The notoriously over-the-top, ridiculously lavish Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi is offering a million-dollar hotel package. No, but seriously. This thing costs $1,025,000 for two people for seven days.

For that much, you would expect someone to follow you into your hotel suite's bathroom to wipe your butt with cashmere -- and, frankly, you can probably request it.

Here's what you get: a 680 square-meter three-bedroom suite lined with gold and marble, complete with crystal chandeliers, a giant plasma TV and laptops.

And oh yes, there's more.]]> Jenna 2008-07-23T13:00:25-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/6/3/93712/10004 <![CDATA[<img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3873/WiFi_By_The_Pool.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>We're all for hotels that take good care of their WiFi service and that's why we're giving the thumbs up right now to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Emirates+Palace/local/282"><b>Emirates Palace</b></a> in Abu Dhabi.</p><p>They've just upgraded their internet service in a big way, so they've now got an Ethernet-based, dual 10MB load balanced links system, and their wireless coverage has been extended too. This means that we should be able to get a fast connection no matter where we are in the resort, in guest rooms or in public areas, and even by the pool or on the beach.</p><p>Emirates Palace staff said that there'd been "extraordinarily high demand" from guests to have an improved WiFi service, a fact that we already amandak 2008-06-04T09:15:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2008/2/24/144612/104 <![CDATA[<p> <img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/454/best_geek_hotels_2008.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p><p>As most people who suffer from technophilia know, a lot can change in a year. In the year that we released our first Best Geek Hotels List, the iPhone beat out every other cellphone on the market, the MacAir usurped the MacBook and saved shoulders worldwide, Guitar Hero and Rock Band raged, and Facebook surpassed MySpace, at least in our group of friends.<p>While most hotels are still rather slow to adopt technology -- hello, working free WiFi please?-- we did find a new crop of geek hotels that were worthy of superlatives. Some of these hotels have been geeking it out for a while and some are still in beta. But much of the source HotelChatter 2008-03-04T10:34:26-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/12/26/24235/427 <![CDATA[<img align="right" src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/admin/hirst_skull.jpg" class="imgborder"><p> <p>It all sounds very convenient, and it does seem to be happening more and more: hotels are making a big deal about displaying impressive collections of art work, to the point where they're starting to sound like art galleries.<p> While we've never actually chosen a hotel based on the artwork, there must be someone who does, or there wouldn't be so many hotels going to the effort of hanging expensive stuff on their walls.</p><p>The NYT's <i>The Moment</i> blog just did a bit of cubicle dreaming about some appropriate hotel and artist match-ups that they'd like to see ... for example, they figure that the ultra-expensive <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Emirates+Palace+Abu+Dhabi/ian/226576"><b>Emirates Palace</b></a> in Abu Dhabi would make a great home amandak 2007-12-26T11:15:01-05:00 http://www.hotelchatter.com/story/2007/2/21/11640/6501 <![CDATA[<p> <img src="http://www.hotelchatter.com/files/3/emirates_palace_lobby_photo.jpg" class="imgborder"> <p> This week in the UK Guardian a reviewer really took exception to the <a href="http://www.hotelchatter.com/hotel-reviews/Emirates+Palace/local/282"><b>Emirates Palace Hotel</b></a> in Abu Dhabi, titling the review "The Ultimate Bad Taste Hotel". Why? One problem was perhaps the overshowy use of various expensive metals ... including</p><blockquote><p> a sprinkling of gold on everything that doesn't move, from ceilings to chocolate cake. Throw in a liberal amount of silver and there's a precious metal clash that bounces off the acres of polished marble and crystal-studded door handles and heads into the dark recess of the soul.</blockquote></p><p>Ooh, when we hear that the dark recess of the soul is reacting badly to a hotel, we can't imagine it's a good thing. However the amandak 2007-02-21T11:41:17-05:00 Search HotelChatter string http://www.hotelchatter.com/search/