Plus, unlike the 7-star, $1,600-a-night Burj al Arab in Dubai, seven-figure incomes are not required, as rooms start at $470 a night. But if guests do feel like splurging, there are $500-an-hour Maybachs at their disposal. Forget getting behind the wheel — this man-toy comes with a driver.
“In every hotel you go, you have to pay for the glitz. Whatever you pay at the Palace may be a little more than most hotels, but you will get a lot more too,” said hotel general manager Holger Schroth. “The hotel is so big, you have a lot of places to be anonymous and alone. We could have just filled the place with gold, but we’d rather spend it on the retail end and the service end to really give visitors the experience of living in a palace.”