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 Wakaya Club.
Location: Fiji.
Theme: Tropical island.
Price: Up to £5,000 - if you fancy staying in the owner's private pad.
What you're paying for: A belting hideaway lodge shaded by coconut palms. "In which secluded beach cove would you care to take your champagne picnic this afternoon, sir?"
Accommodation: Traditional bure cottages furnished in woven bamboo and yaka timber flooring. Each has a private garden and open-air lava rock shower stalls.
Spotted: Michelle Pfeiffer, Russell Crowe, Bill Gates (Mr. Microsoft likes it so much he even spent his honeymoon there).

Be there: Nadi
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