Luxury Hotel Suites

Luxury Hotel Suites

Every fabled city has a few fabled luxury hotel suites, usually perched atop an equally fabled luxury landmark or two.

Hollywood has a few such luxury hotel suites. The one at Beverly Hills Hotel has a terrace from which you can gaze across the palm tree-lined greenery below for $8,000 per night. If you prefer power to greenery, try the luxury hotel suites at the Waldorf Astoria, the preferred refuge of US Presidents when in New York, for $10,000 a night.

For five figures, luxury hotel suites also abound across the Atlantic. You can swim in the frescoed in-room swimming pool of the one at the Principe di Savoia in Milan (right) for $10,000. If royalty and fashion are your cup of tea, it's tough to beat the luxury hotel suites at the Ritz Paris, where Coco Chanel lived for 30 years, probably paying less than the $14,000 nightly tab.

Of course, these are hardly the most expensive luxury hotel suites in the world. The Atlantis at Bahama's Paradise Island has a 10-room, 22-carat gold chandeliers-adorned suite on its bridge for $25,000 a night, about the same as what the 17,000 square foot penthouse luxury suite with bullet-proof doors and windows costs at the Hotel President Wilson in Geneva.

If you prefer party suites to fortresses, cross the pond again to Las Vegas, where the luxury suites at places like Palms will let you to host parties for up to 300 in a suite with a private pool, albeit without frescoed ceilings, for $25,000 a night.

So, how much should you spend on a hotel suite?

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