Sydney ranked as best city in the world, second behind Singapore in friendliest in new list

Sydney has been voted as the best city in the world – and also ranked second to Singapore as being the “friendliest.”The NSW capital just got more reasons to brag after it topped Condé Nast Traveler’s “world’s best” list, cementing its spot as one of the world’s premier tourist destinations.The Readers’ Choice Awards 2024 had more than 125,000 readers across the UK vote for the prestigious gong.Sydney came out on top with a score of 92.96 for its “unique, indoor-outdoor way of life”.The city of Valencia in Spain came in second with a score of 92.78, followed by Singapore (92.47), Hong Kong (91.72) and Stockholm in Sweden (91.11).“If you’ve experienced a snippet of life Down Under, you’ve probably fallen hard for the unique, indoor-outdoor way of life the Aussies embrace so well,” Traveller said about Sydney.The age-old debate – and ‘friendly’ banter between states – on whether Sydney or Melbourne is better has finally been settled, according to the publication, with Sydney beating its rival.Sorry, Melbourne — the people have spoken and you didn’t make the cut.In a somewhat surprising development, Sydney was also named the second-friendliest city in the world to visit with a score of 93.85, behind Singapore (94.84) in first place, with Las Vegas, Nevada securing the third spot.Melbourne? Again, not on the list.

But they did pretty well in a bunch of other categories.The Langham hotel in Melbourne came in tenth in the Best Hotels in Australasia category.It was, however, the popular Sydney hotel, The Fullerton, located in the CBD that came out on top.The Park Hyatt Sydney came in second, while Halcyon House at Cabarita Beach came in third place and The Calile Hotel in Brisbane secured fourth place.As a country, however, Australia cleaned up in several other categories with Southern Ocean Lodge on Kangaroo Island named 29th in the Best Hotels in the World list, and the only Australian hotel to be named in the top 50.

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