| Everyone has a personal record for the amount | | | | guests. It costs approximately $23,000 a night. |
| they've spent on a hotel room. Whether it was for a | | | | Breakfast is not included but the service can't be |
| one-off treat or just because everywhere else in | | | | argued with - when one guest requested a bed that |
| town was full, most people have sampled a luxury | | | | could not fit in the lift, the hotel hired a crane to get it in |
| hotel at one point or another. Sometimes it's worth it, | | | | the bedroom. |
| sometimes it hurts. In either case, when the bill came, | | | | The Bridge Suite, Atlantis Hotel, Paradise Island |
| you probably didn't want to look! | | | | Price: $25,000 a night |
| But for the super rich, the cost of our so-called luxury | | | | The Bridge Suite sits on top of the bridge that |
| accommodation is just part of the package. All around | | | | connects the two Royal Towers in this resort on the |
| the world, luxury hotel suites are designed to cater to | | | | aptly named Paradise Island. For $25,000 a night you |
| this elite, with every imaginable feature, priceless | | | | get your own butler, entertainment centre, 50-foot bar |
| furnishings, lavish service, and a price to match. These | | | | lounge, marble baths and a décor described as |
| boutique hotels are the playgrounds of the rich and | | | | conveying "regal majesty" by the hotel staff. For regal |
| famous when they travel abroad - celebrities, | | | | majesty, read lots of gilded mirrors and windows, |
| millionaires, pop stars, heads of state and royalty are | | | | golden sofas, and a ten-foot four-poster bed with |
| the most frequent residents...Some of them pay and | | | | hand-painted linen sheets. Subdued and tasteful it isn't, |
| others are invited. Here are five of the most | | | | but if you like to see some eye-watering opulence in |
| expensive luxury hotel suites in the world. | | | | your five figure luxury hotel suite, this may be the one |
| Presidential Suite, Hotel Martinez | | | | for you. |
| Price: $18,500 a night | | | | Ty Warner Penthouse, Four Seasons Hotel, New York |
| Cannes is Europe's answer to Hollywood, so it's no | | | | Price: $30,000 |
| surprise that it contains a luxury hotel suite with this | | | | This boutique hotel spared no expense when it came |
| kind of price tag. Decorated in an Art Deco style, it | | | | to furnishing the penthouse on its 52nd floor. Gold |
| measures 8,000 square feet in total. The wraparound | | | | thread curtains, walls inlaid with mother of pearl, onyx |
| terrace (which can hold over 100 people) is 2000 | | | | bathroom floors, and even a shark skin coffee table |
| square feet on its own, and has views of the entire | | | | are all part of the package here, along with stunning |
| Bay of Cannes. Other features include a Turkish bath, | | | | views over Manhattan and even a waterfall in the |
| personal sauna, 24 hour on call butler and a free bar - | | | | so-called Zen room. For those who like a little more |
| though breakfast is not included in your bill. | | | | than the standard room service, this luxury hotel suite |
| Guests at this famous hotel have included Jodie | | | | comes with unlimited treatments from an in-house |
| Foster, Francis Ford Coppola and Monica Belluci. One | | | | masseuse, a butler on 24 hour duty and a chauffeur |
| Saudi sheik liked the Presidential Suite so much that he | | | | driven Rolls Royce. |
| wanted to hire it out for five years. The hotel, confident | | | | Hugh Hefner Sky Villa, Palms Casino Resort, Las |
| of being able to fill the suite in spite of its price, refused | | | | Vegas |
| his request. | | | | Price: $40,000 |
| Imperial Suite, President Wilson Hotel, Geneva | | | | Perhaps it's no surprise that Hugh Hefner's name is |
| Price: $23,000 a night | | | | attached to the ultimate in luxury hotel decadence. At |
| You pay for security as much as luxury at this famous | | | | a jaw dropping $40,000 a night, the Hugh Hefner Sky |
| hotel suite in Geneva. Positioned next to the United | | | | Villa is the world's most expensive hotel suite, located |
| Nations Headquarters and designed for travelling | | | | (appropriately enough) in the Fantasy Tower of the |
| heads of state, the Imperial Suite features bullet proof | | | | Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas. Amongst the |
| glass and bedside alarm buttons, and can only be | | | | eccentric extras are an eight foot revolving bed with |
| reached by a private elevator. | | | | ceiling mirrors, an indoor waterfall, an exercise room, |
| With views of Lake Geneva and Mont Blanc, the suite | | | | sauna, and a terrace pool projecting out over the edge |
| contains five bathrooms, four bedrooms, a cocktail | | | | of the Fantasy Tower with the Playboy Bunny logo |
| lounge, a library, its own Steinway grand piano and a | | | | stamped firmly in the centre. |
| mahogany dining table that can comfortably seat 26 | | | | |