Four Seasons has customized the aircraft from Boeing Co. (NYSE: BA) by removing 181 of its standard 233 seats, leaving just 52 leather-covered seats that fold flat for those long international flights. The hotel chain first offered the around-the-world trip in 2012, but this is the first year that the branded, customized 757 has been used.
The next round-the-world trip leaves Los Angeles in February of 2015 with seven stops: Hawaii, Bora Bora, Sydney, Bali, Northern Thailand, India and the Taj Mahal, and Istanbul. Four Seasons also offers a seven-stop arts tour beginning in April of 2015 for $69,000 per person for double occupancy, or $77,000 for those traveling alone. The tour begins in Paris, with stops in Milan, St. Petersburg, Istanbul, Prague and Lisbon. Travelers spend one or two nights in each city at a Four Seasons hotel as well.
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The well-heeled enjoy spending on travel and hotels more than any other category, according to a luxury research firm cited at Bloomberg. But current concerns about personal finances and the overall economy has made the rich “hesitant to indulge now.”
Four Seasons Hotels & Resorts is owned by Kingdom Hotels International, Bill Gates’s Cascade Investment, and Triples Holdings. The private jet was developed to feed the desire of the wealthy to explore the world in utter comfort. If price is any indicator of comfort, Four Seasons appears to have hit the mark.
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