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There's Still Room For More Pricey Hotels in Moscow

Moscow is ever faster becoming home to a whole host of really expensive hotels. And apparently there's no limit to demand because there's going to be a Raffles Hotel Moscow opening up by about 2011.

Like all those other pricey, luxury hotels in Moscow, it's within spitting distance of Red Square and is going for the real high end of the market--room rates will go from $800 a night to, well, a heck of a lot. With just 130 rooms in a heritage building, it sounds like they're also trying to get mileage from the fact that there's a Russian Orthodox Church in the same complex which Napoleon Bonaparte used to stay in.

We're still a bit unsure about the whole luxury in Moscow thing--isn't it more interesting to hark back to the lining-up-for-bread days of the socialist era? Perhaps we're missing something.

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