Stay in Luxury! Only $10,000 per night...

In searching on-line to find vacation rentals that people can rent on the Big Island of Hawai'i while they stay here for my birthday bash, I've come across all sorts of differents kinds of homes. Some homes have nice features, location is good, price is right. Other homes look like someone's grandma may have lived there and they never updated the furniture and you wonder how in the world they think they're going to get that price from any sane person. And then there are other homes in a completely different realm altogether. A realm in which one loses a million in one's retirement portfolio which may make one flinch a bit, but one continues breathing rarified air and living in homes across the globe, having one's children tutored by a Harvard graduate with a PhD.
The home I came across recently is one that exists in whatever realm that is that I just described above (in the 80's and 90's we used to refer to it as "Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous" with Robin Leach and his champagne wishes and caviar dreams, but perhaps more fitting to theme is "Big Kahuna Lifestyle").

Imagine paying $10,000 buckaroos PER NIGHT to stay in a place that offers the following:

• 11,500 square feet of living area
  
• 2 master suites, each with out-door oversized spa whirlpool
  
• 5 guest suites, each with private baths
  
• Home theater with HDTV, CD and DVD
  
• Fitness room
  
• Kids' play room
  
• Formal dining room for fourteen
  
• Professional chef's kitchen
  
• a private swimming pool with infinity edge and spa
  
• hand woven carpets
  
• Asian antiques
  
• A private chef may be hired to grocery shop, or to prepare and serve up to 3 meals per day
  

The dining room of this place is what blows me away. It looks like the boardroom of some insane corporation, especially with the 2,500 square foot covered lanai right off the dining/living room area. 2,500 square foot...can we imagine that for a moment? The patio square footage of this house is BIGGER than most people's entire home. Holy Toledo!

And let's kibbitz a bit about the view for just a moment...


OK, done kibbitzing. It's so far out of MY non-Big Kahuna realm that I shan't think about it any longer. Because at $10,000 per night, that's $300,000 per month, or $3,600,000 per year. Perhaps they give a deal if you rent it for the whole year, like a million off. That would be a slammin' deal for shuuuure.