"Ultra-luxury" hotel room rates approach $1000

[b-y]

The Wall Street Journal has a story (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304746604577379944042575320.html) on the move toward $1000 per night room rates (not necessarily suites) for "ultra-luxury" hotels. Among the Europen hotels mentioned are:

Hotel du Cap-Eden-Roc on the French Riviera (high-season price: €750, or about $986)
...See post #4 for a follow-up.

Mandarin Oriental Hyde Park, London (rates begin at about £735--$1,190)

Ritz Paris (now about $960)

Mandarin Oriental Paris (Entry-level room: about $1,175)

Castello di Casole, about 45 minutes from Florence, Italy [entry-level suites for about $828 (€630) in low season, about $1,578 (€1,200) in high season]

[X3 Skier]

Or you could just stop in the Lobby, read a paper and have drink in the bar and save a lot of money for almost the same experience.:angel:

Cheers

[VIZSLA]

Nice to see that the war on poverty is finally showing results.
:)

[b-y]

This month's "Departures" has an article on the Hotel du Cap. I guess they have a major PR campaign underway.

[alex md]

Stayed at the Hotel du-Cap in 2001/June/ Paid around 500 Euro if remember correctly 1euro was about 1USD at that time- one of the best hotels i ever stayed in my life w pool on a cliff to dye for.
Alex