Is this the world's most luxurious hotel" Inside the Baroque-inspired palace that cost £1 BILLION and comes with retractable marble floors, Rolls-Royce Phantoms for guests and a butler for every room.
At the startling cost of $7 million per room, Macau?s The 13, with its 200 baroquely crafted suites, fancies itself as the hotel for the one percent of the one percent. This ridiculous exercise in excess, which reportedly cost in excess of $1.4 billion (divide this by 200 and you get the per room cost above), was spearheaded by the infamously flamboyant Stephen Hung, the hotel czar with a taste for the highly decadent who earned his fortune from investment banking and real estate.
To provide some context here as far the price goes (because this story is frankly unbelievable), the 13 Hotel is not the most expensive hotel in Macau even. The hotly anticipated Wynn Palace Cotai cost a reported $4.1 billion but, at 1,700 rooms, the per room cost there is a mere $2.4 million. The secret sauce here is clearly exclusivity. Just a look into the premises already calls to mind visions of Brian De Palma?s Scarface, just with more gilt and less gunfights.
The Internet seems to be divided about what this Louis XIII Holdings Ltd (yes that is the name of Hung?s company and the reason for the hotel?s name) property means for humanity. Stunned disbelief is probably an adequate summary. In our opinion, Hung seems to be on a determined goal to minimize the energy expenditure of the guests ...