Most Expensive Hotel Rooms
| June 16, 2015
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Ty Warner Penthouse Suite, Four Seasons Hotel, New York
($45,000/night)
When you yawned at the fact that it took seven years and 50 million dollars to build this luxury penthouse suite, your only remark was, what took them so long? But once you try it, you’ll wonder how you ever survived in New York City without this adequately furnished accommodation, which includes a panoramic view of one of the greatest cities in the world; art and refinement galore, including 18th century Japanese silk pillows, hand-lacquered walls, and Mexican sycamore wood; and at your beckoning 24 hours a day, your own butler and chauffer.
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