What is the most luxurious luxury you've ever treated yourself to?

(Pardon the redundancy in the title. ;) ) I was thinking about this because yesterday, as part of my job, I was sent to check out Manhattan's newest luxury hotel, the Mandarin Oriental in the new Time-Warner building at Columbus Circle. The standard room is $595 a night. The 75-foot lap pool in the spa is in a glass room looking toward Central Park. I wouldn't treat myself to that--I couldn't afford to now--but my wife and I did treat ourselves to a night at the Royal Crescent, a Georgian hotel in Bath, England, a couple of years ago. If you go to Bath, you should go up to the Royal Crescent overlooking the city. It's a stunning half circle--literally a crescent--of houses above a sloping park. Our hotel was in the middle of the crescent, behind a courtyard where you could sit and have cocktails and drinks or play crocquet. The room (which cost £700!) wasn't all that spectacular, if truth be told, though the bed was magnificent. (I'll leave it to your imaginations. ;) Actually our daughter was with us, so don't get carried away with your imaginations!) The only reason we stayed there was because there were no other rooms in Bath, and we happened to have a little money to burn for once in our life. We didn't want to stay in a manger. (It was Easter weekend, anyway.)

How about you?

scratchoff...
my idea of real luxury is taking the air mattress when going to the Boundary Waters instead of the foam mats *lol*

0r- the two weeks in Wyoming soaking up the mountain air - Luscious!

I was out of work at the time but I really wanted to see Pavorotti when he came to Orlando. The tickets were $100.00. I bought myself one as a birthday/Christmas present. It recital sure lifted my spirits!

Still have a dozen left.

bad neighborhood, but by far the most expensive place in town, the Presidential suite is eight grand a night.

my best luxury? cashmere socks. everyone should have some.

I'd say, off the top of my head, when I was in Quebec city for one night, I stayed at a really nice hotel because I was too lazy to find another one. Can't remember the name though (was not the frontenac)

and remodeling the house I bought as well.

Luckily it was all paid for with profits from the last house I sold.

About $900 for the pair, and worth it if you like music.

years ago.

They have "spritzer boys" by the pool. You lay there, and they come up and mist you with aerosol Evian water.

going around spraying people with water, getting to mingle with the hunnies. I think I could handle it.

After finals were over, while studying in Germany. It had been grey and cold and rainy for months, and we figured, what the heck, when are we ever gonna be this close to Athens again, for this cheap? It was excellent!

It's the one I currently have.

(LASIK surgery). Best thing I ever did for myself, by far.

2+ weeks,from Amsterdam to the Channel Islands,Ireland,Scotland,ending in London. Absolute luxury and pampering...and a chocolate creme brulee that will forever live in my memory:)