Seventeen restaurants and hotels in Orange County have earned a top hospitality award for their pampering service and luxurious surroundings.

The seven restaurants and 10 hotels are among 120 that earned the “AAA Four Diamond Award” for 2012 – an annual survey produced by the Automobile Club of Southern California. The four diamond designation is awarded to the top 3.8 percent of 59,000 hotels and restaurants inspected by the organization’s reviewers. Results were released Friday, Jan. 20.

These hotels and restaurants “are committed to providing every guest with a high level of personalized service in comfortable, luxurious surroundings,” said Patricia Marenco, an auto club accommodations supervisor.

The Disneyland Hotel in Anaheim earned its first four-diamond ranking this year, while The Fairmont in Newport Beach snagged its fifth consecutive “four diamond” award.

”We are thrilled to be included amongst the very select group,” said Lauren V. Carr, director of sales & marketing at The Fairmont. 

to view the other O.C. restaurants and hotels on the “four diamond” list.

Jan. 23 update: The Auto Club released this morning the list of exclusive “five diamond” resorts for 2012. Four O.C. venues made the list:

Newport Beach

Island Hotel Newport Beach 

The Resort at Pelican Hill (Newport Coast) 

Dana Point

St. Regis Resort, Monarch Beach

The Ritz-Carlton, Laguna Niguel

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