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Even if it hadn’t masterminded the event, the resort was quick to capitalize on it. Soon after, it began advertising aThe buyout puts the all-inclusive hotel’s staff of 180 at your service—that includes two-star Michelin chef Sidney Schutte. The spa and pool are all yours. You’ll arrive from the airport via helicopter and enjoy a sunset tour on the resort’s private yacht. There’s personal training sessions and after, all the Dom Pérignon you can drink.
Of course, private buyouts like this are nothing new. Masters of the universe routinely buy or rent out entire islands and small luxury camps. In fact, most small isles from theruns from $390,000 per night to $2.73 million per week.) But if the point of buying out a private island was maximal privacy, then what Grand Velas and its ilk are offering couldn’t be more different. , at Grand Velas, being noticed is the point. It’s privacy as ultra-conspicuous consumption.
Islands, like the St. Regis Maldives, routinely offer full resort buyouts for privacy conscious guests.in Watch Hill, R.I., has long been a quiet, weekend escape for New Yorkers. Now, its owners—Weekapaug resident and investment tycoon Lang Wheeler and Watch Hill resident and hedge fund head Chuck Royce—are offering the entire resort as a two-night buyout for $125,000. Dubbed the Milestone Getaway, the deal commemorates the Inn’s 125th anniversary this year.