LakeGeorge.com Fab Five Awards (formerly Best Of Lake George): How Voting Works & How to Win

What are the LakeGeorge.com Fab Five Awards and who runs them?

LakeGeorge.com, the tourism and lifestyle guide for the Lake George area of New York, presents the Fab Five Awards, a best-of program in which the public decides which local businesses deserve the honor. The program formerly operated under the name Best Of Lake George, and its voting hub now carries the Fab Five title. Behind the guide stands Mannix Marketing, Inc., a digital marketing company based in Upstate New York that owns and operates the site locally.

The ballot lives at https://www.lakegeorge.com/fab-five/voting/, served straight from LakeGeorge.com itself instead of being farmed out to an external polling platform. Coverage centers on the Lake George resort economy: the 2026 voting guide steers readers toward favorites such as best pizza, lakefront dining and boat tours. The site brands itself the Official Guide to the Lake George Area, and the awards sit inside a broader publication whose regular fare includes lodging listings for hotels, motels and resorts, off-water adventures and winter activities, along with a directory readers can use to find a local business. An advertising channel on the same site speaks directly to area operators, which fits a program whose nominees come from that same business community.

When has the Fab Five vote run, and what dates matter?

The Fab Five Awards carry confirmed cycles in 2023, 2025 and 2026, a spread of years that qualifies the program as an annual event on the strength of its repeated editions. The 2026 edition carried the on-site title "2026 LakeGeorge.com Fab Five: Voting Guide & Categories" and invited readers to get ready to vote for their Lake George favorites. Its voting period concluded on 5/10/2026 at 11:59 PM Eastern, and the ballot page now carries the notice "Voting for 2026 has concluded!"

No 2024 round appears between the confirmed 2023 and 2025 cycles, even though the overall cadence reads as annual. If the pattern continues, the next cycle lands in 2027. Several basics remain unpublished: LakeGeorge.com has not printed the nomination and voting open dates for any cycle, the complete category roster, a per-supporter vote limit, or eligibility terms; confirm on the live ballot each cycle.

How do you actually cast a vote in the Fab Five Awards?

The mechanic stays deliberately simple. While a voting period is open, a supporter visits the Fab Five ballot page on LakeGeorge.com's own site, reads through the category lineup, and selects a favorite in each category worth weighing in on. Nothing walls the choices behind a fee, and whether a sign-in is needed, the published pages leave unstated. Once the selections are made, the ballot submits and the picks join the round's tally.

Because the publisher runs the ballot on its own web pages, the same steps apply on a desktop and on a phone alike. Timing is the part to watch: rounds shut on hard deadlines, as the 2026 round did on 5/10/2026, and a pick sent after the close does not count. At present the 2026 page stands closed behind its concluded notice, so these steps describe what a supporter does when the next round opens and the category lineup reappears.

How does the Fab Five ballot sit beside other New York fan votes?

New York stages a crowded field of public best-of campaigns. The neighbours catalogued alongside this program include upstate and suburban ballots such as Best of Brooklyn and Best of Hudson Valley, borough-wide votes like Best of Queens and Best of the Bronx, the county-level Best of Westchester, and The City's Best take on New York City. Those campaigns cover boroughs and large metro regions; the Fab Five Awards cover a resort market instead, where the competing businesses are pizzerias, lakeside dining rooms and tour operators rather than big-city institutions.

The organizer's identity also sets the ballot apart. LakeGeorge.com is a tourism publication first, so the awards double as a visitor-planning tool: a traveler browsing the guide for lodging or seasonal activities meets the same brand running the vote. That is a different posture from a city magazine staging a best-of list mainly for residents, and none of the sibling ballots centers on a single resort community the way this one does.

How can a Lake George business rally support during a Fab Five round?

Every grouping on the Fab Five ballot puts neighbouring businesses head to head, so the pizzeria, the lakeside restaurant and the boat tour operator each contend inside their own slice rather than against the whole field. That shapes outreach: the most useful message asks loyal customers to weigh in on the specific lineup a business appears in, while the window is open and before the posted deadline passes. LakeGeorge.com itself is run by a digital marketing company, which signals that the awards expect organized promotion rather than passive traffic alone.

The organizer has published no rule addressing outside voting help, so any business considering paid support should study the terms shown during the live cycle first. The general playbook for strengthening a public-vote campaign is covered in this guide to getting more votes online.