When Sir Robert McAlpine, then owner of the Dorchester in London, commissioned the stage designer Oliver Messel to come up with what he intended to be the most luxurious hotel suite in the world, he set a rack rate of £25. The year was 1953, and in today's money it would equate to about £440 - rather less than the £3,113.75 it charges the Hollywood stars who stay there today.
Yet this is a sum that pales compared with the £13,000 a night Madonna, on holiday in Miami, is reportedly paying for her hotel room. (The smart money reckons she's in the penthouse at the Setai, the price of which is divulged only on application - a case of if you have to ask, you can't afford it.)
Or take the Emirates Palace in Abu Dhabi. Held to be the world's most expensive hotel inasmuch as it cost £2bn to build, it charges £7,500 for its Palace Suites. Parrot Cay in Turks & Caicos, the self-styled "world's most exclusive resort", will charge $12,000 (£6,512) for its Master Villa from next winter. While room 124, as the Royal Suite at Paris's Four Seasons George V is discreetly labelled, charges €9,000 (£6,154). It is splendid if a little glitzy, but there is no getting away from the fact that the damask-swagged windows of its master bedroom look on to a public toilet - a disappointment given that lesser rooms face the Eiffel Tower.
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