Luxury hotels are known for exceptional service, amazing food, dazzling entertainment, beautiful rooms and breathtaking locations. Most people who often stay at luxury hotels enjoy these features time and time again. Eventually these luxuries can begin to feel commonplace. However, certain luxury hotels also have other, more unique amenities to offer. In many cases these services are not promoted, but if you know they exist, you could find your next hotel stay enhanced by a surprising new experience.
For example, the Alila Luang Prabang hotel in Laos offers its visitors transportation via a vintage Mercedes. This is a one-of-a-kind classic automobile that has been modified to accommodate more passengers, glass stands for drinking champagne, a radio and a television set. It is safe to say that everything but the outside is modern about this old, but beautifully updated vehicle.
Thistle Hotels has invented a “Lazy Sundays” package for those who are not morning people. This means that for people who have had a hard week of early mornings, Sunday can truly be a day of rest. This unique amenity is designed to make your Sunday morning leisurely, enjoyable and slow, with breakfast in bed, morning and early afternoon movies and a 6 pm checkout time.
For something truly unique, try a paragliding arrival to the Six Senses Hideaway at Zighy Bay in Oman. Visitors to this hotel have the option of arriving from the airport via air, water or land. If you are not interested in paragliding onto the hotel property, you have access to either speedboats or jeeps ready to take you to your destination with style. Either way, you will get to see the surrounding landscape in a unique and personalized fashion before arriving at your rooms.
Most luxury hotels try to accommodate every type of guest that may walk through their doors. At the Epic Hotel in Miami, this includes even those who are unusually tall. These people have special rooms designed just for them. Higher ceilings, longer beds, and bigger bathtubs are just a few of the unique amenities in this hotel’s “tall rooms.”
In honor of the Texas Rangers’ trip to the World Series, the Ritz-Carlton in Dallas announced a broad choice of baseball amenities at their location. They set up “baseball concierges” exclusively to answer questions about baseball and the Series. They also trained their regular staff extensively on baseball trivia and related information to prepare them to assist the crowds of visitors to the city for the World Series.
The Quincy Hotel in Singapore offers a variety of unique amenities free of charge to its guests. If you visit, you will be picked up from the airport in your own personal limousine with free WiFi internet. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are all included in your stay, as are complimentary cocktails and other drinks, such as unique cocktails. Complimentary laundry service is also provided by hotel staff.
Sushi aficionados will not want to miss the sushi classes at the Miami Beach Hotel. Here, you can enjoy one-on-one courses on the history of sushi and on how various types of sushi are created. Of course, this is right before you enjoy you own delicious sushi dinner that you helped make yourself.
Running a luxury hotel sometimes seems like a continual process of inventing progressively more creative forms of pampering and hospitality. As you travel to different destinations, sample the options available at the world’s finest luxury hotels — you might be surprised by what they have in store.