When workers get their fortnight release from toil it comes after months of consulting holiday brochures and the search for the cheapest hotel possible but no such scrutiny of hotels is necessary for the owning class. 'Take the Peninsula Paris, which is upping the ante with three "themed" suites this fall as part of a $576 million renovation. The largest of them, the Peninsula Suite, is primed to deliver the royal treatment - 24-hour butler service, on-hand massage, access to an underground spa, a 1934 Rolls-Royce Phantom - for $33,500 per night. (Yahoo Travel, 7 August) RD
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