Kagehitokiri

https://www.census.gov/srd/www/byssm.html#y2006
https://www.census.gov/srd/www/abstract/ssm2006-03.html
https://www.census.gov/srd/papers/pdf/ssm2006-03.pdf
(https://www.census.gov/srd/www/byseries.html)

i haven't read it yet, but seems interesting. seems to cover some issues that come up on FT re long term stays. there are some FTers who do not have primary residences, though probably not limited to hotels.

LuxuryRogue

Good idea for a thread.

I have always enjoyed my long-term-stays in hotels, and I want to retire that way.

Even though the Census Report quotes the whole range of hotels, these are some of the more famous long-term residents:

Coco Chanel, Ritz Paris

Margaret Thatcher, Ritz London

Marlene Dietrich, Lancaster Paris

Salvador Dali, Le Meurice Paris

Omar Sharif, Royal Monceau Paris

Gunter Sachs, Badrutt's Palace St. Moritz

David Beckham, Santo Mauro Madrid

Udo Lindenberg, The Atlantic Hamburg

Thomas Haffa, The Charles Munich

GUWonder

The type of people who have lived in hotels as hotel customers while having no fixed domicile for a year or more at a stretch include people of all sorts across a wide stretch of the socio-economic scale, from the very rich and/or famous to the very poor and relatively unknown.

I've lived the hotel as residence lifestyle -- from being a resident in some world famous hotel/condotel/mixed-use properties to living in some dull but decent hotels that were extraordinarily great value on points or cash. It has its upsides and downsides, and it has its time and place, but it's always a case of YMMV on how and why this works out or not. It's not for everybody. And it comes with its own set of issues, pros and cons.

I've always had a place to store my collections of whatever I wanted to retain -- whether stored at purchased/hired storage facilities or stored at family or friends' residences/facilities -- when doing this.

For people who end up in these situations out of desperation, it's not all that nice.

MSPeconomist

Let's not forget the hotel GMs and other executives who live on site, and not just in isolated locations. I can think immediately of a bunch of places where I know this happens, from a Hyatt in a small USA city to a Starwood in a large Asian city to a legendary independent USA resort hotel located in town.

Kagehitokiri

GUWonder, thats what i found interesting, at first glance report appears to cover a spectrum

UA Fan

I think Lucky also lives in hotels:

http://onemileatatime.boardingarea.c...els-full-time/

KRSW

I don't think people who normally "live" at hotels are FlyerTalk members.

More often than not, it's more along the lines of:

LondonElite

Nicolas Berggruen basically lives in hotels I believe.

MSPeconomist

Who is this person?

LondonElite

I'll let my friends at Wiki do the talking.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicolas_Berggruen

Basically a semi-self-made billionaire investor, philanthropist, and academic.

Actually, this is more interesting:

http://www.bloomberg.com/bw/articles...ss-billionaire

pinniped

We have some friends who spent a weekend at a smallish boutique hotel in NYC...Upper West Side. (I forget the name...it wasn't part of a big chain.) They just found it looking for a decent weekend deal, but once they were there they ended up talking to some residents of the place. I assume some units in the building were renovated into condos or apartments, but at least one of the residents was on the same floor as my friends were. (My friends were in a standard, small, Manhattan hotel room.)

Not exactly sure if buildings are built specifically for this or if some hotels renovate at some point to attract permanent residents. This particular place was very much mid-scale: not a luxury property, although also not cheap due to its desirable location. I'm envisioning the residents as being in modest one-bedroom apartments, not megasuites, although I don't really know.

Kagehitokiri

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