For $100K, hotel will treat you like your favorite hooker
As Valentine's Day approaches, why not tell your loved one, "I want you to feel like the luckiest hooker in the world?" Or, better yet, let the Beverly Wilshire Hotel tell her for you with its $100,000 Pretty Woman for a Day package, which promises to help the two of you recreate scenes from the most romantic of all prostitute movies.
The guests who decide to go all Richard Gere and drop six figures on an overnight hotel stay will get to sleep in the Presidential Suite, which was, in fact, the room where Julia Roberts sang Prince songs in the bathtub and refused to kiss her date on the mouth. The cost also includes a personal shopping consultation on Rodeo Drive, although there's no word whether the store clerks will actually help you.
Other perks include a Rolls-Royce Ride to Greystone Mansion for a "shoeless picnic" and an evening at — you guessed it — the Los Angeles Opera. Sadly, they haven't performed La Traviata since last September.
From the website:
"Throughout your stay, we'll inspire you with stills from the movie, allowing you and your sweetheart to mimic classic scenes for exclusive photography opportunities."
At least they're commemorating one of the more romantic movies from 1990. Nobody is paying $100 Grand for the Ghost Haunted Pottery Workshop, the Goodfellas 'Friday's For Girlfriends, Saturday's For Wives' Weekend or the Misery Number One Fan Spa & Sledgehammer Treatments.
If you'd rather not imply that you're paying for your date's company, The Conrad in New York has an equally extravagant option for a comparatively reasonable $10,000. Its VIP Valentine's Day package includes the usual flowers and candy, along with accommodations in the 1,500-food Conrad Suite, a private helicopter tour of Manhattan and a "customized present designed by David Yurman." The smitten couples will also share a Dom Perignon toast at the hotel's Loopy Doopy Rooftop Bar and — because you're paying $100,000 — you're not obligated to say Loopy Doopy.
For those who'd rather just combine wishful thinking with the potential for disappointment (the true essence of Valentine's Day, really), you can try to get on the list to spend next February 14 at Downton Abbey.
Highclere Castle, the sprawling estate that plays Downton on television, has opened an on-site hotel called London Lodge. Would-be Granthams can't actually stay in the estate, as it's the home to the Earl and Countess of Carnarvon, but they can pretend to be Lady Mary as they sulk around the grounds. There are even modern amenities (suck it, Masterpiece Theatre) but it's sold out for the duration of 2015.
Ask nicely and they might even let you pretend to be a circa-1920s prostitute. Who knows!