The valet parking, the glamorous room, the bustling bar, the swell soundtrack, the curvy banquettes — all conspire to make you feel like a million bucks.
For a start, it brings two first-class flights, a bit of mile-high champers and a booking in the hotel's most glamorous room, the Palace Suite: three decadent gold, silver and marble bedrooms interrupted only by a giant 61in plasma TV screen.
It might not be the most glamorous room in the home, but it is heavily used by both family and guests, so putting a little bit of time and attention into updating it with just a few refreshing accessories will go a long way.
The wedge-shaped building is now a graceful boutique hotel, with small but glamorous rooms and friendly staff.
Accustomed to large, glamorous rooms, good food, and sophisticated — or, at least, affluent — company, Jasmine is offended by everything in Ginger's working-class life.
After a $27 million renovation completed this year, its 122 glamorous rooms have Directoire or Louis-Philippe-style furniture; 30 rooms are decorated around the theme of Monet's waterlilies.
In Bridport, the Bull Hotel (01308 422878, doubles from £125 and two-bedroom family rooms from £185) gastro-pub has glamorous rooms.
"Glamorous romper room," he continued, heading toward a paisley-patterned Ping-Pong table in the living room.
The more glamorous dining room features spotlighted square banquettes and a shallow reflecting pool with floating candles, over which suspended orchids hover like butterflies.
AMENITIES The hotel's glamorous living room (called the Simple Truth Lounge) and spacious flagstone patio are great places for drinks, including artisanal beers (Gritty McDuff's Black Fly Stout, $13), liquor from Berkshire Mountain Distillers and snacks (a selection of three cheeses, $16), which can also be delivered to your room.
By October of that year, the Pierre's top two floors, including the exposed wooden platform on which the debs braved the elements, would be transformed into a glamorous breakfast room and night club, "decorated to resemble the interior of a zeppelin cabin," according to The New York Sun.
