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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t get people who don’t get liking luxury hotels. If I’m taking precious time off I want a great experience, not a utilitarian one. [/quote]

A great experience requires you to leave the hotel grounds. Sitting on a hotel's beach and eating in their restaurant is so dumb.[/quote]

What is dumb about it?  You don’t get to dictate how others relax.

We fly to Miami all the time and do two or three nights at the St. Regis Bal Harbor and don’t leave the property, except may to walk across the st to go shopping grab a glass of wine.

I posted on another similar thread about some of the pros of staying at a luxury property.  Hands down makes your stay a better experience.  A good chunk of what makes things better are the little things you don’t even think about that they pick up on or handle with ease.   On example I gave was being in Venice and running into a hotel manager on her day off.  She noticed that we had done some shopping.  Introduced to the owner of a great small restaurant while she arranged for hotel staff to come grab our shopping bags and take them to our room.   Or getting food poising in Paris and hotel staff arranging for medical care and not allowing me to pay extra to clean up the vomit or the extra nights in the room or the private car they arranged to take me to the airport or the for them coordinating with the airline to have an airline host meet me at the curb and stay with me until I boarded. 
There are about 50 other instances I could list.[/quote]

So nice you are still loyal to the St Regis [b]when the smart set has moved on to Four Seasons Surfside[/b].  Of course, St Regis BH is more value priced, so there’s that, too.[/quote]

This is true, but FS Surfside is so expensive now that it’s for the ultra wealthy.  A room that’s not even ocean view is $3-4k a night.   Getting an ocean view suite for a week would run you $100k.

st Regis bal Barbour is ocean front for $1,500 a night.  [/quote]

I’m not the pp but I also like St Regis Bal Harbour. I have been twice and it is an easy flight. I like being able to be left alone and shop across the street as well. I also like four seasons, rosewood, mandarin oriental, banyan tree and many more. I am not trying to impress others. I like to be comfortable and appreciate good service and nice amenities. I don’t really care if four seasons surf side is better. I have never heard of it. Maybe I will stay there instead of st Regis next time. I think it is odd that you are trying to put down a random internet stranger for liking st Regis.[/quote]

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