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Cubicle Dreamin': Absolute Decadence in Moscow

July 6, 2007 at 9:30 AM | 0 Comments

Cubicle Dreamin' is a feature in which we ask the hotel mavens to take some time out of their busy work day, surf the Internet, and tell us what hotel they wish they could beam themselves to right that very second--all on the slave driving companies dime, of course. Oh, like these people aren't surfing aimlessly anyway--at least now their purposeless clicking will be cobbled together into useful hotel stories--we hope. Have a destination hotel you are just dying to leave your cube for? Send the story our way.

In this episode, Hotel Maven Amanda K checks out the hottest new hotel in Moscow. Enjoy.

I love Moscow. The uneven cobbles of Red Square, the sandcastle-shaped walls of the Kremlin, the child's-drawing towers of St Basil's Cathedral. So what could make me enjoy my next stay in Moscow even more? That's gotta be a room at the Ritz Carlton Moscow.

Despite the previous promise of a March opening, the new Ritz Carlton (rising out of the ashes of Moscow's famous Intourist Hotel) just got going this week. But wow, has it got going in style--and so it should with basic rooms costing $1000 a night, and a tsar's breakfast available which costs $700. You could instead save your appetite for the rooftop sushi bar with the amazing view over Red Square, or simply drink your way through Moscow getting advice from the vodka sommelier.

But if I'm really going to dream my Friday away, I want the Ritz Carlton's presidential suite. In Moscow this room costs $16,000 a night but comes complete with a bulletproof dining room. As far as I know, I've never been under threat at dinner time, but I guess if I ever could really afford such a room, there might be a few enemies waiting to knock me off between vodkas.

[Photo: lucy huntzinger]

Related Stories:
· Last Brick Added to Moscow's Coming Ritz Carlton [HotelChatter]
· Moscow Decadence: Hotel With a $16,000 a Night Suite [UK Guardian]