Located at MGM Plaza in Las Vegas, USA Room Rate: $5,000/day
The world's most expensive hotel is located at MGM Plaza in Vegas, with architecture modeled after 18th-century Italian villas in Florence, and 29 customer service centers, all with supervisors on call 24 hours a day. The most luxurious hotel suites include a luxury restaurant, a private swimming pool with a spa, and two kitchens that cook Asian and European delicacies, and guests can order dishes at any time. Service charges are not included in the $5,000 per night room rate. The smallest suites at the MGM hotels are about 260 square meters and the largest are over 800 square meters. The most luxurious rooms cost as much as $15,000 per night for a room.
NO.2: Seychelles North Island Hotel
Located in the Seychelles*** and the country's North Island Room Rate: $3,217 per day
Seychelles is an unnamed island nation on the east coast of Africa, but has 2 of the world's most expensive sky-high hotels. The North Island Hotel is located on the site of a famous tourist attraction in the Seychelles, and all meals for residents are included in the hotel's base rate. Each of the hotel's villas is entirely hand-built by local artisans, with the smallest one measuring 440 square meters. Each villa comes with 2 bedrooms, in house air-conditioning, broadband and satellite TV. Most of the food served at the hotel comes from local botanical gardens and farms.
NO.3: Frigate Island Hotel
Located in Seychelles*** and the country Frigate Island Room Rate: $2484 per day
Frigate Island is a tourist attraction in Seychelles, and this island is privately owned by the German industrialist, Ott Happel. This resort has only 16 suites and can only accommodate a maximum of 40 guests. Each suite consists of 2 bedrooms, a massage room, a solarium and 2 regular bathrooms, 1 of which is open and offers a great view of nature while lying in the bathtub.
Airfare from Mai, the main island of the Seychelles, to Frigate Island is also very expensive, with a ticket costing as much as US$2,000 during the peak tourist season.
NO.4: French Guadeloupe Hotel
Located in the French West IndiesRate: $2,092/day
This hacienda-chateau-style hotel consists of 14 one-bedroom cottages and one three-bedroom lodge built right behind a traditional French plantation. Each lodge is equipped with mahogany king beds and a pool, and breakfast and free airport transfers are included in the $2,092 rate.
NO.5: Singita Private Game Reserve
Located in Sabisande, South AfricaRate: $2,200/day
This private game reserve spans 19,000 hectares, and the room rate includes two tours per day on the reserve, airport-to-hotel transfers, unlimited drinks and complimentary laundry and ironing services for clothing. Guests can choose their own accommodation from 18 suites in five courtyards and enjoy all 12,000 bottles of local wines from the hotel's wine cellar. Although the rates are more expensive than the Hotel Guadeloupe, it is ranked fifth because of the wealth of services that come with the stay.
No. 6: Vakaya Club
Located in the Pacific island nation of FijiRate: $1,900/day
The Vakaya Club in Fiji, with its garden views, charges a pretty impressive rate, and the club requires guests to stay for at least five days! Included in the rate are all meals, clothing washing, free instruction from golf and tennis instructors, and guests can play croquet, canoe, and go scuba diving twice a day.
NO.7: Turtle Island Hotel
Located in FijiRate: $1,836/day
The hotel has 14 double suites, each constructed of thatch and all with domed roofs. Each suite in the hotel has a sea view balcony and a jetted Jacuzzi has been installed. Rates include all meals and activities (e.g., deep-sea fishing and ocean diving, etc.). There's also a 3-acre plantation on the small island, and the hotel's menu is never short of tropical fruits and fresh seafood.
NO.8: Huka Premier Resort Estate
Located in New ZealandRate: $1,780/night
As a vacation destination for British royalty, Huka Estate has hosted Queen Elizabeth II, Prince Edward, and countless dukes and duchesses. The estate's nightly rate includes the cost of breakfast, a full meal and pre-dinner cocktails. Lake Taupo, Huka Falls and the Waikato River are all nearby.
NO.9: Burj Al Arab Hotel
Located in Dubai, UAERate: $1,333/day
The Burj Al Arab Hotel was built in 1999. The hotel is built on a man-made island located immediately off the coast of Dubai. The hotel has the appearance of a traveling sailboat. The suites are all duplexes, with the upper floor being the master suite and the lower floor for guests. There is a Jacuzzi in the master bathroom. The hotel has free bus transportation for tenants who want to go to the mall. Breakfast at the hotel costs $41.
NO.10: Little Palm Island Hotel
Located in Florida, United StatesRate: $1,145 per day
Meals and activities are not included in the exorbitant rates at this hotel.Air conditioning, Jacuzzi tubs, and private outdoor showers are included in each of the 28 suites, and tenants can take a ride around the island of Little Palm on the hotel's motorized yacht. However, phones, alarm clocks and televisions are banned at this hotel.