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Outrageous proposals and superyachts: How the rich travel for love
Comment on this story Comment When you’re a finance tycoon, oil baron or heir to the family fortune, the standard romantic gesture won’t do. The ultrarich require ultra-opulent tokens of affection. Enter the ultraluxury romantic vacation. These lavish adventures celebrate love and lust at obscene costs, from million-dollar proposals to six-figure anniversary trips. The formula is often simple: Just take a universally beloved travel experience (a trip to Rome, an African safari, a sunset cruise) and inject it with hundreds of thousands of dollars to get a version fit for the 1 percent (the Vatican to yourself, a private island off Madagascar, a superyacht for two). Real-life ‘White Lotus’: Workers…
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How the rich take luxury ski trips, according mountain resort insiders
Comment on this story Comment The distance from Bozeman Yellowstone International Airport to the Yellowstone Club, where billionaires ski and golf across 15,200 exclusive acres, is about 50 miles. For most people, that’s an hour’s drive through a windy Montana canyon. But if you’re a member — along with Bill Gates, Warren Buffett and Mark Zuckerberg — it can be a much quicker jaunt. Instead of getting to Bozeman on a commercial flight and grabbing an Uber at the airport, they arrive by jet and hop on a helicopter “so that it’s only a 10-minute ride to the club instead,” said Adamo Vullo, a former Yellowstone Club employee turned caretaking…
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For the rich and famous, no request is impossible thanks to highly trained luxury hotel concierges
If your hotel concierge sports golden crossed keys on their lapels, you know they are the best of the best. The pins are the symbol of Les Clefs d’Or, or The Golden Keys, a highly exclusive professional association of hotel concierges that represent the elite of the profession. “Is there ever a strange request? Not in our world,” says Brian Mackenzie, chef concierge at the NH Collection Barbizon Palace in Amsterdam and the 3rd vice president of Les Clefs d’Or International. “The world of a hotel concierge is the passion to serve guests day in, day out. To face challenges and obstacles in delivering those memorable experiences. The performance is…
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