Expensive hotel rooms

Just how high do hotel rates soar, and exactly what kind of luxuries can be had for four-figure or even five-digit nightly rates?

Get ready to find out by glancing through this selection of steeply priced hotel rooms and suites, most of them suggested by the experts at Hotels.com.

In the slides that follow you'll gaze upon opulent overnight accommodations fit for a king - in fact, we begin with rooms reportedly used for the honeymoon of a future king.

Compared with the increasingly higher rates that will follow, it practically goes for practically chump change.