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>> What it does: It’s a website that opens the doors to online booking for 17,000 luxury suites you never knew existed in Las Vegas, Miami and New York. Los Angeles is up next. More than 50 percent of the inventory is exclusive to Suiteness.
>> What’s hot: You’re planning a bachelorette party for 10 ladies? How about booking a 4,500-square-foot, five-bedroom penthouse suite on the 37th floor of the Fontainebleau Miami Beach hotel with a wraparound porch overlooking the intercoastal waterway? No problem. If $5,000 a night is too much, don’t worry. There are other brag-worthy smaller suites with much smaller prices. Search filters allow for bookings for up to 12 persons and five bedrooms. As if the options — billiard tables, private dining rooms, personal pools, etc. — aren’t enough to inspire you to splurge on a suite, Suiteness donates a small portion of the room price to a local charity.
>> What’s not: While comparing prices for some lower-end suites on Hotels.com., I found one at Nobu Hotel at Caesars Palace Las Vegas that might’ve been less expensive and started to search which site had included the resort fee to see whether that made a difference. I found that Suiteness.com has a money-back guarantee that it will match a lower published rate. Problem solved.