MILLIONAIRE HOTEL CHARGES.

North Otago Times, 26 January 1906, Page 1

MILLIONAIRE HOTEL CHARGES.

'. The payment of £iq per day for a suite of rooms at such New York hotels as the Waldorf Astoria (says a writer in Chambers's Journal) is not by any means uncommon ; indeed, there .are people living permanently iii the Waldorf Astoria who pay that sum all the year round, and it is entirely exclusive of board. One millionaire in particular seldom expends less than from to per day (orchis accommodation, lor he is a liberal entertainer, and will sometimes have I as many as 15 or 20 friends to luncheon or dinner. For the Royal suite a day is charged. A single' bedroom in ihe ordinary way niay be l.iken by lhe visitor at what may be termed a . moderate charge for such an establishis, 12sper day: for the smallest; apartment on the/ highest floor, but even that would prohibit any ! lengthened residence to oilier than a [•rich man.