Inside The World's Most Expensive Hotel Room

$100,000 a night. Two-night minimum. And most of the people who sleep here pay nothing at all. Tonight we check into the Empathy Suite at the Palms Casino Resort in Las Vegas — the hotel room with the highest published nightly rate on Earth. Designed by Damien Hirst, the richest artist alive, this 9,000-square-foot two-storey sky villa is a living art gallery: two real bull sharks suspended in formaldehyde, a marlin skeleton over a 13-seat bar, butterfly mosaics, a cantilevered pool hanging over the Strip, and six original Hirst artworks reportedly worth tens of millions. We trace the artist's rise from a £50,000 shark to a $198 million auction, the Palms' $690 million renovation bet, the whale-comp economics that make this room "technically free," and the twist ending: the sale that made the Palms the first Las Vegas casino resort owned by a Native American tribe. CHAPTERS 0:00 Checking In: $100,000 A Night 1:01 The Palms, Las Vegas 1:51 Greeted By Sharks 2:26 Damien Hirst: The $198M Artist 3:48 The Tour: Six Originals 4:48 The Cantilevered Pool 5:21 What $200,000 Buys 6:14 The $690 Million Bet 7:29 Whales And Comps 8:35 The Bet Fails 9:44 The Honest Crown 10:28 Why "Empathy" 11:13 Would You Pay? All prices, rates, and figures are as publicly reported and may be estimates; suite rates and policies can change. This is a documentary of luxury, not travel or financial advice. Music: "Crossing the Chasm" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com), licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 -- https://creativecommons.org/licenses/... #luxury #lasvegas #mostexpensive #hotel #billionaire