Friday
Stay: Hollywood Roosevelt. It's luxe. It's glam. There's all-night pool parties. It's the perfect setting for a weekend away with the ladies.
3 p.m.: Tropicana at the Roosevelt Hotel. Stretch your legs in the sun and have a cocktail (or three).
4 p.m.: Nothing to wear? Head on down to vintage clothing store Jet Rag. Dig through hipster heaven and you might come away with a pair of 70's Frye boots, or a sweet fur shrug. Either way, it's good times.

Hotels worth converting dollars for ...

1. Andaz Liverpool Street (City) - Customizable everything in the perfect London neighborhood.
2. Covent Garden Hotel (Covent Garden) - Home base to all UK theatre tourists.
3. Soho Hotel (Soho) - British tabloid-fodder pond where nothing is held back.

The Wealth Bulletin compiled a top ten list for the priciest suites in the world, Luxist chimed in, and here are the final tallies:

10. Brook Penthouse, Claridges, London: $10,000 per night.
9. The Imperial Suite, Park Hyatt-Vendome, Paris: $15,500 per night.
8. The Royal Suite, Four Seasons George V, Paris: $16,000 per night.
7. The Ritz-Carlton Suite, The Ritz-Carlton, Moscow: $16,500 per night.
6. Royal Armleder Suite, Le Richemond, Geneva: $17,500 per night.

It’s always good to do at least one thing on your trip that you can tell your boss about.

1. KA at MGM Grand (Strip: Central) - With martial-arts-inspired acrobatics, thundering music, and a set that rotates 360 degrees, KA is the least airy-fairy of the Cirque de Soleil offerings.
2. O at Bellagio (Strip: Central) - Cirque de Soleil performers + giant tanks of water = jaw-dropping acrobatics.
3. Tom Jones at MGM Grand (Strip: Central) - Come for the kitsch, stay for the charisma. There’s a reason he’s been doing this for 40 years.

Leave the touring to the little people.
1. 60 Thompson (Soho) - Trendy but not too obnoxious, with fine dish Kittichai downstairs and A60’s unparalleled views up top
2. Hudson Hotel (Midtown West) - Schrager and Starck’s West Side claim brings two hot bars and a swanky comfort-food cafeteria.
3. Dream Hotel (Midtown West) - Room service from Serafina, Rm. Fifty5 for off-lobby tippling, Ava for sick views on two levels. Making midtown modern/bearable.

Redrum’s not on the cocktail menu; Tom Collinses and Sidecars might be.

1. Sunset Tower Hotel (West Hollywood) - A rehabbed building that’s just the peak of Art Deco beauty, plus a bar with a view.
2. Chateau Marmont (West Hollywood) - Stars have lived hard and died early here; we suggest just grabbing a drink and gazing at celebs.
3. Culver Hotel (Culver City) - John Wayne’s old home, Mike Myers’ location of choice, official Munchkins waterhole (yep, Wizard of Oz), and a fabulous lobby bar.

Where the fun never stops.

1. Planet Hollywood (Strip: Central) - New bars, new clubs, new restaurants, new rooms: All share the same sleek décor and LA-glam vibe.
2. Hard Rock Hotel (Off-Strip East) - Still the favored hang for rockers and aspiring rockers. Nonstop scene in the bar, perpetual parties by the pool, and concerts in the parking lot.
3. TheHotel (Strip: South) - Mandalay Bay’s in-house boutique hotel is also where House of Blues acts stay: You never know who you’ll meet in the elevator.

The beautiful people check in, but they don’t check out.

1. Hollywood Roosevelt (Hollywood) - The starlets and their friends rove in packs and get bottle service by the pool.
2. The Viceroy Hotel (Santa Monica) - Santa Monica’s sexiest. Not the oldest, not the classiest, but always full of eye candy.
3. The Standard (West Hollywood) - Could this be an unofficial model casting office? Just being here makes you hot by osmosis.

Welcome to the party, see ya’ around campus…

1. Gild Hall (Lower Manhattan) - The first stylish thing to fall into the South Street Seaport and Financial District orbit since ... uh, ever?
2. The Bowery Hotel (East Village) - Maritime peeps head east with 17-story tower. Upstairs, it’s a loft of your own, crisply appointed with knockout views.
3. Gramercy Park Hotel (Union Square) - Ian Schrager’s remodel trips out on tapestries and velvet, with leather-topped desks for better sex.

Stumbling distance to our room? Always time for one more round.

1. The Raleigh Hotel Bar (South Beach) - Ask for your martini in a plastic cup, then chill to sexy music around the 1940s-style pineapple-shaped pool.
2. Rose Bar (at The Delano) (South Beach) - The granddaddy of hotel bars. Locals know it's best to hit during the week, but even a weekend madcap can be forgiven.
3. RumBar (at the Ritz) (Key Biscayne) - For that British colony in the tropics feel, a good place for a drink as the sun goes down.