Everybody always asks about the most inexpensive hotels/resorts...but what about those fussy travelers who want some bling for their buck?
Saw this article recently in Forbes:

Most expensive resorts 2006

In the 1980s, when billionaire Richard Branson turned Necker Island, a private island playground in the British Virgin Islands, into an exclusive-use resort priced at $5,500 per night, such a thing was practically unheard of.

Today, Necker Island, which accommodates up to 26 people, is in such demand that rates start at $30,000 per night. Necker's highly visible success has given rise to a spate of similar resorts. For example, The Rania Experience, an exclusive-use island resort in the Maldives that opened in 2005, offers groups of up to nine a private chef, unlimited spa treatments and use of an 86-foot yacht, all for $13,000 per night--pricier per person than Necker.

Even traditional full-service resorts, like Cayo Espanto, a Belizian island with five villas, became available for island buyouts in 1999, a year after it opened. Rates start at $10,000 per night, with a three-night minimum.

Hi JAGIRL, I have read about places with those kind of rates. I am sure we will all line up to get reservations, lol. Thanks for the fun article!

Loveitaly,
I cannot even imagine what they must get for that kind of money!

Once I win the lottery this is exactly what I plan to do! Rent an island for the weekend and throw a big party for 200 of my closest friends and family! Now all I have to do is win ...well I also have to remember to go buy a ticket..

ellenbw - I want an invite to that party!!!
It is really unfathomable. The most i have spent for a hotel room is $400/night.

hey ellenbw,
get one of those lottery tickets for me too will you dear?

I hope those people who rent the luxury resort in the Maldives enjoy it before the islands disappear in the rising ocean level or another global-warming-driven climate disaster.

Oh, no, kswl. Global warming is a no-no on this board!

I have seen the island and the facilities: way out of my league, but what a week-long party corporate greed could throw there.
M

oops! you're right, gb:

Thou Shalt Not Discuss Global Warming; Our President Has Declared that It Doesn't Exist.

the 11th commandment . . . now how did I forget that??? >)

Nice joint! My business partner and his girlfriend got invited there for a friend's 40th birthday. Swanky friends! They got helicoptered in and had an extremely indulgent long weekend. Amazing.

I'll be 40 in 5 years...DH better start saving now!

Imagine having our Fodorite Convention 2007 on Necker!

Wonder what the swanky regulars to Necker would have to say if they saw jetset1 sauntering off the First Class only plane in her $16 underwear?

Would they :
a) just squeal with delight at having us there ><

b)shriek with horror, pack their bags and jump on the next private jet out of there!

c)shriek with horror, pack their bags, jump on the next private jet out of there and sue Branson for allowing the "wrong" sort of folk" onto their lovely Necker

d)run into the ocean shrieking with horror, leave their bags and start swimming frantically towards Tortola.