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Have you ever been photographed sat on a balcony eating a croissant; or wallowed in luxury just for the sake of it? What's the most ostentatious thing you ever seen or done?

(, Thu 28 Jul 2011, 13:18)
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Absolutely true, £750 bottles of Champagne, £500 bottles of grey goose, all day, all night, racks up pretty quickly. Obviously it's ridiculously over priced when you drink in VIP areas and beach clubs over there, but I wasn't paying so I just enjoyed it. It's not the worst drinks bill I've seen. Some guys from a city brokerage racked up $189,000 in the Wynn hotel in Vegas.
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:02, 2 replies)
How many people?

(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:04, closed)
Just him, his dad (Bruce Lee) and some secret SAS spy mates.

(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:06, closed)
£500 would get you a Jeraboam sized Grey Goose which is 4.5 litres of vodka
You could get 150 of those, which is 675 litres of very expensive vodka.

I've no idea what the absolute limit of vodka that a healthy person could drink in 4 days.

Already this claim sounds pretty unlikely but we need more detail.
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:13, closed)
Also, I'm going to double the prices to reflect expensive bars.
and factor in 14 people.

It still leaves over 24 litres of vodka per person over 96 hours.
That's 1/4 of a litre of vodka every hour, non stop for 4 days.

That's if all the money was spent solely on vodka and 14 people were drinking it constantly for 4 days.
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:16, closed)
Sorry but I just think this is bollocks.
No company would ever justify £75,000 in four days for a marathon piss-up holday, anyway, ignoring the rest.
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:17, closed)

someone who could afford to spend £30m on his daughter's wedding might overlook something like that
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:25, closed)
Yeah, I'm inclined to believe this actually.
Just because something is stupid and pathetic and indictivive of what is wrong with huge parts of society doesn't make it false.
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:30, closed)

Believe what you like, but it happened. Brokers do this stuff all the time. Although with the new anti-bribery laws this kind of corp entertainment may have to stop...
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:29, closed)

500 gets you 1 litre of Grey Goose in Pacha, Amnesia etc.. we also bought a 6 litre bottle of grey goose for 3000 in Pacha which came out on a little wheel barrow (which didn't all get drunk I might add) Also the tables we had in these clubs were mainly minimum spend of 10,000 euros, so even if you didn't drink that much you got charged. Blue Marlin Beach club was the same, we had the main cabana which was min spend of 5 grand but we spent over 10 in there. Anyway, it all added up.
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:24, closed)
^^^
This.
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:57, closed)

Generally 8 but up to 14 in a couple of clubs
(, Mon 1 Aug 2011, 14:08, closed)

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