The world's most expensive hotel suites

Steamboat Bill · 03-27-2008, 01:16 PM

Here is a fun article

The world's most expensive hotel suites - Times Online

From The Sunday Times
August 26, 2007

The world's most expensive hotel suites

What does 26 grand buy? One night, breakfast not included. Our correspondent finds the most expensive hotel rooms on earth

Ian Belcher

With walls of calfskin and Chinese onyx, a cascading waterfall and a tycoon’s-eye view of Manhattan, the Four Seasons Ty Warner Penthouse, which opened last month, will hit you for a cool £15,079 ($30,258.11) for a single night.

It’s a cardiac-inducing price. But get your doctor on speed-dial, because it doesn’t come close to being the most expensive suite in the world. Our inaugural survey reveals that the costliest kip requires another £11,000 ($22,072.52) a night. Do not adjust your sets. That is £26,000 ($52,172.61). For a single night.

These, of course, are no ordinary suites. They come with bulletproof glass, rare antiques, designer interiors and 24-hour butlers; golden furniture, midair spa baths, epic views and top-notch limos. They’re the product of a new era of luxury in which wealth is counted in billions and the highly mobile super-rich, along with Hollywood’s big hitters and international statesmen, flit across continents, demanding high comfort and higher security.

Here’s where they find it. Call the bank manager, take out that second mortgage and join us for the priciest sleeps on earth.

Prices include local taxes and charges, and, where applicable, are based on high-season rates

£26,450 ($53,081.67)
Royal Penthouse Suite Hotel President Wilson, Geneva

Are you sitting down? This stratospheric price tag doesn’t include breakfast, but it does buy you a night in a four-bedroom penthouse suite bristling with surveillance cameras, bulletproof windows, armoured doors and bedside panic buttons – as well as a butler and views across Lake Geneva to Mont Blanc. Perfect for UNbound heads of state and paranoid antiques collectors, it’s littered with period pieces, including a 1930s billiard table and a Steinway grand – a tricky one to snaffle “accidentally” in your washbag.

Having just expanded to 17,000 sq ft – plus a roof terrace – it’s also perfect should you recklessly shout “All back to mine” after that stressful UN debate. It has the private elevator, the intimate dining room seating 26, and six bathrooms, two with hammams and spa baths.

But the hotel claims you’re buying service, not just statistics. Each guest arrives to favourite magazines, cocktails and children’s treats, along with the Wilson’s famed flower arrangements. When a VIP demanded a special bed, which wouldn’t fit in the lift, the hotel hired a crane to deliver it through the window.

00 41 22 906 6666, Hotel Geneva President Wilson Geneve - Starwood's Luxury Collection

£21,681 ($43,504.94)
Hugh Hefner Sky Villa Palms Resort, Las Vegas

You can’t afford the faux-baronial Playboy mansion, but with one lunatic Vegas splurge, you can have the next best, or perhaps tackiest, thing. Short of improbable breasts, the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, high in the Palms’ Fantasy Tower, is supplied with everything Playboy: artwork selected by the Hef (voluptuous and female? Quelle surprise! ), a vast rotating circular bed and an indoor pool, artfully branded with the bunny logo, leading to a hair – and libido – raising cantilevered spa bath high above the Strip.

This two-storey, 9,000 sq ft, two-bedroom pad for swinging bachelors also has an orgy-sized bathtub, a bar and poker table, an indoor waterfall, pop-up plasma televisions and a fully equipped gym. Should sir require a heavier dose of Hef’s lifestyle, the Playboy Club’s hostesses are just upstairs. The price doesn’t include breakfast – or bunnies.

00 1 702 942 7777, Palms

£21,642 ($43,423.35)
Penthouse Suite Hôtel Martinez, Cannes

You are movie royalty in Cannes, desperate to escape the paparazzi prowling the Croisette. Where to go? The answer is up. Seven floors up, to the Penthouse Suite of the art-deco Martinez, a cocoon of serenity, taste and decadent space. Its vast roof garden, with a discreet sunken spa bath, is book-ended by 100-year-old olive trees.

The Martinez hasn’t skimped on the interior, either. Amnesiacs could be lost for days in the maze of white, gold and cappuccino luxury. The suite has two living and dining rooms, two kitchens, two saunas and four bedrooms, each with its own Turkish bath and whirlpool bath. Designer satin curtains brush teak floors. Past guests, including Francis Ford Coppola, Jodie Foster and Monica Bellucci, all paid extra for breakfast.

00 33 4 92 98 73 00, Hotel Martinez - Cannes hotel reservation - La Croisette

£20,351 ($40,833.04)
Presidential Suite Hotel Cala di Volpe, Sardinia

Designed for sun-kissed networking, the Presidential Suite overlooks the translucent briny of the Costa Smeralda. Modestly billed as “one of the most famous suites in the world” – our straw poll found that nobody had heard of it – the three-bedroom pad perches above the rambling towers and pantile roofs of the luxury Porto Cervo resort.

By these suites’ OTT standards, the Presidential Suite is an understated blend of contemporary Mediterranean style and sensational bay views. The bling kicks in with the pool on the private roof terrace, next to your alfresco gym. Should you tire of the land-based dolce vita , the local marina is the ideal spot for rubbing hulls with the Agnellis.

00 39 0789 976111, Luxury Collection Porto Cervo Hotels: Hotel Cala di Volpe - Hotel Rooms at luxury.com

£17,625 ($35,363.49)
Royal Penthouse The Dorchester, London

Few people except heads of state know about the Royal Penthouse. The Dorchester has a Howard Hughes-style shyness of publicity about the four-bedroom duplex – formerly the Sultan of Brunei’s London pad.

Occupying the eighth and ninth floors above Park Lane, it’s decorated in empire and classical 18th-century style, with a scenic trompe l’oeil and a master bathroom of 24-carat gold plate and black marble. It has two dining rooms, two drawing rooms, a hairdressing room and a cinema. The vast terrace overlooks Hyde Park and Mayfair – though, if you’re staying here, you probably own chunks of that already.

As in the other suites, exotic materials are an obsession: rare marbles, Italian drapes and a New Zealand wool carpet with more than twice the normal number of tufts and a design picked out in 22-carat gold threads. The sultan would surely approve.

020 7629 8888, London Luxury Hotels: The Dorchester Hotel London Official Site, 5 Star Hotel London

£15,079 ($30,254.63)
Ty Warner Penthouse Four Seasons, New York

It may not be the world’s most expensive suite, as its early publicity boasted, but the new Four Seasons Ty Warner Penthouse, occupying the whole of the 52nd floor, has strong claims to top spot on the interior-design podium. Whether it’s to your taste is another matter. It oozes opulence: hand-lacquered walls inlaid with mother-of-pearl, a master bedroom with 25ft-high bay windows and a towering cathedral ceiling, cantilevered balconies over the Manhattan skyline.

There’s no escape for aesthetic philistines in the bathroom, all Chinese onyx with underlit rock-crystal sinks, or the vast library, with its grand piano. By the time you caress the dressing room’s calfskin walls and meditate next to the Zen room’s cascading waterfall, you’ll crave Ikea.

Perhaps a little ostentation is to be expected in a suite named after the Beanie Baby tycoon, who moved into hotel ownership. It’s a voyeuristic glimpse of a billionaire’s life, with unobstructed Big Apple views, unlimited spa treatments, a designated table in the Joël Robuchon restaurant and a chauffeured Rolls.

00 800 6488 6488, Four Seasons Hotel New York: A Luxury Hotel in New York, NY

£14,925 ($29,945.64)
Villa La Cupola Hotel Westin Excelsior, Rome

Need inspiration for the £3.5m refurbishment of your prime suite? Via Veneto isn’t a bad start. Villa La Cupola, five floors above its elegant pavements, has a domed living room with a 39ft-high, hand-frescoed cupola. There’s a study with walnut panels, a dining room with a Murano glass and gold chandelier, and a wine cabinet that holds 200 vintages.

Take your private lift up to the sixth floor and you’ll find a gym, a sauna and a Pompeii-style spa bath – grapes available on request. The frescoes synch perfectly with the city horizon through the window, which is either breathtaking or remarkably confusing. Oh, yes, you also get a surround-sound cinema and a sprawling roof terrace with outside bar.

If you have a large entourage – the butler and chef will have to stay somewhere – you can add six more bedrooms on the fifth floor. Congratulations: for one night, you are the proud owner of Europe’s largest hotel suite.

00 39 064 7081, Westin Hotels and Resorts - Make Reservations online or call 800-598-1864

£14,048 ($28,186.02)
Penthouse Suite The Setai, Miami

Every account of hotel-suite excess should include a tale of lunatic celebrity behaviour – and the Setai happily obliges. One anonymous Alister recently demanded that the fourth bedroom be converted into a gym, with all equipment and clothing colour coordinated – including exercise balls. Still, if you’re going to act like a princess, the Setai’s 10,000 sq ft penthouse is the place, with a 24-hour butler at your disposal.

The 40th-floor suite – past occupants include Madonna and Beyoncé – has two gargantuan master bedrooms, two smaller ones, five living rooms and a serious wine cellar. Its 4,000 sq ft of balconies and terrace include a rooftop lap pool, a whirlpool and panorama views of the Miami skyline. All you need is Roger Sanchez on the decks, and a few models, then your sunset party can begin.

00 1 305 520 6000, The Setai - Luxury Hotel at the Art Deco Oceanfront District in South Beach Miami

£13,612 ($27,311.14)
Security Suite Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Berlin

Despite nightmares about your bank balance, this should be the soundest sleep of your life. Installed under the scrutiny of the German security police, the suite has bulletproof walls and windows, your own armoured entrance, private lifts to an underground car park for assassin-free departures, an independent telecommunications hub and five BMW limos for the bodyguards.

It also claims to be the most luxurious suite in Germany, with European and Asian furnishings, a ladies’ lounge with a four-poster, and a vast bathroom incorporating a whirlpool, a sauna and a fitness area. It has exquisite antiques, a private safe room, a conference room and a 24-hour butler – who, no doubt, has been vetted, frisked and psychologically profiled to within an inch of his life.

00 49 30 22610, www.hotel-adlon.de

£12,602 ($25,284.68)
Bridge Suite Atlantis, Bahamas

Prepare for a gilt trip. This 10-room suite has gilt mirrors, chairs, lamps and vases, and so many occasional tables, they’ve become regular. They sit alongside gold sofas, cushions and bedspreads punctuated with blacks and reds, all of which Atlantis believes creates “an altogether appropriate air of regal majesty”. Anyone with minimalist tendencies may have other descriptions.

But there is no disputing the shameless glitz. The grand foyer boasts an elaborate floor in four kinds of marble; there is a 50ft living room with a baby grand; a vast entertainment centre with a full-service bar; and a king bedroom – no “master” nonsense here – with a 10ft-high four-poster covered in hand-painted linens. Throw in the eye-popping balcony views, and a butler, and this is no ordinary kip. Of course, whether you want to blow a fortune to straddle a pink wedding cake of a tropical resort is another question.

00 1 242 363 3000, Atlantis - Home

Additional reporting by Jasmine Gardner

3DH · 03-27-2008, 01:48 PM

While it isn't entirely scientific, I had to see the USD equivalents of the original amounts... my apologies, Bill, for editing, but I wanted the true shell-shock to be revealed!

Kagehitokiri · 03-27-2008, 06:42 PM

that article was not entirely accurate. i am going to link a post i did on flyertalk in this thread > $40,000 per night hotel room - Four Seasons NYC, since it focuses on that, but it also includes the other more expensive suites.

the four seasons new york penthouse is $30K, and there are only 2 more expensive suites in the world. (and they have 3/4BR)

also related, the largest hotel suites and condos in the world >
MO's 50,000 Square Foot Suite (in China!) - FlyerTalk Forums
(17K > 36K ft2)

03-27-2008, 01:16 PM	#1
Steamboat Bill Senior Member Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 363 Club: High Country Club	The world's most expensive hotel suites Here is a fun article The world's most expensive hotel suites - Times Online From The Sunday Times August 26, 2007 The world's most expensive hotel suites What does 26 grand buy? One night, breakfast not included. Our correspondent finds the most expensive hotel rooms on earth Ian Belcher With walls of calfskin and Chinese onyx, a cascading waterfall and a tycoon’s-eye view of Manhattan, the Four Seasons Ty Warner Penthouse, which opened last month, will hit you for a cool £15,079 ($30,258.11) for a single night. It’s a cardiac-inducing price. But get your doctor on speed-dial, because it doesn’t come close to being the most expensive suite in the world. Our inaugural survey reveals that the costliest kip requires another £11,000 ($22,072.52) a night. Do not adjust your sets. That is £26,000 ($52,172.61). For a single night. These, of course, are no ordinary suites. They come with bulletproof glass, rare antiques, designer interiors and 24-hour butlers; golden furniture, midair spa baths, epic views and top-notch limos. They’re the product of a new era of luxury in which wealth is counted in billions and the highly mobile super-rich, along with Hollywood’s big hitters and international statesmen, flit across continents, demanding high comfort and higher security. Here’s where they find it. Call the bank manager, take out that second mortgage and join us for the priciest sleeps on earth. Prices include local taxes and charges, and, where applicable, are based on high-season rates £26,450 ($53,081.67) Royal Penthouse Suite Hotel President Wilson, Geneva Are you sitting down? This stratospheric price tag doesn’t include breakfast, but it does buy you a night in a four-bedroom penthouse suite bristling with surveillance cameras, bulletproof windows, armoured doors and bedside panic buttons – as well as a butler and views across Lake Geneva to Mont Blanc. Perfect for UNbound heads of state and paranoid antiques collectors, it’s littered with period pieces, including a 1930s billiard table and a Steinway grand – a tricky one to snaffle “accidentally” in your washbag. Having just expanded to 17,000 sq ft – plus a roof terrace – it’s also perfect should you recklessly shout “All back to mine” after that stressful UN debate. It has the private elevator, the intimate dining room seating 26, and six bathrooms, two with hammams and spa baths. But the hotel claims you’re buying service, not just statistics. Each guest arrives to favourite magazines, cocktails and children’s treats, along with the Wilson’s famed flower arrangements. When a VIP demanded a special bed, which wouldn’t fit in the lift, the hotel hired a crane to deliver it through the window. 00 41 22 906 6666, Hotel Geneva President Wilson Geneve - Starwood's Luxury Collection £21,681 ($43,504.94) Hugh Hefner Sky Villa Palms Resort, Las Vegas You can’t afford the faux-baronial Playboy mansion, but with one lunatic Vegas splurge, you can have the next best, or perhaps tackiest, thing. Short of improbable breasts, the Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, high in the Palms’ Fantasy Tower, is supplied with everything Playboy: artwork selected by the Hef (voluptuous and female? Quelle surprise! ), a vast rotating circular bed and an indoor pool, artfully branded with the bunny logo, leading to a hair – and libido – raising cantilevered spa bath high above the Strip. This two-storey, 9,000 sq ft, two-bedroom pad for swinging bachelors also has an orgy-sized bathtub, a bar and poker table, an indoor waterfall, pop-up plasma televisions and a fully equipped gym. Should sir require a heavier dose of Hef’s lifestyle, the Playboy Club’s hostesses are just upstairs. The price doesn’t include breakfast – or bunnies. 00 1 702 942 7777, Palms £21,642 ($43,423.35) Penthouse Suite Hôtel Martinez, Cannes You are movie royalty in Cannes, desperate to escape the paparazzi prowling the Croisette. Where to go? The answer is up. Seven floors up, to the Penthouse Suite of the art-deco Martinez, a cocoon of serenity, taste and decadent space. Its vast roof garden, with a discreet sunken spa bath, is book-ended by 100-year-old olive trees. The Martinez hasn’t skimped on the interior, either. Amnesiacs could be lost for days in the maze of white, gold and cappuccino luxury. The suite has two living and dining rooms, two kitchens, two saunas and four bedrooms, each with its own Turkish bath and whirlpool bath. Designer satin curtains brush teak floors. Past guests, including Francis Ford Coppola, Jodie Foster and Monica Bellucci, all paid extra for breakfast. 00 33 4 92 98 73 00, Hotel Martinez - Cannes hotel reservation - La Croisette £20,351 ($40,833.04) Presidential Suite Hotel Cala di Volpe, Sardinia Designed for sun-kissed networking, the Presidential Suite overlooks the translucent briny of the Costa Smeralda. Modestly billed as “one of the most famous suites in the world” – our straw poll found that nobody had heard of it – the three-bedroom pad perches above the rambling towers and pantile roofs of the luxury Porto Cervo resort. By these suites’ OTT standards, the Presidential Suite is an understated blend of contemporary Mediterranean style and sensational bay views. The bling kicks in with the pool on the private roof terrace, next to your alfresco gym. Should you tire of the land-based dolce vita , the local marina is the ideal spot for rubbing hulls with the Agnellis. 00 39 0789 976111, Luxury Collection Porto Cervo Hotels: Hotel Cala di Volpe - Hotel Rooms at luxury.com £17,625 ($35,363.49) Royal Penthouse The Dorchester, London Few people except heads of state know about the Royal Penthouse. The Dorchester has a Howard Hughes-style shyness of publicity about the four-bedroom duplex – formerly the Sultan of Brunei’s London pad. Occupying the eighth and ninth floors above Park Lane, it’s decorated in empire and classical 18th-century style, with a scenic trompe l’oeil and a master bathroom of 24-carat gold plate and black marble. It has two dining rooms, two drawing rooms, a hairdressing room and a cinema. The vast terrace overlooks Hyde Park and Mayfair – though, if you’re staying here, you probably own chunks of that already. As in the other suites, exotic materials are an obsession: rare marbles, Italian drapes and a New Zealand wool carpet with more than twice the normal number of tufts and a design picked out in 22-carat gold threads. The sultan would surely approve. 020 7629 8888, London Luxury Hotels: The Dorchester Hotel London Official Site, 5 Star Hotel London £15,079 ($30,254.63) Ty Warner Penthouse Four Seasons, New York It may not be the world’s most expensive suite, as its early publicity boasted, but the new Four Seasons Ty Warner Penthouse, occupying the whole of the 52nd floor, has strong claims to top spot on the interior-design podium. Whether it’s to your taste is another matter. It oozes opulence: hand-lacquered walls inlaid with mother-of-pearl, a master bedroom with 25ft-high bay windows and a towering cathedral ceiling, cantilevered balconies over the Manhattan skyline. There’s no escape for aesthetic philistines in the bathroom, all Chinese onyx with underlit rock-crystal sinks, or the vast library, with its grand piano. By the time you caress the dressing room’s calfskin walls and meditate next to the Zen room’s cascading waterfall, you’ll crave Ikea. Perhaps a little ostentation is to be expected in a suite named after the Beanie Baby tycoon, who moved into hotel ownership. It’s a voyeuristic glimpse of a billionaire’s life, with unobstructed Big Apple views, unlimited spa treatments, a designated table in the Joël Robuchon restaurant and a chauffeured Rolls. 00 800 6488 6488, Four Seasons Hotel New York: A Luxury Hotel in New York, NY £14,925 ($29,945.64) Villa La Cupola Hotel Westin Excelsior, Rome Need inspiration for the £3.5m refurbishment of your prime suite? Via Veneto isn’t a bad start. Villa La Cupola, five floors above its elegant pavements, has a domed living room with a 39ft-high, hand-frescoed cupola. There’s a study with walnut panels, a dining room with a Murano glass and gold chandelier, and a wine cabinet that holds 200 vintages. Take your private lift up to the sixth floor and you’ll find a gym, a sauna and a Pompeii-style spa bath – grapes available on request. The frescoes synch perfectly with the city horizon through the window, which is either breathtaking or remarkably confusing. Oh, yes, you also get a surround-sound cinema and a sprawling roof terrace with outside bar. If you have a large entourage – the butler and chef will have to stay somewhere – you can add six more bedrooms on the fifth floor. Congratulations: for one night, you are the proud owner of Europe’s largest hotel suite. 00 39 064 7081, Westin Hotels and Resorts - Make Reservations online or call 800-598-1864 £14,048 ($28,186.02) Penthouse Suite The Setai, Miami Every account of hotel-suite excess should include a tale of lunatic celebrity behaviour – and the Setai happily obliges. One anonymous Alister recently demanded that the fourth bedroom be converted into a gym, with all equipment and clothing colour coordinated – including exercise balls. Still, if you’re going to act like a princess, the Setai’s 10,000 sq ft penthouse is the place, with a 24-hour butler at your disposal. The 40th-floor suite – past occupants include Madonna and Beyoncé – has two gargantuan master bedrooms, two smaller ones, five living rooms and a serious wine cellar. Its 4,000 sq ft of balconies and terrace include a rooftop lap pool, a whirlpool and panorama views of the Miami skyline. All you need is Roger Sanchez on the decks, and a few models, then your sunset party can begin. 00 1 305 520 6000, The Setai - Luxury Hotel at the Art Deco Oceanfront District in South Beach Miami £13,612 ($27,311.14) Security Suite Hotel Adlon Kempinski, Berlin Despite nightmares about your bank balance, this should be the soundest sleep of your life. Installed under the scrutiny of the German security police, the suite has bulletproof walls and windows, your own armoured entrance, private lifts to an underground car park for assassin-free departures, an independent telecommunications hub and five BMW limos for the bodyguards. It also claims to be the most luxurious suite in Germany, with European and Asian furnishings, a ladies’ lounge with a four-poster, and a vast bathroom incorporating a whirlpool, a sauna and a fitness area. It has exquisite antiques, a private safe room, a conference room and a 24-hour butler – who, no doubt, has been vetted, frisked and psychologically profiled to within an inch of his life. 00 49 30 22610, www.hotel-adlon.de £12,602 ($25,284.68) Bridge Suite Atlantis, Bahamas Prepare for a gilt trip. This 10-room suite has gilt mirrors, chairs, lamps and vases, and so many occasional tables, they’ve become regular. They sit alongside gold sofas, cushions and bedspreads punctuated with blacks and reds, all of which Atlantis believes creates “an altogether appropriate air of regal majesty”. Anyone with minimalist tendencies may have other descriptions. But there is no disputing the shameless glitz. The grand foyer boasts an elaborate floor in four kinds of marble; there is a 50ft living room with a baby grand; a vast entertainment centre with a full-service bar; and a king bedroom – no “master” nonsense here – with a 10ft-high four-poster covered in hand-painted linens. Throw in the eye-popping balcony views, and a butler, and this is no ordinary kip. Of course, whether you want to blow a fortune to straddle a pink wedding cake of a tropical resort is another question. 00 1 242 363 3000, Atlantis - Home Additional reporting by Jasmine Gardner Last edited by 3DH; 03-27-2008 at 01:46 PM. Reason: Add USD equivalents from XE.com

03-27-2008, 01:48 PM	#2
3DH Super Moderator Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Texas Posts: 742 Club: LUSSO Collection	Re: The world's most expensive hotel suites While it isn't entirely scientific, I had to see the USD equivalents of the original amounts... my apologies, Bill, for editing, but I wanted the true shell-shock to be revealed! __________________ "Boutique" is better! Another extremely satisfied LUSSO member!

03-27-2008, 06:42 PM	#3
Kagehitokiri Super Moderator Join Date: Nov 2007 Posts: 1,620	Re: The world's most expensive hotel suites that article was not entirely accurate. i am going to link a post i did on flyertalk in this thread > $40,000 per night hotel room - Four Seasons NYC, since it focuses on that, but it also includes the other more expensive suites. the four seasons new york penthouse is $30K, and there are only 2 more expensive suites in the world. (and they have 3/4BR) also related, the largest hotel suites and condos in the world > MO's 50,000 Square Foot Suite (in China!) - FlyerTalk Forums (17K > 36K ft2) Last edited by Kagehitokiri; 06-13-2008 at 09:10 PM.

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