official and unofficial ways of assessing properties and some do not rate holiday accommodation at all. UK tour operators offer a variety of rating systems including Stars, Shields, Suns, Flames, Diamonds, “T”s and “A”s. Some tour operators do not show any accommodation rating.

For the sake of simplicity we show all these different symbols as stars. Please note that the number of stars represents the Tour Operator rating, based on their view of the accommodation, and is not necessarily the same as any other official or unofficial rating.