Luxury Hotel Amenities (Hotels Gone Wild)

No longer is a bed, a bath, and a Gideon Bible sufficient for today's affluent hotel patrons. Decadent hotel amenities abound, and each luxury inn is trying to outdo the other. The competition is heavy, in an industry where you're only as good as your next extravagant perk.

It's not enough anymore, to just have a terry cloth robe awaiting you, by the bath, in your luxury hotel room. At the Ritz Madrid in Spain, those robes come monogrammed and tied with a red bow, with a rosebud tucked in. (Flat screen TVs, free high speed Internet access,and DVD players are now standard fare amenities, so in order to really impress, a hotel has to be over the top in luxury. )

How about room service for your dog? The Lowell New York luxury hotel will gladly accommodate. Or a baby butler for your little one? In the Virginia Blue Ridge Mountains, at Keswick Hall mansion, baby butlers will furnish you with a crib and a rocking chair, but that's not all. They will warm your baby's bottles, and even rock him to sleep, while you enjoy the view. (Talk about luxury hotel amenities.)

And more and more luxury hotels are adding around-the-clock personal butlers for the adults. Butlers will serve your morning breakfast and tea, draw your bath water, or lay out your chosen daily wardrobe. The butlers exist to anticipate your every need. Other amenities at luxury hotels, might include a Rolls-Royce ride from the airport, a personal shopper and adviser, a helicopter tour of the city, luxurious spa treatments, and a poem on your pillow, at the end of a busy day.