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A Hotel Where Every Night is Ladies' Night

Where: Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 11545

March 19, 2008 at 3:24 PM | 2 Comments

For a country that goes to such great lengths to segregate unrelated men and women, it took Saudi Arabia a long time to hit on the idea of women-only hotels.

So begins this Reuters article about the Luthan Hotel & Spa, owned by 20 Saudi princesses and businesswomen, who believe the property is meeting a very big demand in the city of Riyadh.

Reuter's reports that the rooms, which start at $93 a night, are "delicately adorned" with incense candles, rose-red fabrics and bas-reliefs of cherubs. What's more, every person employed by the hotel, right down to the bellhop, is a woman, allowing for those of the female persuasion to pamper themselves away from "the accusing eyes of a male-dominated society."

Oddly, mostly male journalists attended the hotel's inauguration by seven princes, leaving one female journo in attendance to tell Reuters, "You know what they're saying about this place..."

No. What?

"...That it's a hotel for lesbians."

Um, okay...