Guided tours (£5) take in a dozen or so of the largest and most extravagant rooms and conclude on the balconied terrace, affording fabulous views down bulevardul Unirii.
As you increase your profit, you can buy ever more extravagant rooms for your little sims to bonk in, including such themed suites as the spooning room, the tropical beach room, and the chocolate moustache.
After Madame returns to her extravagant room — littered, now, with the dreams Solange and Claire must keep silent — she immediately plunges into what she knows: abuse, control, contempt, all of which Blanchett has imitated perfectly and, in her fever, misinterpreted, too.
"Hotels are trending toward having more suites," says Bjorn Hanson, a principal in the Hospitality and Leisure Practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers. "The economy is strong, corporate travel budgets aren't in a period of restriction, and it adds more sexiness to a hotel to have an extravagant room".
He orders limousines, extravagant room service, and in one instance (for seemingly no other reason than his desire to inflict suffering) tricks a pizza delivery boy into thinking he is going to die, all for laughs.
The rest of the 36-room house is equally extravagant with room after room of exquisite 18th-century French decorative arts like elaborate marquetry furniture, tapestries and seemingly countless sets of Sèvres and other fine porcelain — one of the audio tours is even titled "Kings, Queens, and Soup Tureens".
But now the hand-carved staircase, the newly restored tapestries and the Venetian chandeliers leading to its restaurant's luxurious and extravagant dining rooms can be seen by the public -- at least at lunchtime.
Her fits of dramatic entitlement were legendary; "I am Melba!" she'd declare, as explanation for her extravagant dressing-room requests.
And when you are led into the extravagant dining room — a lobby-turned-seraglio with rosy lighting, great swags of striped silk, and a wall of flowers that would make Jeff Koons swoon — you may feel like settling in for the night.
One of them was the former guardian and Lord Chief Justice Magnus De La Gardie, who, among many other Estates, had to return the extravagant 248-room Läckö Castle.
Few know he was the architect of the Peacock Room, an extravagant Aesthetic Movement dining room from England long on display in the Freer Gallery of Art in Washington.
