The 'new' or 18th May 2020 leglislation retains the one to five stars system however for hotels and aparthotels it is based on a points system from the assesment of 301 different and wide ranging criteria, rather than a list mandatory requirements for each star rating.A 1-star hotel needs 180 points up to a five-star hotel needing 650 points.
A new hotel star rating system was published in May 2020 (Decree 13/2020 and 14/2021), long overdue since it had remained largely unchanged since 1984. In Andalucia, the hotel star-rating system is overseen by the Consejeria de Turismo (actually Consejería de Turismo, Regeneración, Justicia y Administración Local) of the Junta de Andalucia (regional government's Ministry of Tourism and Sport). Some hotels around the world use the term 'six-star' to denote an establishment which is another level above a five-star. Gran Lujo means Grand Luxury and represents a level of service and facilities in excess of the five-star rating. Andalucia has a 16 five-star Gran Lujo (GL) hotels and 42 five-star hotels.
