Each nation determines its own addressing standards for their own postal service, so there isn’t an international standard for writing out an address. If possible, reach out to each hotel for their locally-preferred standards and use those.
Address elements
Some elements appear in nearly every standard:
- Recipient’s name
- Business/department
- Street address
- Apartment or suite number
- City
- State/province/region/district
- Postal code
- Country
The order of these elements may differ from country to country, but in general, they flow in order of specificity, starting with the most specific.
US & UK addresses
While certain elements of US and UK addresses come in slightly different orders, the general sense of decreasing specificity holds true between both.
For example
- US addresses:
Conrad Hilton
Hilton Worldwide
755 Crossover Lane
Memphis, TN 38117
USA - UK addresses:
Conrad Hilton
Hilton Worldwide
4 Cadogan Square
Cadogan Street
Glasgow
G2 7PH
Scotland
International addresses
Coming soon
Inline format
Where appropriate, as in body text, write addresses inline. This format works best in situations where the name and business lines can be removed.
Use commas where line breaks would occur in vertical address format.
For example
- US addresses:
755 Crossover Lane, Memphis, TN 38117, USA - UK addresses:
4 Cadogan Square, Cadogan Street, Glasgow G2 7PH, Scotland
Vertical format
Where a property’s address is presented as a visually separate element, stack the address vertically, as you would on an envelope.
Note about ZIP codes
When writing titles for form fields, remember that “ZIP” is an acronym for “zone improvement plan,” owing to the US Postal Service program that created the current US postal codes. Therefore, always write “ZIP code,” never “Zip code.”