Nov 16, 2007
Crystal Cruises pushes a $1,000 plus meal (for one) with the help of a wealth-loving travel section
Would you believe a single meal -- one meal -- costing $1,000 per person? It’s being offered aboard Crystal Cruises (on intermittent, widely-spaced sailings, mainly because of the inclusion of ultra-costly wines), probably in an effort to attract hedge fund managers to its pretentious vacations. And whom do we have to thank for revealing this information? Why, the travel section of the New York Times, of course, advising us without commentary or criticism (in last weekend's travel section) that Crystal "recently began offering intimate $1,000-a-head dinners with hard-to-get wines and extravagant meals."
Elsewhere, in the same edition of the Times' wealth-worshiping travel coverage, the weekly review of new hotels ("Check In/Check Out") chooses to write up the Carlton on Madison Avenue in New York, which charges "from $399 to $799" per night per room. Up forward, on page 2 of the same edition, column 3, the Times' travel section states that readers "might be interested" in the new Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates and its "394 luxury rooms, which start at about $700 a person per night."
What a pity that Marie Antoinette did not lived to enjoy the current travel section of the New York Times!
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Elsewhere, in the same edition of the Times' wealth-worshiping travel coverage, the weekly review of new hotels ("Check In/Check Out") chooses to write up the Carlton on Madison Avenue in New York, which charges "from $399 to $799" per night per room. Up forward, on page 2 of the same edition, column 3, the Times' travel section states that readers "might be interested" in the new Emirates Palace Hotel in Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates and its "394 luxury rooms, which start at about $700 a person per night."
What a pity that Marie Antoinette did not lived to enjoy the current travel section of the New York Times!
Write and read comments about this post.
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