Last night, Condé Nast released its fabled 2012 Condé Nast UK Gold List, featuring local icon BLUE Sydney, A Taj Hotel on its Best Hotels for Location category. It is the 8th annual Gold list and is prepared by some of the world’s leading editors, travel writers and experts.

The listing tops off an extraordinary run of awards for BLUE Sydney, A Taj Hotel in recent years. The property has received the following accolades in the last two years:

2011   Australian Hotels Association award for Excellence – WaterBar, BLUE Sydney

2010   Condé Nast Readers Choice Award selects BLUE as the ‘Top Hotel in Oceania’

2010   World Travel Awards London – BLUE Sydney awarded ‘Australia’s Leading Boutique Hotel’

General Manager of BLUE Sydney, Sanjay Umashankar, said of the latest accolade: “It is a great honour to be recognized by the discerning team of experts who collate the Condé Nast Gold List 2012. The team at BLUE Sydney is thrilled to be acknowledged in this way, especially coming as it does on top of our recent local win at the Australian Hotels Association, and our wins at the World Travel Awards and Condé Nast Readers Choice Awards.”