World's most expensive vacation

[dusty]

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/wo...ay-872407.html Unsurprisingly it's from the world capital of more money than sense, the UAE.

 

[acidboy]

Hmmm... here's what they offer for a million dollars:

-two first-class flights

-a bit of mile-high champers

-a booking in the hotel's most glamorous room, the Palace Suite: three decadent gold, silver and marble bedrooms interrupted only by a giant 61in plasma TV screen. It's a "palace within a palace", the hotel claims.

-round-the-clock dedicated staff will see to the refreshments between meals.

-your private butler

-private jet excursions, first to Iran where holidaymakers watch their own hand-made Persian carpet being created in front of their eyes

-then to the Dead Sea for a cleansing mud treatment

-Another excursion, again by private jet, is to Bahrain to deep-sea dive for pearls. Jewellers turn whatever you collect on the seabed into a unique gift.

-use of an exclusive golf course

-complimentary gift of a shotgun (it's all been arranged in advance with customs so you can take it past airport security on the way home) or perfume-making sessions.

Sounds like a fun trip!

 

[tiecollector]

I'm guessing you could do all this stuff for about 1M yen.

lame and kind of disgusting.

 

[c3cubed]

An absolutely uninspired bore of a trip, like the host landscape.

The Robb Report features "best of the best" special trips much more fun and imaginative,
and, far more expensive.

Being somewhat jaded to this sort of thing, I really thought the article
was going to prance on about the hotel "room" costing $1,000,000. per night.

That would have been a more amusing read.

 

[LabelKing]

I was hoping for something like a Vuitton trunk full of gold bars.

 

[c3cubed]

Originally Posted by LabelKing

I was hoping for something like a Vuitton trunk full of gold bars.

Well, only as long as there were enough classically dressed porters to carry it

 

[Laffertron]

That is a pretty lame holiday, sounds like some brain-dead idiot thought "hurr let's make a 1 million dollar holiday, we'll give them every luxury at the most expensive hotel in town and then we'll come up with a few stupid activities that nobody would want to do:"

- Have some guy earning $10 a day make you a carpet
- Dive in the ocean to collect pearls instead of having someone who earns $10 a day do it for you
- Get slathered in mud in the dead sea

And then to crown it all, your parting gift is a gun! wtf?

If I was a manager of the hotel (well, one who actually had a pulse and wasn't an unimaginative moron), I'd have this for a start:

Dune Buggies
Desert Safari
Power boating at the Marina
Guided shopping tour with a team of shoppers carrying all your bags
Helicopter tour over Dubai with a game of tennis with a pro tennis player on top of the Burj

Parting gift: Something other than a gun

This is just like those idiots who come up with the world's most expensive booze. For all we know it's just Kirov in a new bottle, only the bottle is decorated with diamonds and is hand delivered by a Russian model (who earns $10 a day) who then fellates you.

 

[acidboy]

If you visit all Aman resorts, I think you can spend as much, although you don't get gold, silver and marble bedrooms.

 

[LabelKing]

I agree, this is indeed, quite lame.

I was at least hoping for delightfully trashy tackiness like a gold-plated Rolls Royce to whisk you away to a diamond-studded Karaoke session with Arab royalty and assorted virgins, race of your choice.

Then it's off to that indoor skiing thing they have over there, tawdry inauthentic Swiss chalet reproductions and all.

 

[RJman]

Yes, nouveau riche just ain't what it used to be.

For $1M dollars, you'd think they wouldn't make you go back to the UAE after leaving it on those side trips.

 

[Laffertron]

Originally Posted by RJman

Yes, nouveau riche just ain't what it used to be.

For $1M dollars, you'd think they wouldn't make you go back to the UAE after leaving it on those side trips.

$1 Million: 7 day holiday in UAE

$2 Million: 3 day holiday in UAE