| While we may wonder what happened to 6-star | | | | new charger to her room for no cost. |
| hotels, how about 5-star hotels? There are many of | | | | This brings us to the only 7-star hotel in the world, |
| these all over the world and of course a five star | | | | the Burj Al Arab in Dubai. It is the tallest operating |
| hotel is supposed to be of the highest quality in | | | | hotel in the world, although an empty hotel in North |
| every area. There are many hotels in the world | | | | Korea and the Rose Tower in Dubai (yet to open) |
| these days that are five star but in the last ten | | | | are taller. It's renown has prompted other 7-star |
| years or so the concept of 6-star hotels has | | | | projects still under development in places like India, |
| emerged to show superior service, opulence, and | | | | China and Pakistan. It's architecture renders it to look |
| attitude. | | | | like a sail and was designed the best engineers in the |
| Some hotels have such absolutely exemplary service | | | | world. If you walk in at three in the morning, you will |
| that they claim to be 6-star hotels as opposed to | | | | be greeted personally, by name, and you can tell |
| 5-star hotels. I heard a story of one traveler at a | | | | them you want a full meal of lobster in your room |
| 5-star hotel in Indonesia who could not plug in their | | | | immediately and they will most certainly oblige you, |
| cell phone to the electrical outlet of their room. She | | | | for no extra cost. At the Burj, you get what you |
| went to the desk to ask if they could help them find | | | | pay for and what you pay for is a seven star hotel. |
| a charger with the proper plug and was told yes, she | | | | It may be marketing, but the opulence, grandness |
| could find one at a store right outside the hotel | | | | and humble, outstanding service at this palace of a |
| complex. This was not sufficient help for the traveler | | | | hotel probably do deserve the moniker of 7-star |
| and she complained to her friends about supposed | | | | hotel. Some call it a 6-star hotel but it is one step |
| "5-star service." Had she been at a 6-star hotel like | | | | above even six stars. Add the location, beauty, |
| the Crown Macau in Macau or the Oriental Bangkok in | | | | features and stellar courtesy of this hotel and it |
| Thailand, if the claims of superior service by these | | | | should equal the best hotel in the world. At $1000 |
| hotels are to be believed, then she should have been | | | | and up per night, it definitely should be. |
| told to wait and the staff would have delivered a | | | | |