How would you like to be staying in a luxury hotel when it its electricity is cut off – due to unpaid bills?
That’s the scenario at the Mardan Palace Hotel, a luxury hotel in Turkey that last month was crowned “world’s leading luxury hotel” by the World Travel Awards, Bloomberg reports. The Mardan Palace is currently being powered by generators, assistant manager Zeynep Fiskirma told Bloomberg by telephone today. He declined to elaborate.The hotel, located in the Mediterranean town of Antalya, could cost you on average $302 to $419 a night, TripAdvisor says.
Legal proceedings to seize the hotel will be initiated if the hotel doesn’t pay bills of nearly $3 million within three weeks, Bloomberg says, citing a Turkish media report.What’s running up those electricity bills? The hotel has the Mediterranean’s largest swimming pool, 10 restaurants, 11 bars and 546 rooms, including two royal suites with private pools, Bloomberg says.
The opulent hotel was built by Azeri-born businessman Telman Ismailov at a cost of more than $1.4 billion. It opened last May with a celebrity filled, $35 million opening party attended by the likes of Paris Hilton, Richard Gere, Sharon Stone, Mariah Carey and others, Bloomberg says.
Last month, the Mardan Palace was named the “world’s leading luxury hotel” at the World Travel Awards 2010, beating out the Burj Al Arab hotel in Dubai, the Dorchester hotel in London and the Trump Hotel in Chicago.
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