Master Suite: inside London's most expensive hotel suite

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  • Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
  • What does £24,000 a night get you, and is it worth it?
    In the first of a new series on the word's most luxurious hotel suites, the FT's travel editor Tom Robbins visits the Langham Hotel's Sterling Suite in London.
    He uncovers a world of grand pianos, marble bathrooms and bespoke minibars.
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Комментарии • 264

  • @KateHen
    @KateHen 4 года назад +48

    No place is worth that much a night. Greedy.

    • @kevinhoughton9134
      @kevinhoughton9134 4 года назад +4

      Totally agree.

    • @leesimmons9091
      @leesimmons9091 4 года назад

      Fly EASYJET 4 MUCH LESS

    • @arkadiuszlee407
      @arkadiuszlee407 3 года назад +7

      1st of all... it has 6 bedrooms so 24 k / 12 ppl = 2k per night per person... For private apartament in center of London with team of butlers 24/7 and dining form Michele Rou a 3 star Micheline chef known world wide.
      It isnt so greedy as you think..
      Second thing is that ppl who pay for it can spend 1000x more and still dont even notice the money... its like you go to shop and you dont look on price tag for a pack of gums thats the same for the high money ppl its just 0.05% of there wealth.
      And for the last, ppl who rent apartments like that go to London to make buisness.. they will make more money than they spend on it.

  • @mikemushipe6023
    @mikemushipe6023 5 лет назад +36

    Waste of money.

  • @HDY0903
    @HDY0903 4 года назад +35

    10k to sleep 7 hours. Scam.

  • @chapeauvelu
    @chapeauvelu 4 года назад +30

    When you sleep there, I hope very sweet dreams are included

    • @Predikant
      @Predikant 2 года назад +1

      Whisper quiet and tranquil, the only sound that pierces the silence is that of your wallet shrinking.

  • @ediapaff8858
    @ediapaff8858 3 года назад +14

    with six bedrooms, that's only like 4k per room per night, which is still a relatively normal price for a 5star exec suite. so grab your five richest friends and book this room :D

  • @dannymcafee4552
    @dannymcafee4552 4 года назад +24

    Can you get this on Groupon? I'm coming down to London for a drug deal very soon.

  • @mattkim421
    @mattkim421 2 года назад +25

    24,000 pounds per night. That amount will give me about 72,000 pounds in 30days if i invest it with my broker.

    • @kang-dae7619
      @kang-dae7619 2 года назад +2

      What do you trade on?

    • @mattkim421
      @mattkim421 2 года назад +4

      Stock and fx market.

    • @kurtsebastian8174
      @kurtsebastian8174 2 года назад +2

      @@mattkim421 who's your broker ?

    • @mattkim421
      @mattkim421 2 года назад +6

      @@kurtsebastian8174 expert Jeffrey Matthew.

    • @coga4822
      @coga4822 2 года назад +4

      Expert Jeffrey Matthew of the financial market?

  • @Roollaayy
    @Roollaayy 4 года назад +42

    price per night is a day light robbery!!!!!! years salary for a uk worker

    • @noonenooo2843
      @noonenooo2843 4 года назад

      Big Roollaayy well those who’s yearly salary is worth hotels might they don’t stay there

    • @rolandochavez1839
      @rolandochavez1839 3 года назад

      12.5 years of salary of a mexican worker

  • @NitayNostrasifu
    @NitayNostrasifu 4 года назад +31

    there is literally no reason ever to pay 24k per night on a room.

    • @uioplkhj
      @uioplkhj 4 года назад

      @@jahshebahhottat1080 Where?

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 года назад +4

      The only reason is to show off that you can spend that much.

    • @ccyoutube8793
      @ccyoutube8793 4 года назад +3

      Very filthy wealthy people usually don't need a reason 😂

    • @dv9239
      @dv9239 2 года назад +2

      If you're a billionaire that's nothing

    • @jasonvo7851
      @jasonvo7851 2 года назад +4

      I'm sure you can negotiate a discount if you stay for 3 months. :)

  • @elizabethtimothy4776
    @elizabethtimothy4776 4 года назад +32

    Over 2m pounds for 3 months stay! As expensive as London is, you can get a good 6bedroom for double that amount and you can enjoy it forever. You can employ permanent housekeeper to maintain it for less than 100k per year.
    What a waste of money!

    • @CommandoMaster
      @CommandoMaster 4 года назад +5

      Royalty or Billionaires that have so much money, $24,000 is like $24 to them.

    • @atharsuhail7735
      @atharsuhail7735 4 года назад

      Must be family swimming in oil.

    • @fragosa
      @fragosa 3 года назад

      @@CommandoMaster I believe he was refering to arab royalty.

    • @hollypusheen7651
      @hollypusheen7651 2 года назад

      People pay for the service, location, and reputation- not just the room

    • @IceKoldKilla
      @IceKoldKilla 6 месяцев назад

      For a multi millionaire or billionaire they don't care. Why go through the hassle of getting a property when you are always traveling and can afford it.
      For us? A complete waste, I agree. Overpriced.

  • @adam_p99
    @adam_p99 4 года назад +32

    Why did the butler keep sitting down?! I’d tell him to get tf up.

  • @izakmizrahi8569
    @izakmizrahi8569 4 года назад +9

    RUclips is a rare place where people who make ~100k/yr debate whether a 24k/night hotel suits their needs.

  • @davidkeogh1570
    @davidkeogh1570 4 года назад +68

    A free mini bar I did not know if I should laugh or cry when I heard that.

  • @alexistarr
    @alexistarr 3 года назад +5

    If I sold my one bedroom London flat, the leasehold of which entitles me to live there until 2179, paying a modest annual service charge, I could afford to stay in this suite for a week..... From my point of view I think I'm currently getting a better deal.

  • @avayu2289
    @avayu2289 4 года назад +10

    Um it’s 2020 and I am surprised that Langham London is still marketing 1999 luxury. Water resistant remote control? 😂😂
    Everything should be on voice command. They had butlers back in the day cuz they had no technology!
    Sorry, but a hard pass!

    • @dionlindsay2
      @dionlindsay2 4 года назад +2

      Nope. Just because there's something more recent it doesn't mean there's something better. I'd feel a complete dickhead talking to the machinery.

    • @gingerteddy618
      @gingerteddy618 2 года назад

      I choose butler

  • @rd3ster
    @rd3ster 4 года назад +3

    Conspicuous consumption in London. No doubt a consequence of oil-rich Arabs.

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 года назад +2

      And Far East money

  • @charlesprice925
    @charlesprice925 4 года назад +5

    Obscene amounts of money, gained through obscene means, is spent in obscene ways, because the lives of those who spend it are obscenely shallow.

  • @alexspearing3191
    @alexspearing3191 4 года назад +5

    Probably get lots of rich Russians. The Langham is amazing and they have a bar with the largest selection of vodkas in London.

  • @Ventura2050
    @Ventura2050 4 года назад +16

    Ask yourself: Is there anyone who deserves this kind of luxury as long as there are children starving on this planet?

    • @annecarrick7227
      @annecarrick7227 4 года назад +5

      Well said.

    • @iggybarrato9009
      @iggybarrato9009 4 года назад +2

      For such people life is cheap with misplaced values and they are breed that way in that environment.

    • @janedoe3648
      @janedoe3648 Год назад

      Exactly

    • @annonymously331
      @annonymously331 Год назад +1

      Ask yourself: Who are you to determine whether someone deserves something or not?

  • @peacefulwife5199
    @peacefulwife5199 6 лет назад +36

    For my taste, it's a tad pretentious.

    • @th3azscorpio
      @th3azscorpio 4 года назад

      Then you must not have much taste at all.

  • @gwinyaidhliwayo4878
    @gwinyaidhliwayo4878 4 года назад +4

    3 Frigging Months1?£$$ Why Not Just Buy An Apartment1?£$$

  • @myspace5671
    @myspace5671 5 лет назад +27

    is not that luxurious tf??

    • @fr13
      @fr13 4 года назад +2

      An IlU-Yahweh it is for London.. the more expensive the area the less the luxury factor

  • @danielligayi
    @danielligayi 5 лет назад +75

    24000 can change my life literally

  • @josephhapp9
    @josephhapp9 4 года назад +7

    And then you have the Tax Minimisation Team of Accountants.
    Of course.

  • @karldelavigne8134
    @karldelavigne8134 4 года назад +5

    All in very poor taste. There are better options for the mega-rich and royalty and nothing like as expensive.

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 года назад +3

      European royalty wouldn't touch this place with a barge pole. For them it is the Ritz, the Goring, the Berkeley or Claridge's.

  • @Sylvia44now
    @Sylvia44now 4 года назад +4

    The most spectacular thing about the suite is the price. The rest is quite tacky and average at best. Welcome to London!

  • @lafemmerowena
    @lafemmerowena 4 года назад +5

    Other than the gold details not worth 24,000 for me.. Per month, maybe. Not per night.

  • @pintthereof4598
    @pintthereof4598 4 года назад +9

    “Is breakfast included?”
    “Yes”

  • @malcolmledger176
    @malcolmledger176 4 года назад +2

    Only crooks can afford to stay there.

  • @gregoryambres1897
    @gregoryambres1897 4 года назад +8

    That music is perfect.

    • @fragosa
      @fragosa 3 года назад +1

      And it's for free... as the mini bar.

    • @gingerteddy618
      @gingerteddy618 2 года назад

      @@fragosa 🤭

  • @valvlog4665
    @valvlog4665 4 года назад +3

    6 double bedrooms, split 12 ways = 2000 per night. If you're entertaining guests for business op's this is an impressive deal.
    Plus in house pianist. And a full English Breaky included in a nice setting. 20 pounds per head at the Wolsey. (240) And a few bottles of wine from the complementary mini-bar. Looking like 1500 per head. Langham top class room around 800 per night -- and pay 5 pounds a Diet Coke from the mini-bar. (Tip -- there's Waitrose on Cavendish Sq, 80 yds.)

  • @CommandoMaster
    @CommandoMaster 4 года назад +7

    Now I feel like a rockstar booking a room in the Marriott or Hilton.

  • @ohwhatworld5851
    @ohwhatworld5851 6 лет назад +7

    The people who stayed there for 3 months paid £2,250,000, that is $2,960,934.
    That will literally be like pocket change for these people...

    • @ncfo20
      @ncfo20 5 лет назад +6

      I highly doubt they would charge £24,000 a night for someone staying as long as 3 months - I think they would happily offer a special rate for that. But yeah, that's still crazy.

  • @austind3459
    @austind3459 5 лет назад +6

    The bed could be a little tighter.. and lets not call it an arms race.. lol.. its hotel decorating not WW3..

  • @patricedecourcy4505
    @patricedecourcy4505 4 года назад +10

    I have all of it at home...

  • @Ulysses88047
    @Ulysses88047 Год назад +1

    This is for people who don't earn their money, but receive the money on their bank account while they are sleeping.

  • @biomanization
    @biomanization 4 года назад +3

    Ya gotta be a sheik and own an oil well

  • @thefonzkiss
    @thefonzkiss 4 года назад +2

    They don’t EXPECT it to be occupied. It’s a marketing thing. They can say that they have the most expensive room in London and people want to stay in the building in a cheaper one. That’s marketing.

    • @markfrazier7442
      @markfrazier7442 4 года назад

      True, I worked for a luxury hotel. We would show the luxury Suite on the top floor often. Of course, it was large, on the top floor with great views, with a grand piano, large sitting room, dining room, multiple bedrooms. We would let them know which presidents and rockstars had stayed there.
      Everybody loved it. Then they would book a different Suite. LOL!

  • @Tomahawk1999
    @Tomahawk1999 4 года назад +2

    24000 pounds might sound outrageous for one night but not for the dignitaries who book the suite because they do so on others (taxpayer money whether legit or illegitimate) in the name of some supposed public interest.

  • @iggybarrato9009
    @iggybarrato9009 4 года назад +1

    Very cramped an dark , for that sort of money. It is an apartment of six rooms which means used by lots of people so it will be cheap that way.

  • @ChelseaRanger1983
    @ChelseaRanger1983 4 года назад +2

    Why wouldn't they show the mini bar?

  • @journalologyandcoofficial
    @journalologyandcoofficial Год назад +1

    That's basically a luxury apartment

  • @alexistarr
    @alexistarr 3 года назад +1

    3:35 - The contents of your bespoke drinks cabinet are not 'for free', you're paying through the nose for everything in the suite....

  • @Waltznumber2
    @Waltznumber2 6 лет назад +12

    Meh

  • @НатальяНаталья-ъ6э
    @НатальяНаталья-ъ6э 2 года назад +1

    We have almost the same appartment in Sankt-Peterburg, even we thinking now, that our designer took idea from this hotel🤭

  • @SellyLestariSirait
    @SellyLestariSirait Месяц назад

    Ini juga bagus NAK...
    Yg mana aja boleh lah SAYANG...
    Iya BAPA 🤗🤗🤗
    Iya NAK 😘😘😘🤗🤗🤗

  • @ginafriend1690
    @ginafriend1690 4 года назад +1

    Certainly for the Elite

  • @mattdeans9873
    @mattdeans9873 4 года назад +4

    I'd rather stay at Claridge's in London. There are at least a few videos on YT that are about the hotel.

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 года назад +1

      I would have agreed with you until Claridge's was modernised. I first remember it from the 1960s, when it was nicknamed the annex of Buckingham Palace. It used to have a lovely small restaurant called the Causerie where the bar is now, and the main restaurant was magnificent. There was no such thing as a bar. You ordered a drink from a liveried footman and he brought it to you. It was old fashioned luxury. Now, unfortunately, it is aiming at a new market. I still go there occasionally, but the last hotel in the old grand style now is the Ritz.

    • @mattdeans9873
      @mattdeans9873 4 года назад +2

      Thanks for the update. The vidoe I saw on RUclips showed what would have been the 'old' standard and that's what I fell in love with. Love seeing real estate sites of gracious townhouses in London but them hate when they show the super modernized interiors. I just love the old grand style you referenced.

  • @sanghoonlee5171
    @sanghoonlee5171 4 года назад +1

    24,000 pounds a night.
    1 day is 86,400 seconds long, so they are charging 3 pounds 60 pence EACH SECOND.

  • @JonSmith-cx7gr
    @JonSmith-cx7gr 4 года назад +2

    I stayed in easyhotel Luton a few weeks back. It was a similar experience. Not exactly the same but similar.

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 года назад

      It's still somewhere to sleep.

    • @JonSmith-cx7gr
      @JonSmith-cx7gr 4 года назад

      @@mscott3918 Absolutely!
      And so is easyhotel Luton.

  • @kingsaf90
    @kingsaf90 5 лет назад +9

    if im honest this all looks very dated.

    • @eyeofthetiger6002
      @eyeofthetiger6002 4 года назад +3

      It's called old world elegance, but with all modern mod cons.

  • @OlymPigs2010
    @OlymPigs2010 4 года назад +5

    ...So Early 1960's Style Decor is Popular Now ?

    • @th3azscorpio
      @th3azscorpio 4 года назад +3

      As in mid century modern? Yes.

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 года назад +1

      It's a style my father would have called Early Brothel or Tart's Boudoir.

    • @OlymPigs2010
      @OlymPigs2010 4 года назад

      @@mscott3918 ...Father had a Point !

  • @festimelutisoska3155
    @festimelutisoska3155 3 года назад +1

    Nice

  • @SellyLestariSirait
    @SellyLestariSirait Месяц назад

    Gak NAK...mahal banget...😅😅😅
    Ywd cari lagi BAPA...
    Iya NAK

  • @MALLOSMARs
    @MALLOSMARs 6 лет назад +25

    That is wow, the art cabinets and details on every piece of furniture is just astounding!! That designer gets huge praise as well as the hotel for maintaining that picture

    • @ilyasiii
      @ilyasiii 4 года назад +2

      Have you heard something called Dubai even two star hotel have similar features with less than £50 a night

    • @zpaztrik1418
      @zpaztrik1418 4 года назад +1

      @@ilyasiii thanks to the poor labourers that constructed pretty much everything in Dubai, only to have their passports taken off them so that they do not return home.

    • @jessicasarahliddell8883
      @jessicasarahliddell8883 3 года назад

      Yes I love the artwork too

    • @erique_k
      @erique_k 2 года назад

      The furniture looks so very cheap.

  • @NitayNostrasifu
    @NitayNostrasifu 4 года назад +1

    3 months is 2.25million. Youd have to be mad. though i doubt they pay full price for that long.

  • @arielestevan5336
    @arielestevan5336 Год назад

    Nothing really special to pay 25.000 thowsand ..who really smart will pay that for such room ..never the elegance of the crillon ...

  • @zadramm1
    @zadramm1 4 года назад

    I wish they hotel reveal who stayed there ! I am 100% sure its Saudi princes, Dubai, Emirate, Qatari, Bahraini, Omani and may be may be... I am not sure. one or max two Russian oligarch. that is it.

  • @mattkim421
    @mattkim421 2 года назад

    24,000 pounds per night. That amount will give me about 72,000 pounds in 30days if i invest it with my broker.

  • @kerrya2128
    @kerrya2128 5 лет назад +4

    I loved THE LANGHAM one of the most luxury hotel in London♥️💕👌

  • @angelaquiros7603
    @angelaquiros7603 3 месяца назад

    Why is the host, showing a luxury suite sporting such a disheveled beard? It is very distracting and doesn’t go with the posh vibe of the rest of the video

  • @janedoe3648
    @janedoe3648 Год назад

    This doesn't wow me given the price..it's pretty cramped. The only extra features are a piano and a fireplace? Why don't the rich spend their money in a moral way, on those in need and making the world a genuinely better place, not this nonsense. Also the host is creepy

  • @Angel-jp3vx
    @Angel-jp3vx 5 лет назад

    This is house. Price is pure Human over exaggeration n bullshit.No place A Night is worth That much.

  • @Thomas-fu8vp
    @Thomas-fu8vp 4 года назад

    Well, the butler lives in. Lucky him. But it's certainly very very boring the whole suite.

  • @olivia6063
    @olivia6063 4 года назад +1

    £24.000 /night 😅
    Ridiculous.

  • @anna-taniatransylove5762
    @anna-taniatransylove5762 4 года назад

    if I would pay so much money, I would not want a butler with such nasty fingernails...inn any other case, I would not mention his nails at all

  • @mrattosjal9089
    @mrattosjal9089 6 лет назад +26

    24000 a night? Nah! I would live in a cheaper hotel and send the rest to charity rather than waste money like that!

    • @johnnychristoph6715
      @johnnychristoph6715 6 лет назад +9

      Oh yawn...you pious puritanical dullards...If I could afford it I would happily blow 24k a night without a second thought...Give it all to charity? Oh please!! Quit the virtue signalling and get a life....

    • @ryanireland2201
      @ryanireland2201 5 лет назад +2

      @@johnnychristoph6715 well said!

  • @jeffreyadams648
    @jeffreyadams648 4 года назад +2

    What’s the occupancy?

  • @voyager1369
    @voyager1369 4 года назад +2

    I stayed at the Langham Hotel in Boston and it was nowhere near that nice!

  • @glob3trotter308
    @glob3trotter308 4 года назад +1

    British kitsch furniture

  • @humbleonemoretime7025
    @humbleonemoretime7025 2 года назад

    It's basically half a million dollars a month rental its affordable

  • @SarahJones-wy5us
    @SarahJones-wy5us 4 года назад +1

    Is it "worth It?" only if you have money to burn.....

  • @tineseinen5998
    @tineseinen5998 5 лет назад +1

    This is not a suite, this is a complete floor.

  • @FlashyFade
    @FlashyFade 4 года назад

    $24K Per Night Yo That’s Crazy Jarvis

  • @manctube2024
    @manctube2024 5 лет назад +1

    a little over the top.......
    not the price but the suite....
    prefer to stay at the Savoy..

  • @jamesupton4996
    @jamesupton4996 3 года назад

    For Russian Oligarchs no doubt.

  • @OscarEDodier
    @OscarEDodier 2 года назад

    It is much too new looking. It is obvious.

  • @makthegamer9644
    @makthegamer9644 6 лет назад +1

    Nah I would not stay in that cheaper suite i will stay in more than 50k suite

  • @rosemarymonty5399
    @rosemarymonty5399 4 года назад +1

    A beautiful set of rooms. Just a bit out of my price range for a hotel suite. If you are “Royalty” this would probably be within their budget!

    • @mscott3918
      @mscott3918 4 года назад +1

      Royalty wouldn't be silly enough to pay the price for this suite. At least European royalty wouldn't. It is aimed more at the Middle and Far East and North America.

  • @avcomth
    @avcomth 2 года назад

    They wouldn't be charging you 24,000 pounds for the extended stay, the rate goes down quite a bit for double digit number of days you stay.

  • @ronniehuarings7378
    @ronniehuarings7378 Год назад

    The suri suite at the dorchester is better.

  • @NitayNostrasifu
    @NitayNostrasifu 4 года назад

    imagine if it wasn't a complimentary minibar, you stay 3 months, about to check out for 2.25Million, then your card declines because your girl HAD TO TAKE THE KIT KAT.

  • @ahsanmohammed1
    @ahsanmohammed1 2 года назад

    Tight restrictive showing

  • @osmanm6672
    @osmanm6672 2 года назад

    I worked Langham hotel

  • @ketolife591
    @ketolife591 2 года назад

    very nice but too fancy for my taste

  • @EndikaPorter
    @EndikaPorter 4 года назад +1

    Imagine what £20m could do

  • @valeriejones1378
    @valeriejones1378 3 года назад

    i would rather go to pontins lol

  • @kevinflynn5916
    @kevinflynn5916 4 года назад

    little on the cheap side for me

  • @Soda3000Pop
    @Soda3000Pop 2 года назад +1

    It's excellent!

  • @UbaidullahRayaVideo
    @UbaidullahRayaVideo 6 лет назад +4

    what a fancy in london.. stunning

  • @nikkil764
    @nikkil764 4 года назад +4

    Gorgeous. I love the chinoiserie panels. Refined elegance.

  • @armandoortiz3175
    @armandoortiz3175 6 лет назад +1

    Why does my RUclips keep freezing?is it just me like it freezes time to time

  • @carolhodson6353
    @carolhodson6353 2 года назад

    I can only dream.

  • @MrVee24
    @MrVee24 3 года назад

    Enter... covid.

  • @albertchiu655
    @albertchiu655 3 года назад

    for tycoons??

  • @modtomodern
    @modtomodern 4 года назад

    Kinda tacky.

  • @marthas8108
    @marthas8108 4 года назад

    Eat the rich.

  • @alexistarr
    @alexistarr 3 года назад

    2:10 - I once met Haile Selassie's brother, Fairly Selassie..... nice chap! 😉

  • @eleanorryanryan2442
    @eleanorryanryan2442 4 года назад +5

    It is very teastifully decorated, quite beautiful really, can't imagine having that much money that you could afford to stay there... 😊🍀🇮🇪

  • @glenn20081965
    @glenn20081965 4 года назад +5

    Similar to the Leeds central Travelodge.