Thirty percent of customers surveyed said they would relocate a TV so they could have multiple TVs in a room to watch a sporting or pay-per-view event.

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Everything from lunch and dinner wine pairings from a 26, 000 bottle cellar to cocktails at any other time to room service and all sporting activities are included in nightly rates, along with three amazingly decadent gourmet meals daily, and snacks on demand.

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Also pleasing is the anecdote of a woman inspecting an auction catalogue in a snootily decorated room, disrupted by a glimpse of city street, sporting fortuitous patches of primary colors, outside the window.

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