Who pays for £1000+ a night hotels?

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Just wondering at what point people start paying that sort of money for hotel rooms? I work in finance so am well paid, as are lots of my colleagues. But I don't really know anyone who would spend £1000 plus a night on a hotel room.

I was discussing this at the start of a meeting chitchat, and most people said they'd aim for around £200 a night. These are people all earning 6 figures. Even my boss who earns 7 figures+ a year said he'd never spend that much.

Saudis and footballers.

Can't say it appeals, hanging out with such.

I won a competition for a 2 night stay in a London hotel, junior suite, £1400 a night.
I looked at reviews beforehand, and there was one from a guest from the States who had stayed in the same room for 6 weeks! Said they would stay again on their next trip too.

I think there is a difference between holiday and a random night in the UK. Eg if you’re looking for the likes of Ikos for a family of 4 in school holidays you’re looking at that sort of price level. I could justify an all inclusive at that price point but i couldn’t justify it for a couple for a night in the UK. The four seasons for example seems crazy to me.

I've only ever stayed in expensive(ish) hotels for one or two nights because it's all I can afford and appreciating the luxury environment is kind of the whole point of the stay. The novelty would wear off after that I think!

My partner once treated me to a stay in a very fancy hotel for my birthday but could only afford the most basic room - when we got their they upgraded us to a massive massive suite (with a grand piano and walk in wardrobe that was bigger than some hotels rooms I've stayed in!). We were running round like kids bouncing on beds, we were so thrilled. But one night for the experience was enough.

Yes I agree. Looking back we’ve probably paid the best part of £1000/night for some resort holidays but a) family suite b) peak school holiday prices and c) it included a bunch of food and drink and loads of facilities/entertainment - so basically that price covers almost the whole holiday. Very different from paying £1000 for a night in a city when you’re going to be out doing other stuff all day and barely in the hotel.

The only place I have ever paid this for a hotel is in the Maldives. It was for a very special holiday and worth every penny

Someone must be as many are this kind of money. My friends paid close to £1000 a night in the Maldives recently and they are ordinary people (flights were free though as he had tons of air miles from working offshore). Most I’ve paid is £300

Maybe I'm neive but I'd assume the majority of £1000 / night "rooms" are actually suites - so you have multiple rooms and the cost per person isn't quite so extortionate?! Or they have something else very specialised about them

I also think a lot of hotels don't want to sell rooms direct. So they have high prices but it's very easy to get the room much cheaper through a 3rd party. I've stayed in rooms for around £80-£100s that according to the room rate displayed should have been 3 or 4 times that. Still not quite the £1000 being discussed but I think the principle still applies – I wonder if these £1000 rooms are available elsewhere for £300 - £400?

In my experience most of the customers in these places are just ordinary, unassuming people happy to spend their money in a particular way. I’ve rarely spent £1,000 a night though - Le Manoir, the Peninsular in Hong Kong, the Taj in Agra and George V being the exceptions I think. Maybe also the Mandarin Oriental in Tokyo. I don’t regret any of them, but then I also used to have a loose guide that the cost / night shouldn’t be more than I earned in a day.

Post retirement and, more significantly, my husband’s death I don’t get the same pleasure out of really expensive hotels - it’s far nicer to share time with someone in them than by myself. You can’t marvel at the service / quality / view / experience or whatever by yourself in the same way. I might however have a blowout on what would have been our 30th anniversary next year!!

We paid that sort of price for an all inclusive , over water bungalow in the Maldives.
However it included speedboat transfers to the island , massages , excursions and all meals were Al a carte rather than buffet . The quality of the food and wine list was excellent

We are both picking up overtime to go into our Maldives pot in order to return for our silver wedding anniversary next year .

At that sort of price I’m paying for the privacy , quiet and excellent service as well as the amenities . Resort was one of the few adult only ones too which is lovely now that our dc are grown up

We pay this and enjoy every minute. We are currently away at a resort in a two bedroom bungalow with own pool and private beach area ,
it’s luxury and we have a private butler who deals with all dining reservations etc and we have most food included for our family of 4 and private transfers to and from the airport.
We earn very well and enjoy our holidays in luxury .

We don’t stay in hotels very often, just weekend breaks, but we’ve paid approx £250 per night for very average rooms in what were pretty much just country pubs. £1,000 sounds extortionate but as a comparison with £250 for somewhere average (and the rooms were fairly small) then it doesn’t seem so bad for somewhere really luxurious.

We do sometimes, if it’s a special trip or a special room (eg a suite where we all stay together) We also stay in £80/ night ones sometimes.

We’ve recently come back from a trip where the room was around £900 a night (breakfast included). Fellow guests were mostly a mix of business people and international tourists.

Just noticed this thread was started in January 2024 so the first posters are probably giving their experiences from 2023 (or earlier). Wonder what average price rises have been since then, not long ago, but I reckon prices of average stays have gone up a lot in the last couple of years.

While I personally don't have cash tp spend £1000 per joint, I don't believe your high earner bosses paying around £200. My dd and I stay in the top end of mid level hotels in London every summer and our daily rate is never less than about £160, rising to about £250. I think relatively wealthy people would absolutely expect to pay £250-400 per night and super wealthy people could easily get to £1000.

Exactly. Some friends of mine are very wealthy and they spend a huge amount on travel and hotels. For example, they have their “favourite suite” at Raffles Singapore as well as their “usual suite” at the St Regis New York. They also tend to drink their body weight in champagne (the good stuff, none of the house rubbish) while staying there. It’s a life most of us can only dream about but they have the money and they enjoy spending it so why on earth not?

I’ve been asking them for years to adopt me but at age 55 I’m starting to give up hope. 😜

I was in Sani last year and going to Ikos this year, which are about £1,000 per night. But they’re all-inclusive, so minimal extra spends. I wouldn’t pay £1,000 for room only.

We did for a one off safari after a difficult year. It was obscene at £4k a night but after getting food poisoning at least we got one night back! We will never spend that again, it was a one off but I will never forget it (and the food poisoning!)

Also the good hotels in London and Paris are now £2k a night

Well one does here, although of course one does not pay for it oneself - you lot do!
Gaffaw, gaffaw

And one thanks you all, for that.

Yep old thread but here are my thoughts

i had huge event in London then tube strike. Premier inns, holiday inns then started charging £700 a night. I got the Waldorf for £200 less, they took the pies

This.

And OP, your 7-figure boss almost certainly has stayed in £1k a night hotels, he just wasn’t the one arranging the booking.