Upon landing, a waiting bus takes them to a luxury hotel, where porters pile their bags into a ground floor meeting room or take them right to the players' rooms upon request.

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In Nieu Besthesda, stay in Bethesda Tower, a castellated, fairytale tower with a ground-floor cafe, or the Water Tower, a simpler option in a converted water tower.

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For small investors it will be either a great level-the-playing-field opportunity to get in on the ground floor of promising startups or a federally sanctioned invitation to fraud on a scale not seen since the boiler-room days.

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Sadly, it was decades before women saw "The Social Network" and realized that by inviting the awkward kid next to them at the cafeteria's gluten-free station to bed, they could get in on the ground floor of a Zuckerberg or even a Winklevoss.

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Having dined on spit-roast suckling pig with apple sauce in the ground floor restaurant, he or she may go upstairs to the bar for a drink only to be leered at by two bulls' heads (displayed in matching glass cases by Mr Hirst), pickled and puckering in formaldehyde.

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When he bought it, the duplex had one bath, with no bathroom or closet space on the ground floor.

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Mr. Stanley says he created two separate plans envisioning it for either a single female or male, including a two-story pool with aquarium cutouts looking into the ground-floor space, which could be a salon for a woman or a game room or billiard area for a male.

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If I were really an opinion leader (or I had been smart enough to get in on the ground floor), I would surely have tens of thousands if not hundreds of thousands of followers by now.

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The ground floor has a hand-painted medieval scene, with an aristocratic woman, or perhaps a bride, being carried by scowling bearers in a covered palanquin.

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