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LONDON. — Struggling to find a four-bed suite in London’s most upscale and centrally located neighbourhood, but with panoramic 180-degree vistas over half the district?
The five-star Mandarin Oriental Mayfair hotel, which opened one year ago in storied Hanover Square, has just the ticket.
Its newly launched penthouse, on the 11th floor of Mayfair’s first new-build hotel in a decade, luxuriates over 5,000 square feet of lofty prime real estate.
If the handpainted wallpaper, marble bathtub, array of post-Impressionist art and serenely chic design by Studio Indigo don’t entice, perhaps the two levels of view-blessed wraparound terrace might.
The cost?
Ah well, there’s the rub.
The starting rate is £40,000 a night (or US$54,210), which could get you nearly 15 months at the budget Travelodge hotel in nearby Marylebone, for example.
The new offering is at the very top tier of London’s accommodation options for super-rich jetsetters with expansive wallets, with the seven-bed Royal Suite at the Lanesborough and the six-room Manor House Wing at the Rosewood being among the ritziest of the glitziest.
The crown, however, has to go to the £60,000-a-night Penthouse at Claridge’s (US$81,490), which opened on the rooftop of the 169-year-old Mayfair hotel in November 2023.
The 11,840-square-foot suite has four bedrooms, a private garden and swimming pool, 360-degree views over the London skyline, a Steinway piano and the world’s largest private collection of works by artist Damien Hirst. — CNN.
