August 11, 2008

Help, I'm too rich and don't know what to do with my $

In case the Ritz Carlton Battery Park’s $40,000 suite package — with a a helicopter ride and a personalized fireworks show — is just a little too over the top for your tastes, there are plenty of other high-end hotel packages in New York City to consider.

The Trump International hotel packages include a Jean-Georges Vongerichten culinary master course priced at $8,999 per couple.

You’ll get a a private, two-hour cooking demonstration with Chef Jean-Georges in his namesake three-starred Michelin restaurant in the hotel; three nights in an executive park view suite; a three-course dinner for two at Jean-Georges with a bottle of Champagne; breakfast for two daily at Nougatine; and a signed copy of Chef Jean-Georges’ new book, “Asian Flavors of Jean-Georges.”

The St. Regis offers high-end culinary packages as well.

For $2,010 the St. Regis will offer up the Executive Chef of Adour Alain Ducasse to lead a shopping tour of the Union Square Green Market. No kitchen tour here, but the chef will use the selected ingredients from Union Square to fix your five-course Adour Tasting Menu (served with a wine pairing.) The package also comes with two night’s deluxe accommodations, transportation to Union Square in the hotel’s Bentley; breakfast for two on Saturday; and free valet parking.

For a mere $1,400, the St. Regis can hook you up with a hotel package that includes butler service for your Central Park picnic. In your picnic box: chilled Maine lobster, Filet Mignon sandwiches and watercress salad with a black truffle emulsion. Of course you’ll get to and from the park via the hotel’s Bentley. The hotel package also comes with a deluxe guestroom and breakfast for two.

Downtown, the Hotel Gansevoort’s “High Roller” package clocks in at $5,500 per night per couple. Aiming for its own little sin city in the Meat Packing District, the hotel offers a private midnight dip in the rooftop pool; an excursion on a 50-foot, two-bedroom private yacht or one-day use of a Lamborghini Gallardo Roadster or Aston Martin Vantage; a night in the duplex penthouse; spa time at Gansevoort Spa & Lounge for a 30-minute facial, 30-minute massage, and manicure/pedicure; a bottle of Dom Perignon and chocolate strawberries upon arrival; fresh flowers; two monogrammed bathrobes; continental breakfast at Ono restaurant; airport transfers and hangover tonic.

And in case all that excess indulgence leaves you feeling dirty, head to the Mandarin Oriental for the $6,750 Healthy Cleansing Weekend package includes, which includes a Central Park suite, a two-day, all-day Blueprint Cleanse and two “Signature Two-Hour Time Rituals™ in The Spa to detoxify, relax and restore.”

Image source: St. Regis

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August 11, 2008 11:13 AM in Downtown, Foodology, Hotelology, Midtown, Romance

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