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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Travel
Melanie McDonagh

The London hotel suite that costs £30,000 a night

The Royal Suite at The Dorchester has just opened and it’s billed as the perfect London nest for celebs, crowned heads and eastern potentates. The cost of an overnight stay — with breakfast — starts at £30,000. Meanwhile, it’s got little me.

It is, of course, enormous, occupying a whole corner of the eighth floor. But the important thing is that it’s got a butler to attend to the inmates. Ours, named Sean, is charming, but then so are all the people who bring breakfast, dinner, lunch and tea, for I intend not to budge from here until I absolutely have to.

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