If other people’s “recess” means “success” for you, and your two negative signs come out in the positive, you’ve arrived at the right place. Recently ranked by Mercer’s Cost of Living Survey as the third most expensive city in the world (preceded only by Moscow and Tokyo), London carries famously expensive prices that make it an excellent playground to blow through all of your money like you’re having a damning mid-life crisis.
Here, we compile the city’s most opulent, extreme, regal locations with price tags that would make even the Queen shudder.
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The “Armada Treasure Chest” drink, serving eight, is literally worth its weight in gold: a 24-carat bin filled with Limited Edition Pusser’s topped with Louis Roederer Cristal champagne costs £650.
The palatial, curved-dome food halls here are a work of art in their own right and continuously break “World’s Most Expensive” records, as with their 2008 introduction of Lebanese chocolatier Patchi’s £5,000 sweets, made from organic cocoa and studded with Swarowski crystals.
We think that the 225-minute Algotherm Jet Lag Reviver, which soothes tired bones with a full body aroma massage, mud wrap and vichy shower at a heady £330, should make world travelers feel immediately at home again.
Dinner at Sketch’s all-white Gallery Bar, London’s most expensive restaurant, usually consists of über-tan Italian business types, seared foie gras, grappa and a £300 bill. Of course that’s per person, silly!
Do like Kate Moss does and nibble on the hotel bar’s lobster sandwich (£23) before retiring to the second-floor Piano Suite (£4,000)—despite the fact that you live in London.
If you want to literally burn about £100 away, do it with class: Jo Malone’s Fragrance Combining Candle is a trio of small tea lights that meld luscious fragrances together, like wild fig with cassis, hyacinth and cedarwood.
Domination at the exclusive British lingerie store is purchasable in the form of a retractable leather-handled whip for £295; love, on the other hand, can’t be bought.
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