If you had $100,000 in loose change, what would you do with it? Here’s one option: spend it all on one night at The Mark Hotel in New York. Actually, you’d still be $14,767 short. In April 2025, Guinness World Records certified its penthouse as the most expensive hotel room in the world, at $114,767 a night. So what does that actually get you? The top two floors of the hotel. Over 10,000 square feet. Five bedrooms. Six bathrooms. Four fireplaces. A living room with 26-foot ceilings that converts into a full ballroom. A 2,500-square-foot rooftop terrace overlooking Central Park and the Met. Furniture custom-designed by Jacques Grange, the interior designer whose clients have included Yves Saint Laurent. And the perks go beyond the room: a personal butler, airport transfers, and private after-hours tours of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. At this price, you’re not booking a room. You’re borrowing the best address in New York.

There are only 5 airport lounges in the world worth arriving early for. Most lounges are just a nicer place to wait. These five make you wish your flight was delayed. Here they are, ranked best to worst: #1 Cathay Pacific The Wing, Hong Kong