EVERY room.
Suites for the elite
US President Barack Obama will stay in the presidential suite at the Marriott Hotel.
Cost - £1,370 (AUS$2,500) a night.
China President Xi Jinping will stay in the Stamford suite at the Stamford Plaza.
Cost - £925 (AUS$1,695) a night.
UK Prime Minister David Cameron will stay at a suite in the Treasury Hotel.
Cost - £690 (AUS$1,259) a night.
Burma President Thein Sein will stay at the signature suite at Gambaros.
Cost - £650 (AUS$1,180) a night.
Russian President Vladimir Putin will stay at the Hilton in a king suite.
Cost - £335 (AUS$615) a night.
Saudia Arabia King Abdullah will stay at the manor suite at the Gold Coast Sanctuary Cove.
Cost - £270 (AUS$495) a night.
Australia Prime Minister Tony Abbott will stay at a deluxe king suite at Rydges.
Cost - £170 (AUS$309) a night.
But I do love our Prime Minister here in Australia, because he doesn't like wasting money.
His official residence has been undergoing renovations, so he's been staying in student housing at the Australian Federal Police academy because it was the cheapest option he could find that met the AFP security concerns (in fairness, I will also point out Labor Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, also did the same at least once).
OK, and what about all the other rooms at that hotel booked for White House staff and the Secret Service. How much extra will that cost?
In his first term Obama, wife and child visited Spain. They stayed in an opulent castle hostel, renting EVERY room there —a stratospheric expense.
They were asked why they were taking the expensive trip:
“We wanted to show Malia the ‘rain in Spain’...”
A reason so stupid, it SOUNDS made-up, right...?
Wow, I see King Abdullah, Prime Minister Abbott, and Vlad are roughing it for the G20.
EVERY room.
I might have guessed that Saudia Arabia’s King Abdullah might be staying in slightly more ex[ensive digs than Obie...
Quite often every room in the entire hotel is taken by the gov.t for Presidential over nite stays.
If I were president I’d consider sending someone with a a secure laptop and a satellite up-link.
I’d attend via Yahoo Messenger or Skype something.
I know Canberra is picking up most of the cost eg security, police for the summit. Who is paying for accommodation? I’m assuming Canberra too, not QLD.
Gee, shouldn't someone tell Baraq?
Every time you see him he’s gnawing away on gum like a street walker. Lipstick on a pig.
I’m ok with this. He’s the president of the United States. I just don’t like it when Mooch flys separately to vacation or takes 300 people to Europe for shopping.
Obama needs to check Hotels.com for the best price of hotel rooms. I mean if he wanted to save money for us taxpayers.
any handle on the size of the entourage each president has with them??
Two bits Obama’s traveling staff is twice the size of the next.
A city named after a Scotsman, from Largs in North Ayrshire, part of the region (Ayrshire) I live in, and one of my favourite Scottish towns.