The most expensive hotel room in NYC

Posted Oct 10th 2007 5:05PM by Tom Barlow
Filed under: Consumer Experience, Rich in America, Housing

Now that AOL's mother ship has departed for New York, perhaps I should make some preparations in case I should be summoned for an audience. I wonder if they'd consider putting me up in the Ty Warner Penthouse at the Four Seasons Hotel, for a mere 30 grand per night?

The joint has what is know as New York's most expensive hotel room. When I read this, I imagined bed chocolates the size of pillows, and pillows the size of Pontiacs. But my imagination was inadequate to the reality of the I. M. Pei-designed digs-

4,300 square feet
Private elevator
Four glass-walled balconies
Four main rooms; library, living room, master bedroom and spa
Working fireplace
Bosendorfer piano
Telescope (how naughty!)
Indoor Zen garden with a waterfall
Marble bath featuring chromatherapy, heated floors and LCD television

All with a 360-degree view of Manhattan, a round-the-clock personal assistant, a personal trainer, and use of a chauffeured Rolls Royce.

If I could get 300 of you to chip in $100 each, maybe we could rent the place for a day and take turns using it. It could be the best 4 minutes and 48 seconds of your life.

I call dibs on the Rolls. (...and I'll get the bath! Count me in! -- ed)

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