The secret is in traveling with your family or friends. Some of the world’s most beautiful, luxurious and exciting accommodations are exquisite villas, town homes and estates in prime vacation destinations around the globe. Most of them are huge, featuring four, six, ten or more bedrooms and baths. Why not invite your closest pals, your extended family, a group or association you belong to and rent one of these fabulous venues for a few days, weeks or even a month?

Through websites like Villa4vacation.com, it’s easy to find just the right location in the country, city and region you prefer. Looking for a spacious residence overlooking a major metropolis in North America, Europe or Australia? Use the websites easy-click search tool to determine the location, number of bedrooms, cost per day or week, amenities and other options you prefer.

It used to be that five 5 stars were enough to place a hotel in to a luxury category, now it seems that we need 7 stars for the more savvy and wealthy globe trotters, where only a system of total guest care will do. Although there is no official international method of rating or classifying the luxury of hotels, a star rating has become a popular method that people use to compare the quality of hotels.

Hotels claiming a 7 star rating are in some of the most beautiful and sought after location in the world, and offer superior accommodation, un-rivalled services and amenities.

Luxury Hotels

Here then are the top 5, most luxurious and most expensive hotels in the world.