$65,000 Suite Touts 007 Security: Big Spender

GENEVA (TheStreet) -- Your average world-class hotel suite might be adorned in mother-of-pearl, accented by a grand piano and punctuated with a complete library.

But can it take a bullet for you?

Sorry New York Four Seasons, but until the indoor-outdoor Zen garden in your nine-room, $35,000-a-night Ty Warner Penthouse can stop magnum slugs through enlightenment, you'll always place second to the Royal Penthouse Suite at the Hotel President Wilson in Geneva, Switzerland. Frequented by business leaders like Microsoft (MSFT) Chairman Bill Gates and Virgin Founder Richard Branson as well as heads of state such as former President Bill Clinton and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the suite and its equal measures of steel and sophistication make it the $65,000-a-night crown jewel of Starwood Hotels' (HOT) luxury division.

The Royal Penthouse Suite at the Hotel President Wilson offers world-class amenities and security fit for a king.

Located less than 2 miles from the United Nations building, the Hotel President Wilson is highly aware of its VIPs and the implications should tragedy befall them. This is why, when Egyptian President Muhammad Hosni Said Mubarak puts his feet up on the fine linen and watches BBC News on a giant LCD screen in his bedroom, he does so behind steel-reinforced walls and doors and 6-centimeter-thick armored windows. Should something go bump in the night, he can isolate himself in the suite behind sliding armored doors and check video monitors to see who's in the camera-lined hallway.

If the magnetic contacts on the terrace, guardroom, private elevator, bulletproof bay windows and panic buttons in each bedroom to alert hotel security aren't enough, the suite has a human-sized safe with its own security system, alarm and mechanical key. In a crisis, the hotel can evacuate guests by helicopter. Roger Moore hasn't played James Bond in years, but it's easy to see how all the gadgetry seemingly stolen from Q's lab lured him into staying a night here.

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