Most expensive hotels: The Emirates Palace
In our quest to bring you this guide to the world's priciest hotels we've dined on mountaintops, hob-knobbed with Arab royalty, sipped champagne with leopards and been concierged to within an inch of our lives...
Name: The Emirates Palace.
Location: Abu Dhabi.
Theme: "The Taj Mahal of the Middle East".
Price: Ten grand for a Palace Suite. The best suites on the top floor are strictly for Arab royals only.
What you're paying for: An entrance arch on a par with Paris's Arc de Triomphe, a gold-capped dome as big as St Paul's Cathedral. This beast cost a cool two billion to construct. A glass of Cognac in the Havana Cigar Bar alone can make a £1700-shaped dent in your wallet.
Accommodation: Sixteen Palace Suites come with swarovksi-crystal chandeliers, private lifts and - pass the soap - bathroom concierges.
Spotted: Gerhard Schroeder, J-Lo.
Be there: Abu Dhabi
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