Baroque-inspired $1.5 Billion Palace - 13 Macau

The world’s most luxurious hotel exists and it is based in Macau. The 13 Hotel is a Baroque-inspired ultra-luxurious hotel built at a cost of US$1.4 billion dollars. Really a series of connected villas rather than a hotel in the traditional sense, The 13 Hotel Macau is an ‘all-villa’ hotel with 200 suites, each with its own 24-hour butler, measuring 2000 to 30,000 square feet. So exclusive is The 13 Hotel touted to be that it even boasts the only outpost of L’Ambroisie, a three-Michelin star restaurant in Paris.

Considered to be one of the most expensive hotels ever built, guests of The 13 Hotel Macau can expect to arrive in a manner of pure swank and opulence, ferried by one of the thirty Rolls-Royce Phantoms owned by the hotel, a nice personal touch complementary to the ultra-luxe environment considering that each villa features a marble Roman bath set under a vaulted Baroque ceiling supported by and a crystal chandelier. Guests can even use the Rolls-Royce Phantoms where available to visit any of Macau’s fine dining establishments, casinos or simply appear at business meetings in pure class. BUT, beneath the glitz and glamour, lies troubling drama emblematic of the greater financial woes faced by the luxury industry.

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