Demand is usually strongest for high-end rooms at Jackson Lake Lodge ($220 a night double occupancy) and Jenny Lake Lodge ($429 a night double occupancy, which includes riding, breakfast and a five-course dinner).
La Residence Each of the 11 high-end rooms and suites (Frangipani, Armani) each have a sophisticated theme and are secluded on a hillside vineyard.
Elsewhere in the Caribbean, I imagined, disappointed travelers had paid $600 a night for some high-end room that maybe included breakfast.
At the highest reaches of the market, hotel-style living is still the rule, and residents expect swimming pools, spa services, high-end room service and hefty monthly charges to match.
Among the discoveries on a recent visit: the "high-end room" (for instruments well into four figures and up); the "four-course room" (for instruments with four strings or four sets of strings); and the "leftorium," for left-handed players.
Expensive Colleges These are at the high end for tuition, room and board (2010-11).
Selfridges in London has gone from high street to high end with the Wonder Room (right), its new luxury jewelry and gift emporium set to open Sept. 1.
Thus, a mushrooming number of high-end hotel rooms: The Toronto-based Four Seasons is opening a 230-room property in Bangalore in 2014 and a 260-room one in New Delhi in 2015.
At the high end is the wine tasting room at La Bourgogne (Ayacucho 2027; 54-11-4805-3857; alvearestaurantm), a restaurant in the Alvear Palace Hotel in Recoleta, where for 310 pesos a person, about $75 at 4.12 pesos to the dollar, visitors can sample three or four wines with food pairings.
It is not just high-end dining rooms that are struggling to fill vacancies.
Those costs, plus profits for LaFrieda and for restaurants, are passed on to customers, who now insist on down-economy affordability even in high-end dining rooms.
