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The new genre of hotels will offer special amenities like personal butlers and private swimming pools.
"If you ask the rate," said one six-star hotel executive, "you can't afford it."
Among the new six-stars, Setal in Miami is a luxury property set to open this month. The room rates start at $900 (about Rs 40,000) a night.
According to The Wall Street Journal, hoteliers are rolling out the new class of over-the-top hotels and resorts as luxury travel rebounded recently. Other countries too may soon have six-star hotels.
Horst Schulze, former chairman of the Ritz-Carlton hotel company, says he is planning to launch a six-star chain next year in locations including an Austrian chateau as well as properties in Mexico, Ireland, Southern Italy and Atlanta (Georgia, US).