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New documentary shows London’s Corinthia Hotel where rooms cost £22k

November 24, 2018 Claridge'sdocumentaryInsidet

Suite dreams: The team behind the hit documentary series Inside Claridges have turned their cameras on London’s Corinthia, a jaw-dropping hotel for pop stars and former presidents where rooms can cost £22,000 a NIGHT

Suits at London’s Corinthia Hotel come with a full-sized bar stocked with cognac

Manager Thomas Kochs revealed one guest stayed in £22k room for six months

Pop star Will.i.am allowed a peak into his suite where he stays while in London

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Lifestyle

New documentary shows London’s Corinthia Hotel where rooms cost £22k

November 24, 2018 Claridge'sdocumentaryInsidet

Suits at London’s Corinthia Hotel come with a full-sized bar stocked with cognac

Manager Thomas Kochs revealed one guest stayed in £22k room for six months

Pop star Will.i.am allowed a peak into his suite where he stays while in London

Do you get a decently stocked minibar when you book the Royal Penthouse, the finest suite at the Corinthia Hotel, just a step from London’s Trafalgar Square? Don’t be daft.

There’s nothing mini about the full-sized bar that comes as part of the package. It’s stocked with the finest cognac and champagne. Oh, and the suite also has its own wine cellar should you require a specific tipple.

The scale of the place becomes apparent when your personal butler points out the internal lift that whisks you between floors. Yes, floors, plural.

So how much bang do you get for your buck in a place like this? Well, for starters you get four bedrooms, a dining room that seats ten, an office where there are not one but three TV screens on the wall (hotel manager Thomas Kochs suggests guests who stay here like to keep up with the stock markets) and your own private spa.

The main bathroom has a bath the size of a plunge pool and the surfaces are fashioned from honey onyx and Skyros marble. And suffice to say none of the furnishings have been sourced in Ikea.

The team behind hit documentary series Inside Claridges, including award-winning filmmaker Jane Treays, have turned their cameras on London’s Corinthia hotel (pictured)

The Royal Penthouse, which costs £22,000 a night, comes with a full-sized bar (pictured) stocked with the finest cognac and champagne

Every piece in these rooms has been hand made. The dining table is Makassar ebony, the bed frames are walnut, and the expansive bookshelves are leather-lined. Oak parquet floors run throughout, and bouquets of fresh flowers are everywhere.

So, what does it cost to stay in a place like this? Well, this suite will set you back £22,000 a night. Blimey! Can anyone afford to stay more than one night? ‘One client stayed for six months,’ says Mr Kochs, deadpan.

It’s jaw-dropping to see such wealth close up. The Corinthia is the latest of the big London hotels to open its doors for the fly-on-the-wall documentary treatment.

Award-winning filmmaker Jane Treays, the woman behind the hugely successful series on Claridges (in which Mr Kochs, then the general manager at that hotel, became the break-out star) who has also made films on the Queen and the Duchess of Cornwall, was the obvious choice to direct the two-part production.

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So did she get to stay in the Royal Penthouse for the duration of filming? Alas no. ‘I didn’t stay in the hotel at all,’ she says, ‘although we were there for filming a few times in the middle of the night. There is something quite lovely about that, when all is still.’

Still-ish. The silence in this hotel is regularly broken by the arrival of the room service trolley.

Who knew that guests here can order thousands of pounds worth of room service food at a time – and in the middle of the night? Middle Eastern guests like to eat during the night, we are told.

Some guests can’t find a thing they like even on the copious menu, and there’s an eyebrow-raising sequence where a celebrity guest (we are not told who) asks reception staff to arrange a takeaway from one of the capital’s leading restaurants.

No matter that the establishment doesn’t do takeaways – it does on this occasion, rather proving the adage that the guest is always right.

The hotel, which isn’t even the most expensive in London, has played host to the likes of Will.i.am and former president Bill Clinton