On-call Michelin-starred cooks, pop-up ice-skating rinks and elephants wandering previous your infinity pool.
New collection The World’s Most Luxurious Holidays on More4 goes by means of the keyhole of eye-wateringly costly rooms – a few of which have by no means been seen by the general public earlier than – at a few of the most unique accommodations on the planet.
And it takes us behind the scenes to disclose how workers maintain the richest and most discerning friends on the planet blissful.
New collection The World’s Most Luxurious Holidays on More4 goes to New York and thru the keyhole of The Mark lodge’s $75,000- (£56,000) a-night penthouse suite (pictured above)
The present kicks off in New York at celebrity-favourite The Mark, a 106-room lodge that boasts a $75,000- (£56,000) a-night penthouse suite.
The cameras glide by means of the ten,000-square-ft (929 sq m) condominium, which options 5 bedrooms, six loos, and a 2,500-square-ft (232 sq m) personal rooftop terrace.
The penthouse has hosted friends who’ve stayed for ‘as much as a yr and a half’, we be taught – which might price just below £30million. One penthouse visitor was such a canine lover that they turned the second main bed room right into a ‘canine bed room’.
In the lounge, Normal Supervisor Manuel Martinez reveals off the 26ft- (7.9m) excessive ceiling and the grand piano. And right here the cameras zoom in on the large Fendi rug that’s value just below £150,000.
The digital camera crew then leads us as much as the roof terrace, the place Martinez reveals that they as soon as arrange an ice-skating rink for a household of VIP friends.
Forward of the following new arrival within the penthouse – who can’t be named – a devoted workforce prepares the area till it’s ‘pristine’. It takes seven hours and 6 room attendants to service the suite to ‘perfection’.
One lodge employee is seen shining a light-weight inside a vase to examine for mud. He later plucks particular person specks of mud from the curtains and tidies them away in his go well with pocket.
If a penthouse visitor calls the reception, the telephone must be picked up in not more than three rings, we be taught.
A devoted workforce at The Mark prepares the penthouse till it’s ‘pristine’. Pictured above is a workforce member shining a light-weight inside a vase to examine for mud
Earlier than the cameras, an attendant calls reception from the suite to check this out – and the telephone is answered sharpish.
The Mark can present two butlers, a sommelier and a chauffeur to friends of the penthouse. For £5,143 ($7,000), they’ll additionally take pleasure in unique use of the lodge’s classic sailboat, which is over 100 years outdated and is the one considered one of its form within the New York harbour.
The cameras present the boat in movement, drifting by the Manhattan skyline. Prior to now, friends have anchored by the Statue of Liberty, dined on lobster lunches and loved Dom Perignon tastings whereas on board. The sailboat’s captain says that the ‘high prosciutto slicer’ within the metropolis as soon as started working on carving a leg of ham on the deck.
For £5,143 ($7,000), penthouse friends can take pleasure in unique use of The Mark’s classic sailboat. Within the collection, the cameras present the boat drifting by the Manhattan skyline (pictured above)
This isn’t the one gourmand expertise for friends – Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten oversees ‘The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges’ within the lodge, which is on-hand ‘twenty-four-seven’ to cater to the friends of the penthouse.
Vongerichten is seen within the kitchen brandishing a wedge of black truffle, which was specifically imported from Australia.
One other scene takes viewers inside a gathering room, the place the lodge’s ‘devoted workforce of visitor liaison specialists’ convene to debate the upcoming friends. They order no matter groceries the friends would really like. One visitor requests a ‘hypoallergenic set-up’, so the workforce arranges to ‘de-feather’ their room. One other workforce member reveals they’ve bought a pair of designer Christian Louboutin footwear for one visitor to present his spouse as a present.
Michelin-starred chef Jean-Georges Vongerichten oversees ‘The Mark Restaurant by Jean-Georges’, which is on-hand ‘twenty-four-seven’ to cater to the friends of the penthouse. Jean-Georges is seen above within the lodge kitchen brandishing a wedge of black truffle, specifically imported from Australia
Subsequent, the cameras take us to Vila Azzurine, an unlimited £180,000-a-week mansion inside five-star resort Vila Vita Parc in Portugal’s Algarve area that, the narrator tells us, ‘is so unique the general public has by no means seen inside – apart from now’.
Mansion, by the way in which, isn’t any exaggeration.
Company right here have six bedrooms at their disposal and 19,500 sq ft (1,812 sq m) of area to take pleasure in.
Katya Bauval, the Director of Gross sales and Advertising and marketing, reveals that the lodge has to ‘vet each single consumer who’s considering renting the villa’ earlier than they comply with hire out the area.
Pictured above is the five-star Vila Vita Parc resort in Portugal’s Algarve area, which is residence to the unique Vila Azzurine
Company at Vila Azzurine, pictured, have six bedrooms at their disposal and 19,500 sq ft (1,812 sq m) of area to take pleasure in
Vila Azzurine friends can land their helicopters in a delegated touchdown area earlier than being whisked to the villa by buggy, we’re instructed.
As soon as there, they’ll uncover Italian tiles costing £1,667 (€2,000) per sq. metre, a Louis Vuitton hammock that faces out to sea and a rooftop terrace with a bar that may accommodate events of fifty to 60 folks, plus an outside 82ft (25m) swimming pool.
Taking no probabilities, the lodge hires a falconer, Nelson Santos, who deploys his birds of prey to scare away seagulls tempted to flock across the pool.
The eating choices, we be taught, are one thing particular.
Vila Azzurine friends can land their helicopters in a delegated touchdown area earlier than being whisked to the villa by buggy
Whereas atypical members of the general public are confronted with a three-month ready record to eat on the lodge’s two-Michelin-star restaurant Ocean, Vila Azzurine friends have the pinnacle chef, Hans Neuner, ‘at their beck and name’, we’re instructed.
He reveals that some friends simply need a ‘primary sandwich’ made with one of the best substances, whereas others would possibly request a kilo of caviar wrapped in gold leaf.
One resort employee explains that they as soon as had a visitor who lived in a collection on the resort for nearly two years. When he stated that he was craving a specific cheesecake from New York, the lodge workers flew all the way in which to the Huge Apple to select it up. He says that it’s ‘the costliest slice of cake’ they ever bought on the property.
Whereas atypical members of the general public are confronted with a three-month ready record to eat at Vila Vita Parc’s two-Michelin-star restaurant Ocean, Vila Azzurine friends have the pinnacle chef, Hans Neuner (pictured), ‘at their beck and name’
Vila Azzurine contains a ‘spectacular’ wine cellar, pictured, which holds an estimated £316,825 (€380,000) value of wine
One thing to scrub the meals down with? There’s a ‘spectacular’ wine cellar holding an estimated £316,825 (€380,000) value of wine to plunder.
The cameras additionally present us the toys at friends’ disposal, which embody limited-edition Porsche Cayenne Dakar 84s value £120,000 every. Solely 84 of them have been made.
There’s additionally a personal yacht out there to take them to ‘personal spots’ alongside the coast.
The cameras present us the toys at friends’ disposal, which embody limited-edition Porsche Cayenne Dakar 84s (pictured) value £120,000 every
Vila Azzurine has a rooftop terrace (pictured) with a bar that may accommodate events of fifty to 60 folks, plus an outside 82ft (25m) swimming pool
The cameras then journey to South Africa’s Kruger Nationwide Park, the place they unlock the door to Royal Malewane’s £16,000-per-night Africa Home, a luxurious villa that sleeps as much as 12 friends in six en-suite bedrooms.
Proprietor Liz Biden reveals that they’ve hosted heads of state and celebrities at Africa Home prior to now.
Biden guides us across the guesthouse and divulges that she personally chosen each piece of furnishings within the property. ‘Even the ashtrays are purchased by me,’ she says.
Pictured is the eating space in Royal Malewane’s £16,000-per-night Africa Home villa in South Africa’s Kruger Nationwide Park
Royal Malewane proprietor Liz Biden reveals that she personally chosen each piece of furnishings within the property
Pictured above is among the six en-suite bedrooms in Africa Home, which has hosted heads of state and celebrities prior to now
The actual promoting level of Africa Home is the infinity pool. ‘Most days’ elephants stroll previous the pool on their method to the close by waterhole, we’re instructed. One former visitor tells the cameras that the elephants began ingesting from the pool when he was swimming in it. ‘It was essentially the most wonderful factor you would ever expertise in your life,’ he says.
Subsequent, the movie crew heads out into the bush with the rangers and trackers, who scout the savanna to arrange safari excursions for the friends. The narrator reveals that just about half of the world’s seven ‘grasp trackers’ are employed by Royal Malewane.
The trackers verify for animal prints. One finds buffalo excrement and works out that the herd is heading south. One other tracker finds a ‘drag mark’ from the place a leopard hauled her prey. They comply with the trail of the leopard, which they discover feeding within the bush. They word that this implies she’s going to seemingly be in the identical place once they carry friends there on a safari later within the day.
The actual promoting level of Africa Home is the infinity pool, pictured above. ‘Most days’ elephants stroll previous the pool on their method to the close by waterhole, we’re instructed
Probably the most particular experiences that friends can avail of is a ‘bush dinner’. Seven Royal Malewane workers transport foods and drinks to a ‘luxurious tent’ that’s a 20-minute drive away from the lodge.
The workforce units up the dinner, placing lanterns within the bushes and the chef begins cooking a pan-fried fillet of ostrich.
Simply earlier than the candlelit dinner begins, a tracker spots a herd of elephants strolling previous the tent. ‘A real bush expertise,’ he says.
The World’s Most Luxurious Holidays debuts on Thursday, January 13, at 9pm on More4.